My problem’s high inflation and relatively very low interest rates. The collapse of the Western World surfaces at times.
“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.
Nearly. "The boy's bike" in the genitive case requires an apostrophe because of the missing letters from the full phrase "the boy his bike". The "his" in this case being the possessive article. The genitive case is where the noun is modified by the possessive and the omission of letters is indicated by the apostrophe.
"Its" can be thought of as the same as "his" , inasmuch as it is in itself a possessive article. It therefore does not require the genitive case addition of the apostrophe.
A video appeared between posts on the forum last week.
You would not go to the shop to buy sweet’s, there is no scenario where this is correct.
I am going to the shop to buy Sweet’s new album.
My immediate problem is that periodically I like the rather decadent spending which is a total refresh of my underwear drawer in one purchase. A wholesale throwing out of all my smalls for a new drawerful.
However I have slept walked into the predicament that my current set of socks are at end of life. Each morning this week I play Russian roulette as to whether or not a toe or a heel will pop out of a new hole in my socks.
I guess I must start a “what sock thread”
It would be nice if a builder COULD JUST BLOODY PROVIDE A QUOTE!!! Five have been out now, just say you're too busy before we waste each others time. 😡
Grew up in a west coast working class shipbuilding town, now living in a very middle class part of Edinburgh. Hadn't realised quite how much things had changed until a few years ago when I heard myself say to MrsKenny "Remember, the burrata needs to come up to room temperature".
prefer to do drop a solidus in an alleyway.
As do I, after which I put it in a bag,hang it on a three and pretend it's dog poo
The ending is painful. We had to go to Tesco in Flitwick..,,,
One feels your pain. I got a bonus/prize voucher thing from work a few years ago and the only supermarket that would accept it was Tesco, had to go there half a dozen times to use it up.
The horror.
When I wear my polarised sunglasses when driving I can’t see the heads up display in my car. It’s a nightmare..
all my kids hate humous
the shame
My pre-haircut shiatsu massage was fairly insipid the other day.
Bring me the girl with the skinhead and the forearms of a road-digger.
I needed to decant a bottle of vintage port at the weekend and had forgotten the muslin, so I had to use a pair of tights.
Tree not three, bloody fat thumbs
I was wondering whom might reside at three. Had to google 'burrata', how's that for inverted snobbery?
Pretty disgruntled last night as I had to clean my own windows as l cannot get a window cleaner.
But bought an extendable cleaning set from Amazon and it's done the job.
Do we go for one stop over, or two on our annual drive to a ski resort in France?
Do I peg out the underwear behind the other laundry so it's hidden from the neighbours view.
I've just eaten a Wagon Wheel and it was quite disappointing.
My working class problem:
Deciding which wall to put you all up against and in which order, once the revolution comes 🙂
Chips and Fishes is my local chip shop.
I will mention it to them next time I am in.
Less swear words please….. my children may read this forum.
Duplicate post.
I prefer to do drop a solidus in an alleyway.
Is a slash and a solidus what the plebs call a "number 3" ?
The light in my wine cooler doesn't turn off automatically.
This year the moorhens are only nesting in our smaller lake.
is there any convention for use with TLAs? I just think TLA’s looks neater, clear where the TLA ends and the plural begins.
The rule here is it's acceptable if aids clarification.
TLAs is unambiguous and doesn't need an apostrophe. If "tla" was valid then tlas would look weird, so you'd write tla's.
My wife’s nickname is sweet because she is a chocolatier. I often go to the local deli to buy sweet’s treats
No you don't. You go to buy Sweet's treats.
No you don’t. You go to buy Sweet’s treats.
Only if she has enough status for me to capitalise her name.
My pre-haircut shiatsu massage was fairly insipid the other day.
Bring me the girl with the skinhead and the forearms of a road-digger.
A few years back, I went for a massage as part of a spa day. Sat in the waiting room with the other customers, a succession of Pretty Young Things came in one by one to collect their clients and I'm thinking "I have done well here." Then my name was called... by this massive Kiwi bloke built like a prop forward. He pummelled the absolute **** out of me.
Our Ninja Air-fryer- a high end one, dual zone, multiple settings, timers- isn't big enough to cook a whole Pizza Express frozen pizza.
This forces us to bisect the pizza, and place each half into its own drawer.
When I wear my polarised sunglasses when driving I can’t see the heads up display in my car. It’s a nightmare..
I just replced the lenses in one of my sets of oakley sunnies for polarised ones, and now I have to have my phone in portrait rather than landscape in the window holder in my #vanlife family bus*.
*not a T5 though only a Mercedes Viano....
I spend idle time at work scoffing at models in stock image libraries who clearly have no clue about the scenario they're supposed to be enacting or the objects they're posing with.
I regret not choosing the matched wine flight with my meal the other night. The one glass I did have was brilliant.
timers- isn’t big enough to cook a whole Pizza Express frozen pizza.
Not only do you not own pizza oven, you but frozen pizza from a chain.
Get out!
Hahaha! I thought maybe a burrata was some fancy vegan sort of burrito! Now I know betterer 🤣
Our biggest problem is whether Lidl is out of San Celistino 🤣 We drink a lot of sparkles.
We'd be classed middle class by education and work, but not by holidays/cars/house etc. Grew up very much north east ex mining village working class with free school diners and the like.
Only if she has enough status for me to capitalise her name.
Capitalising a name isn't status, it's a proper noun and takes capitalisation inherently.
She could of course choose not to. I have a friend who spells her name entirely lowercase.
In today's keeping up with the Joneses:
The Lexus outside next door has recently been replaced by a shiny newish Audi, and a week later, next door to that the Merc GLA was gone and a Tesla appeared.
Not my neighbours' cars but those belonging to their cleaners.
Apostrophes do not, ever, denote pluralisation.
Well except when they do by virtue of their position!
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.
It would be correct to use sweet's when you say something like:
The sweet's wrapper was damaged and therefore I threw it in the bin. OR The sweets' soft filling all appeared to have crystallised so I took to Twitter in a fit of rage.
I spend idle time at work scoffing at models in stock image libraries who clearly have no clue about the scenario they’re supposed to be enacting or the objects they’re posing with.
@tj - are you sure that silver cutlery with bone handles is just middle class?
my children take the piss out of me as when we eat out they don't have left-handed pastry forks like I have in the house...
I'm struggling to get harrisa seasoning.
Today's middle class problem is that my new massive TV has been damaged in transit and now I have the faff of getting it all back in the box, and the courier has to collect a 2m X 1m 50 kilo box and carry it back down 2 flights of stairs. I was really looking forward to watching the new Avatar movie on it this weekend 😕
are you sure that silver cutlery with bone handles is just middle class?
When its second hand and mismatched?
I’m struggling to get harrisa seasoning.
Just the opposite here, we bought way too much when visiting Carthage for some winter sun.
are you sure that silver cutlery with bone handles is just middle class?
When its second hand and mismatched?
It was popular as wedding gifts when my parents got married - late 60s - so we grew up in a working class house, with that sort of cutlery, including fish knives and all sorts of pointlessness.
are you sure that silver cutlery with bone handles is just middle class?
Depends if the set also has fish knives ....
Oh the shame
Today’s middle class problem is that my new massive TV....
Errr 🤔🤫🤐
Anyone have any solid definitions of what is Working or Middle Class? I did an assessment at work (civil service) for social mobility and it turns out my dad is working class, i was raised lower middle class but I am now middle class (in my 50s). The criteria weighting / algorithms were hidden so i have no idea whats driving all this. Can you swap classes???
Oh i have fish knives as well including a serving set.
No cake forks tho.
