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[–] FatTony 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)
[–] Mr_Blott 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I like the way you managed to use the correct "whom" to sound posh then completely fucked it up with the "at" on the end :)

[–] FatTony 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's the perfect way to describe my English in general ^^.

[–] Mr_Blott 3 points 10 months ago

You mean "Yeah that's generally the way to describe my English in general" 🙃

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You can end a sentence on a prepositional phrase. That's an old style suggestion, not a rule.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But it's redundant in that sentence because it began with "at."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who are you, a representative of the redundancy department of redundancy?

[–] Mr_Blott 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah he pays his membership fees in cash, gets it from the ATM machine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Stop it with all the redundant pleonasms!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They're filling up the screen on my LCD display!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, true thAT.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Kelly cartoons are done by a progressive pretending to be a conservative. The Onion often gets hate letters from progressives who think it's genuinely conservative, and more glowing letters from conservatives who think the same.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Taking into account that this is the Onion, it's probably aimed at at everyone like the good ol' days.

[–] samus12345 9 points 10 months ago

People who enjoy mocking political cartoons.