idiots that bring nothing to the forum

I like the spelling nazis, they make me laugh when they get all upset over peoples spelling and punctuation

Nobody is getting “all upset” by bad spelling.

It’s pointed out either for a laugh, or to score an easy point.

The only upset seems to be from people who don’t like their errors being pointed out.

Get a grip.

It’s quicker to just post a picture of an enormous horse cock.

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Ps, don’t google blackadder horse ****

I don’t mind the odd spelling/grammar error, but when you have to read a post twice, and slowly, to get any sense of what the poster is trying to get across it’s a bit much. Some people clearly don’t bother reading through what they’ve just typed before hitting the Send Post button.
I wouldn’t bother correcting other’s mistakes, but I can understand why it happens. It’s a bit like saying “Again, in English”, to one of your mates with a regional accent when they’ve just blurted out something unintelligible. It’s just a bit of banter, nothing more.

Get a grip.

Wow this internetz is serious biuisness! Don’t let this escalate until Koffi Annan gets here and we can sort this out.
(He’s busy so we may have to make do with William Hague)
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This be the internets…it’s what people do.

Some people do it to be funny/ironic…they don’t really care.

Wow this internetz is serious biuisness! Don’t let this escalate until Koffi Annan gets here and we can sort this out.
(He’s busy so we may have to make do with William Hague)
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Probably not the best way to demonstrate one has a grip.

It’s quite obvious that you do make a bit of an effort

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I don’t mind the odd spelling/grammar error, but when you have to read a post twice, and slowly, to get any sense of what the poster is trying to get across it’s a bit much. Some people clearly don’t bother reading through what they’ve just typed before hitting the Send Post button.
I wouldn’t bother correcting other’s mistakes, but I can understand why it happens. It’s a bit like saying “Again, in English”, to one of your mates with a regional accent when they’ve just blurted out something unintelligible. It’s just a bit of banter, nothing more.

Amen

Word

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its a bit of both.
Post can be so poor they are unintelligible, then again perfectly well crafted and grammatically correct posts can be utter pish as well

I care more about the ides it conveys than the method. It may occasionally make the message harder to see though its rare you cannot tell IME.

The dialogue on this forum is conducted through the written word, those who are not able to express themselves well through this medium are at a disadvantage and should welcome attempts made by more learned forum members to lift them up to an appropriate standard

is the ladder long enough for me to get up on to your high horse?

That is issue, those who care about grammar also insist they are the brightest- its not necessarily a sign of intelligence or a good argument though it may be of their arrogance.

I love this place. 😛

I love this place.

Brilliant ain’t it. 😀

Are we allowed to rip the pish out of yoof speak? It’s only fair Shirley?

whoo hooo —

yunki – Member

When I first started coming here I thought the forum was populated by rude, arrogant public school tossers, it used to drive me mental, but I I kept using the site for chat and info..

After a while, I realised that what I had taken for rudeness and childish piss taking was just mostly friendly banter and in-jokes that have been going on here for years and years.. I was just taking it personally..

As for the spelling and grammar nazis? Well, it’s actually a really good tool for keeping a certain level of intelligent communication going, angry young school aged low IQ trolls that you see all over every other forum and message board on the web, simply can’t be arsed. If you embrace it, you become kind of encouraged to take a bit of pride on your presentation, using spellcheck and looking up words etc.. So it’s like a free self motivated education really, which is nothing to be sniffed at in this age of cut throat capitalism..

It’s a shame I agree, life should be more wholesome, less shallow.. But it’s not

mtfu princess innit

This might be one of the best things I have ever seen written on STW…

You could argue it’s actually a bit rude to expect other people to make the effort to decipher poorly written posts, where the poster hasn’t made much effort to communicate effectively. 😉

is the ladder long enough for me to get up on to your high horse?

Oh good grief. What was that whooshing noise?

Is it back pedalling?

What was that whooshing noise?

The sound of the ladder being raised upto you’re horse?

Yet again, I luurve Jamie 😉

I’ve never seen a post on here that was so badly written I couldn’t understand it – apart from when it’s been written like that on purpose.

On the other hand I don’t live on here – so maybe I’ve just been lucky?

In any case, there will always be a billy-no-mates aka “Milk Monitor” who no one in real life will listen to but gets the attention he craves on here causing trouble . . . lol. Just ignore him 🙂

I’ve never seen a post on here that was so badly written I couldn’t understand it – apart from when it’s been written like that on purpose.

How about posts which required you to put in quite a lot of effort to understand them?

Conversely, I have seen many posts on here that are grammatically correct, yet I cannot for the life of me work out what the poster is on about. Although not so often since the great purge.

M’y high horse Jamie?

Depends. Can you prove you brought it?

He should of got a receipt

Last night I read two posts that used the word plump in place of plumb. I was tempted to turn it into a pedantic pun but remembered the scorn I received the last time I foolishly attempted such depravity.

Anyway, fattening up just to buy a particular bike is a bit much, if you ask me…

He should of got a receipt

Hate that! In fact hate’s not a strong enough word 🙁

I hope stu is actually out riding his bike on such a nice morning, Still can help wondering if it’s just a Postlethwaite/DTF wind up. The OP is a masterpiece. You look once and see the odd typo/mistake then, like a great piece of art, you look again and see more, then again and more. To fit so many errors into all but one sentence is quite an achievement – are we sure it’s not just a wind up?

But autocorrect doesn’t help at times. I have responded to Grum and the autocorrect changed it to grim by mistake and this week didn’t Mr Woppit get upset by being called Woptit. All genuine errors it seems!

Aracer ‘He should of got a receipt’. What instead of a horse? Well you wouldn’t need to feed it!

Pimpmaster jazz your cutlery is incorrectly placed. 😉

Grum to Grim is one of autocorrect’s own little moments of genius.

Well this went well. Discussion has been achieved.
I think that a few people have seen my point. And others have seen the point and mocked, which I totally get aswel. I use the forum for advice and to pass time when on the bog.
I just find it disheartening that someone sat at a keyboard many miles away mocks someone for their spelling. You do understand but you are just being a tool.
Yes I have been out for a little potter about this morning. Don’t have mud tyres so had to come home and trawl stw’ to find the best mud tyres, and thread about said tyres ………

Read the title of the post and nothing in between as I assume that the title sums up the pages.
And beforeyou start *Holds hand up* nothing to bring missen.

Good that you went for a ride, it’s a nice morning (cough) “as well”. Since you are serious, then just let it be. It’s mainly meant as humour like a lot of stuff on here. Might come across differently in the wee hours though.

Out of curiosity do the “correctors” for whatever reason, do the same when someone is talking? Regardless of a speak impediment or English not being their first language.

Out of curiosity do the “correctors” for whatever reason, do the same when someone is talking? Regardless of a speak impediment or English not being their first language.

Probably not, but then it will be obvious in real life if someone has a speech impediment, or English isn’t their first language.

speak impediment

Raaaa, when will it end.

Probably not, but then it will be obvious in real life if someone has a speech impediment, or English isn’t their first language.

Its not always obvious depending on what it is.

Then again I can sometimes tell by what someone has written if they are dyslexic, by certain characteristics in the mistakes they make. Similar to the plump and plumb example given above.
I know I always make mistakes when I write, even with auto correct. I wouldn’t post anything without it. Anything official I write my wife proof reads first. The problem with some of the assumptions on here is that posters like myself are being lazy (another old teachers favourite) which isn’t the case at all. I bet I spend more time re/reading my posts than most, but still make mistakes.

I just find it disheartening that someone sat at a keyboard many miles away mocks someone for their spelling

I tend to agree with this.

stu170 – Member
I just find it disheartening that someone sat at a keyboard many miles away mocks someone for their spelling. You do understand but you are just being a tool.

Do you have to take those comments so seriously? Chill man, chill …

We all know about maggots infestation and zombies taking over our lives so either you step on them or enlist Benelli M4’s help …

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