Important notice from the GRAMMAR POLICE. Plz read. This means you.
Zazazu:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 July 21, 07:46:14
Quote from: Zazazu on 2009 July 21, 03:21:08
Here there are a lot of strays and ferals. I usually see a feral about once every two weeks. I've seen one rat in the twelve years I've been here.
Yeah, it should be pretty obvious what is happening to the rats. At times in the past, people have decided that feral cats are unsightly and tried to get rid of them, only to find that they were rewarded for their efforts with an exploding rat problem, and then had to reimport the cats.
I know, right? I leave the ferals be. I have a feral myself, and I know how hard they can be to have as a pet (and mine is a shy feral, not a mean one). Plus, they're helping with the rat population. They always look nice and healthy. The rare strays are the ones I try to catch. I've had a stray dog that had just run off from down the block but was trying its damnedest to get run over, which I was able to get back to its owners that night. I also had a stray cat that I kept for a couple days back when I only had Soren. No ID on it and I had a studio at the time, so that one had to go to Anti-Cruelty.
Audrey:
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Too right, witch. We like our aggression out in the open.
Aggression knocked out of me by Fowler, Oxford and Roget. But, I'll get it back.
Jelenedra:
Just remember, you can talk bad about Americans, as long as you make sense. Bitching about how American English is different than British English is what got you in trouble. Of COURSE they're different. DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, sweetheart. Did you notice how no one jumped down your throat for the "lazy and fat Americans" comments?
reggikko:
Quote from: Jelenedra on 2009 July 21, 15:46:48
Just remember, you can talk bad about Americans, as long as you make sense. Bitching about how American English is different than British English is what got you in trouble. Of COURSE they're different. DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, sweetheart. Did you notice how no one jumped down your throat for the "lazy and fat Americans" comments?
Or the "my darker-hued compatriots" butchering the language comment. I almost went for a smackdown on that one, but I was busy with other matters.
Quote from: Audrey on 2009 July 21, 06:27:24
How many posts do you have to make to stop being a 'Noob'?
Pescado, I didn't know you had visited our sunny shores. I hope your 'experience' wasn't too bad. Our local thugs are pretty hardcore and you don't always escape with your life.
There's only a violent regime change, every OTHER month.
Sounds like there is a lot more wildlife roaming the streets, elsewhere, than there is in our game parks!!
'Stop posting'. Now, that would not be fun.
Has anyone seen an 'offering' from Canadian TV called 'This is Wonderland'? It is about a new lawyer who gets thrown into the thick of the Canadian lower courts system. It is so off-the-wall and portrays the court system in such a 'wacky' way compared to what I am accustomed to seeing in shows like 'Boston Legal', that it is difficult to believe that what goes on in those courts and cells is really true. You would have to have seen it to know what I'm talking about.
That shit has got to stop. Now.
Audrey:
It's news to me that they are different, different languages. Italian is different, different language to Japanese, but US English and UK English have the same intrinsic base, except the US has chosen to go in another direction with some of the spelling, notably the dropping of the 'u' in words such as labour. I would love someone to admit that saying "I don't like ice-cream", said Jane. "Me either", said Dick, is grammatically incorrect, yet this is something that is very prevalent in teen American speech (from what I have heard on TV).
South Africa has its fair share of the incorrect use of language, like 'taking' a decision, instead of 'making' one. I cringe at every time I hear it. Every other 'English-based' country uses the latter. Does this make South African English 'different'? No, it has become the norm in SA speech with constant misuse.
I think you all had a bunch of fun bashing the newbie, admit it, you did. Anyway, water under bridge, clean slate, yada, yada, yada.
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