Assume v. Presume

Trev said:
Is that for real?
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Yep, it's for real, photographed it myself last Friday. Bathurst Park, Lydney.

Obviously it means "no kicking a football around on the grassy areas in the vicinity of the cafe", but the irony is delicious.
 
Black Hole said:
Yep, it's for real, photographed it myself last Friday. Bathurst Park, Lydney.

Obviously it means "no kicking a football around on the grassy areas in the vicinity of the cafe", but the irony is delicious.
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It is a bit like the notice saying "Tip No Rubbish" that my grandfather used to go on about. He wanted to know what this "No Rubbish" stuff was that should be tipped here. :rolleyes:
 
Irony v Sarcasm

I was rather confused by a programme on R4 yesterday (The Ideas That Make Us, 9.30am 10/05/2016), where the concept of irony was being discussed right back to the Greeks, including an interview with John Humphreys. What confused me was that they were talking about irony in what I regard as the American sense of the word, which I would recognise as sarcasm. My understanding of the word has an excellent example in post 2081.
 
Attached for some years to the railings surrounding what was a pumping station for the Sutton & East Surrey Water Co:

"All signs attached to these railings will be removed and destroyed"
 
I think the article you are referring to has dropped off the page.

I went past a charity shop today, and the motto displayed in the window said "shop here if you believe in children". Are children like fairies then? Will they disappear from existence if I don't clap??!
 
There's a coffee shop that I walk past that has a sign in the window saying "Here at xxx we believe that community is a verb not a noun."
Erm, NO!
 
Hmmm.

I community
You community
He/she communities
We community
They community

I think they'll find "commune" is the verb, which is also a noun... Since when did socialist communists drink coffee? Bloody bourgeoisie!
 
Why do the presenters on Breakfast frequently say "Thank you very much indeed." when thanking a 'roving correspondent' for their report when a simple "Thank you." would do. It's not as if they have been spectacularly successful or anything like that to warrant such an outburst of enthusiastic thanks.
 
They need to fill the time. Analyse a weather report and see how many redundant words there are! "Good morning Louise and Charlie, and good morning to you at home as well"

This extends to articles in trade mags (I am specifically referring to Electronics Weekly, but I'm sure they are all the same), where I frequently spot entire repeated phrases because the articles are not properly proof-read, probably only subjected to automated checking, and the author gets paid by the word.
 
The label is accurate, the cupboard does stand still (presumably). No idea what's in it though - why don't you ask? :D
 
It's still 89p for something I could have done outside the shop for nothing! I got some free pens for my trouble though. They were stationary until I collected them from the shelf.
 
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Two buses crashed into each other in Woolston while a woman in a wheelchair was trying to board.
(From the Southampton Echo)

So this woman was trying to board a moving bus?
 
Referring to BHS: "no buyer has been found, so the business is going to be wound down". I thought the standard phrase was "wound up"??!
 
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