The week that was in Thailand news: Rooster in hospital - and the conversations are deadly serious!

[Jane Dough]

1 hour ago, Tony125 said:

Next time you go to the Dr's or go out and about , Tesco  ( at least ChangWatena BKK) sells hazmat suits there along with masks and wrap around glasses

I think this is an advert to stay in.

 

Rooster

[rumak]

5 hours ago, Jane Dough said:

You make an excellent point. Now to figure out what it is.

 

Rooster

I have had many one liners funnier than that .   But you did give a couple of my  friends here

a chance to laugh.    A person of your high standing would not need to figure out if I had a

point or not.  Thanks for pointing that out to me.   

Edited April 26, 2020 by rumak

[rumak]

5 hours ago, Jane Dough said:

What to Know

Merriam-Webster treats the phrases couldn't care less and could care less as synonymous, both meaning "not concerned or interested at all." "Couldn't care less" is the older and more obvious phrase grammatically, but it has been confused for so long that both are now defined. Additionally, the example sentence "it's impossible that could care less" is the same as the intended meaning.

Rooster

 

Thank you for answering what I already did in post #25 .   

But, no worries.   I never pay any attention to what that guy Rumak writes either.  

[bluesofa]

11 hours ago, overt2016 said:

The lead in 'Rooster in hospital ' struck me. I was hoping to hear about at least a lobotomy

or an enema.

Which reminds me:

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

With friends like you, who needs enemas.

[mikebell]

19 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Congratulations on your click-bait, it worked a treat. After wondering if you had remembered me in your will, I was eager to discover what the complaint might be:

Piles (of haemorrhoids)

Writer's cramp (by gripping something or other too tightly)

Brain aneurysm (being a spurs supporter I believe)

Drinking a pint of Dettol (after following Uncle Toupee's advice)

 

Cor, wot a swiz! It was none of them.

The click-bait worked for me.  I want Rooster's job when he finally bows out - I mean retiring.  I promise to bring my Man Utd slant to my columns.

[RocketDog]

14 hours ago, Jane Dough said:

What to Know

Merriam-Webster treats the phrases couldn't care less and could care less as synonymous, both meaning "not concerned or interested at all." "Couldn't care less" is the older and more obvious phrase grammatically, but it has been confused for so long that both are now defined. Additionally, the example sentence "it's impossible that could care less" is the same as the intended meaning.

Rooster

 

And this is exactly how languages become so corrupted by illiterates as to be indecipherable and easily misunderstood. What utility a language that cannot be decoded with any certainty ?

 

Maybe we should all just start grunting and whistling. 

 

So what do you say when you actually could care less? 

I suggest "guff ddsdtjjd". 

Sound good? 

[Jane Dough]

1 hour ago, RocketDog said:

And this is exactly how languages become so corrupted by illiterates as to be indecipherable and easily misunderstood. What utility a language that cannot be decoded with any certainty ?

 

Maybe we should all just start grunting and whistling. 

 

So what do you say when you actually could care less? 

I suggest "guff ddsdtjjd". 

Sound good? 

My favorite in the Scrabble dictionary is BACTERIAS.

 

Too much Covid, methinks.

 

Rooster

[RocketDog]

4 hours ago, Jane Dough said:

My favorite in the Scrabble dictionary is BACTERIAS.

 

Too much Covid, methinks.

 

Rooster

Ravel and unravel, flammable and inflammable. 

 

I just wonder how the dictionaries decide when a word is no longer misspelled or a phrase misused. Is it simply a matter of how many illiterate people there are that use them? 

If enough people are wrong then they become right? 

If true then it won't be the meek who has inherit the earth but the ignorant.