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The Grammar Vigilante

Covered End
Covered End Posts: 52,008
edited April 2017 in Fun, Jokes & Captions
A real CL hero. Watch the 90 second video.

Own up it must be someone off here.

For years, it has been rumoured that somebody has been going out late at night, correcting bad punctuation on Bristol shop fronts.
The self-proclaimed "grammar vigilante" goes out undercover in the dead of night correcting street signs and shop fronts where the apostrophes are in the wrong place.
Jon Kay meets grammar's answer to Banksy and reveals the extent of his one man mission to improve standards.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39459831

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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,572
    Hes nut's
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,337
    My hero!
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    He definitely posts on CL. Of that I'm sure.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    Dont finc it wos me
  • CharltonMadrid
    CharltonMadrid Posts: 5,091
    That is a proper superhero.
  • JVL
    JVL Posts: 284
    I went to Bristol, ate some shoots, and left.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Reminds me of the story of King Canute.
  • stonewallpenalty
    stonewallpenalty Posts: 3,842
    Must have a really busy life. Absolute hero.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    Has anyone ever, in the history of the world been confused by the lack of an apostrophe?

    I doubt very much if anyone ever went into that shop asking 'Where are the gardeners? Your sign implied there was more than one of you.'
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  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,595
    Good for him its great hes obviously a stickler for detail. wonder were he get's the Stickers from?!
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Apparently he's known as The Apostrophiser.

    Good on' im. These people should of learned English at school.
    boggzy said:

    Good for him its great hes obviously a stickler for detail. wonder were he get's the Stickers from?!

    He makes them himself out of sticky back plastic, so the age group isn't hard to work out here!
    Kap10 said:

    Hes nut's

    His nut's if you dont mind Kap10.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    iainment said:

    Reminds me of the story of King Canute.

    Is he the bloke who sings 'Hold Back The River?'
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    man_at_milletts said:

    Apparently he's known as The Apostrophiser.

    Good on' im. These people should of learned English at school.

    boggzy said:

    Good for him its great hes obviously a stickler for detail. wonder were he get's the Stickers from?!

    He makes them himself out of sticky back plastic, so the age group isn't hard to work out here!
    Kap10 said:

    Hes nut's

    His nut's if you dont mind Kap10.
    According to the lengthy BBC Breakfast item about him yesterday, that's the name he gave the piece of kit he designed to reach high-up signs. One part holds the apostrophe awaiting application, the other has a little roller to make sure the adhesive attaches to the sign. Classic British eccentricity. He was described as "by day, a highly qualified professional". Sounds like a new character for Marvel Comics. Captain Apostrophe, maybe?

    What surprised me was that the BBC failed to ask him if he'd ever been pulled by the BiB for wandering around Bristol in the dead of night carrying his weird (unique) contraption.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    edited April 2017
    cafcfan said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    Apparently he's known as The Apostrophiser.

    Good on' im. These people should of learned English at school.

    boggzy said:

    Good for him its great hes obviously a stickler for detail. wonder were he get's the Stickers from?!

    He makes them himself out of sticky back plastic, so the age group isn't hard to work out here!
    Kap10 said:

    Hes nut's

    His nut's if you dont mind Kap10.
    According to the lengthy BBC Breakfast item about him yesterday, that's the name he gave the piece of kit he designed to reach high-up signs. One part holds the apostrophe awaiting application, the other has a little roller to make sure the adhesive attaches to the sign. Classic British eccentricity. He was described as "by day, a highly qualified professional". Sounds like a new character for Marvel Comics. Captain Apostrophe, maybe?

    What surprised me was that the BBC failed to ask him if he'd ever been pulled by the BiB for wandering around Bristol in the dead of night carrying his weird (unique) contraption.
    Ah right, I misheard that, a damm good name for it tho'.

    Perhaps the replacement for Lazy Daisy :-)
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,148
    There are one or two pedantic fools here that do that.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Chippycafc said:

    There are one or two pedantic fools here who do that.

    Are there?
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Chippycafc said:

    There are one or two pedantic fools here that do that.

    Only one or two, you surprise me.....
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    My hero.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome

    Grammatical (or grammar) pedantry syndrome is an illness or a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder where someone has a compulsive desire to correct any grammatical errors one has made and is obsessed with taking this peculiar, constant, and vexatious (from the target's perspective) action.
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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,337
    bobmunro said:

    Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome

    Grammatical (or grammar) pedantry syndrome is an illness or a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder where someone has a compulsive desire to correct any grammatical errors one has made and is obsessed with taking this peculiar, constant, and vexatious (from the target's perspective) action.

    *starts to shake at the sight of that Oxford comma*

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