MIne is that if I put my silver cutlery in the dishwasher it gets all discoloured and as for the bone handled knives - they just can't go in it! It would destroy them 🙂
( Its all antique cutlery bought cheap in sets of 4 or 5)
I do however have a technique for resilvering the spoons using bicarb and tin foil so thats a very middleclass solution to a very middle class problem
So all you middle class folk on here - whats your most middle class / first world issues?
There were no Jersey Royals left in Booths this afternoon
My microwave isn’t large enough to defrost my frozen jeans.
The dye ran out of mine when I got out of the bath in them and have stained my white John Lewis bath mat
Dishwasher? Middle class? I was born and brought up working class with an education to go with it. The only further education I ever had was day-release classes at college from work, and I left school at 16.
Oh, and there’s an apostrophe in ‘what’s’; that’s nearly thirty years of proofreading copy, not being middle class. 😉
Oh, and there’s an apostrophe in ‘what’s’
Well if we're being picky (I am - and i'm proud of my middle class roots), I find the spaces before and after the solidus quite confronting.
The yolk of one my quail eggs was a bit too firm this morning at breakfast 😖
I never know what to do with apostrophes and many years ago I was told its better to just omit them than get them wrong 😉 And WTF is a solidus?
"It's better" 😉
WTF is WFT? 🤣
It's this/that
Right - you have pushed me over the edge now. Edit time 🙂 I'm going to tut and get my green pen out
I never know what to do with apostrophes and many years ago I was told its better to just omit them than get them wrong 😉
Sage advice.
And WTF is a solidus?
It's a pretentious name for a / slash. (And also what Unicode names it.)
It’s a pretentious name for a / slash
Typical working class response.
I never know what to do with apostrophes
Apostrophes denote either possession or missing letters.
Doesn't = does not. Isn't = is not.
The boy's room = the room belonging to the boy.
The boys' room = the room belonging to the boys.
"Its/it's" is an outlier in that "it's" should satisfy both criteria, but it's a special case. It's = it is, its = belonging to it.
Apostrophes do not, ever, denote pluralisation. People see an 's' on a word and randomly slap an apostrophe in front of it. You would not go to the shop to buy sweet's, there is no scenario where this is correct.
When in doubt, leave it out.
I prefer to do drop a solidus in an alleyway.
Apostrophes do not, ever, denote pluralisation.
The exception of course being that it is acceptable to use before the ‘s’ for plurals of single letters and single-digit numbers.
"Binary code is 0's and 1's"
"I never put apostrophes after i's"
My personal favourite (from a friend), the underfloor heating is warming my champagne.
She was wrapping Christmas presents on the floor with a glass to the side.
Personal, my home coffee setup means I make better coffee than most of the coffee shops I go to.
The screw top on our balsamic glaze is becoming dashed difficult to seat on the threads.
Must make time for a spruce up.
What solvent for balsamic glaze?
I get most put out when commmentators on the Labour Party labour with proper nouns and with those poor souls who spell ideological as 'idealogical', it must have been terribly tough at the council school. However, it doesn't do to mock the afflicted.
Like apostrophes for 1's and i's, is there any convention for use with TLAs? I just think TLA's looks neater, clear where the TLA ends and the plural begins.
eg, there are so many different gpss nowadays it's hard to know where you are with them.
GPSs surely? I thought one always capitalised a TLA.
As for middle class problems… I found myself unable to set up the mowing robot last week due to the large number of wild flowers on our lawn and my girlfriend’s desire to encourage them in our garden. I had to mow the garden myself. With a normal mower. Like a savage.
For those of you that would like further clarification on the use of the apostrophe, please see below:
https://www.angryflower.com/247.html
My dad was telling me that they’d run out of fresh crushed ice on the langoustine display in Booths supermarket last week and the place was going downhill.
You would not go to the shop to buy sweet’s, there is no scenario where this is correct.
My wife's nickname is sweet because she is a chocolatier. I often go to the local deli to buy sweet's treats
TLAs should generally be capitalised so the role of the "s" is clear. However IMO GPS should be singular as it's the name of a specific system, so your example of "gpss" (sic) should actually be "there are so many different GNSSs nowadays it’s hard to know where you are with them."
I'm nearly out of ground coffee, but I'm holding out for a quick visit to M&S food tonight as they do the best decaff.
beans surely
Apostrophes do not, ever, denote pluralisation
I know that. You know that. For the love of God, someone please tell these ***ers.
Latin words
Latinised words - hardly any are pure Latin and many derive from Greek, or Linnaeus just picked names of people he liked/disliked and used those as the basis for binomial nomenclature. (I'll ignore the spurious plurarlisation apostrophe.)
This was a white back
My son giving me his ingredients list for cooking the next day, at school, at 7:10. Going to Waitrose to buy the required coconut milk, to find that they’d sold because the rest of the class had got there first.
The ending is painful. We had to go to Tesco in Flitwick..,,,
I opened a thread about the travails of middle class life, hoping to empathise, and there are multiple northerners wittering on about some corner shop they use in their hell-hole; Booths ≠ Waitrose.
there are so many different GPSSs nowadays it’s hard to know where you are with them
GPS units
GPS devices
Kilo, Waitrose is what we have to keep the plebs out of Booths.
APF
TLAs should generally be capitalised
If that's generally, then what is the convention for when they aren't, or for example a company's logo / brand is lower case?
There are not many dstls in the UK. Not many dstl's?
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In the end the purpose of language is communication, so does the apostrophe really matter? The context in the vast majority of cases is clear and of course it's only evident in written form anyway, there's no verbal apostrophe and we seem to manage perfectly well without it. Will it evolve out of language in some 10's or 100's of years?
What solvent for balsamic glaze?
You buy and use glaze? Wanders off tutting.
The knob on the lid of our asparagus' steamer has fallen off
There's not enough stock of high end bike bits.
Overheard in a supermarket, 'Mummy, shouldn't we get another bottle of extra virgin for the cottage?'
When shopping many years back, I heard the lovely sentence floating along the aisles:
"Darling, do we need parmesan for both of our houses?"
I think keeping track of parmesan consumption in two houses must class as a(n upper) middle class problem.
Mind you keeping track of multiple sizes of spare inner tubes and toolkits for all of our bikes is a significant challenge! I tend to buy a new mini pump when it gets too hard to find one...
“matt_outandabout
I’m nearly out of ground coffee, but I’m holding out for a quick visit to M&S food tonight as they do the best decaff”
In case it’s of interest Matt, Katja at Kontext Coffee in Wyastone Park Monmouth (home Mojo Rising / Geometron bikes) has a decaf that’s virtually indiscernible from full caff coffee. Such a blessing for those who can only take so much caffeine.
Katja’s ever so nice and married to Marcel, Geometron’s CAD man and ace cyclist. Great to support a small business with a bike connection built in
My wife’s nickname is sweet because she is a chocolatier. I often go to the local deli to buy sweet’s treats
Surely then it's "I often go to the local deli to buy Sweet’s"?
