ARmy Rumour SErvice

**Brotherton Lad** · 09-05-2012, 18:17

Tell it to the Beeb:

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | When to use 'fewer' rather than 'less'?

Mind you, it was good enough for King Alfred:

Swa mid læs worda swa mid ma, swæðer we hit yereccan mayon

Bet he didn't say that at the check-out queue in Tesco's.

**Fox-and-horses** · 09-05-2012, 18:18

Originally Posted by ordinaryforces

I blame it on this modern day approach of talking to the little sweeties as small adults, they're fucking kids!! treat them as such with plenty of screaming and shouting at them,keeps them on their guard, and give them the odd chinese burn now and again, and don't get me started on modern man who walks obediantly behind his wife with a kid strapped to his chest like a fucking wallaby, they should be in the pub! shopping is womens work.

But, when it comes to buying technical items such as cars and stuff, shopping for those items is mans work.

**vvaannmmaann** · 09-05-2012, 18:21

Thankfully someone is keeping the children safe from you people.

**Screw_The_Nut** · 09-05-2012, 18:40

Solution? The Final Solution, of course! Abortion is the way foward, we aren't a third world nation ffs, we don't need kids!

**fltpilot** · 09-05-2012, 18:46

Originally Posted by evil belly

i think mums are long on threat and short on punishment

My mate's wife is a BIG women!
And their kids never play her up.
She could sit on you & you would be lost for weeks!!

**Flaggie** · 09-05-2012, 19:04

Two important rules:

1. Distance between edge of trolley and edge of shelf to be greater than length of brat's arm.
2. Either say "yes" or "no," but NEVER "No. No. No. No. Oh all right then, just this once." Otherwise thou art buggered.

**Cutaway** · 09-05-2012, 19:09

Originally Posted by Fox-and-horses

Who or what decrees that it is not correct? It may depend on whether you are a scientific, technical and mathematical sort of person, or, on the other hand, if you ar an English Grammar nerd.

Ah Michael, so good of you to join us. How are things in the Special Forces these days ?
Not keeping you too busy to help out the Coastguard are they ?

But no, the rules of grammar don't change to suit "whether you are a scientific, technical and mathematical sort of person."

**Fox-and-horses** · 09-05-2012, 19:17

Originally Posted by Cutaway

Ah Michael, so good of you to join us. How are things in the Special Forces these days ?
Not keeping you too busy to help out the Coastguard are they ?

But no, the rules of grammar don't change to suit "whether you are a scientific, technical and mathematical sort of person."

Are you confusing me with someone else? I do not claim to be in SF.