The confusion of British and English is annoying for the English too.
I am tired of having my Englishness subsumed into some ephemeral "Britishness" whilst the national identity of Wales and Scotland is actively promoted by the Scottish Occupation Government of Blair, Brown, Reid, etc.
Whilst I have nothing against the other constituent nations of the UK, the sooner we English get independence, the better.
The IRA's warnings were usually deliberately misleading and designed to direct evacuations from the first bomb towards a second bomb, thus increasing casualties.
Their policy of placing bombs in pubs, trains, town centres, etc, demonstrates that their intention was to maximise casualties, not minimise them.
"piece of mind"
A great of example of why correct spelling is important.
I know how shouldn't let these things bother me and I know it is rude to correct someone's spelling. I also know that a lot of grammer experts are going to rip this port apart but when a sentence is rendered meaningless.......
The word is peace. It's not the same as piece. They're called homonyms - same word but different meaning. That's why correct spelling is important.
If it was in a posted comment I wouldn't bother but it is in the blurb for a submitted story! Is there any editorial control, any proof-reading?
The Nationwide Building Society ATM nearby often has a Visual C++ error window on screen. The machine still works fine and dispenses cash but it's a bit hard to read the screen with error box in the middle.
Very true - you should still go to the opticians regularly. They can give you early warning of other conditions.
Also, laser eye surgery may give you good vision - for a few years. Once you get past 40, your eyes are going to deteriorate with old age. So you are spending x amount of money to save, at best, 10-20 years of opticians visits and, like the previous poster said, you shouldn't be skipping those visits anyway.
Whoa, relax, please don't take it as some sort of personal attack on your "honesty and integrity." This is not the nineteenth century and there will be no pistols at dawn.
The last comment was meant to be a humourous throwaway that contains a kernal of truth. I have known men who are a little too keen to establish their feminist credentials whenever there is a female audience to witness it. The thing is, not all men do. Whether you do - I don't know and I don't much care. I'm sure the women where you live can look after themselves. They are meant to be equals, after all.
As for being strongly worded, your reply was far more harsh. If I wasn't a stereotypical thick-skinned, emotionally repressed man I'd take it personally.
Positive stereotypes are still stereotypes. Women as a group are not more objective, direct or organised. They're all different, just like men.
When you start peddling one sort of sexist stereotype you're just opening the door to the negative (and indeterminate) stereotypes. Perhaps as well as them all being objective, direct and organised they also ALL become moody and irrational once per month. Maybe they all have a pathological shoe-buying habit. Maybe not.
Of course, scoring feminist points might be enough to persuade one of them to sleep with you. In that case, carry on - whatever works best for you.
No we wouldn't. By the time the US joined in, the threat of invasion had passed and the tide was slowly turning in Britain's (and the Commonwealth's) favour. The Battle of Britain was in 1940 - after that the Germans had no chance of getting an invasion fleet across the English Channel. The UK's air and naval cover would have decimated it.
What we probably would not have been able to do alone would have been to re-take France and invade Germany. That would have left mainland Europe, and possibly the UK eventually, for the Soviet Union.
When the Soviets had control of the German, French and British navies and seized Germany's rocket technology do you really think the US would have been safe?
So, whilst I am sure the whole of Britain is truly thankful for American assistance in shortening WW2, it did not save Britain. As the parent poster pointed out, we have been saving ourselves for nearly 1000 years.
I don't think robbers and rapists come up to you and say "Excuse me, I would like to rob/rape you" and then give you the opportunity to draw your gun.
I have never been attacked but, from the stories of people I know who have, they take you by surprise and incapacitate you before you can react. Male victims are just hit hard from behind and searched before they can resist, female victims are often indecently assaulted - they are so 'distracted' by the hand grabbing their crotch that they can't hold on to their handbag.
Maybe in the US they still live by the code of the Old West and say "Draw" first, but in London they just give you a swift and suprising kicking.
As Liverpool was part of Lancashire prior to the county boundary changes of 1972, I think its accent is more likely to be a mixture of Irish and Lancashire, not Yorkshire.
Of course, those changes in 1972 were to administrative counties and, strictly speaking. the old county still exists. From the Mersey to the lakes and from the Irish Sea to the Pennines! All 7 million if us!
P.S. Death to Yorkshire.
This prompts a better question - is "software engineering" (or IT work in general) a trade or profession?
My personal preference would be for trade because the job-roles that are most obsessed with professional status are usually the least professional.
It also goes to show that, if you want to find someone who doesn't want to be found (for stalking / torturing / murdering purposes), you just have to pretend to be a wronged Mac user and a bunch of Mac do-gooders will come and help you track them down.
Moral - pray your abusive spouse does not know the URL of any Mac user groups.
"The secret Catholic password" - that is a joke, surely? I'm not Catholic (I'm CofE), my parents are 'mixed' (i.e. one Church of England (Protestant) and one Catholic), I had a Catholic education and I come from a part of the world where which flavour of religion you belong to is not important (Lancashire, England for those that are interested - most Catholic part of England and stock-full of Muslims, as well as run-of-the-mill CofE like me) but I've never heard of any secret password.
I can't believe that my own Father and all the friends that I've had for the past 21 years (since I started High School) have kept this "secret password" from me. All those times at school and they never mentioned it!
In fact, I suspect that you posted this in order to provoke the more fundamental (stupid?) sort of Protestant into sending some "Pope is AntiChrist" type of reply. What are you going to come up with next - Christian babies being sacrificed? That sort of sectarian nonsense kills people.
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The confusion of British and English is annoying for the English too.
I am tired of having my Englishness subsumed into some ephemeral "Britishness" whilst the national identity of Wales and Scotland is actively promoted by the Scottish Occupation Government of Blair, Brown, Reid, etc.
Whilst I have nothing against the other constituent nations of the UK, the sooner we English get independence, the better.
English Republic Now!
The IRA's warnings were usually deliberately misleading and designed to direct evacuations from the first bomb towards a second bomb, thus increasing casualties. Their policy of placing bombs in pubs, trains, town centres, etc, demonstrates that their intention was to maximise casualties, not minimise them.
"piece of mind" A great of example of why correct spelling is important. I know how shouldn't let these things bother me and I know it is rude to correct someone's spelling. I also know that a lot of grammer experts are going to rip this port apart but when a sentence is rendered meaningless....... The word is peace. It's not the same as piece. They're called homonyms - same word but different meaning. That's why correct spelling is important. If it was in a posted comment I wouldn't bother but it is in the blurb for a submitted story! Is there any editorial control, any proof-reading?
The Nationwide Building Society ATM nearby often has a Visual C++ error window on screen. The machine still works fine and dispenses cash but it's a bit hard to read the screen with error box in the middle.
Very true - you should still go to the opticians regularly. They can give you early warning of other conditions.
Also, laser eye surgery may give you good vision - for a few years. Once you get past 40, your eyes are going to deteriorate with old age. So you are spending x amount of money to save, at best, 10-20 years of opticians visits and, like the previous poster said, you shouldn't be skipping those visits anyway.
Whoa, relax, please don't take it as some sort of personal attack on your "honesty and integrity." This is not the nineteenth century and there will be no pistols at dawn.
The last comment was meant to be a humourous throwaway that contains a kernal of truth. I have known men who are a little too keen to establish their feminist credentials whenever there is a female audience to witness it. The thing is, not all men do. Whether you do - I don't know and I don't much care. I'm sure the women where you live can look after themselves. They are meant to be equals, after all.
As for being strongly worded, your reply was far more harsh. If I wasn't a stereotypical thick-skinned, emotionally repressed man I'd take it personally.
Positive stereotypes are still stereotypes. Women as a group are not more objective, direct or organised. They're all different, just like men.
When you start peddling one sort of sexist stereotype you're just opening the door to the negative (and indeterminate) stereotypes. Perhaps as well as them all being objective, direct and organised they also ALL become moody and irrational once per month. Maybe they all have a pathological shoe-buying habit. Maybe not.
Of course, scoring feminist points might be enough to persuade one of them to sleep with you. In that case, carry on - whatever works best for you.
No we wouldn't. By the time the US joined in, the threat of invasion had passed and the tide was slowly turning in Britain's (and the Commonwealth's) favour. The Battle of Britain was in 1940 - after that the Germans had no chance of getting an invasion fleet across the English Channel. The UK's air and naval cover would have decimated it.
What we probably would not have been able to do alone would have been to re-take France and invade Germany. That would have left mainland Europe, and possibly the UK eventually, for the Soviet Union.
When the Soviets had control of the German, French and British navies and seized Germany's rocket technology do you really think the US would have been safe?
So, whilst I am sure the whole of Britain is truly thankful for American assistance in shortening WW2, it did not save Britain. As the parent poster pointed out, we have been saving ourselves for nearly 1000 years.
I don't think robbers and rapists come up to you and say "Excuse me, I would like to rob/rape you" and then give you the opportunity to draw your gun.
I have never been attacked but, from the stories of people I know who have, they take you by surprise and incapacitate you before you can react. Male victims are just hit hard from behind and searched before they can resist, female victims are often indecently assaulted - they are so 'distracted' by the hand grabbing their crotch that they can't hold on to their handbag.
Maybe in the US they still live by the code of the Old West and say "Draw" first, but in London they just give you a swift and suprising kicking.
As Liverpool was part of Lancashire prior to the county boundary changes of 1972, I think its accent is more likely to be a mixture of Irish and Lancashire, not Yorkshire. Of course, those changes in 1972 were to administrative counties and, strictly speaking. the old county still exists. From the Mersey to the lakes and from the Irish Sea to the Pennines! All 7 million if us! P.S. Death to Yorkshire.
This prompts a better question - is "software engineering" (or IT work in general) a trade or profession? My personal preference would be for trade because the job-roles that are most obsessed with professional status are usually the least professional.
It also goes to show that, if you want to find someone who doesn't want to be found (for stalking / torturing / murdering purposes), you just have to pretend to be a wronged Mac user and a bunch of Mac do-gooders will come and help you track them down. Moral - pray your abusive spouse does not know the URL of any Mac user groups.
"The secret Catholic password" - that is a joke, surely? I'm not Catholic (I'm CofE), my parents are 'mixed' (i.e. one Church of England (Protestant) and one Catholic), I had a Catholic education and I come from a part of the world where which flavour of religion you belong to is not important (Lancashire, England for those that are interested - most Catholic part of England and stock-full of Muslims, as well as run-of-the-mill CofE like me) but I've never heard of any secret password. I can't believe that my own Father and all the friends that I've had for the past 21 years (since I started High School) have kept this "secret password" from me. All those times at school and they never mentioned it! In fact, I suspect that you posted this in order to provoke the more fundamental (stupid?) sort of Protestant into sending some "Pope is AntiChrist" type of reply. What are you going to come up with next - Christian babies being sacrificed? That sort of sectarian nonsense kills people.