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Post by amanda on Jul 5, 2024 23:41:53 GMT
Whether in a media report or Facebook comment, put it here.
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Post by amanda on Jul 5, 2024 23:43:01 GMT
Mine is another interesting spelling on a FB comment - decell plant - for the desalination plant that is a white elephant in Victoria, Australia. (so commonly called desal plant)
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Post by amanda on Jul 10, 2024 11:01:03 GMT
Marketplace ad - garaj sale. Perhaps thinking of the Indian Raj?
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Post by Bondee on Jul 11, 2024 8:10:26 GMT
From the GameFAQS description of Buster Bros. for the GameBoy...
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Post by amanda on Jul 11, 2024 8:45:37 GMT
Good grief. (And Ayers Rock, as it was, named after a white government member, Henry Ayres, I think it is, reverted to its Aboriginal name of Uluru some years ago)
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Post by Bondee on Jul 11, 2024 8:51:27 GMT
I'm pretty sure the Taji Mahal is an Indian restaurant in Cricklewood.
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Post by amanda on Jul 11, 2024 23:02:53 GMT
Just seen 'I've faught', have to say I haven't seen that spelling before.
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Post by efros on Jul 11, 2024 23:08:30 GMT
Cajun expression meaning to fart.  |
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Post by amanda on Jul 12, 2024 0:17:33 GMT
But used in the sentence as 'I faught the tax office over a wrong debt'.
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Post by jenny on Jul 12, 2024 13:55:54 GMT
I think the Taj Mahal is a restaurant in many, many places. I think there's one in Brunswick, Maine, and another in Biddeford, Maine.
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Post by amanda on Jul 13, 2024 7:03:06 GMT
'Breaking into tears' : referring to Alec Baldwin's case being thrown out of court.
It's usually 'breaking down' or 'bursting into tears'.
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Post by amanda on Jul 14, 2024 23:18:58 GMT
FB comment 'I think they pay a breevment payment'. (meant to be bereavement)
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Post by amanda on Jul 15, 2024 2:24:51 GMT
Australian newsreaders are mixing their metaphors. Regarding the Wimbledon winner, I just heard 'he has another win up his belt'.
And another FB comment ' yoused to live in .....' Supposed to be used to. How on earth did that person get that word?
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Post by Dix on Jul 16, 2024 6:49:51 GMT
This headline in our local online "news"paper has been annoying me for a while All the Southeastern trains cancelled, diverted or replaced by buses this week
I keep reading it as "all of the trains are cancelled". Which would be really bad, as they repeat it almost every week.
Clicking to read the article, the headline changes to Southeastern train cancellations and diversions this week, and the text below starts with the even less dramatic Some Southeastern trains will be cancelled, diverted or replaced by buses this week due to planned engineering work.
They are really struggling for interesting contents, aren't they?
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Post by jenny on Jul 16, 2024 14:51:02 GMT
I suggest a strongly worded letter, Dix :-)
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Post by Guy Barry on Jul 16, 2024 16:08:04 GMT
In their defence, the headline isn't actually wrong. The article is indeed a list of "all the Southeastern trains cancelled, diverted or replaced by buses this week". But it's certainly open to misinterpretation.
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Post by suze on Jul 16, 2024 21:20:35 GMT
Dix, was that from News Shopper?
That is about the level at which that august publication operates. I get directed to stories from it on Facebook now and then, and "Shock horror, some of the trains on Sunday will actually be buses" is a regular feature.
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Post by Bondee on Jul 16, 2024 21:25:10 GMT
I suggest a strongly worded letter, Dix :-) Dear sir,
You're all cunts!
Yours sincerely,
etc, etc...
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Post by Dix on Jul 17, 2024 12:29:03 GMT
Dix, was that from News Shopper?
That is about the level at which that august publication operates. I get directed to stories from it on Facebook now and then, and "Shock horror, some of the trains on Sunday will actually be buses" is a regular feature.
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Post by amanda on Jul 18, 2024 8:38:14 GMT
Promotion for an upcoming local event:
There will be special guesseds......
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Post by crissdee on Jul 18, 2024 15:26:56 GMT
Sort of poor English, and I don't want to start another thread just for this. A clue in a recent crossword;
"Elevated step".
Isn't the whole "elevation" thing rather an inherent part of every step that has ever existed? A step without elevation is just.......floor.
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Post by suze on Jul 18, 2024 16:46:36 GMT
What is the answer to "elevated step"? I'm guessing that it's stair. If so, it's actually quite a difficult word to write a clue for.
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Post by crissdee on Jul 18, 2024 19:46:57 GMT
You would be correct in that guess. I admit that a clue for "stair" (for a non-cryptic crossword) is not an easy thing to write succinctly, but that one still doesn't sound good to my ears....
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Post by suze on Jul 18, 2024 21:47:38 GMT
It's certainly not great, and "one bit of a staircase" would be a rubbish clue. Furthermore, step would be a more natural answer to it than would stair.
It has all the hallmarks of being the last clue. The compilers of this sort of crossword are given the grid pattern they need to use, and they put words into the grid first and write the clues afterwards. This compiler has found herself requiring a word of five letters to go into the last space, and stair was the only word that would fit.
It would be a lot easier to write a cryptic clue. "A step within Thanet's Broads" is my first attempt, but I'm sure it is possible to do much better.
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Post by efros on Jul 18, 2024 23:05:32 GMT
Sounds like a glassy eyed view of Plant's way to paradise.
Or summat...
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Post by crissdee on Jul 18, 2024 23:40:59 GMT
Someone on FB offering a "chicken coup". Should we be worried?
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Post by amanda on Jul 19, 2024 0:56:15 GMT
That the chickens will take over? Is that why they have to cross the road first?
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Post by amanda on Jul 19, 2024 10:46:44 GMT
If you find you have more of these, you could start a thread just for these clues, if you wish.
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Post by pdr on Jul 19, 2024 10:53:18 GMT
What is the answer to "elevated step"? I'm guessing that it's stair. If so, it's actually quite a difficult word to write a clue for.
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Post by amanda on Jul 19, 2024 11:04:28 GMT
Read the first sentence in the speech bubble....  |
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