I Need To Stop Reading The Comments

[barry1010]

on social media, especially under the news reports. So many people only comment on the headlines and don't bother to read the report, it makes my blood boil. 'Hope he makes a full recovery' (he's dead); 'RIP' (she survived); 'They should bang him up' (he got 8 years); how could they make a child sleep in a caravan? It's freezing!' (it happened in August); 'the police are useless, they should have arrested him' (they did, he's in jail).

That's just from this morning. Other comments I have seen today that have riled me: 'I'm discusted' (I see this a lot - use a spell-checker!); 'Usual suspects' (what does that mean?); 'Hes a site for sore eyes' (hmmm).

Anyone got a spare chill pill?

[Barsel]

emmie, try downloading this.

https://www.grammarly.com

[Barsel]

Not sure if this is what corrects me on here, but if I make a spelling mistake, it underlines it in red.

[emmie]

its only on ab barsel, everywhere else is no problem, assumed it was just my fault.

[ummmm]

Emmie - AB doesn't have it's own spell checker.

[emmie]

it doesn't on mine barsel. which i am sure it used to on my old machine.

[emmie]

ok i give up.

[sanmac]

When I attended Warlock College a spell-checker was a definite requirement.

[Peter Pedant]

// 'Usual suspects' (what does that mean?)//

a flim tele-buff explains remotely

we see this condition - afilmia - in people who do not watch enough films. Usual suspects is a catch phrase form Casablanca ( a town in Morocco but also a film which won an Oscar 1940)

Rene before he flees with Conrad veight to Brazzaville the resistance centre of the French African Empire after the fall of France 1940 (*) says to an underling - arrest them and the underling replies - - "I will round upthe usual suspects!"

the ignorance of people who pontificate on AB is astounding

(*) Vichy e( the losers that is!) entered into a secret treaty with Japan that if they entered the war, the eastern empire wd come under Japanese domination so long as they did not intern French citizens. And THAT boys and girls is how Indochina became Japanese ( part of the pacific coprosperity union) without a shot being fired

[Peter Pedant]

no you need to START reading them, you will learn things
( not er necessarily what you want)

[sanmac]

Peter, talking about Casablanca, here is Rick's Cafe: https://www.earthcam.com/world/jamaica/negril/?cam=rickscafe

[barry1010]

Arrrghhhh - just seen on FB.

Anywhere excepting toy donations?

[jno]

conjunctivitis.com is the site for sore eyes.