J R-M - pernickity pedant?

A state pension? But surely one has other assets and offshore investments one can call on to top that up? Really, it's simply a case of reviewing one's outgoings and cutting back a little on staff and wine.

SirChenjin

SirChenjin Does that mean Nanny will have to go?

Heaven's no - who will look after the children if Nanny goes?

Mrs Rees-Mogg has been informed of the cutbacks and she's packing her own bags as I type.

The problem with going imperial is that we have a generation of youngsters who have only been taught the metric system, particularly in maths and science. My lot have no idea what a foot or an inch is.

Stupid man.

Well JRM famously quoted that he had never changed a nappy in his life so with nanny gone the poor little Mogs will have sore bum bums.

Well I have worked in Engineering for almost 30 years and in his defence (yikes!) I still get DH to translate everything back into imperial. One of my infamous quotes was (in front of the lads) " Mr Gillybob, show me 150 milli's in inches" . There was a stunned silence and then everyone bust out laughing leaving DH very

The children are a little old for nappies, I am sure his wife is
capable of seeing to the needs of the two year old

I thought there was a relatively new Mogg Annie? (number 6).

Anyway with a £150 million fortune, several properties and shares in hedge fund companies I can't see him having to get rid of nanny just yet.

He's two (just)

He will never get rid of the nanny,

Isn't Sixtus, paradoxically number 7?

I suppose its quite easy having 6 children if you have a nanny to do all the dirty work (and probably much of the clean too).

Sir C

" If you’re confusing Catholicism with pedantry then that’s very much your problem POGS."
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Only a fool would not see my point was about the posts and comments that have not been about JRM and pedantry.!

Had pedentary been solely disgussed on the thread I would not have bothered posting as it is a boring subject.

You haven't kept your posts to disgussing pedentary so you have become one of those do as I say not do as I do posters.

rather pathetic to mock his home life, his faith, why? He wants out of Europe, so does Frank Field.

Both campaigned to leave unlike the leader of the Labour Party who dodged it and went on holiday, and still hasn’t said if he supports leave or remain.

it is not about 'mocking' his home life- or his faith. But his home life and his whole life, show quite clearly what it is like for many people in the UK now. And if he kept his faith in his private life, that would be fine. But it is clear that it does strongly influence his decisions, in a way that affects huge number of people.

So an atheist MP would be much more acceptable to you
jura

Why not campaign for ‘burning at the stake ‘

jura2 you have have a very narrow idea of what a religious faith is. The catholic church over a century has developed a position on social justice through encyclicals and other documents that is in keeping with much of what the Labour party stands for.

I find it very difficult to reconcile JRM's political beliefs with the teachings on social justice supported by the catholic church.

While we’re throwing insults - only a fool would refer to disgussing on a thread about pedantry

Or some who is dyslexic?

We don't know whether or not someone has dyslexia unless they tell us and they don't have to do that.

Absolutely - but I doubt that’s the case.

Interesting article in the Guardian- Must be the Nanny effect:

'It’s interesting to ponder why Rees-Mogg feels the sting of these “mistakes” so keenly. In fact, some work has been done on the personality traits of people who get irritated by what they perceive to be grammatical errors. They score highly on measures of conscientiousness. What does that mean? As one researcher puts it: “A high score on conscientious implies strong industriousness, impulse control, dutifulness, sense of organisation, adherence to norms and rules and a preference for order and dependability.” Although that doesn’t predict a highly conservative outlook, it’s certainly compatible with it. It also squares with the so-called authoritarian personality type that was most likely to vote Brexit and features “a strong desire for order, obedience, conformity”.

So Rees-Mogg’s hidebound rules are exactly what you’d expect from a man on the rightmost reaches of a rightwing party. The only question is whether his love of order is compatible with the no-deal Brexit he’s pushing. Hopefully, we won’t have to find out.'

Full article here:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/29/jacob-rees-mogg-language-rules?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0whcr0OJO8ZLFxjMuZ3Op2AAq8sED2I1wibjO4nHFQJlig-7fhPwqPbBg#Echobox=1564400691

Would the same criteria have applied to my teachers in my Scottish High School?
I don’t think so. We were taught grammar punctuation,, idiomatic usage, good writing style and that accuracy matters. Tout court.

I expect POGS was using a phone and busy at the time,
I know I often post mistakes that way ( sometimes eating a sarnie, and watching tv as well.)