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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Pardon?
One means 'one'. You're talking utter bollocks now I'm afraid.
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:13, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
GRAMMAR FIGHT!

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:14, Reply)
In this context it means 25% of the population.

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:14, Reply)
It means one person in four FFS

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:18, Reply)
Who is this person?

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:19, Reply)
The fat one.
Jesus wept can someone else help me out here? Someone with a basic command of English?
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:21, Reply)
Oh I get it now, you evil trolls.

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:22, Reply)
not tolling, you're wrong.

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:25, Reply)
Dude, you can't even spell 'trolling'.
Which of us is likely to be right here? You're the stats man here. Come on.
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:27, Reply)
Sorry 'which of us are likely to be right'

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:28, Reply)
I wasn't really arguing for substituting 'are' for 'is', just y'know, fanning the flames, as it were...

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:23, Reply)
Oh sorry, didn't recognise you for a minute there, Monty.

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:21, Reply)
LOL
Well I have put on a lot of weight since I moved down here to Croydon.
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:22, Reply)
I blame Chicken Thursday.

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:24, Reply)
Chicken Fri-Weds haven't helped either.

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:25, Reply)
one in four
Children in croydon. Does not mean one child though does it you spastic
unless this whole thread is a personal attack.
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:15, Reply)
Of course it fucking does.
One child out of every four children. One of them is obese out of every four.

Is it National Retard Day today or something?
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:19, Reply)

if i have 200 drug pills. And then invite Barry round one in four drug pills ARE taken.
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:23, Reply)
I like how you have framed this in terms Monty can easily understand.

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:24, Reply)
Yes Chompy
One pill are taken. I see that now.
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:25, Reply)
50 pills is taken.

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:26, Reply)
One = singular. Fifty = plural.
Surely even you know this?
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:28, Reply)
yes
You're correct. If you totally ignore the context. One singular. One in four plural.
This is what you get when you learn grammar by repeating rules not actually thinking.
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:31, Reply)
One in four NOT plural
The context that one (a singular entity) out of four (a group of four, a plural) is obese. One of them is. Not one of them are. It's almost frighteningly simple and you aren't an actual retard so I know you're just winding me up and I'm not falling for it (any more).
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:34, Reply)
Yes, but they didn't just survey 4 kids and find one fat one, did they?

(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:37, Reply)
DON'T YOU FUCKING START,
They surveyed all of them and if you break them down into groups of four, out of that group of four one of them IS fat.

Now fuck off.
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:40, Reply)
I doubt they surveyed all of them.
More likely a sample group, then the figures scaled up.
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:44, Reply)

IF The four represents more than four.
THEN the one represents more than one.
THEREFORE plural
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:40, Reply)
EXACTLY
It's a statistical description, not a quantity.

Oh. ...quantities, I see the difficulty now.
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:43, Reply)
According to Nakers list of days
April the 18th is “World Heritage Day”


I’m not sure how accurate his list is though, as it has neither “Chicken Thursday” or “Coincidence Day” in it
(, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 9:29, Reply)

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