🎄 Breaking News

Roll on the new season.

For a “breaking news” thread, there’s a bit too much focus about spellerations.

Well as they say a rolling stone is worth two in the bush…

You have to grab the nettle by both horns and milk it til the penny drops.

Loadsa activity in the passed 24 hrs, must of been somethink 'appening …

Suckered me in again.

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If there was a decent striker available, we should have signed him.

If there were a couple of decent wide players available, we should have signed them.

Shoulda, woulda, coulda

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Good to catch up with this thread whilst standing in the Waitrose ‘five items or less’ queue, having been frustratingly unable to find the ‘five items or fewer’ till.

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That is top notch. Hat duly doffed.

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Five items or less is absolutely fine

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It’s both perfectly clear what it means and a more elegant phrase

Believe you are confusing uncountable nouns eg ‘less water’ with countable nouns ie ‘fewer items’.

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Join us tomorrow when perfidious_albion discovers he can’t buy anything at the supermarket because he has forgotten his PIN number

I prefer to use ‘purchase’ as a transaction verb, ‘buy’ as a noun in conversation.
And still use a cheque book, recognising this is generally considered eccentric.

I’m really not

If there’s one thing that @micra has taught us all it’s that …

A lower number is less but less things are fewer, :thinking:?

And to be thankful for modern plumbing.

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Summer Gasroom is fun.

PIN number, really? The ‘number’ is already in the acronym.

Sorry, just keeping this on thread.

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Or at least do a background check on anyone you employ to fix problems.

No it is not, you ignoramus. And you had the cheek to call me ignorant.