BS: You're not welcome on this thread

Subject: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 08:05 AM

You know who you are...

This is the negative counterpart of positive thread 'All welcome on this thread'. Wonder if it will get more or less posts?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 09:11 AM

You'll lose...

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Iains
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 09:18 AM

About time we had a nursery section. Might be able to have adult discussions now on the other threads, with sensible people.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 09:26 AM

You're not supposed to try to be funny in this thread, Inanes.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Iains
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 09:43 AM

OOOOOOOOH!! Sorry sir(touching forelock)

Have a starter for 10:
                  
    Tweedledum and Tweedledee
       Agreed to have a battle;
    For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
       Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 10:11 AM

Didn't take long did it.

Not interested in the other thread, Iains?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 01:06 PM

I'm gonna post on it anyhow: nyaa, nyaa, nyaa !

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 03:16 PM

bah.. this thread is still too happy clappy for my liking... 😠

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 03:59 PM

Is it I, Lord? 😎

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Gurney
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 04:13 PM

I never go anywhere that I'm not welcome. So there!

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 04:53 PM

I would never go anywhere that I am welcome!

So there to you too :-P

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 05:18 PM

Knock knock

Who's there?

Whale kipper whelk

Whale kipper whelk who?

🎶Whale kipper welcome in the hillsides...🎶

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 05:41 PM

"less posts" !?
Is that ok?

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 05:55 PM

Dave meant "will it get posts, more or less?" Didn't you, Dave? 😈

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Mr Red
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 07:14 PM

🙈

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 07:31 PM

🙈🙉🙊



🖕



😈


✌️

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 07:53 PM

:^\ Is this what passes for imagination outside the MOM thread ?

Go quantum or go home.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Sep 17 - 10:01 PM

Y'all have planar homotopic relations!

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Sep 17 - 03:02 AM

I did, Steve. Few, er, I think I got away with it...

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Sep 17 - 04:34 PM

Mudgeon your curs, sirs,
Mudgeon your curs!

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Sep 17 - 04:43 PM

I love that. Must try to remember it. My ghast has never been so flabbered.

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 06:56 AM

A resolution from Congress is now upon the President's desk for signing.
It states that Nazis, White Supremacists and the Klu Klux Klan are not welcome in America.

Will Trump have a signing ceremony?
Will Donnie sign it?
Will Neo Nazis ne unwelcome here?
Who will be dehumanized next?

Stayed tuned to everyone's favorite show 'The old and the cluless'

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 07:40 AM

What about half-Polish Gnomes aging disgracefully?

Will I be welcome when I visit next year?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 08:49 AM

You won't be a visitor. You're a cultural import.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 01:11 PM

I'm definitely not welcome: my last post has vanishes without trace!

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 03:23 PM

The lady varnishes?

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 03:26 PM

Is she called Trace? That's what my 148th girlfriend was called...

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 09:06 PM

All these damn hurricanes floods and power outages are sabotage by the looney left. Everyone knows climate change is fake and is really revenge by the Clintons which proves they are the sorest losers in history, well in modern history anyway. Even Air Force Once is encountering turbulence never seen before. Its as plain as night following day that the electronic interference from Hillary's e mails and Bengasi communiques is causing all this chaos in the atmosphere.

Don't get me started about Obama's black Supremesi.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: olddude
Date: 13 Sep 17 - 09:45 PM

Smile when you say that partner... I got me six shooter that says different

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 17 - 07:22 AM

I'll see your six shooter and raise you 4 thermonuclear 75 lb. tactical devices.

Don't forget the wall is still in play. Great ideas were discussed over dinner about taking all the debris from Texas and Florida and using it to pile a wall high and wide. Every manner of toxic waste and sanitation by products could be transported from all across this great nation to build the most powerful deadly wall ever made.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Sep 17 - 11:35 AM

A waste pile would be fine for the Mexican side, but, remember, we've been promised that, on the American side, it will be a really, really, yugely beautiful wall.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 17 - 08:21 PM

The thought of huge steaming piles of deadly filthy waste will be even more beautiful to the Trump base than an architectural work of art.

You have to know the people we are dealing with.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 04:27 AM

There is a story in the UK news this morning that a group of researchers have collated a set of 'lost' words that they would like to see reintroduced to the English language. I think this one is quite apt

Donald Trump might be interested to know that 'to betrump' once meant to deceive or cheat

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 05:31 AM

Presumably from the same etymology as "trumped up charges"

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 10:17 AM

less posts? or fewer posts?

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 10:18 AM

--- I have a mental picture of some of you guys having arguments with yourselves in empty rooms!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 10:20 AM

Been there and done that GM :-)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 05:01 PM

You can say "less posts" if you like. Personally, I wouldn't. My usage is always what I'm comfortable with. I might nitpick if some clown is picking me up on my use of English here on Mudcat and I can invariably demolish them on their own use. Iains shall remain nameless. But we're not here writing for learned journals. We can say less posts if we like. Loads of people talk that way. And the fewer said about it the better. 😂

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Iains
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 05:29 AM

I can invariably demolish them on their own use
And the fewer said about it the better.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 05:33 AM

Are we in a different dimension or something, Steve?

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 07:50 AM

--- I have a mental picture of some of you guys having arguments with yourselves in empty rooms!!!!!

I was going to disabuse you of that but my alter ego .....................

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 10:13 AM

"I have a mental picture of some of you guys having arguments with yourselves in empty rooms!!!!!"
"but my alter ego"
Schizophrenics don't do empty rooms
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 01:10 PM

The "fewer" comment was the one of mine that was not welcome, so never made it to the board! So there are fewer comments than there should be! (More or less!)

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 07:46 PM

I couldn't care fewer, Tattie Bogle.

Damn.

Should that be "I could care fewer..."

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Sep 17 - 03:37 AM

there are more schizophrenics than you think ............

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Sep 17 - 08:44 PM

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm schizophrenic
And so am I




God forgive me...

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 04:25 AM

Nothin but earthquakes and hurricanes in the news over here 24/7 for the last 3 weeks. The scars will bleed for decades.

My brother Steve is a short wave broadcaster and just went off the air in the highlands of PR, perhaps forever.

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 07:42 AM

"Less or fewer".
A tricky one that. 'Fewer' refers to a smaller number, 'less' to a smaller amount.
Some will try to clarify it as whether it relates to a number (in which case it's fewer). But this falls apart with sentences like "I have less/fewer than ten pounds", where, even ignoring the fact that 'pounds' can also relate to weight, both words may be accurate.
If I pull a handful of coins from my pocket, I may be checking the value I hold, and could say "I have less than ten pounds."
Alternately:
If I pull a handful of coins from my pocket, I may be checking whether I have enough coins for the meter (or for the pinball machine), and could say "I have fewer than ten pounds."

As with many of these linguistic problems it often helps to find alternate wording, either as a replacement, or to clarify the meaning.
In the two examples above I could have said (respectively):
"I have not as much as ten pounds"
or:
"I have not as many as ten pounds"

So the way I remember is that if I could replace it with 'not as much' I say 'less'. If I could replace it with 'not as many' I say 'fewer'.

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 08:04 AM

Sounds a good measure to me.

I always had problems remembering which to use between 'and I' or 'me and'. Then someone told me to take away the bit before or after 'and' to see which to use.

My friend and I went to the folk club
I went to the folk club

Good enough for me and Bobby McGee
Good enough for me

Amazing what sticks in the old grey cells at times

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: You're not welcome on this thread
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 17 - 10:02 AM

At this very moment the Arecibo radio telescope is being destroyed.