Iām prepared to bet that those three words have never before been written, or indeed uttered, in that order ā¦ 
āA shit gibbon?ā
If thatās a variety of gibbon, does that more accurately make it a āshit-gibbonā?
I fear this topic is going the way of the āfraudedā one.
I wonāt hesitate to close threads and remove posts if spelling, punctuation and grammar gets out of hand.
(I wonāt be closing threads and removing posts if spelling, punctuation and grammar gets out of hand).
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Sorry not sorry
Strictly speaking, this should be āget out of handā.
Anyway, Iāve just learned that a shit gibbon isnāt a variety from the family āHylobatidaeā at all. Itās a term of insult or ridicule!!
Iām out of my depth, I fear
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Completely right. Iād originally written āgrammar getsā¦ā but changed it to be more accurate, forgetting to adjust the verb, too. 
Deleting my account imminently.
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Now that sounds classy. 
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The only time thatās justified is when grocerās apostrophes are used. They make me irrationally angry. More so than should of or could of
Grocersā apostrophe, surely? Or the grocerās apostrophe.
Apostropheās on sale 2 for Ā£5.80!
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Grocerāsā Aphostropheāsā
Along those lines, drives me potty when people add apostrophes after pluralising initialisms: FAQās, DVDās, PINās.
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Now youāre just showing offā¦
Well the whole announcement felt a bit like a shambles, was meant to be Monday, leaked so pushed to Saturday. Due to start at 4 pm, pushed to 5 pm then pushed to 630 pm then started late still
I also enjoyed the, we must act immediately so come midnight from Thursday. Iāve obviously been using the wrong definition of immediately all my life 
Given that the advice he is acting on was first put to him in Septemberā¦
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Is this not because it needs to be approved in Parliament on Wednesday?
Yes. Because the swivel eyed loons behind him insisting as a condition of passing a previous act that any future lockdown would be voted on before it could happen, and not,as previously, by Statutory Instrument.
Thus baking in a delay and, presumably, ensuring that stores which sell non essential items only and pubs are rammed today.
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Theyāve got the not acting earlier excuse in the bag
Gove says the virus has proved to be more malignant than assumed.
I mean the scientists knew, the NHS knew, the rest of the world where itās been building up again knew, the figures for infection knew and finally the majority of the population knew, it seems Boris and his band of merry men are just oblivious to everything as per usual
Good luck to anyone on here working in retail over the next few days with all the panic buyers. May the odds be ever in your favour.
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I can hear the road from my bath sounds busier than normal. Iāve got a parcel to go pick up from retail park so Iāll be walking down in 15 minutes to see what the carnage be like.
I did go to Aldi last night about half 8 as I wanted something to eat, it was loads busier than normal with people doing massive shops.
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To be fair I am in a bit of a glass house here. I have a Tesco delivery due today so I did up a few of the quantities on things that were difficult to get hold of last time around. Not excessively, just enough to get us by a few weeks. I also found a delivery slot in a fortnight to squat on.
For anyone going to actual stores though, this delay seems to have created the perfect environment to spread that thing weāre trying to stopā¦