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Are there any males on this forum with hair on their head?

congratulations Rebecca.... Missed all the excitement with house hunting...

Originally Posted by Hornsea ink

“But did you stick with your reduction plan? ”

Yes.... I go into McDonald's grab myself a handful of straws and suck on them...

He was actually caught years ago in a television documentary.... So I'm surprised he ever became the England manager...

I have diplomatic way of disposing of unwanted customers and a not so diplomatic way....

Just logged on for the first time in a few weeks and as i can only get on at home via firefox, it didn't allow me at first as the websites owner certificate of whatever is apparently out of date... i had to tick a box an advanced box on firefox to allow me to come on the site as it just kept auto blocking.... And even now I'm on here there is a display box saying 'insecure connection'...

Apologies for the delay, was whizzing around Lincolnshire yesterday.... No need to be curious, it was not me who joined a forum and started arguing within the first one or two postings about peoples grammar / spelling. I'll grant you many people including you will get it wrong every now and then, even Dr Johnson who's heating we installed got it wrong occasionally. But in today's fast modern world it makes no difference..

As to your point about having a decent education, well education goes far wider than what you can learn in a classroom and as to your argument about the educated sitting on boards, panels and in courtrooms...... It's mostly these people that end up in the dock themselves, once their DNA profiles have caught up with them and after enough people have come forward to give evidence..... It's not the plumbers, bakers or the gardeners.... But always the lawyers, teachers, clergy and medical profession.... You could just say all those who excelled in formal education....

So no, I'm not as you say angry at a lot of people, far from it.... I just like everyone to be on a level playing field and treat each other as an equal rather than trying to belittle someone on a forum because in your mind they miss spelt something... it doesn't matter, it might for the minority but that's about it.......

Nope it has nothing to do with rhubarb or any other kind of fruit and veg and neither does knowing how to use apostrophes make you a highly educated person, however much you'd like us all to believe that it does....

Personally I think the only people who will be disadvantaged by poor grammar are the unfortunate ones who end up getting ridiculed by pompous prats and take it to heart. Must admit I haven't come across any spelling / grammar police on any forum for years now..... I thought they'd all died out, no doubt as usual we'll all sit back and wait for the inevitable to happen and it will.....  

Well all I can say is, is for me life is far too short to be arguing about the English grammar. As I said earlier both the grammar and the language evolves over time, always has done and always will do. However I do appreciate it that there are some more highly articulate, well  educated people out there, whose skill and use of the English grammar knows no bounds... Most of the ones I stumble across every now and then, can string a sentence together.... But they sure have a severe lack of common sense... Having said that I find it easier to leave them stuck up their own rear ends, in their own fantasy superior world......     

Can see this being another long drawn out thread about something that really doesn't matter to the masses in the modern computer geek world we now live in.......