In plain view, right at the bottom of the page or screen or whatever we’re calling it:
“Its 2024 Get Over It”
Video’s, anyone? No, really. This is shameful.
Is This Satisfactory? I Think Not.
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Sadly, mundanely you might say, the site software won’t allow the use of apostrophes in that section of the page. Screws up the html somehow.
Videos, however, we stand by. Get over it.
Thank you for taking the time to explain yourselves. I imagine it caused much heartsearching in the Mods’ Common Room as to whether to go ahead with it anyway, before you arrived at the wrong decision.
People look up to you. Respect your your authority. Trust your wise sovereignty. The little people. The Man In The Street. People like … Gary. Lodestone of Wrongness.They expect more of you and feel let down by this affair. They deserve better.
Or do they.
(it appears were not allowed question marks)
or brackets
I’ve come to accept that, on this site at least, the its/it’s war is over and the non-grammarians have won. I purse my lips and look away, giving my inner subeditor a reassuring pat on the back.
Meanwhile the hyphen war still rages.
For you, Frit’s, the war is over.
Hyphen and his Red Pen Army are on the streets of Berlin.
Will no-one think of the ellipsis?
Because hyphen sounds a bit like Ivan. Cuh! You people wouldn’t even know comedy if it pushed a flan into your fizzog..
Wasn’t Hyphen The Terrible father of Commanism?
No: that was Colonisation
How painful.
I don’t know how to re-act to this.
sub-liminaly
There’ll be no resistance from me over the hyphen – a delightful little device that brings words and phrases together without the confusion of the comma or the martial discipline of the colon, or indeed the ramshackle bonding that the semi-colon imposes on what could be two separate free sentences.
See how the hyphen takes an ‘e’ and a ‘mail’, introduces them to each other like some match-like matchmaker – ‘e-mail’, then disappears when its job is done and you can’t see the join – ’email’.
We should celebrate and cherish the humble hyphen and thank it for its good work.
Isn’t a hyphen specific to a small line used in-between words and names? When the same kind of line is used instead of a comma or a semi-colon – then it’s a dash. Isn’t it?
In-deed it is.
I’m quite slap-dash about the difference. I think one is supposed to be longer, but that’s just boasting.
As the old Bananarama song goes – It ain’t the length that’s important, it’s where you put it.
Hmmm. Doesn’t scan. Are you sure that’s not Richey Edwards?
It ain’t want you root / it’s the way that you root it
one for the Australian contingent there
And of course the Americans like to ties themselves in knots about the difference between an “Em Dash” (—) and and “En Dash” (–).
https://www.scribbr.com/language-rules/dashes/
What’s their position on MMMBop?
Leave Han-son out of this.
“The software won’t allow the use of apostrophes.” I feel your pain, Mod Team.
Truly this is the end of days!! The Second Coming is at hand!
“what rough ungrammatical beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bedlam to be born?”
I saw this bloke yesterday at Sergelstorg in central Stockholm.
I suspect he too was denied the use of apostrophes and it pushed him over the edge. It’s an impressive sign and covers all bases. If you’re not a liar or fornicator, then “general heathen” shoul have you covered.
Not as funny as that cove who used to wander Hyde Park urging the populace to eat more fish, or whatever it was he was urging.
Darn right, H.P. We can’t compare my meagre Stockholm Sandwich Man to Stanley Green. Talk about a legend in his own lunchtime!
He has his own page in Wikipedia and when he popped his clogs, obituaries were published in several national newspapers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Green
My “Smörgås Gubbe” is not in the same league.
I remember him from Oxford St. Without looking at the link above, I remember him urging “less protein and sitting (!)”, “young girls will not be virgins”, etc.
I hadn’t thought about him in years. Now I know his name and can look him up on Wikipedia. The joys of the Afterword.
His placard could be seen in the Museum of London.
He spells “revellers” with one l, and is therefore American, in which case hell (and indeed L) awaits him to… sorry, too. Yessuh.
He’s going straight to Hel.
Oh the Norse goddess of death.
Without my specs I thought it was Levellers and I was prepared to accept eternity being licked by the flames of perdition once I knew I was taking those raggle taggle bath dodgers with me..
They’d go up like rockets with all that cider they have
Maybe he’s specifically addressing a General Heathen.
Will Major Knobjockey be spared the inferno?
General Heathen was of course a short-lived Marvel title in the 60s.
“When Henry “Hank” Heathen was bitten by a radioactive atheist, he developed the ability to telepathically plant doubts…’ (continued after advert for sea monkeys).
What has Hypocrites the Greek philosopher done wrong?
Isn’t Hell a town over the border in Norway? Looks like their Tourist Board has a pretty good marketing strategy.
I’ve been to Hell, David. It’s just north of Trondheim and very cosy.
Their blues festival looks like fun.
Is there a highway, or just a B-road?
Of course it’s a b-road, it’s in Norway.
Shouldn’t it be in Nor-folk, then?
Could anyone explain to me the difference between fornicators and masturbators? Asking for a (short sighted) friend.
I doubt anyone here knows. Try ChatGPT.
Fornication is expensive so not everyone can afford that kind of lifestyle. Masturbation appeals to the tight-fisted.
And the horny-handed.
It’s a hyphen-heavy punctuationfest in here today!
As Woody Allen famously said, “masturbation is having sex with someone you really love”
That explains the ‘Girls and Boys’ lyric
Formication is the bonding of a laminated surface to a fibreboard base.
…by ants…
on decks?
It also describes, eg. the general process of the covering of all flat surfaces with formica that took place in the UK in the 60s and 70s.
Eg “This period saw the complete formication of the island of Britain”
See also Drayloning.
Interestingly*, I have a guitar the back and sides of which are made of what they’re calling HPL (High Pressure Laminate), but they’re not fooling me, it’s Formica. And very nice it is too.
*”That’s one viewpoint”
Re the OP: there is a third way here. What is so wrong with “It is 2024”, hmmm? Nothing, that is what is wrong with it.
Or alternatively, an amusing strapline.
2024 – Use it or Lose it!
I’m voting for MC Escher’s suggestion of an amusing strapline.
It’s fixed now
The sigh of relief among The Massive has caused a ripple in the Space-Time Continuum.
We is stardust. We is golden.
An’ T’ing!
Well done you! But shirley we can do better than: “2024 – It’s 2024 Get Over It” ? Is not either the first “2024” or “It’s 2024” unnecessary? I really feel you have not thought this one through.
Whoop! Backslash escape character or Regex to the rescue. Now for the amusing part 😉
As the strapline now calls for it, how about a competition thread for the next strapline? Referendum democracy in Acton!
That looks excellent, Milky.
That looks excellent, Milky.