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In the vein of "Chester draws"

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ShatnersWoodwind · 07/12/2024 09:18

On a local selling page:

"Chabby Chique bedside tables".

😂

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ErrolTheDragon · 24/01/2025 08:40

Yes, though knock off slaying dragons.Grin

upinaballoon · 25/01/2025 18:14

ErrolTheDragon · 24/01/2025 08:40

Yes, though knock off slaying dragons.Grin

I'd had George and the dragon on my mind for several days - poem with three verses - but who knows why that story had floated into my brain!

Throughthebluebells · 26/01/2025 06:46

This one took me a minute!

In the vein of "Chester draws"
LesMisSaigon · 26/01/2025 14:39

I saw this gem yesterday on Facebook market place🤔

In the vein of "Chester draws"
Dfg15 · 18/03/2025 18:23

upinaballoon · 11/01/2025 12:03

Many years ago, spoken, the liqueur 'Tina Maria'.

My BIL used to call this 'Tina Marina' 😁

HopeSpringsInfernal · 26/03/2025 10:08

Not long ago I heard a politician who was being interviewed on R4 describe something as hyperbowl

saraclara · 26/03/2025 10:11

My local Facebook page just had someone complaining that rubbish that could be recycled 'was going to land field'.

WhiskersOnKittens2 · 26/03/2025 16:59

I wonder if some of these bloomers are due to auto correct? I find that happens to me a lot.

Ilovemyshed · 26/03/2025 21:31

Excepted instead of accepted!

CandelabraCat · 27/03/2025 21:31

I was made into an escaped goat! 🐐

mathanxiety · 27/03/2025 22:38

Exasterbated - I daren't even hazard a guess...

A horde (of hoarded crap) in a house.

'Disinterested' when the writer means 'not interested' or 'uninterested'. I appreciate the meaning of disinterested may well be in the process of shifting, but I'm not hopping aboard that bandwagon.

mathanxiety · 27/03/2025 22:39

And affect / effect. These two are mixed up all the time.

MyrtleLion · 27/03/2025 23:36

mathanxiety · 27/03/2025 22:39

And affect / effect. These two are mixed up all the time.

Which has resulted in the use of impact as a verb which drives me wild! It's not hard people! And it sounds better to talk about an effect rather than it impacting something.

I will die on this hill.

ThunderThighs123 · 29/05/2025 01:46

TitusMoan · 07/12/2024 13:19

😂

🤣🤣🤣

This had me giggling! Love the 'Robster' and 'Banokulars' in particular.

Thank God for you fellow pedants! Sometimes it can feel lonely on my raft, floating in the sea of mindless babble and drivel that seems to be de rigeur everywhere these days. Keep up the pedantry, please! We'll keep the barbarians at bay a little longer.

Particularly shocking are the 'novels' being published on apps like Galatea. Must be using AI to proof-read, judging by the frequency of errors. Worrying developments.

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