Assume v. Presume

[Deleted member 473]

He spends too much time preparing his hairstyle.

Sooner or later, comb-forwards will no longer work.

 

[Black Hole]

Mail today is referring to "railway tracks" in the main article but "train track" in the image caption. Different authors no doubt - some office subbie knocks up the captions.

 

[gomezz]

Accuracy Always Accedes to Alliteration!

 

[EEPhil]

I hadn’t spotted that. The idiots in the photos caught my attention. Railway, rail and train tracks. It’s all over the place.

 

[Trev]

What I would like to know is how the hell you can "roll out" (verb, hyphenated or conjoined) anything that hasn't got any bloody wheels?
Originally used for aircraft I believe.

 

[MikeSh]

What I would like to know is how the hell you can "roll out" (verb, hyphenated or conjoined) anything that hasn't got any bloody wheels?

Carpet?

 

[Black Hole]

It seems to me that is the origin of the phrase.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Beer Barrel Polka - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

No wheels...Roll out the barrel.

 

[trog]

Pastry

 

[Deleted member 473]

Larry King dies at the age of 87 of covid. The BBC prepared an obituary of him, ending

Larry King
1993-2021

Corrected by 3pm.

 

[Trev]

Ok, so you can roll out wheels, cylinders. barrels etc. But you sure as hell can't roll out much of the stuff they suggest you can.

 

[MikeSh]

Ok, so you can roll out wheels, cylinders. barrels etc. But you sure as hell can't roll out much of the stuff they suggest you can.

How about writing the project plan on a scroll?
Works for me

 

[MikeSh]

In a similar vein - wrapping things up that aren't parcels or presents. E.g. Meetings.

 

[Black Hole]

This line of discussion is in danger of banning any phrase which is in any way metaphorical. Metaphor is everywhere.

 

[MikeSh]

Metaphor is everywhere.

What's it's R value?

 

[Black Hole]

Let's ban Trev from using metaphor in any post This should be fun!

 

[trog]

In a similar vein - wrapping things up that aren't parcels or presents. E.g. Meetings.

This may rap things up.

 

[Trev]

Then I'll have to use the simile instead, like.

 

[MikeSh]

Then I'll have to use the simile instead, like.

Yeah, man. Innit.

(I'm not sure if 'Innit' should be followed by a question mark.)

 

[EEPhil]

Yeah, man. Innit.

(I'm not sure if 'Innit' should be followed by a question mark.)

As it is a contraction of isn’t it, it may well benefit from a question mark. But der yoof wouldn’t use one, so why should you?