mockney piers

Playing fast and loose with your English, using colloquial, unorthodox and spoken English is fine on the forum, I'm pretty sure it should be unacceptable in an exam. "Would of" irks because it's simply incorrect, but as someone hinted at earlier, breaking up your prose, no matter what it's content, into readable chunks, is paramount. Sorry Tony.etc but most of your lengthier posts I simply skip, my eyes start hurting before I can tease apart the relevant content.

The subjunctive normally implies doubt, desire and stuff. Hence you don't need to use it if your 'if' simply denotes an option: If you are a then I am B. However once doubt is introduced: if you were to be A then I would be B, along comes your subjunctive. In fact I was taught very little at school, it wasn't until I went to Spain to learn my native lingo a bit more proper like, that I was finally taught grammar and spent most of my lessons thinking, 'ooh, English does that too!!' Subjunctive is a right pain in Spanish as it's applied for all sorts of weird reasons such as the subject changing mid sentence: 'El dice que yo sea....' although feel free to correct me proper native Spanish speakers. Mind you the English subjunctive example earlier would use conditional rather than subjunctive in Spanish, so it's all horribly complicated!!!

I assume ironic use of the saxon genitive on the impersonal pronoun there SMG, if not then your argument is totally invalid I'm afraid.

Perfect cross posting, both invoking Godwin. End of discussion, nuff sed.

Nonsensical, so agree with PGC there. Mind you, as much as bad grammar annoys me, typos and the odd misplaced apostrophe shouldn't be taken as reason enough to totally undermine someone's argument in, ooh, say a forum. Spelling/Grammar fascists online are almost as annoying as their targets' crimes.

My flat mate back in 92 got me into both the Rev and the Lips, along with the likes of the Jesus & Mary Chain and other members of whatever name that 'new wave' went by back then when I was a mere whippersnapper. I drifted away from them and was staggered to hear Deserters Songs about 7 or 8 years later. A long way indeed Jah.

Mercury Rev's new fella. For those who thought Deserter's Songs was a step too far in terms of their self-reinvention, leave alone the pastoral twee of Secret Migration, then nothing on Snowflake Midnight will convince you otherwise, taking in song titles such as Butterfly's Wing, Dream of a Young Girl as a Flower, or A Squirrel & I. I must say I was a bit of a sucker for all of it, and despite Flaming Lips overkill and my disappointment with their last album, which tread very much upon the Rev's territory, I'm being charmed once again. This time the Rev try out a bit of electronica. Obviously don't go expecting The Prodigy's Narcotic Suite here, think more Postal Service or Her Space Holiday, but with enough Rev eccentricity and creativity to keep away a saccharine aftertaste. Worth a punt in My book at any rate. (I only went in to look for the Lambchop album, any idea when it's out?)

blimey, you guys are OLD!!! http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fai1.htm we'd have just used profanities!!

What the hell does that make Tony then, apart from blind to the space and enter buttons?

Especially post Green Berets' with its infamously right wing 'monday north vietnamese night' scene, complete with racist undertones. Mind you, he loved to wear a good dress; perhaps had he set up a tranny bar?

"There's only one Moderator on this site!?" There's only one Admin, but luckily He us omnipotent. "..Preferably female, but..." LOL, I admire your lack of fussiness!!

"Linda McCartney lives on through pies" God, I hope you don't mean literally. Eughhhhh.

loo* works though. Just use your noggin a bit, not unlike google; lots of little tricks there, such as if you're actually looking for a review of a product/album or whatever, type in: review review and that filters out a lot of those results that simply have "add your own review" at the bottom of a standard sales page.

It's a lot better these days*, so hat's off to admin for all the work he's put in, but yeah, it was pretty rubbish for a long time. *You can do quotes for exact matches and even asterisk wild cards!

shhh, I'm in hiding.....

modern day myth, but I take your point ;-P

At least you can cross reference the lookalikes now, so I must be somewhere between Syler off Heroes and Paul from The Wonder Years. I'm much closer to the former in age!!

in fact we've had whole threads dedicated to this topic

I did some work with these guys at Cooltan on sunday. It is SE5 though. I was contacted by a friend who wanted some camera time from me, and I met some lovely and interesting people and clearly it's a fantastic resource (referred out of the Maudsley) for people who have suffered mental health issues. I'm sure they'd be delighted if you got involved.

This much irony dripping of the thread walls and yet no mention of the forum bete noir? For shame!!

Force thingy? It looks the part, you get to be Vader for a bit, and the dark story line has had some good plaudits, but apparently a bit rubbish, repetitive, veers between pointlessly easy and punishingly hard and 15 second unskippable death scene EVERY time you die. So will probably give it a miss.

Most recent popular comparison seems to be Syler, the evil brain-eater from Heroes...which is errr nice .. I guess.

Great shot Huguenot!! I was wondering if you were going to pop along.

Nowt wrong with humanism per se, but make it into a society (adre I say dogma?) and it suddenly becomes a bit unsettling doesn't it.

Apparently that's the number 2 (tee hee) gripe among londoners, number one (snigger) being standing on the left on escalators. I would add people who lug those ridiculous trolley things up stairs then stop at the top, regardless of how narrow and/or busy the stairs are, and proceed to pull out the little handle and place it down carefully before tottering off. I can juuuuust about see the need for the larger ones when travelling proper, but do people really need to commute with the crappy little ones, REALLY?