We gonna sip Bacardi like it's your birthday

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We gonna sip Bacardi like it's your birthday

Whilst trawling through some on-line dating sites in order to meet the woman of my dreams and settle down in a little house in Crouch End with all the other soft-arsed middle class sell outs who wouldn't know how to keep it real if they were given detailed instructions and a map...

...sorry.

I was looking at some of those dating sites and the way people describe themselves is always the same.

They use the word 'kinda' all the time. As in 'I'm the kinda girl who likes to dance and laugh.'
And 'doncha' as well. 'Doncha just love picnics in summer?'
Most of these people are in their thirties.

And every single one of them insists that they 'live life to the full'. As if that actually means anything. Can you live to the half? I'd much prefer that.

But the best is when they get all poetic.
'The sight of a sunset can make me cry.'
'If you would like to fall through my clouds of petals give me a call.'

And, of course, they all use *this* inexcusable internet grammar ;-)
God I hate that shite. lol? Use proper English for God's sake.

Maybe I'm taking this all too seriously. But then I take writing the language down properly very seriously.

Where have you seen bad examples of The English Language etc and etc...

Liana
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In my daughters newsletter from school yesterday... "We are sorry to be loosing Mrs. Saunders at the end of term" What? Has she been tied to her chair? School newsletter, for christ sakes... and by the side of the road. "For sale, Home Grown Carrot's" Carrot's what??
stuart
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Would it be too pedantic of me to point out that: 'for christ sakes...' should of course be: 'for Christ's sake.'? Man I'm good. Touch me one time.
david floyd
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"And every single one of them insists that they 'live life to the full'. As if that actually means anything. Can you live to the half? I'd much prefer that." I know I'm taking this off in slightly the wrong direction but if someone's is already living life to the full where is any new love going fit into it?
jude
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There was this great "smirnoff" poster a while back depicting a "lonely hearts" column in the paper with a Smirnoff bottle covering a potion of the advert and revealing its true meaning. So "Beautiful intelligent polish lady aged 35 seeks Romance..." became "Beautiful intelligent polish lady aged 35 seeks passport..." with the smirnoff bottle revealing the true meaning. an't remember any more but was very funny. Liana , I have spelling confusions like lose and loose and you could do a lot worse for a teacher for your girls! I just hope I'd have the sense to use grammar check on word before pumping it out jude
Ralph
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I live in Walthamstow Village. It has just been named the top neighbourhood area in London to live in this weeks 'Time Out'. That's another £20,000 on the value of my gaff. Picnic anyone. It was a real gamble moving there a few months back, but I love it. It is what it says on the packet, a village. Kinda cool huh! Ralphie
Liana
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what has that got to do with anything ralph? jude you're right, of course - just don't expect it off a teacher. stuart - i almost wrote chrissakes, so you got off liightly - doncha think? :o)
stuart
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Jesus. Where did all you people come from? I've been on my own here all morning.
Karolina
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It'll be my B'day soon!!!
stuart
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Congratulations. Another couple and you'll be able to drink in pubs.
stuart
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And by the by. Don't think that your ghostly presence hasn't been noticed hanging around the smog you 'talers. mjp has a mysterious surfer sniffer which he uses in conjunction with his spooky 'TinglingStonerSense' to suss you all out. Oh yes. We've seen you hovering like ascii kestrals. Hang on, let me try something. ♂ ♀ ½ ¼ ♥ ♣ ♠ • ○ ♪ ª ↕ ‼ ▲ ▼ Ï © ¿ ¥ + ð Ð Æ well that was fun.
Ralph
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I dont know what it had to do with it Liana, its the heat I guess. Sorry Ralphie
Liana
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S'alright Ralph. The heats getting to a lot of us. *looks up*
jude
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Ralph that was truly an of-the-wall ardvarkish lobster comment midst some serious fishmonger's banter. Its not the heat at all, its not even 30 in the shade yet. You are just truly mental j
Ralph
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Cheers Jude. Thought I was sane there for a minute. The shame of it! Ralph
neil_the_auditor
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I'd like to meet a polish lady, Jude; I could do with a bit of buffing up. I'd like to meet an aardvarkish lobster too. And one of Stuart's "ascii kestrals"; that would really get the twitchers going. Assuming he means "ASCII" as in computer code, "kestrel" as in bird of prey; if so anyone slightly more pedantic than myself could point out two errors in English in the space of two words, namely one spelling mistake and one failure to capitalise an acronym. But nobody's perfick!
arthur ascii's ...
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I enjoyed Jude's Smirnoff bottle covering a 'potion' of the advert.
jude
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My spelling has been so bad for so long I joined Bad spelers anonymous and am in the process of recovery from shame
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