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Well it would be standard english if there was another, missing word on the end as I assumed from the ellipsis. on its own though it's rubbish.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Feb 22nd, 2008 at 06:34:27 PM EST
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oh and the missing word I assumed is Items.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Feb 22nd, 2008 at 06:35:18 PM EST
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would it not be "so many confusing news items?"

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 at 05:07:55 AM EST
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or much ado about nothing?

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 at 05:08:56 AM EST
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I pretty much gave up on watching the business channels after the dotcom bust.  It wasn't interesting anymore.  But lately, I have taken to watching British financial "experts" pontificate on late-night / early morning Bloomberg TV.

If you want to hear the conventional wisdom from sufferers of Anglo disease, this is a good way to get it.  These guys are well coached, well-dressed, and of course, have perfect Oxbridge accents and grammar.  They are also, with very few exceptions, brain-dead and clownishly ugly.  Cleese made a living out of mocking such twits on Monty Python.

So as for me, I actually appreciate a few English-as-a-second-language mistakes from someone I don't know personally.  It means the speaker / writer is MUCH less likely to be suffering from acute Angle disease.  This is important for me because I consider Anglo disease about 1000 times more lethal than even our esteemed Jerome.

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"

by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 at 05:50:45 PM EST
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This is important for me because I consider Anglo disease about 1000 times more lethal than even our esteemed Jerome.

Now I am having a grammar panic of my own.  I meant to say that even thought Jerome is absolutely correct about his assessment of the danger of the Anglo disease, there are times when he understates the effects because he only watches it happen from the relative safety of Paris whereas I have been living in the middle of the plague for 35 years.

I HOPE that this sentence is more clear and accurate.

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"

by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 at 05:58:48 PM EST
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I like the first one too!

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 at 06:38:05 PM EST
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"Rubbish"? You guys are certainly extremely forgiving to foreigners making the effort to write in your language ;-)

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 at 03:10:24 AM EST
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Ah I was using Rubbish, as in "makes no sense" not in a dismissive way, but more as a casual it's unimportant sense.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 at 05:51:37 AM EST
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