iainment specific I know but I’ve been handed three bookings into temporary accommodation tonight that are too close together in time to get to when the client should be there. And it means I finish work at the wrong end of the borough for me. So I’ll be home not long before ten instead of my hoped for nine o’clock.
iainment specific I know but I’ve been handed three bookings into temporary accommodation tonight that are too close together in time to get to when the client should be there. And it means I finish work at the wrong end of the borough for me. So I’ll be home not long before ten instead of my hoped for nine o’clock.
is there not a strippers you could go to on the company card after work to cheer yourself up?
iainment specific I know but I’ve been handed three bookings into temporary accommodation tonight that are too close together in time to get to when the client should be there. And it means I finish work at the wrong end of the borough for me. So I’ll be home not long before ten instead of my hoped for nine o’clock.
is there not a strippers you could go to on the company card after work to cheer yourself up?
The council would frown on that. As would Mrs iainment.
iainment specific I know but I’ve been handed three bookings into temporary accommodation tonight that are too close together in time to get to when the client should be there. And it means I finish work at the wrong end of the borough for me. So I’ll be home not long before ten instead of my hoped for nine o’clock.
is there not a strippers you could go to on the company card after work to cheer yourself up?
The council would frown on that. As would Mrs iainment.
why does she care about you spending company money?
iainment specific I know but I’ve been handed three bookings into temporary accommodation tonight that are too close together in time to get to when the client should be there. And it means I finish work at the wrong end of the borough for me. So I’ll be home not long before ten instead of my hoped for nine o’clock.
is there not a strippers you could go to on the company card after work to cheer yourself up?
The council would frown on that. As would Mrs iainment.
why does she care about you spending company money?
No, your suggested use of the money is what she’d care about.
"I'm entitled to my opinion" Said by people when denying a blatant fact
"Banter" Said by Lad Bible divs, used to excuse racism, homophobia and sexism
I thought Banter was between 2 willing parties.
It is. The objection here is to people using the term as a justification for behaviour that isn't really banter, but is actually just bullying, racism, homophobia or sexism.
"I'm entitled to my opinion" Said by people when denying a blatant fact
"Banter" Said by Lad Bible divs, used to excuse racism, homophobia and sexism
I thought Banter was between 2 willing parties.
It is. The objection here is to people using the term as a justification for behaviour that isn't really banter, but is actually just bullying, racism, homophobia or sexism.
What about if it’s between like minded bullying, homophobic, sexist racists?
Finally, data; the word is the plural of datum. So, all BBC journos and whoever writes the BBC website news, it is not alright to say the data is indicating.... Not one BBC journo would say the World Cup stadia is nearly finished. They know that the word stadia is the plural form of stadium. How can they not know about data?
The BBC style guide is to follow common usage with regards to the word data, ie to treat it as a singular, taking a singular verb (e.g. "data was collected..." as opposed to "data were collected..."). So, not only is it "alright" to say data is indicating, it's correct with respect to the BBC guidelines.
(Incidentally, while the BBC style guide does not incorporate guidance on the use of the word "stadia", the Guardian style guide does: "plural stadiums, not stadia").
Yes, I know. But the BBC style guide is incorrect (as is HM Government's BTW) and just another indication of the general dumbing down going on in that once august organisation. If you are collecting individual pieces of information it is clear there is more than one item of information. How can you collect a singular item? A collection, by definition is more than one.
Thankfully The Economist Style Guide has it right: Data and media are plural. So are whereabouts.
The Bank of England style guide (which is not available on-line) also knows the difference between datum and data. As evidenced by this extract from the BoE's latest Quarterly Bulletin: Data in dashed lines from 2011 onwards are based on responses to the NMG survey (2011 to 2019). Data in solid lines are calculated using BHPS (1991 to 2008) and Understanding Society (2009 to 2017). NMG data are from the H2 surveys only. NMG data before 2015 have been adjusted for a change in the income definition.
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iainment specific I know but I’ve been handed three bookings into temporary accommodation tonight that are too close together in time to get to when the client should be there. And it means I finish work at the wrong end of the borough for me. So I’ll be home not long before ten instead of my hoped for nine o’clock.
Nonsense.
I'm looking at you, @DagenhamAddick , though I agree with everything else in your post.
The only way to avoid failure is never to try
I hardly know where to begin...
”twitter went into meltdown”
and all this extreme reaction lines like “this is all my life needs” and so on.
Thankfully The Economist Style Guide has it right: Data and media are plural. So are whereabouts.
The Bank of England style guide (which is not available on-line) also knows the difference between datum and data. As evidenced by this extract from the BoE's latest Quarterly Bulletin: Data in dashed lines from 2011 onwards are based on responses to the NMG survey (2011 to 2019). Data in solid lines are calculated using BHPS (1991 to 2008) and Understanding Society (2009 to 2017). NMG data are from the H2 surveys only. NMG data before 2015 have been adjusted for a change in the income definition.