My guess is that the 5 modifies showrooms, not floors. There are 5 showrooms. And they are on floors! Which is comforting because I find showrooms floating around in the air to be unsettling.
Showroom floors implies there are other floors that are not showroom. The whole place is very likely a multi-dimensional time cube, where you come out with a new sofa but discover it's 1748.
From You-know-where, about roadworks: "There could be a number of potential disruptions you should try and avoid this weekend". Sorry, that's tautology.
From the same outlet (about George Foreman): "Former world heavyweight champion dies as statement issued". Couldn't they have waited until after he was dead to issue their statement? Or couldn't the subeditors have put "... champion dies: statement issued"?
Well, quite. The incorrect use of *as* is becoming distinctly annoying. I tend to avoid our local online news, in order to keep my blood pressure down, and to restrict the use of Norty Wurds.
From You-know-where, about roadworks: "There could be a number of potential disruptions you should try and avoid this weekend". Sorry, that's tautology.
Hmm, I read it as "You should both try the potential disruptions and avoid them." That could make for an interesting outing! I guess you couldn't do both things at the same time...
Yes. The tautology I saw was the use of "could" together with "potential" - so "there could be a number of disruptions" or "there are [a number of] potential disruptions" - but not both!
Fr om "The Nation" (Wales): Official version of sinking of wartime submarine sponsored by Bridgend is false, claims diver. This seemed weird: how could a submarine have been sponsored by a town? But, in fact, it was true!
Not a headline, but a slip of the tongue on the BBC lunchtime news, saying that most of the Cardinals who will take part in the forthcoming conclave were appointed by Francis and "will be choosing his predecessor".
Remember how all the news bulletins, after the Duke of Edinburgh's death, really amounted to nothing much more than *Prince Philip Still Dead*?
Always the same. Queen is still dead as well. And in Daily Express Land, so is Princess Diana. I mean she's still dead in the real world too, but you know what I mean.
Remember how all the news bulletins, after the Duke of Edinburgh's death, really amounted to nothing much more than *Prince Philip Still Dead*?
Always the same. Queen is still dead as well. And in Daily Express Land, so is Princess Diana. I mean she's still dead in the real world too, but you know what I mean.
I must be slow, but it took me a few moments to decode this from the Glasgow Herald today: Glasgow homeless hotel owners get massive jump in cash from council.
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Hmm, I read it as "You should both try the potential disruptions and avoid them." That could make for an interesting outing! I guess you couldn't do both things at the same time...
Aargh (on at least two counts, one being the litter which is indeed awful).
(What does the rubbish say, though? *Bog off back to England*?)
A prolific drug dealer has been jailed after he tried to run away from police and flush cocaine he was pedalling down the loo.
My italics.
He should have tried the washing machine, with a different cycle.
Boom boom!
Took me a moment to realize the rats hadn’t been killed by the trash… (and my sympathies with any Birmingham shipmates having to deal with this…)
Nor the official version of the event?
(linked to pic, as the headline page changes, and the article link doesn't share the same headline)
ETA: Well done on taking a pic!
I've been bitten by that before - they do sometimes notice (in fact they did this time) and change it, leaving me looking very silly.
I read this several times, trying to make sense of it, before I realised it should have been "kicks off".
Shame on you, Indy! 😳
I don't even want to think about what the Oxford Mail might have made of that.
I know what they mean, but one could have some fun (?) with any number of possible answers...
Always the same. Queen is still dead as well. And in Daily Express Land, so is Princess Diana. I mean she's still dead in the real world too, but you know what I mean.
Quite.
I ate the best BBQ food you'll find in a gazebo outside Wales' best pub, and it was frankly ridiculous.
So how many gazebos serving food outside Wales' best pub are there?
Quite right, dogs don't need blankets in the summer.
Well, really!
A power outage affecting two whole countries must be unique, surely?
On a conducted tour?
I'm resisting commenting.
Perhaps that should have been currentlessly.
(Not that we have fuses these days).
Beats the wrong kind of snow any day! We're not told if said snake survived; we are told that this has actually happened before!