Random Raves XXXV: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems

[Farm Boy]

Best wishes on a long and happy wild ride!

 

[JohannaK]

Woah! Congrats Mr.T! Have a happy, merry life along your lady.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Have fun, and congrats!

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Thank you, all!

 

[Arakhor]

So, this is going to stop being a long-distance relationship then?

 

[JohannaK]

Wooo, I got a jerb. Not the best thing possible but good enough for me.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Precisely 17 years ago, the persona that you know solely as Tolni has been unleashed upon a certain unsuspecting country in Eastern Europe. Go me?

 

[Arakhor]

I thought you were older. Happy birthday.

 

[gay_Aleks]

I thought that the general quality of my posts showed otherwise.

 

[Takhisis]

666 postcount is pretty cool

Though I think I actually have made close to 200 more.

You've already ruined it.

10k? Please.

It's a good number.

Wooo, I got a jerb. Not the best thing possible but good enough for me.

In Arsetralia?

 

[Arakhor]

I thought that the general quality of my posts showed otherwise.

I'm literally twice your age. I think that everyone is 20- or 30-something, unless proven otherwise.

 

[Lohrenswald]

You've already ruined it.

You're too slow

Also happy birthday Tolni and congratulations ReindeerThistle

 

[Borachio]

I thought that the general quality of my posts showed otherwise.

No, indeed. I'd have put you in your 20s easily. And your command of English is really very good too. I'm sure you know it's not as easy as it looks.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Precisely 17 years ago, the persona that you know solely as Tolni has been unleashed upon a certain unsuspecting country in Eastern Europe. Go me?

I've been talking to a kid this entire time? Oh my. Well, to be honest, I've always suspected you were younger than 20.

I'm literally twice your age. I think that everyone is 20- or 30-something, unless proven otherwise.

And you're older than I thought.


Sometimes I'm really bad at guessing ages. -_-

 

[gay_Aleks]

No, indeed. I'd have put you in your 20s easily. And your command of English is really very good too. I'm sure you know it's not as easy as it looks.

Well, most of the grammar business I have under relative control. Except for the dreaded it's/its. Nothing quite like re-writing a sentence to avoid one of those.
Phrases are usually what I am bad at. I repeat a number of phrases and get a number of them wrong.
And then there's when I have nothing to say, and yet I do.

 

[Borachio]

There's really nothing to the it's/its business.

"Its" is the possessive. And the reason it doesn't have an apostrophe (like it should for any other normal noun) is simply to avoid confusion with "it's", which is the contraction of "it is".

It's really quite simple. (Now I wanted a catchy sentence with "it's" and "its" in it, but I can't think of one for the moment.)

Here's one from Yahoo:

It's futile to chase a chimera, for its footsteps are grotesque figments of your wishful soul.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I'm literally twice your age. I think that everyone is 20- or 30-something, unless proven otherwise.

Take it as consolation that there are people older than both of you put together...just don't name names.

 

[Borachio]

It's you, Mr Nothin!

 

[gay_Aleks]

There's really nothing to the it's/its business.

"Its" is the possessive. And the reason it doesn't have an apostrophe (like it should for any other normal noun) is simply to avoid confusion with "it's", which is the contraction of "it is".

It's really quite simple. (Now I wanted a catchy sentence with "it's" and "its" in it, but I can't think of one for the moment.)

Or you could write "it has" instead of "its". Some of the so-so called time-savers in English only complicate things for us immigrants that want to take yer jerbs.

 

[JohannaK]

Precisely 17 years ago, the persona that you know solely as Tolni has been unleashed upon a certain unsuspecting country in Eastern Europe. Go me?

Oh man, happy birthday! I had no idea.

In Arsetralia?

In Dancelona (according to that map of Europe As Seen By Gays)