#14

They’re the ones!

#15

Just need a 50p one

#16

I didn’t realise you could get dedicated carboard cards to store your squished pennies in, for the very reasonable price of a fiver. Mrs F loves these machines.

#17

Stick em on rail tracks

#18

Invent a special machine

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#19

Well, I certainly haven’t moved on, as it was I who pointed it out yesterday, pedant that I am.

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#20

Been trying to work out which I dislike more out of Brexit, Philip Pullman and Oxford commas.

I mean obviously it’s Brexit, but Oxford commas are just hideous.

[And yes it was an accident that I typed out a list and didn’t use the comma there :smiley: ]

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#21

Why don’t you like them? They’re super-handy.

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#22

Let’s be honest. It’s just a matter of personal taste isn’t it.

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#23

And I punctuate like a demented chimp anyway.

#24

Indeed it is, language shouldn’t be prescriptive but rather fit to the needs of the user

(It’s also important to note that I am a boring bastard who enjoys thinking about comma placement)

#25

Better things to do than look at coins tbh

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#26

Am just reading a Grammarly article about it as I couldn’t think of why you’d ever need one

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#27

I find them handy because I spend my whole life typing up spoken language, and constructing meaningful lists is something that happens pretty often. Just gives you more options for defining list terms and so on

So, to take an example from that article, I can’t rephrase things in my work to make clear the distinction between, “Lady Gaga, Humpty Dumpty and my parents,” versus, “My parents, Lady Gaga, and Humpty Dumpty,” because if someone says the latter then that’s what I’m writing down! Therefore, the Oxford comma is very useful to me.

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#28

On the one hand I agree but then I also want their shit coins to be shit so I’m conflicted.

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#29

Who are “the FBPE lot” and why do you want to irk them?

#30

This infuriates, frustrates and delights me

#31

As a staunch remainder (and someone that likes Philip Pullman)… this isn’t helping. We’re arguing over punctuation while people have pissed all over us with direct slogans that appear to be remarkably effective.

Not saying the coin hasn’t annoyed me, it absolutely has. I’m just going to give them to someone that needs it more than me every time I get one. Not in a “I don’t want this filth/give it to someone else” way (how patronising is that?), just as an excuse to do one small bit of good amongst this nightmare.

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#32

That’s a good plan, never spend these fuckers on yourself.

#33

I just want to do some good. I don’t want to say “they’re not good enough for me, but they’re good enough for someone else”…

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