how can people fuck up THEN and THAN!!!

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

Funny... that's a completely different argument to the one you used the other day when you said 'I work for the government (you then implied British too as it was the British government I was talking about), and they AREN'T doing that... I would know'

So which stance ARE you taking then? This new one or the one that suited you last week?

you mean this quote.

dunkman wrote:

i make maps.

i also plot the movement of nuclear shipments.. contribute to my departments papers and reports that go to straight to Scottish Parliament... i've worked on e-planning forums that will directly affect the poorest people of Scotland and how they get a house in the future... blah blah de blah.

point is... i work for the government... nothing we do is covert or in anyway snoops into your life... MI5 might do that .. but i'm pretty sure MI5 have a staff of about 4000 people and i dont think they see me as much of a threat.. so they concentrate on snooping on idiots who believe 49 virgins await them.. or russian mafia bosses who live in london and pay no tax and have men killed...

as exciting as your life may be.. i dont think your secret service will be wasting much time on you

anyway.. shouldnt you be making coffee for your boss?

i dont say anywhere that I work for the British government. i also dont say " i would know' and i didnt imply anything.

dunkman

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

I love watching you two bicker. It's so funny.

been doing this for years now

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

you mean this quote.



i dont say anywhere that I work for the British government. i also dont say " i would know' and i didnt imply anything.

'i work for the government... nothing we do is covert or in anyway snoops into your life'

pretty much implies you know everything that goes on in the government

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

'i work for the government... nothing we do is covert or in anyway snoops into your life'

pretty much implies you know everything that goes on in the government

we do!!!!! nothing WE do... my department, my section, my office, etc.. how the fuck am i supposed to know what the Tax dept or Licensing dept do?

clutching at straws or what?!?!

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

we do!!!!! nothing WE do... my department, my section, my office, etc.. how the fuck am i supposed to know what the Tax dept or Licensing dept do?

clutching at straws or what?!?!

Hardly... read your quote again. If you had said 'I work for *insert department here* nothing we do... ' would make sense... but by saying 'I work for the government, nothing we do... ' implies that by 'we' you mean the people you work for and with, i.e. the government. You can try and deny that one all you want... but if it were ME who said something like that, you'd hang me with it

Now just say 'ok, I should have said my department/section/office rather than government which implies I know enough to speak for the government'

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

how the fuck am i supposed to know what the Tax dept or Licensing dept do?

Exactly... or MI5? Or any other department. I never accused the department of maps, shipping and social housing of spying on us, did I?

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

Exactly... or MI5? Or any other department. I never accused the department of maps, shipping and social housing of spying on us, did I?

no, you said 'the government'.. implying it was all of us.. and we dont spy on anyone... MI5 arent 'the government'.. they are Civil Servants

topic integrity please

Collin

It doesn't really bother me that some people can't use 'then' and 'than' correctly. In fact, it makes me feel intelligent because I do know the difference and I rarely mix them up.

Bathgate66

same thing as your and you're

eyedclaar

Bathgate66 wrote:

same thing as your and you're

Don't come into this thread spreading you're contempt; your just gonna have to play nice.

Uh, that was hard, even in jest...

PearlJamaholic

lets see if i can help explain it. its one letter, its forums. whats the big deal? if you dont know what someone means when they use either form of then, then you may need help too. some people (myself included) really dont take grammar serious on message boards. if i saw the mistake in a news article i might be alittle worried how that person got the job...

just be glad you dont have to deal with it being written like th4n or th3n n0 wh4t i m34n??????

MattCameronKicksButt

Oh jesus christ! :rolleyes:

OffHeGoes29

Where does "dem" or "dat" come into play?

_Crazy_Mary_

dunkman wrote:

c'mon people... sort that out.

my daughters only 6 and she knows the difference...

what's that saying about people who live in glass houses?.... retart....

Barely Alive

My girlfriend does that. I still correct her whenever I can. Shame bc she's better than that but I cut her some slack bc she's amazing in every other way and is a true PJ fan....how I met her actually.

thatgirl

Barely Alive wrote:

My girlfriend does that. I still correct her whenever I can. Shame bc she's better than that but I cut her some slack bc she's amazing in every other way and is a true PJ fan....how I met her actually.

im sorry i wasnt an english major in college

catefrances

dunkman wrote:

of course its nothing... but then so is spelling mistakes... but you point them out, yet i cant point then and than out. hypocritical i'm afraid.

yep i have pointed out spelling mistakes but i dont go on and on about it and start a thread to rag on people for being stupid for misspelling words. and if i were truly anal about it, pointing out spelling errors on this board would be a full time job.

dunkman wrote:

you didnt, apology accepted.

i dont recall apologising

dunkman wrote:

you can afford a lot of booze.. these people can't buy rice... in the grand scheme of things its 'larger' than they live.

yet again a presumptive response without even knowing me dunk. you used the word salubrious to describe my dwelling in another post. this in itself is a ridiculous statement. though im sure youll point out that compared to millions of other people in the world, an accurate description. youve no idea how i live my life.

Heineken Helen

Barely Alive wrote:

My girlfriend does that. I still correct her whenever I can. Shame bc she's better than that but I cut her some slack bc she's amazing in every other way and is a true PJ fan....how I met her actually.

who's bc?

Heineken Helen

catefrances wrote:

yep i have pointed out spelling mistakes but i dont go on and on about it and start a thread to rag on people for being stupid for misspelling words. and if i were trull anal about it, pointing out spelling errors on this board would be a full time job.

I have to say though, I love seeing spelling mistakes in a post that's being all high and mighty about something... that's pretty much the one time I'll point it out

Jeanie

Heineken Helen wrote:

who's bc?

bc = because

hehehehehehe!

MattCameronKicksButt

catefrances wrote:

yet again a presumptive response without even knowing me dunk.

He does that a lot. It's really, REALLY annoying! Makes me want rip my arm off and throw it at him.

I could be wrong but I'm not sure the thread was started to rag on people. It almost seemed light hearted to begin with.

Heineken Helen

Jeanie wrote:

bc = because

hehehehehehe!

Just slagging... see my post after that

Jeanie

Heineken Helen wrote:

Just slagging... see my post after that

I can't keep up! I got no idea who's serious and who isn't!

There's another one! Who's and whose. That takes a bit of thinking I tell ya!

catefrances

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

He does that a lot. It's really, REALLY annoying! Makes me want rip my arm off and throw it at him.

I could be wrong but I'm not sure the thread was started to rag on people. It almost seemed light hearted to begin with.

yes and people thought hitler was an okay guy to begin with too.

dunkman

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

what's that saying about people who live in glass houses?.... retart....

they have no privacy?

1 spelling mistake from about a year ago, and nearly 20,000 posts and you still remember it.. :eek:

should i be calling the police and telling them about stalking? have you raked through my bin for my toast crusts? i'm getting scared...

big difference with a spelling mistake and 'then' and 'than'.. if you can't understand that simplistic difference then why bother?

Jeanie

dunkman wrote:

then why bother?

Shouldn't that be, than why bother?

dunkman

catefrances wrote:

yep i have pointed out spelling mistakes but i dont go on and on about it and start a thread to rag on people for being stupid for misspelling words. and if i were truly anal about it, pointing out spelling errors on this board would be a full time job.

i've started one thread.. hardly going on about it.. you even PM'd someone on here to correct their fucking signature.. :rolleyes:

catefrances wrote:

i dont recall apologising

that's ok.. it was accepted anyway.

catefrances wrote:

yet again a presumptive response without even knowing me dunk. you used the word salubrious to describe my dwelling in another post. this in itself is a ridiculous statement. though im sure youll point out that compared to millions of other people in the world, an accurate description. youve no idea how i live my life.

let's lighten up a bit
you said:-

what is SO wrong is extreme poverty and the continuing human rights abuses around the world. mixing up two similiar sounding (but differently spelt and meaning) words is nothing in the grand scheme of things.

the spelling mistake aside, the above quote leads me to believe that the only topics up for discussion are extreme poverty and the continuing human rights abuses around the world.

I agree that then and than are nothing in the grand scheme of things... but it's a dumb message board where people come to goof around and write about things that make them laugh/annoyed/confused/cry/etc..

you deal with the first 2 subjects all you want... but it in no way means i cant start a thread about something that is my 'pet peeve'

MattCameronKicksButt

futile dunk. People just aren't getting it.

dunkman

Jeanie wrote:

I can't keep up! I got no idea who's serious and who isn't!

well i'm never serious... that is until someone thinks i am being serious... then i get serious.. then John McEnroe comes in and says "you cannot be serious" and I think... "hey man you're right".. then i revert back to being Adolf Hitler living in a glasshouse. what a retart!!!

catefrances

dunkman wrote:

i've started one thread.. hardly going on about it.. you even PM'd someone on here to correct their fucking signature.. :rolleyes:

ive done it twice actually.

but i hardly think im all powerful enough to make the person change it if they didnt want to. they could just have easily told me to fuck off and it wouldve been okay. theyre the ones that changed their sigs not me.