Has anybody else noticed?
Bob Dubery
Implants?
Bob Dubery
> Darren Scott has got a pair of beauties.
>
> Implants?
Ouch! I have just been informed (by somebody who knows) that Darren
Scott is actually seriously unwell at the moment and that his
appearance is attributable to this sickness.
I wish to withdraw my comments and apologise for any offence that I
have caused.
Peter H.M.Brooks
popular name for children in the '80s.
Ferdi
wrote:
Darren Scott is one of the better guys on TV. He is always witty and
informed. I actually like watching his shows.
Peter H.M.Brooks
Bob Dubery
Works on DSTV - usually as an anchor on sports shows.
Immortalised in Naas Botha's trademark "...but on the uvver hand,
Darren..."
Ferdi
<pe...@news.co.za> wrote:
<<>Ah, a plebvision person.>>
No. He is the master of ceremonies for a regular panel discussion on
rugby that is televised by a company called DSTV.
Rugby is a sport. It is a game played by adult men on a square field
with a ball.
They even have a world championship, which is taking place at the
moment in Paris, which is the capitol of the country called France.
The French also had a team taking part in the championship.
Peter H.M. Brooks
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:47:29 +0200, "Peter H.M.Brooks"
>
> <pe...@news.co.za> wrote:
>
> <<>Ah, a plebvision person.>>
>
> No. He is the master of ceremonies for a regular panel discussion on
> rugby that is televised by a company called DSTV.
>
>
> Rugby is a sport. It is a game played by adult men on a square field
> with a ball.
>
The field isn't square, by the way, it's rectangular. You might have
mentioned that the ball is oviod to avoid confusion with soccer.
>
> They even have a world championship, which is taking place at the
> moment in Paris, which is the capitol of the country called France.
> The French also had a team taking part in the championship.
>
not the capitol.
You've managed quite a few mistakes in a very short paragraph - you're
not a journalist perchance?
Moira de Swardt
"Ferdi" <NoS...@atall.co.za> wrote in message
> <<>Ah, a plebvision person.>>
I've heard something about this.
Ferdi
<Peter.H....@gmail.com> wrote:
<<You've managed quite a few mistakes in a very short paragraph -
you're
>not a journalist perchance?>>
Yadda yadda. I don't spell check post when I answer the sort of crap
you posted.
Peter H.M.Brooks
rectangular one a spelling error??
You call not knowing the difference between a capitol and a capital a
spelling error?? You might reflect on the distance between the 'o' and
the 'a' on your keyboard and think how likely anybody is to believe you.
So, you must be journalist - you even blame your errors of ignorance on
your spelling checker!!
And you have the gall to say somebody else posts 'crap'...
See if you can find a mirror somewhere.
Bob Dubery
> Ferdi wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:33:24 -0000, "Peter H.M. Brooks"
> > <Peter.H.M.Bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > <<You've managed quite a few mistakes in a very short paragraph -
> > you're
> >> not a journalist perchance?>>
>
> > Yadda yadda. I don't spell check post when I answer the sort of crap
> > you posted.
>
> You call not knowing the difference between a square field and a
> rectangular one a spelling error??
>
> You call not knowing the difference between a capitol and a capital a
> spelling error?? You might reflect on the distance between the 'o' and
> the 'a' on your keyboard and think how likely anybody is to believe you.
It seems to me that those are the kind of mistakes that might be made
by somebody who does not have English as a first language - and I
believe that Feri is such a person.
Besides, do spelling or grammatical blapses invalidate an argument?
Peter H.M.Brooks
Ferdi seemed to think that the chap in question wasn't a plebvision
person, he provided no evidence for this, but, since I didn't know the
person and Ferdi thought that I ought to, he attempted to suggest that I
knew nothing about rugby either. In the process he showed that he didn't
know that rugby was played on a rectangular field - it is often a
mistake to try to suggest other people are more ignorant than they in
fact are and backfires with amusing regularity.
He also revealed that he didn't know that a Capitol is a building,
occupied by a government, that originates from the Capitoline Hill in
Ancient Rome which had that function. This would be a failing in
somebody who had any interest in politics, history or journalism - not a
problem as a result of English being a second language. It was a
delightful error in the circumstances, a very apt ignorance for him to
reveal.
What was, of course, much funnier than any of that was his attempt to
deny his revealed ignorance and blame his spelling checker for his
ignorance. It revealed much more about him than his original objection
to somebody being, in his view, falsely thought of as a plebvision
person, or his ignorance of things any journalist ought to know.
There's a lot to be said for giving an immediate apology when you're
caught out. It's something a good many politicians could learn to their
advantage - but it isn't something that comes easy to psychopaths. Not
that I'm suggesting that every politician is a psychopath, or indeed
that our dear Ferdi is one, of course...
Bob Dubery
> Ah, a plebvision person.-
Is all television "plebvision" to you?
Ferdi
wrote:
<<>Besides, do spelling or grammatical blapses invalidate an
argument?>>
In his world it does. Probably becaue he is such a shallow thinker
(look - no full stop)
Peter H.M. Brooks
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:42:18 -0000, Bob Dubery <megap...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> <<>Besides, do spelling or grammatical blapses invalidate an
> argument?>>
>
> In his world it does. Probably becaue he is such a shallow thinker
>
believe you have an idea of the depth of my thought, then you'll have
read that I've pointed out that you didn't have an argument in the
first place to be invalidated.
Also, they weren't spelling nor grammatical lapses. They were genuine
errors of understanding.