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Katek Wed 12-Jul-23 09:23:55

Saw this yesterday - 'ipertriteical', took me a moment or two to work it out.

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BigBertha1 Wed 12-Jul-23 09:29:25

smile

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Calendargirl Wed 12-Jul-23 10:35:49

‘Log’s For Sale’.

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MiniMoon Wed 12-Jul-23 10:42:14

It's not making any sense to me.

Hypocritical?

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Grantanow Wed 12-Jul-23 12:05:10

Well spotted!

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FannyCornforth Wed 12-Jul-23 12:53:59
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Here you go

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FannyCornforth Wed 12-Jul-23 12:54:54

And they even managed to slot in the apostrophe!

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sodapop Wed 12-Jul-23 16:42:33

I thought that was maybe deliberate FC to attract attention or be humorous

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grandtanteJE65 Wed 12-Jul-23 16:57:39

FannyCornforth

Here you go

Obviously not the only difficult they have!

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Blondiescot Wed 12-Jul-23 16:58:42

It's the amount of chester draws for sale on FB Marketplace which always gets me!

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Katek Thu 13-Jul-23 11:57:22

Today's offering........T bar chain neckless

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Witzend Thu 13-Jul-23 12:01:49

My ‘for sale’ favourite is ‘chez lounge’.

I’ve seen lots of ‘dinning’ tables too.

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Katek Thu 13-Jul-23 12:04:30

Yes, the tables seem to be very popular! Why am I thinking about turkeys when I read 'neckless'? grin

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FarNorth Thu 13-Jul-23 12:06:43

Katek can you enlighten me? I still have no idea what the OP word is.

Tbf, I sometimes get my fingers in a fankle typing on the phone and something weird results.

The handwritten sign is either a joke or written by someone who has genuine difficulty, I'd say.

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Beechnut Thu 13-Jul-23 12:23:26

Blondiescot

It's the amount of chester draws for sale on FB Marketplace which always gets me!

They are certainly popular Blondie.

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Katek Thu 13-Jul-23 12:34:23

FarNorth - I think it may be 'hypocritical' but won't swear to it!!

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sparkly1000 Thu 13-Jul-23 12:36:03

Locally we have many “gardners” looking for work

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sodapop Thu 13-Jul-23 15:46:29

I could make a fortune selling unnecessary apostrophes smile

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FannyCornforth Thu 13-Jul-23 15:51:11

sodapop

I could make a fortune selling unnecessary apostrophes smile

Yes - what ever happened to ‘if in doubt, leave it out’?
That was drummed into me in the 80s.
I think that some folk think that it’s akin to some sort of fancy sentence-garnish

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MerylStreep Thu 13-Jul-23 15:51:44

I would suggest it was written by someone whose first language isn’t English.

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sodapop Thu 13-Jul-23 19:53:24

I thought that maybe as well MerylStreep

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BlueBelle Thu 13-Jul-23 20:31:39

‘Technical difficulties’ but it could be someone with dyslexia or from another country who wrote it quickly

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BlueBelle Thu 13-Jul-23 20:33:44

Oh have we got two different ones going on !! First one does seem to be hypocritical but depends what the rest of the sentence said

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Floradora9 Thu 13-Jul-23 21:10:10

On my last day on facebook I want to go through the posts and correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes then log out and close my account .

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sodapop Thu 13-Jul-23 21:23:05

How long would that take you Floradora9 smile

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