I'd guess "For the win"...
Jonathan
How not to lock up your bike
Re: How not to lock up your bike
Bmblbzzz wrote:As for remembering when you were a kid in the 70s and didn't need to lock a bike up: firstly, kids don't often lock their bikes up now; secondly, most of the population is not old enough to remember the 70s.
Golden Agery doesn't work on absolute time: it's usually relative to one's life.
Jonathan
Re: How not to lock up your bike
Jdsk wrote:I'd guess "For the win"...
Jonathan
Not fk the world then ? --- fk all these acronyms -- it does my head in since I'm also old enough to know a myriad of other meanings of the same acronyms, scientific, electronic, manufacturing etc etc they could equate to.
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Re: How not to lock up your bike
"For the win" in this context.
Re: How not to lock up your bike
Bmblbzzz wrote:"For the win" in this context.
"For the win"? WT[bad word begins with F] does that mean?
Re: How not to lock up your bike
nirakaro wrote:Bmblbzzz wrote:"For the win" in this context.
"For the win"? WT[bad word begins with F] does that mean?
F**ked That Way -- would have been a better more meaningful resolution of the acronym in this context.
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Re: How not to lock up your bike
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for_the_win
@Cowsham: You're looking at the context of the thread, not the post in which I used the phrase. My sentence was something like "Sheffield stands ftw."
@Cowsham: You're looking at the context of the thread, not the post in which I used the phrase. My sentence was something like "Sheffield stands ftw."
Re: How not to lock up your bike
Bmblbzzz wrote:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for_the_win
@Cowsham: You're looking at the context of the thread, not the post in which I used the phrase. My sentence was something like "Sheffield stands ftw."
Yes exactly. Your saying Sheffield has not got enough ( or any ) places to lock your bike to. At least that's the meaning I took out of it after having to look up yet another bloody obscure acronym meaning. Takes me about one second to type "for the win" with the aid of predictive T9
Or should that be PT9 or T9P. @We're not on twitter either.
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Re: How not to lock up your bike
You mean (I think) "You're", ie you are, and not "Your", ie yours as opposed to mine. Predictive text usually sorts that outCowsham wrote:Bmblbzzz wrote:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for_the_win
@Cowsham: You're looking at the context of the thread, not the post in which I used the phrase. My sentence was something like "Sheffield stands ftw."
Yes exactly. Your saying Sheffield has not got enough ( or any ) places to lock your bike to. At least that's the meaning I took out of it after having to look up yet another bloody obscure acronym meaning. Takes me about one second to type "for the win" with the aid of predictive T9
Or should that be PT9 or T9P. @We're not on twitter either.
But we aren't all using devices with predictive text.
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I don't peddle bikes.
I don't peddle bikes.
Re: How not to lock up your bike
MikeF wrote:You mean (I think) "You're", ie you are, and not "Your", ie yours as opposed to mine. Predictive text usually sorts that outCowsham wrote:Bmblbzzz wrote:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for_the_win
@Cowsham: You're looking at the context of the thread, not the post in which I used the phrase. My sentence was something like "Sheffield stands ftw."
Yes exactly. Your saying Sheffield has not got enough ( or any ) places to lock your bike to. At least that's the meaning I took out of it after having to look up yet another bloody obscure acronym meaning. Takes me about one second to type "for the win" with the aid of predictive T9
Or should that be PT9 or T9P. @We're not on twitter either.
But we aren't all using devices with predictive text.
Just to be awkward -- no I meant your (his) read it right.
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Really?Cowsham wrote:MikeF wrote:You mean (I think) "You're", ie you are, and not "Your", ie yours as opposed to mine. Predictive text usually sorts that outCowsham wrote:
Yes exactly. Your saying Sheffield has not got enough ( or any ) places to lock your bike to. At least that's the meaning I took out of it after having to look up yet another bloody obscure acronym meaning. Takes me about one second to type "for the win" with the aid of predictive T9
Or should that be PT9 or T9P. @We're not on twitter either.
But we aren't all using devices with predictive text.
Just to be awkward -- no I meant your (his) read it right.
"It takes a genius to spot the obvious" - my old physics master.
I don't peddle bikes.
I don't peddle bikes.
Re: How not to lock up your bike
'Your' as a second person possessive pronoun, and 'saying' as (IIRC) a gerund rather than a participle? A rather old-fashioned usage, but quite elegant, I thought.
Re: How not to lock up your bike
The original was:
Your saying Sheffield has not got enough ( or any ) places to lock your bike to.
Was that:
A: You are saying that Sheffield has not got enough...
or
B: Your saying that Sheffield has not got enough... analogous to Churchill's saying that it is the end of the beginning.
Jonathan
PS: When we know whether it's A or B we can get on to naming the parts of speech and whether it's well formed.
Your saying Sheffield has not got enough ( or any ) places to lock your bike to.
Was that:
A: You are saying that Sheffield has not got enough...
or
B: Your saying that Sheffield has not got enough... analogous to Churchill's saying that it is the end of the beginning.
Jonathan
PS: When we know whether it's A or B we can get on to naming the parts of speech and whether it's well formed.