Someone's Had A Bad Day. (Some swearing!)

[womble]

Mar 5, 2013 17:18:11 GMT kurotoshiro said:

Mar 5, 2013 15:52:04 GMT WhamBamSam said:

Does it matter whether it was 'an actual letter' or not?

Only to a pedantic tw*t like me.

In any case, I apologise, as I really shouldn't be bringing my facebook-based irritations into this forum/thread. The kind of twaddle that gets reposted on Facebook is often full of potentially harmful misinformation. Whereas this is, as you say, purely for comedy.

Ahh well I'll admit it too. These annoy the hell out of me as well I've fell out with a sister over the amount of junk stories like this she emailed me, including the ones like "Beware! This may happen to you" etc

[WhamBamSam]

Mar 5, 2013 17:18:11 GMT kurotoshiro said:

Mar 5, 2013 15:52:04 GMT WhamBamSam said:

Does it matter whether it was 'an actual letter' or not?

Only to a pedantic tw*t like me.

In any case, I apologise, as I really shouldn't be bringing my facebook-based irritations into this forum/thread. The kind of twaddle that gets reposted on Facebook is often full of potentially harmful misinformation. Whereas this is, as you say, purely for comedy.

No, no, Kuto! I insist that I am the Queen of Pedant. I do get where you are coming from, really.

It's the appalling standard of grammar and spelling that gets my goat the most on Facebook. I have had to block some mainly teenagers' posts (friends of my kids, mostly in case anyone was wondering)off my news feed as it actually causes me severe physical pain to have to read some of their semi-illiterate ramblings. I found myself irresistibly commenting on their status updates only in order to correct their punctuation.

That, and as Womble said, the "beware" posts. Lately there has been FB hysteria over dog and cat nappers apparently in our area. I'm more worried about poverty, hunger, the state of our country, potential mortar bombs in Londonderry...

I need a lie down in a darkened room with some GVC.

[kurotoshiro]

Mar 5, 2013 20:05:21 GMT WhamBamSam said:

It's the appalling standard of grammar and spelling that gets my goat the most on Facebook. I have had to block some mainly teenagers' posts (friends of my kids, mostly in case anyone was wondering)off my news feed as it actually causes me severe physical pain to have to read some of their semi-illiterate ramblings. I found myself irresistibly commenting on their status updates only in order to correct their punctuation.

It's funny that you say "irresistibly". I also find that I can't resist correcting people on facebook (whether it's spelling, grammar, or inaccurate statements). I can't help it. It's strange. There are certain things that don't bother me when I see on the forum (such as people writing "would of" instead of "would have"), but if I see them on facebook, I feel inexplicably compelled to comment. (I think it may be because when I'm on a forum, it feels like I'm in a public space, whereas when I'm on facebook looking at my news feed, it feels like I'm in my own private space.)