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A Viscous Attack # 3

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Catspace · 09/03/2026 18:28

Ding, ding, round 3 of the highly entertaining collection of misspellings, misuse and general bastardisation of language. The floor is youre’s x

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SerendipityCat · 02/09/2026 20:07

Please tell me someone else has seen the thread about job interviews, where a poster commented about an interviewee turning up in "thread bear trousers"?
My mind immediately went here -

A Viscous Attack # 3
AlbieJiggered · 02/09/2026 20:13

There's my style inspiration for Autumn.
I'll be bear-faced too.

Bear-legged now as it's still summer.

Whosthetabbynow · 02/09/2026 20:33

It’s a bear-faced er, bear. (Love Rupert)

Whosthetabbynow · 02/09/2026 20:35

Can’t believe we have filled almost forty pages! Or that should be: ‘all-most fourty page’s

AlbieJiggered · 02/09/2026 21:50

I've seen councelling and councilling on the same thread but they don't give me that fuzzy feeling a bear-face does.

Agoddessonamountaintop · 03/09/2026 00:10

To be fair, that’s not something that happens everyday (courtesy of facebook).

HopeSpringsInfernal · 03/09/2026 00:54

There's a lot of talk about the need to reign in public spending on mn today

Agoddessonamountaintop · 03/09/2026 07:26

I’m stating it here now, I will not panda to this shocking behaviour.

AlbieJiggered · 03/09/2026 07:30

Discusting and rediculous. I can't bare it.

Whosthetabbynow · 03/09/2026 08:22

My son had a job interview yesterday. I’m hoping they think he’ll be a good fit for the roll

Allseeingallknowing · 03/09/2026 15:00

Whosthetabbynow · 03/09/2026 08:22

My son had a job interview yesterday. I’m hoping they think he’ll be a good fit for the roll

That’s some roll!

KhaleesiLikeSundayMorning · 03/09/2026 17:17

Massive eye-role at all of this!

maudelovesharold · 03/09/2026 20:44

‘if I had any inkling…they would get the full thrift of my anger.’. MN

I know what the poster means - bear the full brunt/get the full force - but can’t quite see where thrift comes from!

MagpiePi · 03/09/2026 21:46

The full thrust, maybe?

ErrolTheDragon · 03/09/2026 22:15

Yes, they probably meant ‘thrust’. Thrift is such a very wrong word in that context that I suspect a typo and autocorrect - I is next to u on the keyboard, and if I deliberately enter a typo ‘thrist’, I am offered as alternatives Christ, thirst and thrift, but not thrust. So it could have been worse!

maudelovesharold · 03/09/2026 23:09

ErrolTheDragon · 03/09/2026 22:15

Yes, they probably meant ‘thrust’. Thrift is such a very wrong word in that context that I suspect a typo and autocorrect - I is next to u on the keyboard, and if I deliberately enter a typo ‘thrist’, I am offered as alternatives Christ, thirst and thrift, but not thrust. So it could have been worse!

Ah, hadn’t thought of thrust. Impressively worked out!

CharityShopCharlie · 04/09/2026 02:21

Seen on a thread today about health that someone was fobbed off but they actually had newmonia. As the writer said, it's discussting and appauling.

Chersfrozenface · 04/09/2026 08:21

Surely it's 'apauling'. You know, like in a folk song. Some village maiden is determinedly pursuing a lad called Paul, and at every opportunity she goes a-pauling.

AlbieJiggered · 04/09/2026 08:35

@KhaleesiLikeSundayMorning , you are no roll-model.
@Chersfrozenface , would a young maiden go Tomming?

Chersfrozenface · 04/09/2026 09:33

AlbieJiggered · 04/09/2026 08:35

@KhaleesiLikeSundayMorning , you are no roll-model.
@Chersfrozenface , would a young maiden go Tomming?

You'd hope not, given that I've always heard 'tomming' as a verb for the behaviour of male cats looking for a mate, and given the slang term 'tom' for a lady of negotiable affection, to use Terry Pratchett's phrase.

ErrolTheDragon · 04/09/2026 09:50

So a maiden probably wouldn't be able to go tomming for very long?Grin

This thread is now at 996 posts!

AlbieJiggered · 04/09/2026 09:55

Chersfrozenface · 04/09/2026 09:33

You'd hope not, given that I've always heard 'tomming' as a verb for the behaviour of male cats looking for a mate, and given the slang term 'tom' for a lady of negotiable affection, to use Terry Pratchett's phrase.

I know what tomming means; it was a rhetorical question.

Chersfrozenface · 04/09/2026 10:01

ErrolTheDragon · 04/09/2026 09:50

So a maiden probably wouldn't be able to go tomming for very long?Grin

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Indeed not.

Whosthetabbynow · 04/09/2026 10:11

Shall I start A Viscous Attack #4? Carry on the fun?

Howinthehelldidthishappen · 04/09/2026 10:31

Whosthetabbynow · 04/09/2026 10:11

Shall I start A Viscous Attack #4? Carry on the fun?

@Whosthetabbynow please do, I love this thread.

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