Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:58 pm
The good old their/there/they're stumbling-block is pretty good, but what about palate/palette/pallet/pellet?
It's arguably a four-way spelling trap, and I don't know of any others at that level.
I enjoyed this sentence from over in the Dash Cam thread, in the same way I enjoy some horror movies. It's the news copy equivalent of John Carpenter's "The Thing".
Another pedestrian quickly rushes across the intersection to help the woman before a motorbike rider parks his car at the red light and runs over to offer assistance.
Despite the current trend in media reports for "sting" to be used anywhere law enforcement does something with any impact on an identifiable group, I maintain that a sting must involve a degree of deception or impersonation.
That time one US police department opened a fake pawnbroker shop, and thus made a number of arrests when stolen goods were brought in? Now, that is a sting.
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Greedy fuckers cannot self-regulate.
Prove me wrong.
The dead bodies of over 500 horses were mysteriously found at a NSW residential property earlier today.
I looked for the mystery behind the finding and it wasn't cleared up, was it the Mystery Machine that found them? People have been illegally slaughtering horses, so where's the mystery?
Police hope high-visibility patrols in the region will kerb conflict after the knife-wielding teenager allegedly struck Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, 53, who was delivering a sermon on Monday night.