Am I getting an irritable old git?

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Edited By V8Eng on 01/07/2018 23:42:20

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"Am I getting an irritable old git?"

No. You are getting to be an irritable old git.

To get an irritable old git you might have to go down to your local pub during the day. There are usually groups of them hanging about moaning about the state of the world. You could get several irritable old gits if you wanted to.

Edited By Hopper on 02/07/2018 01:56:24

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Andrew

It's closer to the truth than you might think.

UK readers may have seen recent press coverage about the spat at King's College in Cambridge, where, ironically, a left wing academic has accused the working class porters of racism and sexism for refusing to address her as doctor. The lady concerned is in the English department. It's not the first time King's has had problems with English academics. Back in the early 80s there was a rumpus when an English lecturer was refused tenure, ostensibly due to his stance on structuralism. As I understand it that postulates that the meaning of the words is irrelevant, but what is important is the order of the words in relation to each other, and to outside structures. And no, I don't understand it either. Google Colin Maccabe.

Andrew

Cowboy 1: Hey, partner! Go help your uncle jack off a horse!
Cowboy 2: How many times do I have to tell you, it's "help your Uncle Jack off a horse!
Cowboy 1: Oh, sorry for making that homosexual grammar error!

Years ago I had a manager who did not speak to us commoners. One morning a note was pinned to the workshop door -- " break light on forklift " So I sent one back " which light ?" He was not amused at all. I still enjoy the memory, sad is it not?

Yeah, but - as we all know in his case - sometimes being right's just not enough...

I was educated in Oxford by Victorians so I use an apostrophe to denote possesion. Robins' problem. Pretty bad eh? Split infinitives grate on me.

I spend an inordinate amount of time correcting peoples use of the caps key in their names and address before sending stuff out.

I think it is in my nature. Maybe it is an ape thing, like picking burrs out of the cats tail with my nimble monkey fingers.

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Plural?

Geoff - It's the heat 'you know' and hospital stay tomorrow.

Well spotted! It's ironic that Andrew started his thread with: Of late I am getting quite irritated about some of the (I suspect younger) members of the forum. Their atrocious English just makes me wince...', writing this immediately after making a Schoolboy Howler in the title. Doubly amusing that I didn't spot it either! This is how the gods punish hubris and the belief that the young are incompetent. (A belief common in the class of elderly gentleman, like me, who are not always completely certain what day it is.)

Talking of getting an Irritable Old Git, one of them is an essential workshop tool if you lack suitable skills yourself. Perhaps the trade should start selling them? Then we could discuss the superior quality of British Irritable Old Gits compared with Oriental Irritable Old Gits...

Apologies to Andrew for pulling his leg. He was well aware of the risk, mentioning at the outset 'Now my English isn't all that brilliant, so maybe I am not the one to talk'. Me too, we are all guilty!

Dave

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 02/07/2018 10:26:04

'Zactly. Hubris is what it is. If we can understand the post, we should just answer with as good grace as we can manage at the time.

Edited By Mick B1 on 02/07/2018 11:40:59

Agreed. Sometimes though I need to read a post two or three times to fully understand it.

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... but, I hope, not exclusively !

Even Oxford's Victorians would, I believe, have accepted that "Robin's a problem" is also grammatically correct.

MichaelG.

unless if they are dyslexia that iam at 65 years. And it sucks when you have to ask some one how to spell. And this guy has ot /www.pinterest.com/pin/61361613651553042/?lp=true

The two words that get to me when somebody is talking to a group is "you know". If I was a mind reader then I would probably now to what they were referring, but as I am not, I having a clue. The whole idea of somebody standing there and speaking is to impart knowledge to some of the assembled group and if we knew then the speaker need not be standing there speaking.

I recall my boss, many years ago, coming out with, "Because you know, you never know, you know"

Gentlemen,

I am highly delighted at the response to my miserable topic. I seem to have left myself wide open to ribald comments about my lack of grammar and maybe spelling. Well I don't care a fig! This is another facet of a miserable old git, they don't care who they offend.

Please feel free to use me as an Aunt Sally as long as the missiles are not too damaging!

Best wishes to all,

Andrew.

I'm really quite proud of England's old gits. Some of my best teachers in life have been curmudgeonly old sods with a real grudge against humanity. It's not the troll under the bridge these days, it's the git in the shed!