Posters your sick of!

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Anonymous wrote:Sick of people who don't know the difference between less and few.

Sick of the "Nursing Nazi" poster.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with nursing your child until he's seven!

Also people who think they're engaging in a clever rhetorical device by mischaracterizing.

Of course I meant that I am sick of people using "Nazi" as a witty insult. Feel free to go ahead and be sick of posters like me who take the words people use seriously.

Oh, thanks for clarifying. Sure, I'll feel free to make fun of you! Because you're ridiculous.

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What is contracting?

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Anonymous wrote:People who don't realize that they're posting to a two year old thread that has been revived by a spammer.

Just wondering, why would a spammer do this?

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The poster or posters who keep posting people's houses for sale. Strange and overdone.

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Anonymous wrote:The crazy anti-vax conspiracy theory woman.

Woooohoooo!!!! I made #1. When do I get my award?

Oh no you didn't, go back and read post #1. *I'm* #1. Hand that prize over woman!

-Dad of Twins

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the zillion posts about sidwell and st. albans...ridiculous

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Anonymous wrote:PS. There HAVE BEEN tons of threads....(although that's a dubious grammatical construct at best)

not "there's been". ugh.

I'm 18:04; we you correcting me? I said 'there's been a ton of threads,' and I think that's grammatically correct.

'There has been tons' is incorrect. 'There have been tons' is correct.

But i said, "there's been a ton" -- isn't that correct?

NO, it's not, because if you "uncontract" the contraction "there's" it is "there is." And "there is been a ton" is not correct, as you, me, and everyone else can recognize.

Isn't the contraction "there has," not "there is?" Now I am really starting to second-guess my grammatical smarts!

Yes, you are correct. No, PP is incorrect.

Also, "misguided Grammar Nazis."

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, let's settle this contraction thing:

The original 18:04 post was, People who write, "OP, there's been a ton of threads on this..."

Un-contracted, the phrase quoted by this poster would read "OP, there has been a ton of threads on this..." -- and this is correct grammatically. There's = there has. And 'ton' is singular here.

I disagree. I read it as "posts" being modified, not "a ton". In my mind, I replace the colloquial "a ton" with the standard "many". "There HAVE been [many] posts on this topic." Though I can see how grammatically correct people could come to a different conclusion.

"a ton of threads" is singular. This isn't even debatable. Please stop. You're embarrassing yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Posters who think it's completely acceptable to make fun of/demean/insult Christianity. And posters who type "um" at the beginning of their posts. And the poster who lives in Arlington yet who posts long diatribes about how crappy the city of Alexandria schools are. And the Holton mom w/Ivy league recruited athlete daughter. The anti-vaccine posters. O.K., I suppose I secretly enjoy the feeling of superiority I get when I read any of these posts!

Posters who think that, of any given belief or opinion, one about "whether there's a supernatural being who runs the universe" should be the only one that can never be subject to skepticism. I think pepperoni pizza's the best food there is. And don't you dare you make fun of/demean/insult me!!

Anyone else remember when "persecution" of Christians meant being torn apart by wild animals in the Colosseum?

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Anonymous wrote:PS. There HAVE BEEN tons of threads....(although that's a dubious grammatical construct at best)

not "there's been". ugh.

I'm 18:04; we you correcting me? I said 'there's been a ton of threads,' and I think that's grammatically correct.

'There has been tons' is incorrect. 'There have been tons' is correct.

But i said, "there's been a ton" -- isn't that correct?

NO, it's not, because if you "uncontract" the contraction "there's" it is "there is." And "there is been a ton" is not correct, as you, me, and everyone else can recognize.

Jesus Christ on a Broken Stick, you are WRONG lady.

Your comment is so beyond offensive, I can't believe there's any educated "tolerant" person on DCUM who would write such a thing.

HELP! I'M BEING OPPRESSED!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sick of people who don't know the difference between less and few.

Sick of the "Nursing Nazi" poster.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with nursing your child until he's seven!

Also people who think they're engaging in a clever rhetorical device by mischaracterizing.

Of course I meant that I am sick of people using "Nazi" as a witty insult. Feel free to go ahead and be sick of posters like me who take the words people use seriously.

Sick of people who take themselves extremely seriously on frivolous Off-Topic threads. It's just so very sad and disillusioning.

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Anonymous wrote:To the people arguing about has/have and "a ton": "a ton" is a plural, because it is a specific measurement greater than 1. Just as you would say, "There have been 10 posts on this" or "there have been 100 posts on this" or "there have been a million posts on this," you would also say "there have been a ton of posts on this." The only time you would use "has" would be if there had only been a single post on the subject: "there has only been one post."

So, yes, the poster was contracting "there has" to "there's" that that is correct. However, the correct phrase would have been "there have been"; therefore, the correct contraction would have been "there've."

* You're an idiot.

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The poster who calls people "dummy". It just rubs me as so trashy.

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People (it's mostly women) who post how much "we" make. You might be entitled to it in a divorce honey but you sure didn't earn it. I really dislike the woman who just by staying home and leveraging her connections, has increased her husband's earnings by a million or two. Barf barf barf.

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Sick of the monty python poster