BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

Attaching things to street furniture / lights without permission of the local highway authority is already illegal under S132 of The Highways Act though so I assume the injunction has been made on that basis.

Actually, interestingly, this is not so. "The Order does not refer to any particular legislation (for example highways legislation) under which the Order is made, and so it may be presumed that it is under the general jurisdiction of the High Court." (David Allen Green)

David Allen Green wrote a good summary, and of why he considered this to be a very sound case.

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/how-a-county-council-has-obtained

 

[briantrumpet]

I see this is 2024. Is this still the case?

 

[Rusty Nails]

In a move that'll surprise no-one, the Daily Mail is trying to excuse Badenoch's 'class warrior' insult by blaming Phillipson for selling the former council house that she'd lived in for 33 years at market price.

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Not quite correct, but even worse than that they are somehow attaching blame to her for her mother, who brought her up as a single mother, having made a 900% profit...on a house that cost the huge sum of £11000. Enough profit, of course, to let her move to a mansion. She should have known her place, and stayed in the old house for ever.

 

[briantrumpet]

Seems like Dominic Cummings is now aligning himself with Rupert Lowe. BoJo is going to feel spurned. But just to think that not that long ago those two were kind of leading the country, and that their failing prize project continues to turn everyone who was active in it into far right brainmush.

Apparently even Piers Morgan is admitting Brexit is a failure, FFS.

 

[briantrumpet]

This is going down like a lead balloon at Exeter University, given that the main reason they've climbed lots of places in the rankings is the performance in Arts & Humanities, in the week when they announced planned cuts in Arts & Humanities of 25%, and in which they actually turn a profit.

 

[briantrumpet]

This is going down like a lead balloon at Exeter University, given that the main reason they've climbed lots of places in the rankings is the performance in Arts & Humanities, in the week when they announced planned cuts in Arts & Humanities of 25%, and in which they actually turn a profit.

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Here's the context

 

[PurplePenguin]

Here's the context

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Where does a pedant like you stand on "is comprised of"? It always feels like a lot of unnecessary letters to me even if you ignore the way it should invert the words.

 

[briantrumpet]

Where does a pedant like you stand on "is comprised of"? It always feels like a lot of unnecessary letters to me even if you ignore the way it should invert the words.

Pedantically speaking, it should be just 'comprising', being the equivalent of 'including', and you'd not say "is included of". It's a battle which is being lost, but I do prefer the concision of the 'correct' version.

BTW, 'pedantry' has always been a pejorative term for someone who is overly corrective - it's never really meant someone who cares about language and is aware of conventional usage.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Pedantically speaking, it should be just 'comprising', being the equivalent of 'including', and you'd not say "is included of". It's a battle which is being lost, but I do prefer the concision of the 'correct' version.

BTW, 'pedantry' has always been a pejorative term for someone who is overly corrective - it's never really meant someone who cares about language and is aware of conventional usage.

I don't think my usage was incorrect. [I think you would probably want some sort of emoji here].

Also consider "a dog eats a cat" versus "a dog is eaten by a cat".

 

[Pinno718]

"a dog eats a cat"

No likey. Boo!

 

[First Aspect]

Pedantically speaking, it should be just 'comprising', being the equivalent of 'including', and you'd not say "is included of". It's a battle which is being lost, but I do prefer the concision of the 'correct' version.

BTW, 'pedantry' has always been a pejorative term for someone who is overly corrective - it's never really meant someone who cares about language and is aware of conventional usage.

My wife tells me if I wasn't so pedantic I'd lose less friends.

Fewer, I said.

 

[briantrumpet]

My wife tells me if I wasn't so pedantic I'd lose less friends.

Fewer, I said.

That should be "if I weren't", BTW.

 

[All uphill]

What have pendants got to do with grammatical pernicketry?

 

[PurplePenguin]

That should be "if I weren't", BTW.

I think any reasonable person would happily let the subjunctive die.

This applies to French as well:
Je pense que je suis
Je pense pas que je sois

 

[briantrumpet]

I think any reasonable person would happily let the subjunctive die.

This applies to French as well:
Je pense que je suis
Je pense pas que je sois

I'll admit that I avoid the French subjunctive as much as possible. I think it'll die by itself in both languages in 30 years, as my generation pops its clogs.