Whitey Grandad

I've just been along the beach at Hamble for my constitutional walk. I was struggling along the gravel into the teeth of a gale when some runner came jogging past me.

Thanks for that , it's the first time I've smiled since last night

Ask not for whom the thread trolls, it trolls for thee.

There's no such thing as wrong and right as far as grammar is concerned.

You may be right, we scored more but don't forget that we also conceded more.

Nobody should be banned just for having an opinion. It goes completely against free expression. It's a good thing we're all different.

He's not good enough.

I can't add much more to these.

I wouldn't beat yourself up about it. I don't think the possessive apostrophe is necessary in these cases.

Yes, this is from a Canadian website and there are many differences between North American and British English usage. They say 'different than' for example. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/who-or-whom

Out of interest, which answer was that?

Quite straightforward really. I don't agree with their use of who/whom. Modern English has superseded their archaic interpretation. I would use 'who' for subject and direct object (accusative) and 'whom' for indirect objects (dative). Edit: I had a suspicion that they were using the North American interpretation and I've just noticed that it's a Canadian website.

And the lumps of flint just under the surface! I've skinned my kneecaps a few times down there.

These measures change all the time but I was always told that IQ was a standard distribution with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 which is presumably why uncle Boris chose his levels of 85 and 130 being one sd below and two sd above the mean. This article states that the extremes of the distribution are not Gaussian: http://hiqnews.megafoundation.org/Definition_of_IQ'.html I also stumbled upon this article which I found interesting: http://www.isreview.org/issues/57/gasper-genes.shtml

Was he fit?

Just because somebody says that it's an IQ test doesn't mean that you have to believe them. Trust me, never take anything at face value

Quite so. Such tests are deeply racist and militate against those members of the ethnic minorities in the warmer parts of the world who don't live in houses and have no need of alarm clocks.

Au contraire, such feeble attempts at trickery are doomed to fail when confronted by anyone with a spark of nous or an element of imagination. Indeed, it is those with low IQ who will 'spot' the traps and proceed to fall into them.

How can they be full of crap? I always thought that bears did their number twos in the woods.

Now you're just being obtuse. Anyone knows that clocks don't have hair Maybe he didn't like the way it was looking at him?

Good point. Anyone with a bit of intelligence can see through the question. Anyway, why should the times of going to bed and setting the alarm have any bearing on how much sleep you get?

So? Why does this assume a 12-hour clock? If he says that he set it for 9 in the morning then you are entitled to assume that it cannot be a 12-hour one.

Exactly, my ursine friend. The questioner said Finally, the mayor was asked: “I went to bed at 8 in the evening last night and I wound up my clock and set my alarm to sound for 9 o'clock in the morning. How many hours sleep did I get?” There is no way on knowing whether he stayed awake all night watching cricket anyway, but the did say "set my alarm to sound for 9 o'clock in the morning". If that is true then it would not go off at 9 in the evening and even if it did anybody with or without any sense would reset the alarm and go back to sleep. This is a feeble attempt at trying to be clever and it fails.

It certainly had that look about it. He seemed to be taken by surprise.

All stuff and nonsense. There are no square houses at the North Pole, anybody with any intelligence would know that, and the apple question is a load of ********. It all depends on the use of the verb 'take'. Is it 'take away', 'take home', 'take out of the bowl'? again, anyone with any intelligence would have considered a myriad of alternatives and concluded that the answer could be anything you liked.