Rees-Mogg's "rules"

[Proper Tidy]

I know this has been said before and it's irrelevant to fact he's a nasty rw cunt, but for somebody who is posh and tries very hard to be 'refined' and all that shit, why does he always wear such badly fitting suits. They are always shit, too long in the arms and legs, baggy at chest, just really bad. Like a sixth former at an interview.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I'd imagine they are not off the shelf so what the fuck

 

[Poi E]

part of the schtick. Like throwing out the pathetic "rules", once you engage with/criticise him (odd suit, strange rules) he has you on his turf, signalling his role as the bastion of true conservatism. he's bullet proof.

 

[Proper Tidy]

part of the schtick. Like throwing out the pathetic "rules", once you engage with/criticise him (odd suit, strange rules) he has you on his turf, signalling his role as the bastion of true conservatism. he's bullet proof.

His (probably very expensive) tailor must love him, cut it baggy and charge a few k

 

[Poi E]

Perhaps there was some Edwardian principle of the newly-terraced bourgeoisie that it was permissible, indeed aspirational, to have a loose fitting suit so one may grow into it as one becomes a fatter toady to power.

 

[FiFi]

I'm concerned about going back to Imperial measurements for those of us in the NHS. We have used the metric system for drug doses, weights of premature babies and fluid replacements etc. for as long as I have been trained. No-one is trained in the use of Imperial, so there will be a huge risk of miscalculations being made.

 

[Poi E]

Get used to measuring those poultices in pounds.

 

[weltweit]

When I was at school we learnt the metric and imperial systems and in a first job where I was responsible for preparing various data sheets and brochures we listed both in specifications.

Now UK companies iirc list metric only but we still have this muddle of things, miles, millimeters, etc

 

[butchersapron]

I'm concerned about going back to Imperial measurements for those of us in the NHS. We have used the metric system for drug doses, weights of premature babies and fluid replacements etc. for as long as I have been trained. No-one is trained in the use of Imperial, so there will be a huge risk of miscalculations being made.

This is a style guide for the people employed in Rees Mogg's office - nothing more.

 

[FiFi]

This is a style guide for the people employed in Rees Mogg's office - nothing more.

Ok. But what about the "slippery slope" principle? Give some people an inch......

 

[skyscraper101]

I know this has been said before and it's irrelevant to fact he's a nasty rw cunt, but for somebody who is posh and tries very hard to be 'refined' and all that shit, why does he always wear such badly fitting suits. They are always shit, too long in the arms and legs, baggy at chest, just really bad. Like a sixth former at an interview.

they’re not fit for purpose.

 

[Poi E]

Throw bunch of ideas out there, get the data analysed (XYZ demographic loved ABC), make up policies accordingly. It's not like these guys are loopy. All carefully cultivated and analysed.

 

[SpookyFrank]

When I was at school we learnt the metric and imperial systems and in a first job where I was responsible for preparing various data sheets and brochures we listed both in specifications.

Now UK companies iirc list metric only but we still have this muddle of things, miles, millimeters, etc

Again, case by case is the only sane approach here. Six foot is easier to visualise than 183cm, but the latter is more accurate.

It's not exactly hard to be familiar with both systems, particularly when one of those systems was specfically created so that even the French could understand it.

 

[weltweit]

Again, case by case is the only sane approach here. Six foot is easier to visualise than 183cm, but the latter is more accurate.

It's not exactly hard to be familiar with both systems, particularly when one of those systems was specfically created so that even the French could understand it.

I have never been able to visualise litres of petrol, much preferring mpg.
And miles an hour are better than kph.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

You and Jacob might think so, but it's just a hangover from when typewriters were still used. Only people of a certain age think that it is a rule. While the first generation to learn to type on computer still learned to do so, you won't find it in any modern style guide. Practically everything that is published will have a single space. This sums up how anachronisitic Mogg's style of politics is: keep following the old rules even when they are obsolete.

I learned to type on a manual typewriter so that is probably why I have always used two spaces.

 

[eoin_k]

Imperial measurements can be as accurate as the decimal system, arguably more so for non-decimal fractions if you want to be pedantic. The SI system uses meters and kilograms though , so if you want a scientifically literate population reverting to imperial is a bit daft. Apart from farenheit maybe, the subjective stuff is all arbitrary.

 

[andysays]

...Rees-mogg has to be first up against the wall come the revolution. He so fucking deserves it, not least for giving his kids ridiculous names.

Agreed, but not shot. We need to find an appropriately archaic method of executing him.

 

[eoin_k]

I learned to type on a manual typewriter so that is probably why I have always used two spaces.

Unless you write stuff regularly that someone else has to edit for publication, do what you like. But Mogg's dictat just means some minions in Whitehall will now have to correct any copy conforming to his personal taste in style that comes out of his department. That he seems oblivious to this, in his lines of work marks, him out as a twat.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Agreed, but not shot. We need to find an appropriately archaic method of executing him.

Brazen bull for a brazen bullshitter

 

[isvicthere?]

I can think of examples where a comma is fine after 'and'.

It's interesting he insists that organisations are singular, since that sounds more American to me. Something a wannabe Victorian should surely eschew.

'Ongoing' died out yonks ago, along with Private Eye's 'ongoing situations' section.

Imperial measures: batshit crazy.

Excision of 'equal' from the language: just as you'd expect from a right-wing tory.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I can think of examples where a comma is fine after 'and'.

Def. Rules mostly shouldn't be hard and fast anyway, sometimes breaking a rule makes writing read better.

 

[Combustible]

Again, case by case is the only sane approach here. Six foot is easier to visualise than 183cm, but the latter is more accurate.

The latter is only more accurate if the distance you want to measure is closer to 183 cm than it is to 6 foot. No system of units is more accurate than another (but there is still good reason to use SI units).

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

 

[weltweit]

What exactly is Mogg's role in government anyhow?

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

What exactly is Mogg's role in government anyhow?

Leader of the House - basically the government's business manager in the Commons.

 

[chilango]

What exactly is Mogg's role in government anyhow?

Distraction.

 

[fishfinger]

What exactly is Mogg's role in government anyhow?

Official Lord Snooty impersonator.

 

[andysays]

What is an "Oxford comma" anyway?

ETA it sounds to me like a butterfly

 

[Raheem]

What is an "Oxford comma" anyway?

It's the thing that creates a brief pause between Eton and throwing yourself full-time into trampling over your lessers.

(ETA: Spellcheck said 'lessees'. Could be that too.)

 

[danny la rouge]

What is an "Oxford comma" anyway?

In a list, the and gets a comma before it. It’s what I was taught, so it’s what I do. But other styles are possible.

(Oxford, Cambridge, Stirling, and Napier are Universities).