Why correct English is important!

Can't believe nobody pointed this out yet...

Helping Jack off a Horse

should be...

Helping Jack off of a horse

However, the word 'climb' should be in there. Or if you really want to get technical, the correct english is "from a horse".
 
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JCBeastie said:
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.

'Why?' asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

'Well, I'm a panda,' he says, at the door. 'Look it up.'
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. 'Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'
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ha ha ha
 
Ricochet J said:
Surely this is wrong:



That translates to "they are the difference between;". To use the word "are" indicates the use of a plural, but he used the singular terms "the difference" when I believe he should have just used the plural "differences". If there is only one difference between the statements then I believe he should have used "There is a difference between;"

AMIRITE, or wrong?
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Correct.

'They're' means 'they are', and not 'there are'.

The correct grammar in the op would have been:

'There are differences' or 'there's a difference'.

They are =/= there is / there are.

Seems like even the grammar nazis that said you were wrong are wrong themselves lol. The use of they're in the OP is 100% wrong.

My grammar is more than 99% perfect, I am good at this :p
 
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OP;

I read both sentences the same because of your lack of punctuation.

I was going WTF for a while and thinking of all kinds of scenarios, mainly a car jack jacking up a lazy horse.
 
An executive was in a quandary. He had to get rid of one of his staff. He had narrowed it down to one of two people, Debra or Jack. It would be a hard decision to make, as they were both equally qualified and both did excellent work. He finally decided that in the morning whichever one used the water cooler first would have to go. Debra came in the next morning, hugely hung-over after partying all night. She went to the cooler to get some water to take an aspirin and the executive approached her and said:

“Debra, I’ve never done this before, but I have to lay you or Jack off.”

Debra replied, “Could you jack off, I have a terrible headache.”
 
fus said:
Correct English, specifically capital letters, can be crucial.

They're the difference between;

'Helping your Uncle Jack off a horse' and,

'helping your uncle jack off a horse'.
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Edit - actually the OP is correct, 'They're' is referring to the plural of 'capital letters'.

Its just written in a confusing way.

Yes, I would have written the second sentance as 'Capital letters are the difference between:'.

Just using 'they're' looks like it is referring to 'correct grammar'.
 
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