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MIne is that if I put my silver cutlery in the dishwasher it gets all discoloured and as for the bone handled knives - they just can't go in it! It would destroy them 🙂
( Its all antique cutlery bought cheap in sets of 4 or 5)
I do however have a technique for resilvering the spoons using bicarb and tin foil so thats a very middleclass solution to a very middle class problem
So all you middle class folk on here - whats your most middle class / first world issues?
There were no Jersey Royals left in Booths this afternoon
My microwave isn’t large enough to defrost my frozen jeans.
The dye ran out of mine when I got out of the bath in them and have stained my white John Lewis bath mat
Dishwasher? Middle class? I was born and brought up working class with an education to go with it. The only further education I ever had was day-release classes at college from work, and I left school at 16.
Oh, and there’s an apostrophe in ‘what’s’; that’s nearly thirty years of proofreading copy, not being middle class. 😉
Oh, and there’s an apostrophe in ‘what’s’
Well if we're being picky (I am - and i'm proud of my middle class roots), I find the spaces before and after the solidus quite confronting.
The yolk of one my quail eggs was a bit too firm this morning at breakfast 😖
I never know what to do with apostrophes and many years ago I was told its better to just omit them than get them wrong 😉 And WTF is a solidus?
"It's better" 😉
WTF is WFT? 🤣
It's this/that
Right - you have pushed me over the edge now. Edit time 🙂 I'm going to tut and get my green pen out
I never know what to do with apostrophes and many years ago I was told its better to just omit them than get them wrong 😉
Sage advice.
And WTF is a solidus?
It's a pretentious name for a / slash. (And also what Unicode names it.)
It’s a pretentious name for a / slash
Typical working class response.
I never know what to do with apostrophes
Apostrophes denote either possession or missing letters.
Doesn't = does not. Isn't = is not.
The boy's room = the room belonging to the boy.
The boys' room = the room belonging to the boys.
"Its/it's" is an outlier in that "it's" should satisfy both criteria, but it's a special case. It's = it is, its = belonging to it.
Apostrophes do not, ever, denote pluralisation. People see an 's' on a word and randomly slap an apostrophe in front of it. You would not go to the shop to buy sweet's, there is no scenario where this is correct.
When in doubt, leave it out.
I prefer to do drop a solidus in an alleyway.
Apostrophes do not, ever, denote pluralisation.
The exception of course being that it is acceptable to use before the ‘s’ for plurals of single letters and single-digit numbers.
"Binary code is 0's and 1's"
"I never put apostrophes after i's"
My personal favourite (from a friend), the underfloor heating is warming my champagne.
She was wrapping Christmas presents on the floor with a glass to the side.
Personal, my home coffee setup means I make better coffee than most of the coffee shops I go to.
The screw top on our balsamic glaze is becoming dashed difficult to seat on the threads.
Must make time for a spruce up.
What solvent for balsamic glaze?
I get most put out when commmentators on the Labour Party labour with proper nouns and with those poor souls who spell ideological as 'idealogical', it must have been terribly tough at the council school. However, it doesn't do to mock the afflicted.
Like apostrophes for 1's and i's, is there any convention for use with TLAs? I just think TLA's looks neater, clear where the TLA ends and the plural begins.
eg, there are so many different gpss nowadays it's hard to know where you are with them.
GPSs surely? I thought one always capitalised a TLA.
As for middle class problems… I found myself unable to set up the mowing robot last week due to the large number of wild flowers on our lawn and my girlfriend’s desire to encourage them in our garden. I had to mow the garden myself. With a normal mower. Like a savage.
For those of you that would like further clarification on the use of the apostrophe, please see below:
https://www.angryflower.com/247.html
My dad was telling me that they’d run out of fresh crushed ice on the langoustine display in Booths supermarket last week and the place was going downhill.
You would not go to the shop to buy sweet’s, there is no scenario where this is correct.
My wife's nickname is sweet because she is a chocolatier. I often go to the local deli to buy sweet's treats
TLAs should generally be capitalised so the role of the "s" is clear. However IMO GPS should be singular as it's the name of a specific system, so your example of "gpss" (sic) should actually be "there are so many different GNSSs nowadays it’s hard to know where you are with them."
I'm nearly out of ground coffee, but I'm holding out for a quick visit to M&S food tonight as they do the best decaff.
beans surely
Apostrophes do not, ever, denote pluralisation
I know that. You know that. For the love of God, someone please tell these ***ers.
Latin words
Latinised words - hardly any are pure Latin and many derive from Greek, or Linnaeus just picked names of people he liked/disliked and used those as the basis for binomial nomenclature. (I'll ignore the spurious plurarlisation apostrophe.)
This was a white back
My son giving me his ingredients list for cooking the next day, at school, at 7:10. Going to Waitrose to buy the required coconut milk, to find that they’d sold because the rest of the class had got there first.
The ending is painful. We had to go to Tesco in Flitwick..,,,
I opened a thread about the travails of middle class life, hoping to empathise, and there are multiple northerners wittering on about some corner shop they use in their hell-hole; Booths ≠ Waitrose.
there are so many different GPSSs nowadays it’s hard to know where you are with them
GPS units
GPS devices
Kilo, Waitrose is what we have to keep the plebs out of Booths.
APF
TLAs should generally be capitalised
If that's generally, then what is the convention for when they aren't, or for example a company's logo / brand is lower case?
There are not many dstls in the UK. Not many dstl's?
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In the end the purpose of language is communication, so does the apostrophe really matter? The context in the vast majority of cases is clear and of course it's only evident in written form anyway, there's no verbal apostrophe and we seem to manage perfectly well without it. Will it evolve out of language in some 10's or 100's of years?
What solvent for balsamic glaze?
You buy and use glaze? Wanders off tutting.
The knob on the lid of our asparagus' steamer has fallen off
There's not enough stock of high end bike bits.
Overheard in a supermarket, 'Mummy, shouldn't we get another bottle of extra virgin for the cottage?'
When shopping many years back, I heard the lovely sentence floating along the aisles:
"Darling, do we need parmesan for both of our houses?"
I think keeping track of parmesan consumption in two houses must class as a(n upper) middle class problem.
Mind you keeping track of multiple sizes of spare inner tubes and toolkits for all of our bikes is a significant challenge! I tend to buy a new mini pump when it gets too hard to find one...
“matt_outandabout
I’m nearly out of ground coffee, but I’m holding out for a quick visit to M&S food tonight as they do the best decaff”
In case it’s of interest Matt, Katja at Kontext Coffee in Wyastone Park Monmouth (home Mojo Rising / Geometron bikes) has a decaf that’s virtually indiscernible from full caff coffee. Such a blessing for those who can only take so much caffeine.
Katja’s ever so nice and married to Marcel, Geometron’s CAD man and ace cyclist. Great to support a small business with a bike connection built in
My wife’s nickname is sweet because she is a chocolatier. I often go to the local deli to buy sweet’s treats
Surely then it's "I often go to the local deli to buy Sweet’s"?
My problem’s high inflation and relatively very low interest rates. The collapse of the Western World surfaces at times.
“Its/it’s” is an outlier in that “it’s” should satisfy both criteria, but it’s a special case. It’s = it is, its = belonging to it.
Nearly. "The boy's bike" in the genitive case requires an apostrophe because of the missing letters from the full phrase "the boy his bike". The "his" in this case being the possessive article. The genitive case is where the noun is modified by the possessive and the omission of letters is indicated by the apostrophe.
"Its" can be thought of as the same as "his" , inasmuch as it is in itself a possessive article. It therefore does not require the genitive case addition of the apostrophe.
A video appeared between posts on the forum last week.
You would not go to the shop to buy sweet’s, there is no scenario where this is correct.
I am going to the shop to buy Sweet’s new album.
My immediate problem is that periodically I like the rather decadent spending which is a total refresh of my underwear drawer in one purchase. A wholesale throwing out of all my smalls for a new drawerful.
However I have slept walked into the predicament that my current set of socks are at end of life. Each morning this week I play Russian roulette as to whether or not a toe or a heel will pop out of a new hole in my socks.
I guess I must start a “what sock thread”
It would be nice if a builder COULD JUST BLOODY PROVIDE A QUOTE!!! Five have been out now, just say you're too busy before we waste each others time. 😡
Grew up in a west coast working class shipbuilding town, now living in a very middle class part of Edinburgh. Hadn't realised quite how much things had changed until a few years ago when I heard myself say to MrsKenny "Remember, the burrata needs to come up to room temperature".
prefer to do drop a solidus in an alleyway.
As do I, after which I put it in a bag,hang it on a three and pretend it's dog poo
The ending is painful. We had to go to Tesco in Flitwick..,,,
One feels your pain. I got a bonus/prize voucher thing from work a few years ago and the only supermarket that would accept it was Tesco, had to go there half a dozen times to use it up.
The horror.
When I wear my polarised sunglasses when driving I can’t see the heads up display in my car. It’s a nightmare..
all my kids hate humous
the shame
My pre-haircut shiatsu massage was fairly insipid the other day.
Bring me the girl with the skinhead and the forearms of a road-digger.
I needed to decant a bottle of vintage port at the weekend and had forgotten the muslin, so I had to use a pair of tights.
Tree not three, bloody fat thumbs
I was wondering whom might reside at three. Had to google 'burrata', how's that for inverted snobbery?
Pretty disgruntled last night as I had to clean my own windows as l cannot get a window cleaner.
But bought an extendable cleaning set from Amazon and it's done the job.
Do we go for one stop over, or two on our annual drive to a ski resort in France?
Do I peg out the underwear behind the other laundry so it's hidden from the neighbours view.
I've just eaten a Wagon Wheel and it was quite disappointing.
My working class problem:
Deciding which wall to put you all up against and in which order, once the revolution comes 🙂
Chips and Fishes is my local chip shop.
I will mention it to them next time I am in.
Less swear words please….. my children may read this forum.
Duplicate post.
I prefer to do drop a solidus in an alleyway.
Is a slash and a solidus what the plebs call a "number 3" ?
The light in my wine cooler doesn't turn off automatically.
This year the moorhens are only nesting in our smaller lake.
is there any convention for use with TLAs? I just think TLA’s looks neater, clear where the TLA ends and the plural begins.
The rule here is it's acceptable if aids clarification.
TLAs is unambiguous and doesn't need an apostrophe. If "tla" was valid then tlas would look weird, so you'd write tla's.
My wife’s nickname is sweet because she is a chocolatier. I often go to the local deli to buy sweet’s treats
No you don't. You go to buy Sweet's treats.
No you don’t. You go to buy Sweet’s treats.
Only if she has enough status for me to capitalise her name.
My pre-haircut shiatsu massage was fairly insipid the other day.
Bring me the girl with the skinhead and the forearms of a road-digger.
A few years back, I went for a massage as part of a spa day. Sat in the waiting room with the other customers, a succession of Pretty Young Things came in one by one to collect their clients and I'm thinking "I have done well here." Then my name was called... by this massive Kiwi bloke built like a prop forward. He pummelled the absolute **** out of me.
Our Ninja Air-fryer- a high end one, dual zone, multiple settings, timers- isn't big enough to cook a whole Pizza Express frozen pizza.
This forces us to bisect the pizza, and place each half into its own drawer.
When I wear my polarised sunglasses when driving I can’t see the heads up display in my car. It’s a nightmare..
I just replced the lenses in one of my sets of oakley sunnies for polarised ones, and now I have to have my phone in portrait rather than landscape in the window holder in my #vanlife family bus*.
*not a T5 though only a Mercedes Viano....
I spend idle time at work scoffing at models in stock image libraries who clearly have no clue about the scenario they're supposed to be enacting or the objects they're posing with.
I regret not choosing the matched wine flight with my meal the other night. The one glass I did have was brilliant.
timers- isn’t big enough to cook a whole Pizza Express frozen pizza.
Not only do you not own pizza oven, you but frozen pizza from a chain.
Get out!
Hahaha! I thought maybe a burrata was some fancy vegan sort of burrito! Now I know betterer 🤣
Our biggest problem is whether Lidl is out of San Celistino 🤣 We drink a lot of sparkles.
We'd be classed middle class by education and work, but not by holidays/cars/house etc. Grew up very much north east ex mining village working class with free school diners and the like.
Only if she has enough status for me to capitalise her name.
Capitalising a name isn't status, it's a proper noun and takes capitalisation inherently.
She could of course choose not to. I have a friend who spells her name entirely lowercase.
In today's keeping up with the Joneses:
The Lexus outside next door has recently been replaced by a shiny newish Audi, and a week later, next door to that the Merc GLA was gone and a Tesla appeared.
Not my neighbours' cars but those belonging to their cleaners.
Apostrophes do not, ever, denote pluralisation.
Well except when they do by virtue of their position!
People see an ‘s’ on a word and randomly slap an apostrophe in front of it. You would not go to the shop to buy sweet’s, there is no scenario where this is correct.
It would be correct to use sweet's when you say something like:
The sweet's wrapper was damaged and therefore I threw it in the bin. OR The sweets' soft filling all appeared to have crystallised so I took to Twitter in a fit of rage.