Quote Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill View Post
That’s not the way nowadays Brin, the twitter sphere can’t function on self blame.

Anyway, one for the pedants:-

“a 16-year-old footballer that occurred while they were a 15-year-old”

Or should that be

“a 16-year-old footballer that occurred when they were a 15-year-old?”

When instead of while
Come on Grist, don't try to kid on that your wife has never discussed the past simple/past continuous differentiation