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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:43 / 06.06.05

Haus is completely right. Cross-country running and orienteering were my failsafe when my 2-year sicknote (well, it was only supposed to be used once, but they never kept it, so I kept trying) finally ran out. Wednesday afternoons were such happy times, going up to the disused army camp up the hill from school and nicking (completely useless, in retrospect) stuff. Ah, happy days. I bet if I tried it now I'd be done for terrorism. Or noncery, were I to do the traditional "sneaking into assembly" thing afterwards.

20:10 / 06.06.05

I wasn't athletic or virtuous or anything like that. Just a big naive geek. Ah, how times change.

20:12 / 06.06.05

What is this? A tubby asthmatic young me found the cross country runs - generally encouraged by sadistic gym teachers - absolute hell. I much preffered staying indoors and using my time reeding and improving my writing skillls.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:19 / 06.06.05

Ah, y'see, our PE teachers knew that cross-country was just an excuse, and let us get on with our running (or walking) away. It just meant there were less uncos in their footy teams, with no blame.

Tryphena Absent

20:36 / 06.06.05

We couldn't cut out half the course because there were teachers who would stand at the end of a footpath and count us, the rest of the space was open and they could watch everyone. Fucking cross country, I'm just glad I started the curse in my second year, oh the paaaaiiiinnnn, the paaaiiinnnnn, I can't run today, ooooowwwwwww.

21:55 / 06.06.05

i loved cross country. represented my area at regionals as a kid. never much good at sprinting, so distance was my thang...

that and football. played left wing at 7-10 'cause none of the other kids could kick both feet. as i said, i don't sprint, so drifted back in my career to centre half and then centre back, eventually 'keeper; where i now play again at lunch each week in an intra-uni comp, undefeated in my lucky pink t-shirt no. 69! (one of the oppo strikers told my fullback 'you got dino zoff in goals' last week. chuffed, me!

what's all this got to do with spellung?

10:09 / 07.06.05

HeHe Haus you really don't like Cross Country huh

But admittedly unless you ran for the county it was basically a jog round the park, even a walk for most...

I actually didn't really ditch PE until the 5th year when all manor of other things were much more important, before that i did Track, Rugby and Karate which kept me fairly healthy, but to top it my dad used to drag me on half bloody marathons (evil services fathers!).

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:10 / 07.06.05

HeHe Haus you really don't like Cross Country huh!

I like it as much as any other process of travelling form one point to another. Depends on the weather and the company.

12:01 / 07.06.05

The only thing I'm anal-retentive about in life is spelling and punctuation. I absolutely seethe when people screw up homonyms. What really gets my goat and wrings its neck, however, is improper use of apostrophes.

I have only reached these dizzying heights of irritation with poor spelling and punctuation since I moved to England and people insisted on telling me that my "American" grammar and diction were poor. These, ironically enough, are the same moronic fucks who can't figure out the difference between an abbreviation and an acronym, or where to correctly place a bloody apostrophe.

Typos are one thing, and we all fall foul of the comma splice fairy from time to time. However, blatantly ignoring basic apostrophe syntax out of laziness and stupidity, or putting blind faith into the MicroWank spell check should suffer stigmata-by-hail-of-bullets.

Also, if you're not a funky little black man called Prince, using "u" instead of "you" is not cute or clever. It's fucking irritating.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:23 / 07.06.05

Also, if you're not a funky little black man called Prince, using "u" instead of "you" is not cute or clever. It's fucking irritating.

Oh God yes. It's one thing in a text message (or, as I prefer to call them, a "telephonic telegram") where you're short of space, though even then it can be pretty annoying, but in any other context it's downright inexcusable.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:24 / 07.06.05

Actually, come to think of it, even Prince couldn't do it without looking a bit of a tosser.

12:30 / 07.06.05

Im trying but I still dont get u guy's.

12:44 / 07.06.05

The thing that really drives me crazy is when people use horrible text message style abbreviations and horrific grammar in business e-mails. As you say Stoatie, it's one thing to do it in a text to your mates, though even then it drives me mad, but when I get an e-mail from someone at work full of them I just shudder. Especially if they are more senior than me and if they are telling me to do something. Adding "thx" at the end doesn't make it any less of a chore or make you into my friend.

12:54 / 07.06.05

"My name is Prince and Eye am funky."

God bless him. He is a bit of a tosser, really.

On the net, I'm much less wanky about the whole thing -- I'll use "dunno" and "hehehehehe" and that rubbish. When I'm at work, or in work-mode, I can't fucking stand it. I suppose it's because I have to be so pedantic about precise wording and punctuation on the web site and database I administer. . .

. . .or I'm just a wanktard, which is the likely scenario.

13:07 / 07.06.05

w8 r u talkin bout all thos txt generation kids who tink they r all l33t and ne1 who types proper english is a n00b?

Ok i can't even do the wank speak properly the word 'generation' would be far too long for one of 'them' to use.

But damn it they piss me off too, i mean go back to school if you can't write properly! I'm inclined to agree with mistress though, when I’m using messaging tools i use 'hehe', 'dunno', etc but when I’m typing on forums i like people to be able to understand what I’m trying to say, especially if I’m having an in depth conversation.

13:15 / 07.06.05

No no no, Lurid. im trying but I still dont get u guy's!!!

13:18 / 07.06.05

The thing that really drives me crazy is when people use horrible text message style abbreviations and horrific grammar in business e-mails

Theres the scool of thought that in the workplace only undrlings care about spelling and punctuation in emails.
I read an article a wile back saying that to much atention to such details gives the impression your a jobsworth and don’t have anything more imprtant to do.
Ever since I read that I affected a more slapdash approach and sure enough, 5 yrs later I now have busness cards and a desk near the window.

13:27 / 07.06.05

Curse my education and pedantic nature!

13:28 / 07.06.05

Your fired!

Tryphena Absent

14:22 / 07.06.05

Oh, now I have to go through the boxes for the Prince CD.

21:30 / 07.06.05

No no no, Lurid.

Oh god! A mistake! Maybe I should edit....aha!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:45 / 07.06.05

Stalinist.

21:47 / 07.06.05

prince liked cross country.

19:21 / 08.06.05

Think Smoothly's got a point. I have a friend with whom I was very competititve in childhood. I always beat him in exams, all the way through school. To this day I feel a little bit superior when he sends e-mails full of dodgy grammer and speeling. He sends me the e-mails regularly because he made so much money during his very successful working life that he retired seven years ago, bought a mansion in the sun and has time on his hands to e-mail me frequently. Can't spell for toffee and, as we would have said up North, huz nae fucking finesse. I should have been paying more attention to that model.

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