Can i start my own pointless thread

Can i start my own pointless thread

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Scott Parker

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798 posts

220 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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If its not about a 991 GT3, Allocations or values would anyone be interested?

Please do not reply, we wouldn't want another one wink

LongTimeGone

53 posts

155 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Yes 996 GT3 values

PorscheGT4

21,146 posts

264 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Orangecurry

7,396 posts

205 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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'May' I start my own pointless thread?

or

I can start my own pointless thread.

This is PH after all.

Gandahar

9,600 posts

127 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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My thread would be on what colour of stitching you'd choose if got stitched up by the OPC when trying to buy the Macon GT5?

I chose Envy green.




pete a

3,799 posts

183 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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dazren

22,612 posts

260 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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My car is available for £22.7million.

PR36

341 posts

115 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Scott Parker said:
If its not about a 991 GT3, Allocations or values would anyone be interested?

Please do not reply, we wouldn't want another one wink
I take it you don't refer to your Porsche as being part of a 'portfolio', in which case you sound like common riff raff. Perhaps posting in another forum with individuals of a like minded socio economic status would be a better idea. (Joke for those not clever enough to work it out...)

Beaky59

176 posts

165 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Toast with Cheese, Jam and Peanut butter..................yummy

Scott Parker

Original Poster:

798 posts

220 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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STOP REPLYING tongue out


fk, I just did

utgjon

713 posts

172 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Can someone please talk about 944's for a change ... i'm fed up of having to go to TIPEC

drmark

4,792 posts

185 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Orangecurry said:
'May' I start my own pointless thread?

or

I can start my own pointless thread.

This is PH after all.
Not so, but a common misconception. So, for the sake of all PH pedants here is a useful overview from oxforddictionaries.com



People are often uncertain about whether there is any difference between can and may when these verbs are used to ask for or grant permission. For example, is one of these two sentences ‘more correct’ than the other?

Can I ask you a few questions?

May I ask you a few questions?

There is a widespread view that using can to ask for permission is wrong and that it should only be used in expressions to do with ability or capability, e.g.:

Can she swim?

Can you speak Italian?

But the 'permission' use of can is not in fact incorrect in standard English. The only difference between the two verbs is that one is more polite than the other. In informal contexts it’s perfectly acceptable to use can; in formal situations it would be better to use may.




Carl_Docklands

12,101 posts

261 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Scott Parker said:
If its not about a 991 GT3, Allocations or values would anyone be interested?

Please do not reply, we wouldn't want another one wink


PowerMalc

222 posts

143 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Move along now, nothing going on here.

braddo

10,399 posts

187 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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I'm going to enjoy a track day on the weekend. I will endeavour to have cheese on my bacon bap for breakfast, or maybe a ham and cheese croissant, followed by a cheesy burger for lunch and cheese and onion crisps throughout the day in between stints. Perhaps I will omit to wash my hands so that I get a bit of cheesy residue on my steering wheel. lick

Having ruined the thread I will delete the post in a couple of hours.

Orangecurry

7,396 posts

205 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Au contraire...

drmark said:
People are often uncertain about whether there is any difference between can and may when these verbs are used to ask for or grant permission. For example, is one of these two sentences ‘more correct’ than the other?

But the 'permission' use of can is not in fact incorrect in standard English. The only difference between the two verbs is that one is more polite than the other. In informal contexts it’s perfectly acceptable to use can; in formal situations it would be better to use may.
Just because something is not incorrect doesn't make it correct.

Breeding familiarity on PH is just not on, old boy.

And it's 'more correcter'.

pete a

3,799 posts

183 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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981Greg

112 posts

143 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Lots of posts on a Pointless thread, and still nobody's mentioned either Alexander or Richard!

nsm3

2,831 posts

195 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Who and who?

Oh, edit to add, I just had homemade bean and bacon bits soup for tea (or dinner if you are a bit posh).

Schnellmann

1,893 posts

203 months

Wednesday 25th February 2015
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We should have more pointless threads as this was is more fun than 90% of the ones "with a point".