Dear God, even the Beeb has been done in [Archive]

James Deuce

11th June 2008, 06:44

jrandom

11th June 2008, 07:04

Maybe Nepal really does have a Royal Spectre.

Pwalo

11th June 2008, 07:43

He'll be a Royal Spectre if he doesn't hand his royal sceptre in.

Big Dave

11th June 2008, 10:55

James Bond will get 'em.

The Pastor

11th June 2008, 11:24

ok, you're using a 4 letter abbreviation for a 3 letter acronym?

RETARDED!

James Deuce

11th June 2008, 11:36

ok, you're using a 4 letter abbreviation for a 3 letter acronym?

RETARDED!

Google "Beeb" before you make an even bigger arse of yourself.

I guarantee that the first hit you get back will be: http://www.bbc.co.uk

Beeb is an accepted colloquialism for BBC.

Blackbird

11th June 2008, 11:46

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7446166.stm

"Royal Spectre".

Arse biscuits on a bicycle.

I'm going to build that spaceship from the plans that nice lady from Kiribati sold me.

Keep the planet, you people are welcome to it.

Hahaha. Like "Stuff" yesterday when the reported that an an olympic rower had tested positive for using a banned hair growth substance. Apparently, he was a Greek guy who was a (quote) "double skulls" champion. Ironic really and would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

The Pastor

11th June 2008, 11:48

James Deuce

11th June 2008, 11:52

No, your point was I was retarded.

Did you have another?

James Deuce

11th June 2008, 11:54

Hahaha. Like "Stuff" yesterday when the reported that an an olympic rower had tested positive for using a banned hair growth substance. Apparently, he was a Greek guy who was a (quote) "double skulls" champion. Ironic really and would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

I don't bother point out Stuff's appalling lack of editorial competence anymore. It's Quixotic in the extreme. Kiwis are quite happy to look stupid in print, as is often pointed out on KB. So be it.

marioc

11th June 2008, 12:04

Shirlock? you mean Sherlock I presume.

Big Dave

11th June 2008, 12:11

This is the BB See. Marioc one, Renegade Master nil. Cardiff City nil, Portsmouth one.....

HenryDorsetCase

11th June 2008, 12:21

thats excatly my point, shirlock.

is one referreing to Sherlock Holmes, the famous fictional detective?

xwhatsit

11th June 2008, 12:26

is one referreing to Sherlock Holmes, the famous fictional detective?
All will be reviled in good time, my friends!

Gubb

11th June 2008, 12:28

Surely 'Beeb' is an abbreviation for British Broadcasting Corporation.

EDIT: Shit. Is it Company of Corporation?
Wikipedia isn't sure either.
Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Broadcasting_Company)
Corporation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC)

EDIT 2: Maybe I should have read the article further before posting. The Corporation absorbed the Company. Meh, maybe I could work for stuff.co.nz

xwhatsit

11th June 2008, 12:31

Surely 'Beeb' is an abbreviation for British Broadcasting Company.
Well it comes from the Beeb Eee See, or at least sounds like it.

It's a verbal abbreviation, not a written one <_<

imdying

11th June 2008, 12:48

Google "Beeb" before you make an even bigger arse of yourself.

I guarantee that the first hit you get back will be: http://www.bbc.co.uk

Beeb is an accepted colloquialism for BBC.

He makes an excellent point... Yes "Beeb" is an accept colloquialism in verbal conversation, but that doesn't make it's usage anywhere that typing is involved any less retarded.

Big Dave

11th June 2008, 13:07

C'mon guys - back off.

Beeb is as close as Jim gets to funky.

Mikkel

11th June 2008, 13:15

He makes an excellent point... Yes "Beeb" is an accepted colloquialism in verbal conversation, but that doesn't make it's usage anywhere that typing is involved any less retarded.

Be that as it may - this is a forum which makes writing doesn't instead of does not acceptable. As such I think we can accept Beeb as an accepted colloquialism on KB as well.

In the meantime we will ignore the fact that the use of it's is incorrect in this case. Its would have been the correct word. ;)

And let's not even start to consider punctuation... :rolleyes:

James Deuce

11th June 2008, 13:21

He makes an excellent point... Yes "Beeb" is an accept colloquialism in verbal conversation, but that doesn't make it's usage anywhere that typing is involved any less retarded.

I've had the shit kicked out of me for NOT treating KB as conversational.

Are you sure you're not from a girls home for the constantly menstruating?

jrandom

11th June 2008, 13:36

Are you sure you're not from a girls home for the constantly menstruating?

I would put an apostrophe after the 's' in 'girls', there, not to mention a hyphen between 'constantly' and 'menstruating'.

imdying

11th June 2008, 13:52

Bahahahahahahha :rofl:

Mikkel

11th June 2008, 13:55

I would put an apostrophe after the 's' in 'girls', there, not to mention a hyphen between 'constantly' and 'menstruating'.

I'm not sure about the hyphen.

However, I have always been informed that it is the pre-menstrual period (no pun intended of course) which causes a certain hormonal imbalance. Thus the acronym PMS - pre-menstrual syndrome...

Forest

11th June 2008, 14:00

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England

James Deuce

11th June 2008, 14:15

I would put an apostrophe after the 's' in 'girls', there, not to mention a hyphen between 'constantly' and 'menstruating'.
I wouldn't. The hyphen has been officially retired. You should keep up.

It was supposed to be an in joke, but someone has obviously decided to turn into a nasty prick.

Big Dave

11th June 2008, 14:19

I wouldn't. The hyphen has been officially retired. You should keep up.

Say what? - where? - when?
For so long the easy way out - say it isn't so!

jrandom

11th June 2008, 14:23

The hyphen has been officially retired. You should keep up.

I am ashamed.

... someone has obviously decided to turn into a nasty prick.

Turn into?

imdying

11th June 2008, 15:17

It was supposed to be an in joke, but someone has obviously decided to turn into a nasty prick.That would be a shame, I'd like to think that every reply was delivered light heartedly with more than a little tounge in cheek :(

Hitcher

11th June 2008, 15:21

Specter and Crown will tumble down
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spayed

James Deuce

11th June 2008, 15:56

Girls School, or Girls' School. Both are acceptable.

Not Girl's School, as that would be a school belonging to a single juvenile female.

The Hyphen was quietly made redundant at the same time the semi-colon's potential demise was announced. Both were discussed on KB by the two people fishing the lower reaches of the river that is the English Language, whilst the unwashed barbarian hordes tipped their effluent into the waters upstream.

Big Dave

11th June 2008, 16:04

Phew!
In the absence of a published house style I shall remain a piss-up-streamer in the model of my hero, The Fitz-files.

James Deuce

11th June 2008, 16:12

That would be a shame, I'd like to think that every reply was delivered light heartedly with more than a little tounge in cheek :(
We've already had the picture in Mikkel's thread. It was more than a tongue I might add. Greco Roman wrestling my arse. Literally. Well, obviously someone else's arse. I don't look that good in a unitard.

Coyote

11th June 2008, 16:45

You not what colloquial text abbreviation I really hate? "Dae". What the fuck? Seriously?