miserableoldgit

Toe

Today I am mostly in a Christmas mood listening to "James Taylor at Christmas" (the best Christmas album IMHO), followed by "Kate Rusby - Sweet Bells" and "Gretchen Peters - Northern Lights", whilst decorating the tree.

Ma Baker

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/celticconnections/2010/artists/inge_thomson/

Old Thumper

Brickwoods

Are you suggesting that there is, therefore, no need to be able to spell, or use the correct words in the correct circumstances. Is it acceptable that many people nowadays do not know the difference between for example, "your" and "you're" or "their", "they're" and "there?" I fully accept that our language is always changing, but there has always been, at least a basic knowledge of the current rules of spelling and grammar which seems to be disappearing at a great rate.

Like everyone else I use some modernisms, americanisms and shorthand (and the odd typo) etc., but I do try, generally, to stick to the rules that were taught when I was at school. The basic problem is, as I see it, that if we are not careful we will end up with a language that has no rules - a language where, as long as it is understood, everything is "do as you please".

noun any of the military expeditions which Christians undertook from the 11th to the end of the 13th cent. to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims a vigorous, concerted action for some cause or idea, or against some abuse

Sadly, IMHO, texting and the internet have made us very lazy when it comes to grammar and the proper used of our language. The basic premise seems to be "as long as I am understood, the rules don`t matter". Maybe this is right, but if it is the way that things are going, I find it very sad. As you have shown, it really doesn`t take much effort to find out the correct way of doing things.

Generally "affect" means to influence someone/something whilst "effect" is the result of something.

I loved Airplane but one that made me laugh the most, which I saw when it was first released was Blazing Saddles.

But this is the beauty of music isn`t it? What is beauty to one person is bland to another. I always say that there is no such thing as bad music. It`s just that some is a lot better than others. What is best is purely down to the individual.

At last! Someone talking sense!

Quite clearly homophobic and has no place in football.

O.K. "No No`s" for what reason? Is for example, the "Does your boyfriend know your here?" a no no because it is "homophobic" or offensive, boring, embarrassing or just not funny? And in whose opinion? Should the song about "shooting the Poopey scum" be dropped for these reasons? Any humour (including terrace humour) is subjective - one mans Michael McIntire is another mans Bernard Manning - but this is just football chanting, which is "banter" between opposing fans and/or the referee, that we are talking about.

I thought that this thread was about banter - meaningless, throwaway, bit of fun football chants, I didn`t realise that it was a thesis on the "gay" demographics of our country.

Mahatma

Beth Ditto

Frugal

War

Whitby

Graham Norton and Julian Clary.

Endeavour

You`re not by any chance related to Ottery are you??