All in the one bowl?

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:55, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Yep
Just a little bit of each. If I have fewer than two cereals in one bowl I get bored.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:56, Reply)

And if you say "less" when you in fact mean "fewer" I get dreadfully, tiresomely pedantic.

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:57, Reply)

She's such a bitch.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Sorry, what?

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:58, Reply)

I'm being a dreadful pedant again. (Partly because TGB likes to wind me up over this one)
"Less" is used for continuous quantities, whereas "fewer" is used for individual items. So, e.g., if you put a smaller quantity of cereal is the bowl, that would be "less cereal," whereas if you put two types of cereal in the bowl instead of three, that would be "fewer types of cereal."

/pedant crow is pedantic, and the sort of person driven to vitriolic, stabby rage by the checkouts labelled as "five items or less."
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:06, Reply)

I know that,
I was saying sorry, what? cos I edited and now your post doesn't make sense.
/psychochomp
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:07, Reply)

Arse.
A little observation would have saved me a lot of typing there, wouldn't it?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:09, Reply)

Yep
Too late now
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:12, Reply)

Resisting the urge to go for massive strikethrough lols here
I keep to a strict one-cereal-in-the-bowl policy, that is if I can be bothered having breakfast.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Story of my life.
Breakfast is the best meal of the day! How can you skip it?
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:58, Reply)

When your days consist mostly of sitting around the house
There isn't much need to take in many calories. I also once sank so low as to have cheese and ham toasties for breakfast.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:00, Reply)

you can eat whatever you want for breakfast
most of the world thinks that eating cereal for breakfast is fucking weird according to some tv programme I watched.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:01, Reply)

That sounds like the ideal breakfast to me.
The only problems in my case are that I don't have any ham. Or a sandwich toaster. And I'm far too addled in the morning to make such a complicated concoction and would probably end up with raw ham on my head, cheese in my trousers and bread on the ceiling. And a toasted eyeball. With butter.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:11, Reply)