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For a complete laugh, I have just written a lesson in apostrophes and anonymously sent it to the local yacht club.
I was checking their name for some reason that's not important, and noticed that they had "New Menu's Available" and "Mooring's Available". I informed them of the rules about possessive and abbreviative apostrophes, and congratulated them on the correct use of these things on the rest of their site. I told them I didn't mean them any harm but that they should realise the impact of such mistakes on the opinions of potential members/customers.

I have just got my reply. In replies...
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:08, 170 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
where?

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:09, Reply)
don't see it

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:09, Reply)

Dear Sir, Thank you for your observation the changes will be made to the website straight away. Please find a 2-4-1 on all main meal voucher attached in appreciation of your observation.

Regards
(Marketing fella)

I can't use the voucher because they'll know it's me and spit in my dinner, plus it's a shit-hole.
However, I am tempted to reply telling him "But I'm a LAYYDEEE!"
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:09, Reply)
Give the voucher to someone you don't like.
Sorted.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:10, Reply)
You are brilliant!

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:11, Reply)
*awaits voucher*

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:13, Reply)
Aw, hushup

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:14, Reply)
Also "oh my, the local yacht club really is terrible, I refuse to eat there"
you posh cow
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:15, Reply)
Ninja spelling edit noted...

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:20, Reply)
it was a typo.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:21, Reply)
Yeah, I know
Just stirring...
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:23, Reply)
This is Liverpool
It IS a shit hole.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:35, Reply)
To be fair
yacht clubs are rarely as posh as one thinks
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:05, Reply)
'zackly

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:09, Reply)
I do my best ;)

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:14, Reply)
Also
'Thank you for your observation the changes '?
Oh man I'm so tempted to carry this on...
But I'll get on with my life instead.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:12, Reply)
Well now...
if they think you're a 'Sir', then obviously Sir's good lady is innocent of such meddling in their affairs. So go and enjoy your meal, and don't let onto DJTP that his lasagne comes with a healthy side order of spittle.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:19, Reply)
That's not spittle.
It's today's 'chef's special'
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:28, Reply)
Aw, I'd have done that to the moron who once took me there for a post-gig date
But not our dj.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:36, Reply)
Haha, I hate you and love you at the same time.
You are the bain in my life (someone who emails websites about grama), but I can apprechate a good "I'm bored, I'm going to email a company" situation.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:25, Reply)
And the thing is Gonz
You're a clever fella, you're just dyslexic.
This smug cunt is a marketing know-all who thinks his harbourside club is well posh and that he's the mutt's nuts. He needs telling.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:37, Reply)
=)
It's one of those things, you can code in 4 or 5 different languages, use pretty much any bit of software put in front of you, and [blah blah blah, not gonna big myself up any more]... but if you spell bad, it's like a red light to a pedantic bull.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:54, Reply)
But marketing people
aiming to draw people to their wanky club should either be able to spell and punctuate, or have someone who proof-reads for them.
It looks bad on the page.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:55, Reply)
Aye, totally agree, I use a copywriter for all my public-facing stuff.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:13, Reply)
But sometimes bad spellings can help, 'cus you're not the only one who uses them, like with google.
I get loads of miss-spelling hits from google.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:13, Reply)
I wish there was a way to send an anonymous letter to a friend that's currently getting her nursing degree to tell her you can't get "broked out" in hives :/

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:16, Reply)
Is that where you can't get work
due to your hives, and consequently you're all 'broked out'?
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:26, Reply)
Or is it a state resulting from...
...poor investments in the world of beekeeping?
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:29, Reply)
Don't sign the letter would appear to be a practical solution.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:26, Reply)
I'll do it
What's her email address?
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:30, Reply)
I have no idea. She's on facebook!

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:38, Reply)
You have to reply, saying 'cheer's for the voucher',
it's only polite.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:27, Reply)
Then they'll know my name
And they might discover that I'm one of their sister's aunty's dog's mams or something.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:39, Reply)
Some girl I know invited me to her birthday next weekend on facebook
I'm busy so I said no, she's now removed me as a friend, I might keep poking her until she cries.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:29, Reply)
Aren't tears the usual result when you poke someone?

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:31, Reply)
This is a trap, isn't it?
A goal this open must contain some kind of snare...
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:31, Reply)
Shit - I feel like have one foot on the landmine of insult.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:32, Reply)
I like to give people these little victories every so often.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:34, Reply)

Uh oh - I'm in trouble.
Chompy came along and burst my bubble...
yeah yeah.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:37, Reply)
That's the second time those divvies have come up on here this week.
They were enormous stars in Japan, apparently.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:39, Reply)
Big in Japan
Which is an annoyingly catchy song
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:41, Reply)
I love that song
It makes me think of apartment blocks in Latvia though, and this makes me melancholy.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:43, Reply)

ly catchy song, insipid pile of old wank.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:48, Reply)
I'm confused,
what question do I answer?
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:33, Reply)
Would you eat a resturaunt you know is going to spit in your food?

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:37, Reply)
Not a whole one

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:38, Reply)
tee hee!

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:40, Reply)
fucksocks

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:41, Reply)
Frankly it's all they deserve.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:43, Reply)
I've broken my tastebuds.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:34, Reply)
I give up, I can't think of a decent reply to this

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:43, Reply)
Fucking corsodyl

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:46, Reply)
Not at the moment.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:49, Reply)
I think I prefer your reply to mine.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:51, Reply)
That's GOTTA hurt.
You're only supposed to gargle with it.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:49, Reply)
I'm assuming she froze it first
so that's got to cause some problems.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:51, Reply)
I think I definitely prefer your reply to mine.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:51, Reply)
Yours gets bonus points for using the word gargle.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:53, Reply)
Ah but I am lacking the frozen 'corsodyldo'

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:55, Reply)
Would she fill a condom with Corsodyl then freeze it?
Or go for the natural-if-spikey Corsodylagtite?
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:13, Reply)
The freezing point of alcohol is lower than water,
so I don't know how she froze it effectivley, she must have a commercial/industrial strength freezer.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:17, Reply)
It sounds like a hell of an effort
She could achieve a similar effect by sticking a glass dildo in the fridge for a while, then using Corsodyl as lube.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:19, Reply)
I don't understand the kids these days.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:20, Reply)
and howe did it break her tastebuds?

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:21, Reply)
A2M

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:23, Reply)
whut?

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:24, Reply)
Ass to Mouth

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:25, Reply)
thank god you're here, I was going to have to type that but you bit the creepy bullet.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:24, Reply)
It's not creepy when I say it.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:25, Reply)
Yes it is.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:26, Reply)
Quit praying on my paranoia

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:33, Reply)
Its ok Labs. It didn't creep me out.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:39, Reply)
Thanks AfD :)

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:44, Reply)
Well I didn't drink it.
I DID gargle with it, three hours ago, and its still all I can taste. I'd forgotten how much I hate it.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:57, Reply)
I'm just reading this paper about behavioural psychology
And whether it's all rubbish because they only study people from WEIRD societies (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic).

Opening paragraph:

In the tropical forests of New Guinea, the Etoro believe
that for a boy to achieve manhood he must ingest the
semen of his elders. This is accomplished through ritualized
rites of passage that require young male initiates to
fellate a senior member (Herdt 1984/1993; Kelley 1980).
In contrast, the nearby Kaluli maintain that male initiation
is only properly done by ritually delivering the semen
through the initiate’s anus, not his mouth. The Etoro
revile these Kaluli practices, finding them disgusting.

Awesome.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:38, Reply)
That's just the usual Tuesday night at Canal street.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:47, Reply)
Terrible
if only they had the moral guidance of the church to see the error of their ways and ensure this type of thing never happens again!
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:52, Reply)
I've been winding up old women on the Loose Women Facebook page
I called one of the hosts a fat mess and someone replied "where is andrea fat???she is far from it...so what do u like liam SKELLINGTONS!!!!!!!!".

I am using the word skellington from now on.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:41, Reply)
I used to say skellington when I was a kid and lightening. I was a right mong.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:55, Reply)
This was a forty year old woman.
I love the Loose Women Facebook page.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:56, Reply)
Ask them why they nicked the themetune from Noel's House Party

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 13:57, Reply)
Aren't you far too young to remember that? I can just about remember it
and I'm nearly 30.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:00, Reply)
32

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:01, Reply)
Bloody hell,
It's not that old, I can remember that.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:03, Reply)
my mind must be going in my old age.
Roota do you get a special badge on B3ta when you go over30?
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:06, Reply)
No, but if you'd care to make one I'll join

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:07, Reply)
make one?
Gonzo is currently trying to help me pick my own ringtones on my iphone. I could make you a real one and send it in the post ? I have no techno skills.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:09, Reply)
there should be one for
impressionable young men instead
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:09, Reply)
Yeah,
It'll make it easier for cougars to hone in on them.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:14, Reply)
COUGARTRON
ACTIVATE!
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:25, Reply)
Oh yeeeeah

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:19, Reply)
"b3ta dirty 30s club"

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:12, Reply)
do it chompy.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:14, Reply)
I'm not in my 30s

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:15, Reply)
ummmm nor am I, wait a couple of years and I will ask again.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:18, Reply)
I won't be for much longer :(

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:19, Reply)
not 40?

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:20, Reply)
No, I thought I'd go from my 30s straight into my 50s.
I'm a bit wacky like that.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:21, Reply)
well look who is getting irritable in his old age.
want a blanket gramps?
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:23, Reply)
I've mellowed as I've got older.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:24, Reply)
really?
you must have been a right bastard when you were younger then ;)
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:26, Reply)
It has been said.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:27, Reply)
Are you Scottish?

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:07, Reply)
no...
Edit. Shit.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:08, Reply)
I read 'It's no that old'
in the voice of Gudrun Ure.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:09, Reply)
Nae bother, pal.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:13, Reply)
That's another programme along with the news
I find myself shouting at if I see it. The only thing I like about those stupid programmes and forums are that I feel fucking happy I am not one of those mentals lapping the shit up!
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:00, Reply)
I'm as loose a women as you will find but I can't stand them silly bints.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:01, Reply)
I have never seen this programme
is it basically some annoying people whinging at each other or something?
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:03, Reply)
No
It's a load of harpies sitting round a table talking about the menopause and 'nooky'.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:04, Reply)
sounds quality
just the sort of thing I don't pay the license fee for
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:06, Reply)
Loose Women is ace. I will be on the panel one day.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:22, Reply)
are you a loose woman?
or just loosely a woman?
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:23, Reply)
Why did she call you 'liam' when you are clearly Barry from Eastenders?

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:04, Reply)
he's undercover

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:05, Reply)
You've misunderstood.
She wants to know if he likes 'Liam Skellingtons', he's a popular Irish singer from (my favourite place on earth) Ringaskiddy.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:08, Reply)
Is that near Kilmagranny?

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:14, Reply)
Is that a real place?
Googling Ringaskiddy I see that Pfizer make Viagra there.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:16, Reply)
Kilmagranny is not real but shoud be.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:17, Reply)
There is a Kilmaganny though
and there's that other favourite, Nobber which is down the road from Muff. The Muff in Meath not Muff in Donegal.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:41, Reply)
By the way...
In Donegal there is a place called Muff and they have their own diving club.
www.muffdivingclub.ie/
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:16, Reply)
I am not clicking on that at work
Even if it's a legitimate site, my company logs the URL...
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:17, Reply)
have you told them b3ta is a technical discussion forum
for an obscure and horrifically dull aspect of your job?
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:38, Reply)
Hahaha
You're wonderful! :)
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:09, Reply)
So's yerself

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:20, Reply)
Gee thanks!
Oh check this out...

www.pubcrawler.uk.com/pubcrawler-parties-pedibus.html

I'm going on one with work peeps in a few weeks! :S
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:23, Reply)
Ha!
Imagine the stick you'd get.
Not as much as the paedobus, mind.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:24, Reply)
Indeed!
I am slightly concerned about driving the thing down busy London roads, thankfully there is a person that steers, so I only have to pedal! :)
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:27, Reply)
Careful now...

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:30, Reply)
Maybe I won't pedal at all
who'd know, everyone'll be pissed... I think I can get away with that! :)
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:35, Reply)
The net connection at work's been down since 1pm
And, as usual, someone loudly says "The Internet's down.", and of course some witty twat (not me) replied "What, the WHOLE Internet?".

Anyway, hello.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:11, Reply)
I was hoping there had been an accident...

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:13, Reply)
Judging by your face
There has.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:15, Reply)
Charming as ever.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:18, Reply)
She started it!
Just because I told the story of why her and Vipros hate each other.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:19, Reply)
I do not know this story.
However, as both you and Vipros could do with a kick in the nads, I am inclined to side with Badger.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:21, Reply)
*smugs*

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:22, Reply)
Just don't mention The Cheeky Girls, I implore you.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:22, Reply)
I don't usually.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:23, Reply)

Here y'are. Please don't hit me in the balls.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:24, Reply)
Lab, can you make a Cougartron please?

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:25, Reply)
For you m'dear
No of course.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:26, Reply)
Are ALL the female b3tans cougars?

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:28, Reply)
I think it must be to the B3tan females as a griddle pan is to the males

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:29, Reply)
Does that make us cooler?
or just creepier?
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:29, Reply)
Of course we are cooler.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:30, Reply)
or cougars in training

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:29, Reply)
:D

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:39, Reply)
ta
I'm just off out
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:29, Reply)
Oh...right...
"Labs, fancy doing something I can't be arsed to do, while I go gallivanting around town?"
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:44, Reply)
Just get on with it.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:48, Reply)
I'm working on it!
Don't shout my face off!
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:50, Reply)
I have now read this.
I am outraged by Vipros's behaviour.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:27, Reply)
For turning her down?
He's engaged!
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:30, Reply)
Precisely!
So why the fuck was he feeling her up?
HE'S GREEDY.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:31, Reply)

I was used Clendrix, taken advantage of I was
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:33, Reply)
We'll get them. There's a lot of sand to hide evidence in Somerset.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:36, Reply)
By 'them' you mean just Vipros, yes?

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:38, Reply)
Er,
yes. Totally yes.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:40, Reply)
*narrows eyes*
Wait a minute... why are both looking at me while trying to hide meat tenderisers behind your backs?
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:42, Reply)
....They're spiked gravels.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:44, Reply)
The gravel that delivers both judgement and punishment.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:45, Reply)
Don't you start with the gravels
But I'm glad you got the link I was trying to make.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:46, Reply)
Well, I wasn't there
But I heard no reports that he actually felt her up, only that she claimed he did after he turned her down.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:33, Reply)
*bangs gravel of judgement*
You are wrong.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:35, Reply)
Only giving a second-hand witness account
M'lud.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:37, Reply)
There's probably not much point in you saying anything.
I rarely base my judgements on sound evidence or truth.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:40, Reply)
Lab never tells the truth
he is a massive fat liar
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:42, Reply)
You are as beautiful as you are wise.

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:43, Reply)
Just some of the internet

(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:22, Reply)

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