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    Quote Originally Posted by Gubb View Post
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    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.

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    C'mon guys - back off.

    Beeb is as close as Jim gets to funky.

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    Quote Originally Posted by imdying View Post
    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...
    It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by imdying View Post
    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?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    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'.
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    Bahahahahahahha

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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    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...
    It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    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!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    The hyphen has been officially retired. You should keep up.
    I am ashamed.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    ... someone has obviously decided to turn into a nasty prick.
    Turn into?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    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

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    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.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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