O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[MadAmster]

I'm surprised you can read( COMMA) given you (YOUR) lack of command of the English language and it[apostrophe]s an amalgam of news reports on the subject [comma] actually(FULL STOP) [Capital W]with some input from Private Eye and the Times! Whatever(COMMA) it[apostrophe]s generally[comma] factually correct!

Nice try TTR

[Trickytreesreds]

Nice try TTR

I never said I was perfect. I just don't criticise others with the English language, when your own response is littered with errors.
Schoolboy error to me.

QED

[Andy_Faber]

'it's not it's, it's its'. A genuine, unsarcastic teacher comment in the margin of one of my year 4 essays.

[swaledale]

Nice try TTR

Not really, a pathetic pedantic comment, which is generally made by people who have nothing of merit to say! I really must take more care when using my phone because after all as we know its not what you say, but ensuring that its grammatically correct.

Which is very funny because one of the most brilliant person I know who has a string of awards in his field, produces papers that require extensive editing because his grammar is appalling and he writes so fast.

But there you are, one can be a thick **** with perfect grammar or............

[Andy_Faber]

Someone, I think it was rA asked for evidence of non-compliance anywhere within the Covid issue from the BAME community. (Firstly I gotta say that my two family members, one with two Angolan parents, one with Indian and Jamaican, think the phrase BAME is part amusing, part an insult to their massively different origins and cultures but let’s move on). Today on Radio 4 there was a program ‘my name is’ which today focussed on part of the issue, specifically vaccine take-up in central Bradford. Interesting listening, and the most powerful anecdote, from a Pakistani heritage practise head, was that the practise cohort is 70% non-white yet almost all those arriving for vaccination were white. It then moved onto a young chap, with a science degree, who STILL couldn’t see himself taking the vaccine despite the overwhelming personal evidence of a number of his family having died from the virus. The programme thankfully looked beyond the usual ‘deprivation’ and is worth a listen

[MadAmster]

Am I the only one amused by thinking it should be pronounced "Barmy"?

[Geoff Parkstone]

How else is it pronounced then MA?

[MadAmster]

How else is it pronounced then MA?

It apparently rhymes with that 80s TV show "Fame" that, I just found out, is not based on agriculture.......

[Trickytreesreds]

Not really, a pathetic pedantic comment, which is generally made by people who have nothing of merit to say! I really must take more care when using my phone because after all as we know its not what you say, but ensuring that its grammatically correct.

Which is very funny because one of the most brilliant person I know who has a string of awards in his field, produces papers that require extensive editing because his grammar is appalling and he writes so fast.

But there you are, one can be a thick **** with perfect grammar or............

You see, I'm not really on ignore. He/she always finds a way to bring me into his rants,
Never going to argue with me again my arse.
Nicely evaded BTW from you showing contempt at someones grasp of the English language, yet struggles with your/you're,there/their,its/it's/its' whatever.
Pitiful

[ramAnag]

Someone, I think it was rA asked for evidence of non-compliance anywhere within the Covid issue from the BAME community. (Firstly I gotta say that my two family members, one with two Angolan parents, one with Indian and Jamaican, think the phrase BAME is part amusing, part an insult to their massively different origins and cultures but let’s move on). Today on Radio 4 there was a program ‘my name is’ which today focussed on part of the issue, specifically vaccine take-up in central Bradford. Interesting listening, and the most powerful anecdote, from a Pakistani heritage practise head, was that the practise cohort is 70% non-white yet almost all those arriving for vaccination were white. It then moved onto a young chap, with a science degree, who STILL couldn’t see himself taking the vaccine despite the overwhelming personal evidence of a number of his family having died from the virus. The programme thankfully looked beyond the usual ‘deprivation’ and is worth a listen

Wasn’t me. The only reference I’ve made to ‘compliance’ that I can think of was questioning the accuracy of Ram59’s suggestion that perhaps the UK figures were so high because we were less ‘compliant’ than other nations.
I still don’t know how you’d reach that conclusion, and pointed out that recent scenes from the US, along with MA’s accounts of behaviour in the NL, would suggest otherwise.

P.S. Perhaps we should all move on from grammatical nit picking. Much missed mista’s written English wasn’t up to much but he still spoke more sense than most.