Random Irritations

[Imurg]

I've just received an email...
It's from a "gadget" company..
Entitled......
Xmas gift ideas 2021...
I am lost for words...

 

[Blue in Munich]

I've just received an email...
It's from a "gadget" company..
Entitled......
Xmas gift ideas 2021...
I am lost for words...

But not lost for gift ideas

 

[Doon frae Troon]

So called intelligent people who do not seem to understand the difference between offered and taken.

 

[harpo_72]

So called intelligent people who do not seem to understand the difference between offered and taken.

I usually offer the “mick” as opposed to taking it ... but I may be misunderstood on many occasions

 

[Imurg]

In that case, a dictionary?
A thesaurus? ?

They didn't have any dinosaurs in the reduced section....

 

[Captainron]

Nevermind we've got our sovereignty back and can make our own laws now

 

[Bunkermagnet]

The person in charge who decided the Clap for Sir Tom should be done at 6pm on a weeknight. Too many people either didn't know, care or weren't home from work.

 

[Slime]

Wintry.
A stupid word that is just wrong .......................... end of.

 

[Slime]

That's a fair summery...

Surely that should be summry!

 

[Pin-seeker]

If you think people don’t believe they must hide their sexuality then ask yourself how many gay currently playing

Footballers
Rugby players
Golfers
Athletes
American Football players
Boxers

In fact 99% of the sports

The stigma is still there and that’s why people still hide until they retire

So come on then Phil how many are hiding their sexuality?
Let’s just say in the Premier league?
Obviously for your argument you’d like to say several.
Maybe so,but maybe not.
How many have actually come out after retirement?

 

[USER1999]

So come on then Phil how many are hiding their sexuality?
Let’s just say in the Premier league?
Obviously for your argument you’d like to say several.
Maybe so,but maybe not.
How many have actually come out after retirement?

How many will come out in their 70s, having had kids, marriages, grand kids, etc? Who knows? How many will turn out to be trans? It's a silly question, with no answer.

What would be amazing, would be the answer, none.

 

[GB72]

First post I have seen in social media asking why they cannot play golf now they have the vaccine. Totally ignorant to the thought that giving additional freedoms to those vaccinated would cause chaos to the possibke extent of civil unrest.

 

[Pin-seeker]

How many will come out in their 70s, having had kids, marriages, grand kids, etc? Who knows? How many will turn out to be trans? It's a silly question, with no answer.

What would be amazing, would be the answer, none.

People like to assume that there are loads of footballers that are too scared to come out.
Maybe that’s not the case ?‍

 

[Deleted member 15344]

How many will come out in their 70s, having had kids, marriages, grand kids, etc? Who knows? How many will turn out to be trans? It's a silly question, with no answer.

What would be amazing, would be the answer, none.

I think the last high profile to come out as gay was Hitzelberger - you are prob right , we won’t see many in our life time come out because of the stigma still attached and there will be no doubt they would be subjected to abuse.

People always seem to act horrified that there is ever the chance that professional footballers can be gay - the percentages suggest there will be players out there hiding their sexuality and always will do - and it will be the same for many sports , and there will be many fans happy for that because they won’t have to have the “horror” of supporting a gay player for their favourite team. For some it’s still hard to support people of ethnic minorities.

 

[Slime]

And...... How to ruin the perfect wordplay ?

No, because "summery" describes summer conditions as "wintry" describes winter conditions.... And "summery" is "summary" spelt incorrectly on purpose for the point of the pun.

"Summry" is not a word, makes no sense and isn't funny.

Thanks for your input.
I think it's you who missd the pun.
In Slime's weird and wonderful world, Wintry is not a word.

 

[Orikoru]

You are wrong:

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"Wierd" isn't a word though, it's "weird".

I think it's been discussed here before - but it's a strange quirk of the English language. If summer is summery then winter should be wintery shouldn't it? Who decided to cut the 'e' in one and not the other?

Then again autumny isn't a word, it's autumnal. And spring? Spring-like? Springy?

 

[Blue in Munich]

I think it's been discussed here before - but it's a strange quirk of the English language. If summer is summery then winter should be wintery shouldn't it? Who decided to cut the 'e' in one and not the other?

Then again autumny isn't a word, it's autumnal. And spring? Spring-like? Springy?

Vernal.

That's confused you, hasn't it?

 

[harpo_72]

I think it's been discussed here before - but it's a strange quirk of the English language. If summer is summery then winter should be wintery shouldn't it? Who decided to cut the 'e' in one and not the other?

Then again autumny isn't a word, it's autumnal. And spring? Spring-like? Springy?

The dictionary isn’t the be all and end all of the English language, it does reflect the language changes and introduction of new popular words.
So if we as a society take to a word and use it all the time it could make it’s way in ..
So if you can get “springy” in as a description of the weather, good job ? ??

What I don’t like is Microsoft defaults to an American spell checker, that is not a language and is a local bastardisation of the English language and tantamount to having a Cumbrian/brummie/ Liverpudlian spell checker ...

 

[Blue in Munich]

Yet another attempted phone scam. Are there more and more of these, or were we just spared them because we worked in an office & never had daytime calls?

And is it worth a separate thread to keep everyone up to date on them? I know we are all clever, & we'd never get caught, so we don't need one, do we...

 

[Orikoru]

Vernal.

That's confused you, hasn't it?

Say what now? I've never heard that before. ?