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A battle is won, but the war never ends!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... -full-stop

Spelling counts for a lot.

Can you have different levels of inevitability, even in the Washingotn Post? If it's even more inevitable today than it was yesterday, will it soon it will be... inevitably inevitable.

Toontown Council deploys "do you still beat your wife?" approach in campaign to prevent abuse of staff.

Toowoomba Regional Council (TRC) is asking members of the public to show respect for its workforce by stopping physical or verbal threats to staff.

1. Does that imply I have to start first?
2. (Thinks of a court case in which Arbuthnot J Buggernaut intervenes to stop a car owner from telling off one of Council's "demon yellowcoat" parking guys, and gets a whack in the face for his trouble. Is the Mayor's request to stop physical/verbal threats to be construed as an offer to contract, and is there some expectation Council will accept liability?)
3. Needs a better Press Office.

Grauniad Readers' Word Of The Year (according to First Dog).

*Pol may have been rigged.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... f-the-year

Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Fri Dec 08, 2023 5:50 pm Grauniad Readers' Word Of The Year (according to First Dog).

*Pol may have been rigged.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... f-the-year

Disirregardless will have to wait until 2024.

A bit of advent calendar for my fellow pedants.

Finding ridiculous uses of the word "literally" is too easy, or perhaps I should say I'm literally shooting fish in a barrel. Here's Alok Sharma, saving the world by getting pissed before he travels to a prohibition state.

“We are literally in the last chance saloon to save our children’s future.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -breakdown

And if you shop here, please put Descartes back in the space provided.

I wish!