With the amount of time you spend posting on here instead of working, that will soon become a couple of months.
I know. When they say "decimate" my immediate thought is "That's only a 10% reduction, which doesn't sound too bad really"
This is why latin should still be taught in schools. Not only would more people understand what so many English language words mean, they might be able to spell them too.
I think the bigger issue is that people need to learn to drive, not to pass a test. When I passed my driving test the first thing that my colleague who was with me said was “Now the learning really starts”. Wasn’t sure what he meant at the time but I do now.
You might be, but people who are driving towards you in the opposite lane are probably less enthusiastic
And people driving in front. I've had cars behind me with matrix headlights which seem to continully self-adjust and hunt for the optimum beam direction. When they lose contact with your tailights it's like the driver behind is constantly flashing you. It's dark.You technology can't make it daylight. Just drive slower.
I find that another supernova equipped car coming towards me does not have the same blinding effect since I have one too. I'm unsure if there is a scientific reason for it. I guess when halogen bulbs first became a thing everyone with the old candles felt the same. Soon we'll all have the capability to light up the moon so it'll all be good. Unless you're a dear, or a rabbit or an owl.
They've only recently started teaching grammar again since it was largely abandoned with the demise of the 11 plus exam. A few years ago I came across and old English Grammar 11 plus course book of my Dad's when he was at grammar school in the 1940's. I doubt many adults, never mind ten year old children, would get past page 1 today.
I was the recipient of a grammar school education which I didn’t appreciate at the time, but have since. My dad didn’t have the greatest education and most of what he achieved was through hard work and night school. He once told that he didn’t care if I chose to be a bin man, so long as it was my choice and not his failure to get me a decent school. When he and mum couldn’t get that for my sister they made sacrifices and paid. I’m sure my standards aren’t quite what they were, but I do know the difference between your and you’re, and there, their and they’re. Which brings me to another annoyance. Keyboard warriors who will try and lecture you about how superior they are who demonstrate their complete and utter lack of basic English in the process. If someone is trying to help and makes that sort of error I’ll happily ignore it because it seems rude to pick them up, but the usual 2 rule merchants who do this really boil my piss. One forum that I used to frequent had one of these morons. He wrecked the enjoyment for a number of people who left before he was eventually banned.
I think that a lot of younger people now see it as cool to be different, in this sort of way. Trouble is they are not now different, every kid in school has a nut allergy!
I reckon there are now more people who claim to be neurodivergent than there are neurotypical. A couple of years ago I dated a woman who had an ADHD diagnosis, as did both of her kids, one of whom was also supposedly autistic and both of them were also trans (they weren't - they were just tomboys). What are the odds of lightning striking 6 times like that? It really annoys me because I have a kid, now adult who is genuinely autistic (well, what they used to call Aspergers, a label which I still prefer) and he has had a very very difficult life as a result of it because despite being top 10% for reasoning, verbal vocab and analytical skills, it massively affected his ability to process symbols, meaning he didn't learn to read or recognise numbers properly until his teens, his writing is still very childlike and he had very bad ADHD-like behavioural issues. Imagine being a top 10% intellect, absolutely ravenous for knowledge, yet you can't even read a book meant for pre-schoolers and all your classmates are miles ahead of you. Hence, I want to punch all these attention-seeking fakers and Oppression Olympics medal collectors in the throat as it's no fucking joke. And, breath(e)
