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A Viscous Attack 🤣

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GarlicStyle · 09/03/2025 23:21

OK, I know it's a really easy mistake to make. It's just that every time I read this - more and more frequently - my mind conjures something like this. Enjoy!

A Viscous Attack 🤣
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Cattery · 12/04/2025 14:51

Advert seen: someone is offering to Tar-Mac drives

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 12/04/2025 15:18

I've just seen 'drived' and 'sweared' on here. The past tense is clearly now being completely relaxed.

GarlicStyle · 12/04/2025 17:43

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 12/04/2025 15:18

I've just seen 'drived' and 'sweared' on here. The past tense is clearly now being completely relaxed.

😱😳😵 I should be over being been shocked mortified by assaults on the language. Seems I'm not yet.

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JuliaPargetter · 12/04/2025 18:07

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 12/04/2025 15:18

I've just seen 'drived' and 'sweared' on here. The past tense is clearly now being completely relaxed.

Ikr I literally died

Bignanna · 12/04/2025 19:14

Not to mention sweeped and snuck!

JillAndJenTheFlowerpotMen · 12/04/2025 19:31

Just having a conversation with family, about the Palm Sunday service with the dramatised gospel featuring Pontius Pilot

GarlicStyle · 12/04/2025 19:47

JillAndJenTheFlowerpotMen · 12/04/2025 19:31

Just having a conversation with family, about the Palm Sunday service with the dramatised gospel featuring Pontius Pilot

He might've been in the navy before joining the government ... perhaps?

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JillAndJenTheFlowerpotMen · 12/04/2025 21:07

Arrr, that’d be Pontius pirate

TheaBrandt1 · 12/04/2025 21:20

A lot of pendants on this thread unfortunately always splitting heirs.

TheaBrandt1 · 12/04/2025 21:21

Everything I post I have seen on other threads or on Facebook.

KhaleesiLikeSundayMorning · 12/04/2025 22:43

JillAndJenTheFlowerpotMen · 12/04/2025 21:07

Arrr, that’d be Pontius pirate

Who of course bares no resemblance to the extremely flexible Pontius Pilates

GarlicStyle · 13/04/2025 00:25

This was supposed to illustrate Pontius Pilot, the Pilates-performing pirate 😂

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UnPetitCochon · 13/04/2025 04:01

Tallisker · 12/04/2025 11:12

Come on now lady’s ,this is appauling .It’s gotten rediculous .

I’m fumming, it’s descusting!

HopeSpringsInfernal · 13/04/2025 08:37

GarlicStyle · 13/04/2025 00:25

This was supposed to illustrate Pontius Pilot, the Pilates-performing pirate 😂

That's just bazaar

TheaBrandt1 · 13/04/2025 08:58

Anyway can’t stop need to get some beauty treatments done it is important to me that I always look presteen. I am striding to improve myself.

Cocorico22 · 13/04/2025 09:16

This is too much for me now, we need to kerb this grammatical abuse.

Or should I say, let’s kick it to the curb!

ErrolTheDragon · 13/04/2025 09:45

Cocorico22 · 13/04/2025 09:16

This is too much for me now, we need to kerb this grammatical abuse.

Or should I say, let’s kick it to the curb!

If you look at the etymology, it seems likely the ‘kerb’ spelling in U.K. English may have been us not spelling ‘curb’ properly several hundred years ago. ‘Americanisms’ aren’t always wrong!

Cattery · 13/04/2025 10:07

Kerb your enthusiasm

backslashruby · 13/04/2025 14:41

So many posts now on this thread, I need a rest bite🛏🍔.

Cattery · 13/04/2025 14:49

Yes so many posts it’s like a bona contention

GarlicStyle · 13/04/2025 17:12

Or a boner contention? 🤪

I've just seen a reference to a collateral surgeon. I had to look him up to find out his specialism - sadly, not debt securities or unimportant side issues; he operates on bowels and bums. It was probably an autocorrect, but it suggested a high-octane hospital drama where the dying patient on the operating table confounds the medical team: "He's got dreadful toenails, his ears aren't level, and he's about to lose his house and car to a loan shark!" "Call the collateral surgeon!"

... just me, then?

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butterpuffed · 13/04/2025 17:31

That was certainly tungin cheek @GarlicStyle , make no misteak .

TheaBrandt1 · 13/04/2025 19:56

Some of these answers quite getting quite blaze now.

TheaBrandt1 · 13/04/2025 21:21

They are scrapping the barrel actually.

I want to set a president by finding other topics to discuss

JuliaPargetter · 14/04/2025 08:04

Was wandering about this thread thinking it was dying but lone behold more posts keep appearing!

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