Sunday 17 November 2019

When You Get It Wrong, And Yet So Very, Very Right...


Hmmm....


Wait!

He succeeded!

5 comments:

microdave said...

Ah, but petrol evaporates easily, so it probably would have diffused quite a bit....

MTG1 said...

Intentional v negligent. The former being the prerogative of a senior reporter.

Smoking Scot said...

If he's referring to this creature, his intent was outright harm.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7662027/Man-soaked-eight-terrified-police-officers-PETROL-high-speed-car-chase-jailed.html

Ted Treen said...

I lost count of the number of times I corrected this very thing prior to retirement. It seems that virtually everyone under the age of 35 deems both grammar and punctuation to be unnecessary complications.

I pointed out many times; "It's the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit".

JuliaM said...

"If he's referring to this creature, his intent was outright harm."

Oh, yes. In the States, it'd be 'assault with a deadly weapon'. And the perp would be facedown with several bullets in him.

" It seems that virtually everyone under the age of 35 deems both grammar and punctuation to be unnecessary complications."

Yup! Seen this?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/01/laziness-has-won-apostrophe-society-admits-its-defeat