Very, probably.

The adverb is a key component.

The second one you fool.

How long does it take to walk 9 miles ?

How about moving away from acceptable past participles.... And this is what will catch you know nothings out....

Where do you stand on Have got/Haven't got when talking about being in posession of something.

As in... I have got 3 dollars. Can I get a latte, please? Have you got the time?

Different context. But I think here you are calling it a horrible misuse of language. Yet defending got as a past participle.

Personally, I think all uses are correct, because language evolves, and English is a long way from being the sole domain of Little Islanders.

To take the attitude you do is to put you in the same boat as our Chinese baby milk monitor, displaying small-minded Britisher attitudes towards ownership of the language.

I don't think I am the one being the fool here.

Should of etc. is an example of something being wrong.

Neither. I’d say ‘That fvcking slag has taken me right down the toilet and I’ll tell her for nothing, she ain’t having the dog. The slag bitch whore’

But you can only get away with that in the North or maybe Cockneyland and Essex.

I’d probably go down pub, have 10 pints and give her a right hander as well.

I still fancy Lauren

With or without sovereign rings?

It may well do, but any normal person would actually say “Don’t worry, I’ve got over it”

Gotten adds nothing but a pointless syllable to the statement, whether written or spoken.

Peter, do you still pretend to teach English?

Those Eurocrats ain't having our sovereignty, innit

I'm not normal then. I'd say " I'm over it "

I’d probably say;

“I’m not over it. A touch pissed off to be honest.”

“Ah well, where’s the remote?”

Or

‘Just leave the golf clubs alone’. Maybe adding ‘bitch’ if you were dead upset

That is absolutely the correct answer in my opinion.

I agree. :)

Do you still pretend to put any thinking into your posts? Seriously lacking of late.

Have a look through a couple of your posts before answering. For example, the one about innocent people being punished. Possibly the silliest thing you have ever come out with.

I could never argue with the quality of what you were saying in the past. The last couple of weeks your posts have been piss poor. To the point that I thought one of your office lackies must have hacked your account.

The 100 students I just put through the TOEIC exams might think so. But a twat on a message board might think differently.

Mmmm I mistakenly used think again.

Not if you check the past participle list of irregular verbs in any grammar book.

It is either there or it isnt. It is not up to you are anyone else to say it isnt right because you just dont like it.

I refer you to the combination forget, forgot, forgotten. It is the same. Did you forget? or have you forgotten?

I also pre-warned the BBS that I wouldnt back down on it.

Contact me by PM if you want private grammar classes via skype.

Fail.

What about apostrophes?

You may have noticed or not. Probably not. That I tend to post a lot without apostrophes. My IT mate screwed my keyboard up when removing Windows 8 and installing 7.

Now that is quite annoying. Not as annoying as random commas, though.

See above. It is not the new in-thing of the youth. I will try and find the combo on the keyboard now.

I am fully aware when typing where apostrophes should go - even in the old your/you are debate.

Up until now it hasnt phased me. (has not).

When my posts do have them, then I am posting from work.

Nope, I cannot access the apostrophe. On a further note my ? is where the - is, my - is where the ? is, and the - key gives me /. Plus, I cannot find an easy acces to the pound sign, so I have to say pounds or quid all the time.

I guess there is an easy fix somewhere, but I am not that tech savvy.

I suppose that might have answered a few things about my strange posting idiosyncracies of late.

As a youth I was taught that there was no place for apostrophes in written English. Outside of ownership and reported speech, of course.

Wedding anniversaries.

On This Day on Facebook

Burning my hand with the steam from my mate's very fancy but not fit for purpose coffee machine.

People marking themselves safe on Facebook!

WTF... If I could figure out how to do it, I wouldn't.

Those latest fires in LA anywhere near you Bob?

If only there was some sort of online website that you could inform us if you are safe or not....

:p

Actually the Rye one was/is across the road from where I work. Either the fire or the wind caused the power to go out around lunch time, so we got sent home. Fortunately the wind was blowing the smoke away from both work and home.

Roads in this valley were gridlocked, and took me 45 minutes to drive the 5 miles home.

First I heard about the fires was a text from a friend in England at 4 o'clock this morning asking if we were OK. Seems he knew more about it than I did! Global village eh?

Thanks for asking.

Being right about Joe Root.

:wallbash::D

*access

And try holding down Alt and typing 0163. It's the £ "shortcut".

I propose more packed lunches

People that say "bruv" or "fam" in every sentence, particularly to people they are unrelated too. Thick *****.

Ya get me?

Along with the fake accent they still put on, 20 years after Ali G took the piss out of them.

Nope, not on this feck up of a keyboard. Moment I press the 1 I am thrown back to the forums page.

Try pressing NUM LOCK on your keyboard...then try pressing 1 :)

Nope. And that's the work PC. Spanish keyboard set ups probably.

Discovering that 16 of the last 32 posts are 'written' by PeterH

Sorry, how the feck does that annoy you? Your annoyance threshold is pitiful.

And you took the time to count them. Sadsack Twat.

How are the underage ladyboys out there treating you?

Strong the irony is young Padawan.

I don't get annoyed generally. But of my so-called 16 posts, most are of me having to defend myself as someone gets a dig in.

A few are of the annoyance of having a keyboard that doesn't work properly - again based on someone calling me out for not using '.

The same people post back and forth on the numerous threads. But Mt ****it decided to join the happy band of baiters.

I get annoyed when someone takes the time out to have a snidey pop. There is an ignore button. If I aggravate the twat with my posts, I suggests he uses it. Especially as my long summer holiday is all but here and I will be doubling my posts.

Trying to blow a tickling annoying bogey out you nose for 3 hours only to look in the mirror and blantently see it is a nose hair.

So I have learnt that Peter H tries and fails to get a bite on 5 different threads and Phuket Eagle only needs one post. :D

Oh lordy!

Mind you, I look forward to further developments on packed lunches.

Fair point. Probably not 5 different threads though.

I am trying to get Maztastic to own up to his posting being rather to casual of late. But that's like getting blood out of a stone.

My house purchase is very close.

Are you coming out to play tomorrow evening? Danger pub.

Oh and the probabiity that Darren will get a lot of the Palace matches on in his pub for us. Possibly starting with Watford on Tuesday, if I don't have to be at the coast.

People posting nothing to do with being annoyed on the being annoyed thread.

I will be annoyed if he doesnt come out. He has my twiglets for one.

Ex-pats who go on and on about shit foodstuffs they miss from back home.

Too true. I miss Tesco Scotch Eggs

Logging on late to catch the PeterH time-difference chronicles in a batch file

I’m staying with a mate who reminds me, daily, not to eat his Shreddies.

a) I don’t like Shreddies.
b) You can buy them in Woolies.

Breakfast cereal choice in supermarkets mostly catering for working-class people. I can't buy a simple box of muesli because all the cereal shelves are taken up by ******* kids' cereals. Do all the adults around here just eat kids' food?

It's pathetic.

I’d rather have a bowl of Coco Pops.

They're grrrrrrrrreat! :p

Easy tiger

It is only twiglets I cant get. I have contacts here bringing everything else. Although scotch eggs and pork pies would be a nice touch TBF.

The adults that take school lunches into adult working environments probably do. They probably miss the toys they used to get in cereals, too. But the good lady of the house, usually buys them a colouring book to prevent a tantrum.

Agree, annoying fecker him.

I wasn’t talking about you. It just reminded me.

Maybe Carly Simon wasn’t talking about Warren Beatty after all.....

TBF. It was straight after my post mentioning twiglets. What was I to think.

I dont think a willingness on my part to own all the twiglets in the world is up there as a vanity project.
Compared to say SJs watch collection.

The fact that there is no "super villain stroking his cat" smilie.

I have a white, furry cat. But she is 16 or so now. More a skeleton with fur TBF. You could use the Vader one.

Did you make sure she was 16 before posting that ?

:p:vader::love:

http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project/biglets/?ref=next

Great link.

I have three or four sources I am working on for my twiglet craving. And I might also be able to get them in via the expensive, but doable, Amazon route.

Last batch from one source and I bought all he had - about 48 big packs. I felt like the bacon sketch in Parks and Recreation.

This thread has gone to the dogs

Nah, back on track very soon. It has survived 388 pages and over 19,000 posts.

Nostalgia speaking here - going to the dogs. It annoys me that Catford, Wimbledon, and Walthamstow? dogs have closed down. That was a good night out. Spoke to old dodgy eye Alan Smith at Wimbledon following Palace West Brom.

Getting a group win on the last race was always good for an unexpected curry to finish the evening.

Getting to the swimming pool to discover it is "school swimming carnival" and all the outdoor lanes are in use for 4 hours.

Thinking that the cute waitress at the coffee shop is flirting with you, only for her partner to turn up with their young child.

Did you actually eat many twiglets back home. I ask as I find myself craving things I barely ate in the UK.

I'm always eating Mcdonalds when I probably ate it 5 times a year in the UK. Maybe it's due to being bored rigid of rice or noodles with everything ?

Oh look! The insults are back!

https://youtu.be/3G1RKhlD2P4

one of the best ads on TV right now imo...

Seeing as you have been out in the boondocks for a while you have missed the "PeterH now trying too hard to get a reaction" period...he has now moved onto the "It´s all about me"period, which can be seen on this thread.

HTH.

P.S. Thai style chicken broth today, though with ginger instead of galangal

The sealed plastic on meat packaging that makes it re-sealable. (bacon. mince etc)
You spend 30 minutes trying to dig your nail under the only visible bit on the packs edge to open it until giving up and slicing round the inside with a knife and letting it go off in the fridge. (or buy freezer bags)

:wallbash:

Ginger hater.

Greek salad, with grilled chicken.

I was thinking this. I ate twiglets in the UK, but not all the time. It is the inabiliity to find them that leads to the MUST HAVE thoughts.

I am pissing about silly sausage.

Hopefully a curry, following the last of the Christmas shopping today.

Although, I still have to buy the wife something,

Businesses who misspace their landline phone numbers. Particularly egregious is one I went past on way to work which lists its number in the format 02071 234567.

People who sit on the luggage rack in train carriages when there are clearly seats available.

Why?

They are idiots.

Maybe suggest they may be headcases or nutcases, but not suitcases.

18 more posts in 24 hours - you're the sad git PeterH, not me. Grow up.

:eek:

Hmmmmm. Ok :angel:

Idiots in Audi's who insist on trying to drive at 70 or over during apocalyptic rain on the M1.
German car wankers.

Ending verbal sentence's with the word, right. Right ?

People who tell me about their coffee machines

My phone randomly turning down my music to save my hearing.

Ha Ha.

Beer O'clock.

Annoyed by Sussex Police, but celebrating their impending downfall tonight. Brilliant result for Palace fans.