It was quite amusing watchig George Osbourne on Channel 4 news last night
being interviewed about this. He was accused by the interviewer of trying to threaten the Scots with this if they didn't vote to stay in the Union.

He then got lambasted for having teh audacity to criticise someone elses economic policy when he's the one that even the IMF think is a twat.

It's a bit tragic when, even when he's actually in the right about something, he still comes across as a clueless fucktard.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 14:50, 4 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Something something stopped clock something

( Kroney, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 14:51, Reply)

...forest moon of Endor
Wait, I'm not getting this right, am I?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 14:53, Reply)

Whilst you are almost certainly right, I cannot abide the word 'fucktard' so for that reason, ah'm oot.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 14:54, Reply)

Fuck off you Gym owning child abuser.

(Bazongaloid, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 14:57, Reply)

unfortunately Gideon thinks the IMF
sang unbelievable
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 14:58, Reply)

hahaha

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 14:58, Reply)

Really? The IMF employed Emilio Estevez so that's really saying somethin'
/bananaman
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:01, Reply)

spiderman

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:02, Reply)

batman and robin tooooo..

( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:03, Reply)

Don't want to lick the knackers of BA Baracus....

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:04, Reply)

GET SOME NUTS

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:05, Reply)

I kill you
man
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:06, Reply)

Infidel etc.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:10, Reply)

Zinfandel.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:13, Reply)

No thanks. I'll have a pinotage or a malbec.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:14, Reply)

For some weird reason I read this as vintage maybach


( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:27, Reply)

Here Monty, you're a language nerd.
I was reading the Wiki on Middle English and it had negative concord, where if you had multiple negatives in a sentence they intensified the negative, rather than cancelling it. So "I've not got nothing" would have been a more linguistically aggressive "I've got nothing".

Interesting, I thought. I vaguely remember reading something that suggested that our propensity towards double negatives wasn't merely bad grammar, but a function of our language and it was Victorian standardisers, who used Latin grammatical rules I believe, who put this idea of multiple negatives being bad into our heads.
( Kroney, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:17, Reply)

Is this the less vs fewer debate all over again?
Were you touched up by a Victorian standardiser or summat?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:19, Reply)

No that's a different thing.
I just thought this was interesting.
( Kroney, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:19, Reply)

Well you were wrong.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:22, Reply)

This is why I didn't start the post with "Here, Battered".

( Kroney, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:25, Reply)

Most likely.
Go back 300 years and you could spell how the fuck you liked and arse about with grammar all day long and no one gave a shit.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:27, Reply)

Wasn't this known as the Gonzian period for that very reason?

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:28, Reply)

I believe so, yes.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 15:29, Reply)