To of laughed loudly when dp said this...

[Wheresmygalaxy]

Door bell goes and as im sat with ds on my knee feeding him i asked dp to get the door (secretly already knowing it was Jehovah's Witnesses), so off he goes thinking its his dad popped round.

He opened the door and was faced with 2 older gentlemen whose first words to him where " Hello, Can i ask do you have a question you'd like to ask god?"

My dp thought for a few seconds and goes, " yes, how can i get rid of this flu? Ive tried beechams and lemsips but nothing shifting it!"

The 2 men stood stoney faced and persuaded him to look into his sole for meanings of being unwell i could see them through the window and just couldnt stop laughing

[Tiredmumno1]

Oh fab, the grammar police out on a Sunday, so childish.

Yes it's an adult forum not a bloody English Test.

[Trills]

I agree with LauraPalmerPlusOne

[XBenedict]

Oh Laura come on now! I like to giggle at the spelling/grammar mistakes, my favourite this week being the 'cereal' arsonist a friend of mine talked about on Facebook

OP - I would have laughed at your DH's reply too

[LauraPalmerPlusOne]

'pedants'

[TheBigJessie]

I don't discriminate- I will give deliberately awkward replies to all sects/denominations, should they knock at the door.

[AViewfromtheFridge]

I'm a complete pedant, but would never "correct" someone's spelling or grammar unless they asked for help.

To say, "You're an adult, you should know how to write correctly," says more about your ignorance than theirs. IMHO.

(Sorry for hijack, OP.)

[MurderOfGoths]

Their R sum miserabal fcukers out 2day rnt theyre?

waits for heads to explode

[LauraPalmerPlusOne]

Spelling mistakes are funny XBen and I readily laugh at mine, as well. But it's only funny because we recognise the mistake!

[Wheresmygalaxy]

Laura Maybe my crap spelling shows ignorance but luckily i was brought up with manners. I was told if you dont have anything nice to say, say nothing.

I envy you sat on your chair made of dictionaries, and one day i hope to aspire to have one myself . Luckily even with not knowing how to spell correctly i can still sleep at night and function correctly, so all's good!

[LauraPalmerPlusOne]

Text speak isn't actually 'incorrect', Goths, as it has developed it's own form that doesn't comply with basic English grammar.

I'm not miserable at all - in fact I'm quite happy this morning because it's a gorgeous sunny day and I'm soon out the door for a yummy pub roast with my lovely DP.

Enjoy your afternoon!

[TeaBrick]

I expect JWs are made of stern stuff and are well able to survive a bit of piss-taking, they probably don't need strangers on an internet forum to defend them. And maybe, just maybe, they also have a sense of humour?

[LauraPalmerPlusOne]

Oh dear, OP. If you were so certain of your 'manners' then you wouldn't have posted on a forum concerned about your behaviour! (And yes, plenty of posters thought you were being rude to the JWs, so you might want to reconsider how you define 'manners'.)

[missymoomoomee]

Bloody hell, there is a sign of ignorance on this thread, the pedantic twats who choose to come and discuss the slight errors in the OP.

If you are grown up enough to post on an adult forum then you are grown up enough to wind yer neck in and realise that sometimes people make the odd mistake (and grown up not to use the '''' button every 2 seconds)

That said, your DP is a genius OP. I just ignore the door if i know its them, they piss me off, they always come round at a stupid time when I'm up to my eyes in something and don't leave even when politely asked, so I am rude to them now if I'm unfortunate enough to be caught offguard.

[MurderOfGoths]

Tut tut Laura, surely being so hot on grammar/spelling you'd have noticed that only some of that post was txt speak.

[LauraPalmerPlusOne]

(AView - I actually thought about that sentence when I posted - but I'm not British, and so chose to write in my own vernacular, even though my choice of words was definitely not British. But it's not a grammatically an incorrect sentence.)

[TaggieCampbellBlack]

How ironic. You have 'manners'. 'If you don't have anything nice to say, say nothing'.
But it's funny to criticise someone elses religious belief.

[LauraPalmerPlusOne]

not a grammatically incorrect sentence

(see, even I can find amusement about the fact that I accidentally added an extra an)

And now, out the door. This has been entertaining - thank you.

[Wheresmygalaxy]

Must be reading a different thread then as i can see only a few who stuck up for jw's.

dont tell me you spent so much time learning english you forgot to do your numbers

please dont bother replying i have no interest in being corrected by a stranger with a rod up her backside, sorry! if things like this wind you up so much then i suggest you dont read them as im scared you may explode with frustration, go enjoy your pub dinner instead and have a few drinks to unwind.

[MurderOfGoths]

Where the bollocks was the OP criticising their religion? Are you reading a different OP to me? All I'm seeing is her laughing at her DP's quick thinking when asked a daft question.

[AViewfromtheFridge]

Laura, I wasn't picking you up on your grammar then! I just think yes, in an ideal world we would all make it through to adulthood being able to use have/of and your/you're correctly, but many people, for a variety of reasons, do still mix them up, no matter how many times someone helpfully explains it.

(I'm an English teacher; I speak from bitter experience.)

[Wheresmygalaxy]

tagge yawn. can you please highlight in my OP where im criticising someone else's belief. Im failing to find it.

[FauxFox]

My son has ASD and when he was about 4 some JWs came to the door and DS was with me when i opened it and he just kept saying "Byeee! Bye now! Bu-byyyy!" to them really loudly! I really struggled to not laugh until they had gone it was hilarious!

Another time some came to the door without me realising and as our doorbell is broken I didn't hear them until I noticed them walking away from the house. Not so embarrassing until you know that DH and I were sitting in the window doing paperwork and they must have seen us clearly as they walked to the door and thought we totally ignored them!

I do try to be polite as it's something they have to do and they probably hate it too. Religion is a load of codswallop though and it's not really on to knock on strangers doors to foist your beliefs on them

[MickeyTheShortOne]

OP I found the response funny.

At the end of the day, (and I'm not a complete atheist btw, and I don't have anything against people that choose to believe the way ) if you are going to knock on people's doors and preach you need to expect that some people will listen, some people will politely or not politely ask you to go, and some people will mock you. You have to respect other peoples opinions and not try and foist yours upon poor unsuspecting public in the privacy of their own homes!

[InSPsFanjoNoOneHearsYouScream]

I would OF laughed too

[Shamentincturepincher]

My friend's husband left her for her best friend the week she found out her mum had cancer. Her family were miles away and her youngest was 11 weeks. She opened the door to 2 JWs and must have looked a bit hassled as they asked her how she was. And she started to cry.
They came in, and one tidied the house and made a brew and started the dinner off whilst the other, an older lady, sat on the sofa with my friend and held her as she cried her heart out.
I fill up everytime I think of that, and how many times idiots must have been rude to those two ladies, and yet how they still were able to help someone, a total stranger, when they could see she needed it.
to the rude.