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What grinds my gears...

By Daggers, in General Chat

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Jon the Hat

Jon the Hat

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2 hours ago, ozleicester said:

1984


https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/08/queensland-museum-accused-of-misleading-teachers-and-children-about-the-cause-of-climate-change

Fine to have these companies funding STEM study, they rely on engineers etc. for their future talent, and that often means starting to encourage kids to study it in schools.  To allow them to provide content however is completely inappropriate.  You wonder sometimes where the ethics training is for organisation that sign up for this.

Reminds me of junk food companies in the US funding school health programs.

Trav Le Bleu

Trav Le Bleu

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The grammar of journalism today.

 

Man to be charged over abusive messages to footballer Jess Carter - BBC News

 

https://share.google/wO9eoaCMmuWd0k80N

 

It's "summoned", not "summonsed".

 

If you receive a summons, it's not summonsing you to court, similarly, you're not summonsed. (Though worryingly, spell check doesn't pick up on this.)

Zear0

Zear0

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1 hour ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

The grammar of journalism today.

 

Man to be charged over abusive messages to footballer Jess Carter - BBC News

 

https://share.google/wO9eoaCMmuWd0k80N

 

It's "summoned", not "summonsed".

 

If you receive a summons, it's not summonsing you to court, similarly, you're not summonsed. (Though worryingly, spell check doesn't pick up on this.)

Doesn't pick up on it as its the correct, albeit old fashioned, use of the word... 

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Trav Le Bleu

Trav Le Bleu

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3 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

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The internet disagrees with you.

Is summons a verb? No, it's a noun, regardless of what the above says, the verb form of summons is summon. How can you receive a verb?

 

Ergo, summonsed is incorrect.

 

Before anyone says, "but OED!", this is the same organisation that thinks skibidi and delulu are words. 

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Parafox

Parafox

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16 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

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The internet disagrees with you.

 

12 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Is summons a verb? No, it's a noun, regardless of what the above says, the verb form of summons is summon. How can you receive a verb?

 

Ergo, summonsed is incorrect.

 

Before anyone says, "but OED!", this is the same organisation that thinks skibidi and delulu are words. 

 

I thought we already had a Pedantry Central topic??

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Collymore

Collymore

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Tesco till workers that you have to remind to scan your club card to get the ridiculously large discounts that brings your costs down to the normal level anyway. 

 

Just had this one assistant that looked almost pissed off I asked to get the total from £40 down to £25!

 

The amount of forgetful or vulnerable old people that get fleeced must be massive! 

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Parafox

Parafox

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1 hour ago, Collymore said:

Tesco till workers that you have to remind to scan your club card to get the ridiculously large discounts that brings your costs down to the normal level anyway. 

 

Just had this one assistant that looked almost pissed off I asked to get the total from £40 down to £25!

 

The amount of forgetful or vulnerable old people that get fleeced must be massive! 

All clubcard/loyalty schemes are a scam. 

 

I hate them all but I go along with it because I don't want to pay the inflated price. And that's how they get you and how they then  harvest your shopping habits. It's bordering on legalised blackmail.

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Collymore

Collymore

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13 minutes ago, Parafox said:

All clubcard/loyalty schemes are a scam. 

 

I hate them all but I go along with it because I don't want to pay the inflated price. And that's how they get you and how they then  harvest your shopping habits. It's bordering on legalised blackmail.

That's why I tend to shop at Aldi. Even Lidl have a loyalty scheme now. 

Parafox

Parafox

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5 minutes ago, Collymore said:

That's why I tend to shop at Aldi. Even Lidl have a loyalty scheme now. 

TBF Asda don't have a "loyalty card" as such any more. They have the roll-back scheme where prices are "lowered" on selected products but shoppers still don't know what the heck is going on. At least their customer isn't being individually tracked.

Free Falling Foxes

Free Falling Foxes

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Just now, The Bear said:

The amount of Gen-Z ers who like, use the word like, in like, every sentence multiple times. Like they don't, you know, like know how to talk, like, properly. 

May I add those who start answering a question by saying 'So.......'

Seems to be mostly prevalent with the more educated/academic types too.

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