You may be right, but I'll be damned if my pedantry is going to allow me to sit idly by while someone is incorrectly chastised for using technically correct grammar!
Says a defender of the singular "they." And fuck Shakespeare, it's still wrong.
You may be right, but I'll be damned if my pedantry is going to allow me to sit idly by while someone is incorrectly chastised for using technically correct grammar!
I'm glad you don't come at me with that. My grammar is horrible and I'm lazy as hell about it. Grammarly has tried to charge me a premium for the amount of work I make them do in my work account. They send me the weekly update and beg me to start paying attention to periods at the end of sentences so the entire system doesn't turn into skynet and nuke mankind.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
POTFB
Also, it's not "they" and "their," it's "he" and "his." I'm not more than one person and I sure as hell don't use the plural "we." I didn't know you were a woke shitlib who doesn't know how to use pronouns.
Look, man, I'm willing to live and let live when it comes to our different understandings of the singular "they," but in this case, you're wrong no matter which side of the debate you're on. In Undertaker's post, "they" and "their car" refer back to "contractors," and so the plural form is entirely correct. It may seem strange that "car" is singular, but there could be several interpretations of why (maybe it's to highlight that each contractor only got one car, or maybe they are all sharing a car), and grammatically, it's not an incorrect formulation. "Like Aloha" is simply a simile being used as an adjective to modify "contractors." The later use of pronouns to refer back to the subject should match the number, gender, and case of the noun itself ("contractors"), not the modifier ("like Aloha"), and in this case, only "they" and "their" is correct.
This thread certainly took a turn I wasn't expecting to read this morning.
$15.1 million on ribeye steak. And Hegseth probably puts ketchup on it.
I’m surprised Marv went there but you’ve once again showed your lack of knowledge.
Is this an abnormal occurrence for the troops? Why do you not support the troops?
If grammarly fires hooky, I suggest we have goat sit behind when he types
Is this an abnormal occurrence for the troops?
Good question and I am not sure of the answer. The only expense I saw compared to norms was the furniture budget. Apparently they spent more last year than in the previous 20 years, COMBINED. Much of it on massaging office chairs.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Some depositions are coming out from a lawsuit filed.
The reason for termination of a holocaust project..
https://twitter.com/lydiakauppi/status/2031545537527226517?s=20
This guy was questioned why he had to send documents to his personal phone and then sent to signal.
https://twitter.com/LucasSa56947288/status/2032058253341843847?s=20
What a shit show.
Exactly. The surf and turf went to the troops. The Dems will criticize anything this administration does, no surprise there. Meanwhile not a peep about much more money funneled to learing centers in Minnesota and phony hospice patients in California.
The first one is ridiculous re the Holocaust project. Stupid interpretation. That doesn't mean, however, that DEI initiatives can't be defined and that adherence to them in funding shouldn't be stopped in many instances.Some depositions are coming out from a lawsuit filed.
The reason for termination of a holocaust project..
https://twitter.com/lydiakauppi/status/2031545537527226517?s=20
This guy was questioned why he had to send documents to his personal phone and then sent to signal.
https://twitter.com/LucasSa56947288/status/2032058253341843847?s=20
What a shit show.
The second is garden variety stuff, though, at this point. Is there any proof of harm from the kid sending reports through Signal on cost savings? I'm guessing with the unprofessional manner of DOGE, there are much worse violations of government procedures out there.
$15.1 million on ribeye steak. And Hegseth probably puts ketchup on it.
I’m surprised Marv went there but you’ve once again showed your lack of knowledge.
Is this an abnormal occurrence for the troops? Why do you not support the troops?
I didn't discuss the steak because it may have been for the troops, may not have been.
But look at the article, fruit basket holders? The piano?
I don’t know about that. This food thing is very strange. Every military unit (ship, wing, battalion, etc.) has its own budget for food. Furthermore, the officers and enlisted pay for their food out of their allowances for food called Basic Allowance for Sustenance (BAS). On a ship out of home port the BAS of enlisted goes to the ship and the ship provides food to the Sailors from it on the Mess Decks. For officers, we get a monthly bill for food served in the wardroom and sometimes for more than our BAS. On my first ship the CO wanted steak and crab legs or lobster every Friday so our bill was often twice BAS. Operating units have pretty much the same deal in all the services though officers sometimes just eat out of the general mess. In fact, Navy has gone that route for the most part too by eating the same menu, though sometimes small variations are added and officers pay that additional cost. When not operating for exercises or deployment all the enlisted and officers keep their BAS and are on their own for food for the most part. People in the Pentagon aren’t provided meals. They all have to buy their breakfast, lunch and dinner. They have restaurants and cafeterias in the building to purchase food or they can go to local restaurants. Of course they also eat at their homes with their families, if they have them, when not working. This huge cost of food for the Pentagon doesn’t make a lot of sense based on the way the the military does business. It’s a head scratcher. I haven’t seen it explained sufficiently anywhere.Exactly. The surf and turf went to the troops. The Dems will criticize anything this administration does, no surprise there. Meanwhile not a peep about much more money funneled to learing centers in Minnesota and phony hospice patients in California.
So this hit piece should have explained how much of the cost of gourmet food will be reimbursed?
I am not a vet so I will leave it to Aloha or others who are to comment about what percentage of troops would normally have access to new electric office chairs with fancy massaging modes.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@co-hoosier hit piece? Explain the fruit baskets, piano, et al? You only mention the food only because you think it might plausibly be explained.
Imagine Biden's DoD ordering a $90,000 piano. Go.