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FAIL

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I have this picture in my head of a kitten sitting dejectedly on the edge of some rainy windswept docks, looking cutely out to see "YOUR SHIPMENT OF FAIL HAS NOT ARRIVED"

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I really can't see the Royal Fail working that late. Could it have been misdelivered to a neighbour who had just got home and dropped it round?

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possible, but. neighbour one side isn't there at all ATM (building work); and other side is family-with-kids (both of whose cars were there when I got home).

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They still might have only just got up the effort to drop it round.

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Or have only just got round to looking at their own post and found stuff that didn't belong to them.

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Of course, not that misdelivery is any better than late delivery - it's just a different *kind* of fail...

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Different kind of failURE.

S.

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Good grief, you *must* be bored to go around 'correcting' the grammar of what is a clearly-established colloquial usage, at least in specific internet contexts (see for example other comments on this post; the sense of what I wrote is subtly different from that of your 'corrected' version.) In other words: yes, dear, I do *know*, but if it makes you feel better... *head pats*.

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I'm not correcting grammar, I'm disparaging herd-like followers of the latest fad word that was amusing when it was first coined but is now just very very irritating.

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Oh, allow me:

"... but is now just very very irritating TO ME PERSONALLY."

Oddly enough, I find unnecessary reduplication of words somewhat annoying, but have never previously bothered to comment to anyone to that effect.

Now why not trot off and be rude in your own journal? Oh, you don't have one. Good-oh.

(Emperor, I'm assuming you are happy with my use of this word, since you frequently use it yourself, and indeed that influenced my use of it in the original comment, since it is nice to adapt one's language usage to the context in which one finds oneself. If not, I'd be happy for *you* to let me know.)

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Now why not trot off and be rude in your own journal? Oh, you don't have one. Good-oh.

Or is ashamed of it.

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Thank you ;-) Having someone I don't know randomly be rude at me for no good reason was surprisingly upsetting; to feel supported by someone else I also don't know pleasantly restores balance.

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