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At the risk of enraging present company ??

(101 Posts)
MawBroon Wed 14-Jun-17 22:14:19

I am reposting this as the best thing I have seen in connection with politics in a LONG TIME.
In case you have missed out on the Great Get Together thread, I am, heart in mouth, reposting in a second place (ooh missus!! grin )
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3771810/have-some-fun-at-politicians-expense-with-jo-cox-foundations-mash-up-video-for-the-great-get-together/

MawBroon Thu 15-Jun-17 13:25:01

Surely not Elegran? I can't imagine ANYBODY doing what you suggest. wink

Chewbacca Thu 15-Jun-17 13:28:46

Brilliantly explained Elegran ! Very much reminiscent of The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams! grin

Rigby46 Thu 15-Jun-17 13:54:27

Chew duly noted, if you say so, whatever <yawn>

Rigby46 Thu 15-Jun-17 13:56:12

Chew for the avoidance of doubt, it was one post, the second one. Let's not exaggerate shall we?

Bellanonna Thu 15-Jun-17 14:06:23

Thank you, Elegran

LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Thu 15-Jun-17 14:35:47

Hello, realise we may be shutting the gate once the horse has bolted but just to say that typos are aloud <ahem> on Gransnet. We all make them, especially thanks to predictive text/small screens/fat fingers (mine, not accusing anyone of having fat fingers!) Let's give people the benefit of the doubt in any case. smile

Chewbacca Thu 15-Jun-17 14:47:38

Thank you Lara, much appreciated.

Rigby46 Thu 15-Jun-17 14:53:13

Well Lara the same one twice? Well of curse if you say so - you're the boss but in this instance I think you're wrong

MawBroon Thu 15-Jun-17 14:59:10

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWS2NVX6VP0

To quote those immortal lines

"Well, nobody's perfect!"

Welshwife Thu 15-Jun-17 15:41:47

I find that my iPad tries to correct the same 'mistake' of mine in the same way every time - so yes - it could well happen that the phone or whatever thought that an
E should be added - I find I need to be very alert not to post or send things with what appear to be typos but which are in reality the iPad thinking it knows better than me!!! My DGS finds it hilarious as at times he has to send the message back to me as he cannot understand it - and when I read it back I often can't either and I 'wrote' it!!!

Welshwife Thu 15-Jun-17 15:43:04

I didn't put that new paragraph in ( well intentionally anyway!) - another correction thanks to mr Apple!

Elegran Thu 15-Jun-17 16:04:07

You don't need to apologise for your curse, Rigby, though I know you are dying to - Lara says that typos are aloud.

Rigby46 Thu 15-Jun-17 16:07:43

The 'curse' was a joke - didn't you get that?

Elegran Thu 15-Jun-17 16:09:37

Didn't realise you did jokes.

Rigby46 Thu 15-Jun-17 16:16:19

<yawn->

rosesarered Thu 15-Jun-17 16:17:28

That must be your first joke Rugby grin

Elegran Thu 15-Jun-17 16:26:25

Rigby posted another joke on the London fire thread, to say she was not apologising for her typo on there because Lara had said they were aloud. I did think that she might have recognised my post as another joke based on that one, but I should not have presumed so. Perhaps that one was unintentional.

gillybob Thu 15-Jun-17 16:29:14

I think maybe you should have a lie down Rigby you seem to be doing a lot of yawning today.

gillybob Thu 15-Jun-17 16:34:10

Just reminded me of a post from donkeys ago...

When in answer to some load of cr*p or other I had posted.... thatbags or baggs (or whatever she calls herself these days) wink said something on the lines of.... "don't be silly Billygob" grin

of course being the most gracious soul I am, I chose to believe it was a pure innocent slip of the keyboard. grin

petra Thu 15-Jun-17 16:39:39

Rigby46
When in a hole, stop digging.

Baggs Thu 15-Jun-17 18:27:44

Comment 1: Good grief!

Comment 2: I like 'feroomery', elegran. Let's initiate its spread by using it when a po plate appropriate on GN.

The po joke is just for me. My DDs appreciate it and some other family members.

Comment 3: There's a ? outside.

Baggs Thu 15-Jun-17 18:28:27

gillybob, I'd forgotten that grin grin

Baggs Thu 15-Jun-17 18:31:07

I still don't remember doing it. Did I really miss out a comma after silly? Shocking.

Ahoy! Lara, what are the missing punctillious punctuation rules?

Baggs Thu 15-Jun-17 18:32:27

OMG!! Wrong spelling too! ?

Baggs Thu 15-Jun-17 18:42:16

I love that the video wasn't even made by the Sun newspaper, maw. Icing, cake, and ridiculous assumptions come to mind wink. Always nice to know one's gut reaction was in keeping with the spirit of the thing, and not off the mark at all in spite of all the slagging off [smug face emoji].