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Reply | Gamechanger and the ROI
at 09:34 16 May 2023
Might I take the liberty of introducing another line of debate regarding your use of the adjective 'feintest' here?
My first thought was "Bravo!" that is actually the correct form because the derivation of the phrase must surely be from the 'feint' lines on paper - i.e. your 'clue' or understanding is not even that which is the most thin or slight.
However, according to the authority of various respected dictionaries, it seems that 'faintest' (which most people would probably tend to use) is in fact the correct form, because the derivation is from 'weak' or 'not clear'.
I would contend that your form is much better, was probably the origin of the phrase, and really ought to be re-instated forthwith. I intend to write on the subject to all of the major dictionaries and hope to be able to report back here with their responses.
Apropos of this I had communication recently with a person on here whose identity I have forgotten, who enquired as to whether I thought I was Suzy Dent. I can categorically state that I do not think I am Suzy Dent, and I have no idea whatsoever what a 'glory hole' is. |
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Reply | Our front three is unique
at 12:20 5 Mar 2023
I think that you will find that there can be multiple things 'which' are unique, but in different ways.
Various professionals over the years have suggested that I am unique (often very loudly and aggressively, uniquely), and I am sure that there is at least one other entity in the universe which is also unique, but in a different way. |
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Reply | Why is there a lack of Town supporters in Suffolk (particularly around Sudbury)?
at 10:12 24 Oct 2022
My great aunt Harriet was very fond of her journeys on the Stour Valley Railway, and could tell you a tale or two about the goings-on in Haverhill around the time of the reprehensible Dr. Beeching's assault on her preferred passage.
Dear, departed great uncle Wilberforce, who locally provided great comfort and succour to many fallen ladies from the East End of London, got his inspiration whilst travelling on the line, but after the closure was forced to go elsewhere for it.
Great aunt Harriet insists that 1967 was the start of the great epidemic of wild fornication in the streets of Haverhill, which she witnesses every night from behind her net curtains with a tear in her eye and a tissue in her hand. She keeps a rubber truncheon close by, for use in the event of an intrusion.
Matthew Hancock has as yet offered her no relief. |
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Reply | George burley
at 19:32 5 Dec 2021
Could you give me a hint as to which one is George Burley? |
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Reply | Government plan to privatise Channel 4
at 22:22 20 Oct 2021
My great aunt Harriet has a thing or two to say about that gentleman. He stubbornly refuses to visit her to provide a satisfactory solution to the matter of rampant fornication in the street outside her cottage in Haverhill of a Friday evening. She says if he doesn't come soon, she will have to look elsewhere for it. |
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Reply | How many times do you reckon...
at 13:49 5 Jul 2021
Be in no doubt that this forum is well read north of the River Waveney. After first mentioning my new Owners Club responsibilities on here only this morning I took to my trusty Puch Maxi N for a trip up the A140 to visit my cousin Bertrand. Having stopped for a comfort break in Long Stratton, I was pleased upon leaving the public toilets to be recognised and accosted by a gentleman who called out loudly "Alan Retentive (SoDOff, UTVVAT)!"
I should just point out to the gentleman concerned though that my surname is, in fact, French in origin, and as such is properly pronounced 'Ray-Tohn-Teef'.
I might also add that there really is no need to accompany such a greeting with a hand-gesture which might, in other circumstances, be viewed as aggressive or insulting. |
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Reply | How many times do you reckon...
at 11:37 5 Jul 2021
I shall of course, as ever, defer to the Venerable Bede on the matter.
Thank you for educating me on this. |
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Reply | How many times do you reckon...
at 11:31 5 Jul 2021
I has been suggested to me that I have become a little over-insistent on the accuracy of communications since I was given an additional responsibility at the Puch Maxi N Owners Club, where in addition to my role as Social Distancing Officer, I am now also the deputy responsible for checking that members have indeed been Covid-vaccinated or tested upon entry to events, as the Undersecretary for The Verification of Vaccinations And Testing.
My full title at the club, therefore, is now 'Alan Retentive (SoDOff, UTVVAT)', and I am addressed as such in all formal communications and indeed in many informal settings too, much to my pleasure. |
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Reply | How many times do you reckon...
at 11:11 5 Jul 2021
I apologise as I do, on the odd occasion, get just a touch pedantic about these things, but as far as I am aware a 'moment' is an indefinitely short period of time, and I fail to see how anybody could refresh a browser view more than once in any given 'moment' when one considers recoil time of a keyboard F5 press, or the same on a mouse button, or even a touch screen of one of these new-fangled Sharp-phones. In any case, the precise moment of interest has not been specified, so I do not believe a valid answer can be given. |
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Reply | How many times do you reckon...
at 11:03 5 Jul 2021
I had rather assumed that your answer was somewhat flippant, but I apologise if I am mistaken in that assumption. Do you mean seven refreshes in total on the Those Were The Days forum this morning? |
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Reply | How many times do you reckon...
at 11:01 5 Jul 2021
I believe that to be an impossible question to answer. Were you to put it as "at what average frequency do you believe the totality of Those Were The Days forum users are refreshing their browser views so far this morning?", I might be able to hazard a guess, but your question, as it is currently posited is too open. |
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Reply | To lighten up the mood - Stupid wife sayings.
at 09:40 10 Apr 2021
What you would be in fact is loath to recommend the use of it. I loathe the misuse of the English language, and I am not loath to put people right when they misuse it, even though they may be of colonial origin. |
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Reply | New players aside
at 20:31 7 Apr 2021
Oh dear. [Post edited 7 Apr 2021 20:32]
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Reply | FACTS!!!!!
at 22:16 4 Apr 2021
This is not necessarily the case. Whilst I have seen documentary evidence that more people have been killed by cows than Mr. Norwood has scored goals, I am unable to find convincing proof that the culpable bovine was not actually the same animal in each case. It may in fact be the case that there is a single serial killer cow out there, or at the very least a small cabal of vicious ungulates roaming the countryside looking for human victims.
I do not like cows very much, ever since an unfortunate incident whilst with the Boy Scouts in a field in Steeple Bumpstead. Please try to be more precise with your submissions in the future. |
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Reply | Just took my old Vespa out for a blast
at 12:51 20 Mar 2021
That is undeniably a stylish vehicle, but I prefer something I can pedal as illustrated below.
If one were to break down when one had started a journey with a lady-friend on the pillion, for example, I would be able to finish it manually, whilst you no doubt would be pushing it home.
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Reply | Bit quiet on here today
at 15:24 10 Mar 2021
It is very kind of you to say so. Being a little older now, she doesn't always keep is as clean and neat as once she did, but nevertheless she does take great pride in the aromas it produces, and nothing delights her more than a crowd of bees buzzing around it of a spring morning. |
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Reply | Bit quiet on here today
at 15:14 10 Mar 2021
She will not stop; she is a very determined woman and she has sworn to continue her protests until Mr Hancock has put an end to it, and she can once again be proud of her little show of flowers around her back door. |
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Reply | Bit quiet on here today
at 14:54 10 Mar 2021
He is most certainly aware of the existence of Haverhill. My great aunt Harriet has written to him many times on the matter of intercourse in the street outside her pied-Ã -terre. She is getting very tired of it. |
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