Comments on: When ‘for free’, isn’t

By: Al

Al — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:17:51 +0000

I used to love this site but now I realise it is just some bloke and his mates! Don’t you hate people who say life is too short? I know I do… but Angry…get on with your life,leave this foolishness behind you.
Thanks for the mammeries!
Al.

By: wolf

wolf — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:23:33 +0000

True, true. In that case, I’m flummoxed – nothing to add, I’m afraid.

By: Gnarlyswine

Gnarlyswine — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:30:37 +0000

Isnt that the other way round – currently the exchange rate is something like $30 US to 0 GBP or any other currency?

By: wolf

wolf — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:28:09 +0000

Perhaps they meant ‘free’ in American dollars. In the conversion to British pounds, it translated to ‘thirty pounds apiece.’

By: TOWTAL

TOWTAL — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:13:30 +0000

Not that I am ever one to have the last word, but you did forget to mention the fact that we didn’t actually need to have paid for them in the first place, since noone ever asked to see the tickets.

PS – And I do have a pair of tickets for race day on Sunday at 25% of the normal price. Since they are not free (and £65 rather than £250) and cost, I shall offer them elsewhere first.

By: Manic

Manic — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:53:28 +0000

So you paid to watch people hit little balls with sticks?

You are weird

By: Gnarlyswine

Gnarlyswine — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:24:40 +0000

Not all free things work out poorly – why Im just about to give Crown Prince Click-Click-Durp of Nigeria all of my banking details and a few thousand pounds processing fees so he can shove a load of money that nobody knows about into my account. Must go – have to quit my job and go and order my new Bugatti.

By: Equine Pimp

Equine Pimp — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:59:20 +0000

and I’d just about forgotten about that!

However as I am never one to pass up a golden opportunity to revisit previous abuse

TOWTAL – You are still a fuckwit

Angry – and you didn’t mention that one of us had to drive for 2 hours in torential rain to get there at all (and yes, I do realise that this is because I live in the arse end of nowhere)

By: Gina

Gina — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:00:37 +0000

“for free”. That is one of the todays speech idioms that most annoys me. Things are “free”, there is no need to add the ungrammatical ‘for’ in front of it.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:05:31 +0000

Thousands of years of evolution, and what have we achieved? We can:

a) run for eternity but go nowhere on a treadmill

b) use toothbrushes with more technology packed into them than the average space rocket.

And:

c) watch men hit balls into holes with sticks.

Marvellous.