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Offline MintJulie

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Reply #100 on: October 27, 2016, 03:12:10 PM
Quote from: Well Behaved Lady on October 27, 2016, 12:14:04 PM
Women who apply their make-up while driving/in traffic - get up earlier!


Yes, yes, yes.   Good one Well Behaved Lady!



Quote from: toeinh2o on October 26, 2016, 07:11:13 PM
the period may go inside or outside quotation marks; however, in America, it is strictly inside.  End your final sentence with a period, please.
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Reply #101 on: October 27, 2016, 05:08:42 PM
Quote from: toeinh2o on October 26, 2016, 07:11:13 PM
Quote from: phtlc on October 26, 2016, 07:01:09 PM
When people say "same difference". I'm not normally a grammar Nazi, but that saying does irk me

I know you are Canadian, so the period may go inside or outside quotation marks; however, in America, it is strictly inside.  End your final sentence with a period, please.

 :hitler: :hitler: :hitler:

Actually, phtlc usage is correct in this case as the period has nothing to do with the quote. The quote is part of the sentence. The sentence ends after the quote. Therefore, the period goes outside. Grammatically speaking, it is actually possible to have two periods -- one inside the quotes and one outside to indicate the end of the sentence.

I learned waaaaaay too much about punctuation in a former career.

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Reply #102 on: October 27, 2016, 05:29:48 PM
Quote from: MintJulie on October 27, 2016, 03:12:10 PM

Yes, yes, yes.   Good one Well Behaved Lady!


I was pleasantly surprised when arriving at KB that there is not much grammar discussion.   The last board I was on was getting out of control.   

You should delineate the dependent clause, "when arriving at KB," in your first sentence with a comma.

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Reply #103 on: October 27, 2016, 05:32:11 PM
Quote from: JBRG on October 27, 2016, 05:08:42 PM
phtlc usage is correct


I get that a lot

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Reply #104 on: October 27, 2016, 06:49:50 PM


Normally this wouldn't be so bad, but when they stand there in zombie mode, and can't make up their minds what their going to get, it gets very annoying, very fast.  :emot_angry:


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Reply #105 on: October 27, 2016, 06:58:08 PM
Stuck in a traffic jam and having to listen to someone leaning on their horn for ten minutes and they are ten cars behind me and have no clue what's going on in the front of the traffic.

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Reply #106 on: October 27, 2016, 07:39:59 PM


His face is price less.  :emot_laughing:


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Reply #107 on: October 27, 2016, 11:19:10 PM
Quote from: Katiebee on October 27, 2016, 05:29:48 PM
Quote from: MintJulie on October 27, 2016, 03:12:10 PM

Yes, yes, yes.   Good one Well Behaved Lady!


I was pleasantly surprised when arriving at KB that there is not much grammar discussion.   The last board I was on was getting out of control.  

You should delineate the dependent clause, "when arriving at KB," in your first sentence with a comma.

 ;D


*edit posted the wrong image

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Reply #108 on: October 27, 2016, 11:50:10 PM
We all do. ;) Pobody's Nerfect.


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Reply #109 on: October 27, 2016, 11:58:18 PM
Sanitary napkins DO NOT FLUSH!

Do NOT put them in the toilet!

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Reply #110 on: October 28, 2016, 02:01:59 AM
Yes Katie.

Speaking of toilets.    The women at my work.  When you flush, make sure it all goes down please.   If not, flush again.     And, that little brush I bought and put in the corner behind the toilet, if something sticks, you can scrub it off and flush.      Gosh, so gross.   

Thank goodness we have a mens and womens bathrooms.

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Reply #111 on: October 28, 2016, 02:10:23 AM

Rush Hour: idiots in the ON ramp trying to jam 6 cars between each of the people on the freeway.  Ain't happening, and only 1 in 3 people ON the freeway will let you in even if you leave sufficient space between you and the car in front on the on-ramp.

As a result, all lanes come to a complete fucking halt because of the asshats in the on-ramp AS WELL AS the shitheads in the right-most freeway lane that are bumper-to-bumper (trying to keep anyone from merging).


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Reply #112 on: October 28, 2016, 02:23:14 AM
There are also the people on the freeway.     When I get on the expressway at 6:15am, there is not a lot of traffic.    Usually no problem merging in, UNTIL, the jerk speeds up because he doesn't want you getting in front of him, then he applies the brakes so he doesn't hit the car in front of him.    If people would just have some common courtesy.     


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Reply #113 on: October 28, 2016, 04:27:39 AM


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Reply #114 on: October 28, 2016, 05:42:56 PM
Quote from: MintJulie on October 28, 2016, 02:23:14 AM
There are also the people on the freeway.     When I get on the expressway at 6:15am, there is not a lot of traffic.    Usually no problem merging in, UNTIL, the jerk speeds up because he doesn't want you getting in front of him, then he applies the brakes so he doesn't hit the car in front of him.    If people would just have some common courtesy.     


I have noticed that much like nature, traffic abhors a vacuum. If there is a lot of space behind you, it will take no time for somebody to be riding your bumper even if you are speeding.

A study was done that shows that if drivers left the recommended 2 second interval between vehicles on the road, traffic would flow smoothly regardless of volume. Besides being a safety zone in case of an emergency in front of you, it gives you time/room to adjust your speed and keep moving. True, it may not be at 100 kph (62.5ish mph) but you would still be moving.

Now if I could only remember the source of this info.

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Reply #115 on: October 30, 2016, 10:33:34 PM


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Reply #116 on: October 31, 2016, 01:48:27 AM
Daylight savings time continuing into November, well past the point when there is no extra daylight left to "save" (in other words, redistribute from morning to evening), and messing up Halloween. 

10 years ago, daylight savings ended in late October, before Halloween.  There would be a brief reprieve from having to wake up before sunrise, and it would get dark nice and early for the kids to go out trick or treating.  Now we have an extra week of not seeing any daylight whatsoever before work, it is still dark at wake up time even after the time change, and it is light out until 6:30 pm on Halloween.  Whose boneheaded idea was this?


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Reply #117 on: October 31, 2016, 04:26:50 AM
I agree, that's irritating.


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Reply #118 on: October 31, 2016, 03:12:20 PM

I know I've ranted about this before, somewhere or other here, but one of my longstanding pet peeves is people who confuse the meaning of the words "irony" and "coincidence," and use the word "ironic" when the correct word should be "coincidental."

Sports commentators do it constantly. For example, I've heard several times an announcer or commentator point out that it's "ironic" that Cleveland Indians player Jason Kipnis grew up as a Cubs fan in the Chicago area. There's nothing "ironic" about that; in fact it isn't even much of a coincidence.






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Reply #119 on: October 31, 2016, 03:55:17 PM
Quote from: MissBarbara on October 31, 2016, 03:12:20 PM

I know I've ranted about this before, somewhere or other here, but one of my longstanding pet peeves is people who confuse the meaning of the words "irony" and "coincidence," and use the word "ironic" when the correct word should be "coincidental."

Sports commentators do it constantly. For example, I've heard several times an announcer or commentator point out that it's "ironic" that Cleveland Indians player Jason Kipnis grew up as a Cubs fan in the Chicago area. There's nothing "ironic" about that; in fact it isn't even much of a coincidence.




Is it just a coincidence that many announcers were former pro athletes themselves, thus their switching the two words in their sentences.  How ironic.  ;D ;D

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