Random Rants XXIX: Watch your %*$@ Language!

[W|M]

You mean chop them off, right?

 

[ZeletDude]

No I don't.

 

[W|M]

How can you gouge your ears out?

 

[ZeletDude]

Uhh it means "scooping or digging" so that's pretty self explanatory.. While just cutting you ear off wouldn't do anything because your ear drum is inside your head/ear :/.

 

[W|M]

So removing the eardrum?

 

[azzaman333]

Why am I such an arsehole...

 

[Tee Kay]

Beer is the cause of- and solution to- all of life's problems.

I've recently discovered that ale is superior to beer.

I should have had some before I went to meet people this evening. Awkward silence was awkward.

 

[Camikaze]

I've recently discovered that ale is superior to beer.

I should have had some before I went to meet people this evening. Awkward silence was awkward.

By 'beer' do you mean 'lager'?

And awkward silence may be better than drunken slurring.

 

[Arakhor]

Got the world's most annoying song stuck in my head thanks to a friend; "Friday" by Rebecca Black, if you haven't heard it look it up and get ready to gouge your ears out.

Well, you don't want your English to suffer like your hearing, so it should be "gouge out your ears".

A dangling preposition is something up with which I shall not put!

 

[Tee Kay]

I don't think "Friday" isn't actually that bad...

This is a rant because this is surely a sign I'm losing my sanity.

 

[Kennigit]

I wish I could actually read units correctly.

 

[Yared]

Japan-jokes.

 

[Takhisis]

I wish I could actually read units correctly.

Well, the most important unit is obviously the spearman, which beats tank.

 

[Kennigit]

Well, the most important unit is obviously the spearman, which beats tank.

I just forgot to convert biscuits to cookies.

Damn units.

 

[_random_]

Well, you don't want your English to suffer like your hearing, so it should be "gouge out your ears".

A dangling preposition is something up with which I shall not put!

"Out" is being used as an adverb in this context, so either placement would be appropriate.

 

[Arakhor]

Oh I agree, it's idiomatic, but splitting the infinitive does sound rather ugly. /pedant

 

[Mathalamus]

well, domination3000 is trying to make me end the Mathali stuff in IOT games.

i refused, naturally. what is it with people failing to tolerate other people?

 

[W|M]

I found out that two people in my year don't know who the Tories are.

 

[choxorn]

well, domination3000 is trying to make me end the Mathali stuff in IOT games.

Accuse him of being a hypocrite and tell him to stop the Dommy stuff.

 

[AnOrangeGent]

I found out that two people in my year don't know who the Tories are.

It's probably for the best that they don't know. With that level of intelligence they're more than likely to join them at the earliest opportunity.