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To rejoice at the demise of "Sofa's Plus"?

12 replies

emptyshell · 30/07/2011 13:43

Posted about this shop before - they paid for a nice sign with all the individually standy-out 3D letters that must have cost a bomb, complete with the fucking misplaced apostrophe.

It has driven me nuts for years, to the point where I've made dark threats to go there in the dead of night and steal the offending apostrophe... and now it's closed!

AIBU to rejoice in it going bust as a glorious victory in the war against sodding apostrophes in every word ending in an s?

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VirtualWitch · 30/07/2011 14:00

Perhaps it is a business based on one sofa which has something called a "Plus"? Thats what it actually means after all!

I'm with you on the notion that a business which cannot employ people to get the spelling of its own name correct is no great loss.

TattyDevine · 30/07/2011 14:01

Maybe they were selling plus signs and the owner proprietor was called "Sofa"?

Did you actually check?

If so, and it wasn't a shop full of plusses, owned by the unfortunately named Sofa, then YANBU

FatboyTheMasturbator · 30/07/2011 14:03

Maybe it was intentional? Like "Hear'say" the pop group.

doughnutty · 30/07/2011 14:03

On the subject of grammar - YANBU.

On the loss of peoples jobs - YABU

LineRunner · 30/07/2011 14:04

Tatty, it could only have been one plus.

And now they've sold it, and they have had to close down.

Not the best business model in the world, you have to admit.

TattyDevine · 30/07/2011 14:05

Damn you VirtualWitch

TattyDevine · 30/07/2011 14:06

ROFFLE LineRunner

zukiecat · 30/07/2011 14:07

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

FatboyTheMasturbator · 30/07/2011 14:09

Kwik Save was spelt wrongly and that closed down as well.

VirtualWitch · 30/07/2011 14:21

Yours was funnier Tatty

khaliwali · 30/07/2011 14:58

I was pleased when our local Safeway closed so I wouldn't have to see the "Please dont allow your children to play on trollies" sign. I am not the brightest button but it rankles when things have actually been created, in real plastic with nobody checking them.

EuphemiaMcGonagall · 01/08/2011 09:16

Some pedant was quicker off the mark than I when the signs at Buchanan Bus Station in Glasgow were amended quickly from the following: "Engine must be switched off when bus is stationery." They lasted a day.

I still haven't found the energy to advise the council about the paint on the road in the school bus bay near my house which says "BUSES ONLY BUSES ONLY USES ONLY BUSES ONLY". I'm tempted to park in that bit, because that's a use, isn't it?

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