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  1. Haha that is qualitayy.

    I was a bit worried the other day. Mate left town at half 2, seemed pretty drunk but we didn't even know he was gone. He only had a fiver in his wallet 'cus I checked, and looked after his phone. He was then seen at about half 4 outside his house (by his sister) putting something up to his ear, obviously his phone, he said he remember dialling a number, it ringing, then he hung up and put it back in his pocket as there was no answer. I had his phone in my pocket the whole night haha. He woke up shaking, with £25 in his wallet, blood down his arm, a cut hand, and blood on his shoes. He remembers nothing. God knows what happened to him for the 2 hours...At least he didn't have a sore arse =/

  2. Sleep paralysis is the worst. I've only had it twice, but the first time was sh!t scary. I dreamt that I was in my road, on my own in the dark, and I fell over and couldn't move. There was a car coming up behind me and I knew that if I didn't get away, he was gonna kidnap or rape me (lol). I was then aware that I was half awake and half asleep. I couldn't move at all and I could barely breathe. It was horrible, being semi-consious and knowing what was going on when I couldn't move, I actually thought I was going to die.

    The second time I can't remember too well, but I remember lying facing my wardrobe and I was shouting things at my brother like 'You're a c**t, f**king dickhead' etc., 'cus I share a room with him, then I fully woke up making a groaning sound. I asked him if I was just making a weird sound n he was like "Yeh, what the f**k was that about?!'. Weird stuff.

  3. Girls' shitty lingo for being around other girls, like 'meeting them'. I met a girl today, and her mate was like "so you're meeting her now then?", obviously not just meaning meeting up, and I was like, "Well what the f**k is that meant to mean, 'cus I've met her once, but i'm also meeting other people, but it's just a bit more special with her', then it's like, "So you are meeting her then ;)". Aargh! It's just stupid and doesn't make any sense.

  4. It's good, but they're killing it with the massive amounts of violence and drug use. I know it's only early days, but it just seems there is no real plot, nothing to keep you entertained apart from people smashing the hell outta eachother and getting layed, which shouldn't just be the way to hook you...

  5. "Sorry to be a pedant, but Muel's in the right, grammar-wise!

    He was referring to "it" as the apostrophe, and the name (it) belongs to said apostrophe, so it has an apostrophe there :P E.g: "you don't even know Muel's name" not "you don't know Muels name"

    Sorry to go on, it's kind of a compulsive thing :(

    You're wrong.

  6. Look I'm pissed so I could be wrong, but it's not a simple mistake at all, it's a simpleton's mistake.

    Or someone who was tired and not really paying too much attention. Yours, on the other hand, was just a grammer fail.

  7. You pet hate is someone using an apostrophe when it's not supposed to have one, and you don't know it's f**king name?! :lol:

    Just a simple mistake.

    And if we're being fannys, there should be no apostrophe in your last 'its'.

  8. +1

    Cars with "lexus style" lights (even on a lexus) they look cheap and nasty. Also "ripspeed" and "motorsport" sunstrips from halfords on corsa's or french hatchbacks.

    And those twats with rich parents who just get given £1000 for their birthdays/christmas, or alot of the time just given to them for no particular reason, how about go get a job like everyone else? And those bastards that always have to have something better than you.

    People who use apostrophes in this context.

  9. I said to this girl I wouldn't meet up on christmas eve because i'm going to church mass with my family.

    But going to a party instead. :P

    Haha that is quality. :lol:

    A girl I have liked for ages, and who has liked me for equally as long, got a boyfriend the other week. The reason we never went out is because i'm only 18 and don't want the whole commitment etc. of being with a girl at such a young age. BUT, she still likes me, I like her, and she's always up for doing stuff with me (you know what i'm talking about... :rolleyes: ), but it would just feel wrong for me to do it as she has a boyfriend, and I don't wanna be a total harsh c**t. The only thing making me think about it is the fact she's up for it and doesn't seem to care about the boyfriend at the time. Dunno what to do. Suggestions?

  10. Avoid using an apostrophe to indicate a plural. The incorrect use of an apostrophe to form the plural is called the greengrocer's apostrophe, since grocers are often the worst (or at least the most visible) offenders. If you have more than one apple, then write apples, not apple's. If you cannot replace the word with "his," "her," or "their" and if it isn't a contraction, then an apostrophe should not be used.

    People often forget the rules when a word ends in a vowel, such as the word "mango." Many people write "mango's" instead of "mangos" or "mangoes".

    An exception to this use is in the case of making a single letter plural. Therefore, Why are there so many i's in the word "indivisibility"? is correct. This is simply for clarity reasons, so the reader does not mistake it for the word "is." However, in modern usage, the preference is to avoid inserting an apostrophe and instead surround the single letter in quotation marks before pluralizing it: Why are there so many "i"s in the word "indivisibility"?

    Similarly, apostrophes can be used when talking about a word (e.g., this list contains a lot of do's and don't's) but quotation marks can make it clearer ("do"s and "don't"s).

    An exception can also be made for numbers and abbreviations, although some consider this old fashioned, illogical and unnecessary.

    "I bought many CD's in the 1990's." Correct.

    "I bought many CDs in the 1990s." Also correct and more modern.

    Use apostrophes to indicate possession. There are two basic methods that make use of an apostrophe in constructing the possessive. Most words use an apostrophe followed by an "s" at the end of the word, although many situations require simply an apostrophe.

    Place an apostrophe before the "s" when you are indicating a singular possessive, unless the name or word ends in "s," in which case either is correct. (James's dog or James' dog, Dickens' novel or Dickens's novel)

    "Jacob's shoes are very cool." The shoes belong to Jacob (singular: one person).

    "I found the dog's old bone buried in the backyard." The bone belongs to the dog (singular: a single dog).

    Place an apostrophe after the "s" when you are dealing with a possessive plural case that has an "s" at the end (e.g., book to books, tree to trees). But if the word is plural without an "s" at the end, this rule does not apply; add an apostrophe and an "s" as if the word were singular.

    "Look at all of the sailors' boats!" The boats belong to the sailors (plural: there is more than one sailor).

    "The children's dresses were pink and frilly." The dresses belong to the children, but since the word children is already plural without having to add an "s" at the end, this is an exception.

    Use apostrophes in contractions. Sometimes, especially in informal writing, apostrophes are used to indicate one or more missing letters. For example, the word "don't" is short for "do not"; other examples include "isn't," "wouldn't," and "can't." Contractions can also be made with the verbs "is," "has," and "have." For example, we can write "She's going to school" instead of "She is going to school"; or "He's lost the game" instead of "He has lost the game." A similar usage can be found in the notation of calendar years, as in '07. In this case, the apostrophe appears in the spot where the missing numbers would have been (before the number, not after as in 07').

    Be aware of the its/it's trap. Use an apostrophe with the word "it" only when you want to indicate a contraction for "it is" or "it has." Its is a pronoun, and pronouns have their own possessive form that does not use an apostrophe. For example, "That noise? It's just the dog eating its bone." This may seem confusing, but it follows the same pattern as other possessive pronouns: his, hers, its, yours, ours, theirs.

    Throwing in apostrophes willy-nilly quickly shows that the writer does not understand the rules about possessives, contractions, and plurals. If in doubt, err on the side of leaving out the apostrophe.

    Don't put an apostrophe within your name on your return address label. If your surname is "Greenwood," then "The Greenwoods" is correct, while "the Greenwood's" is incorrect. "The Greenwoods" indicates the residence of more than one person with the surname Greenwood, not some sort of possession.

    Never write "her's." Her's is not a word, just as you would not write "him's". Recall that possessive pronouns do not need an apostrophe: his, hers, its, yours, ours, theirs.

    When a word ends in "y," as in "try," take extra care when changing the verb form. For example, "try" does not become "try's". "Tries" is correct.

    Do not use apostrophes or quotation marks for emphasis. For example, take a billboard that says: Joe Schmo, the "best" realtor in town! It makes the word "best" appear sarcastic, and untrue, rather than emphasized.

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