An unfortunate bit of product placement for Microsoft as Liverpool celebrates winning some silverware There has been a tinge of Scouse to our bork column this week, which culminates in a football win for Liverpool - it won the English Premier League yesterday - and a pleading for activation from Windows. Spotted by eagled-eyed Register reader Tony G, while a red-shirted football player celebrated a victory, a ghostly pleading …
One of the official internal laptops (called a BT webtop 10, which don't allow zoom to be installed) was wiped and a clean, non-corporate image installed.
Anon because I might just have one that I avoid using at all costs (totally useless to develop on, or browse... Or type... Or you get the idea).
Americans don't insist on call that sport football, they just call it football. It is affected for a native-born American to refer to any other sport as "football", roughly on a par with referring to the "boot" of a car or proposing to travel vertically in a "lift".
Hope this helps.
Yes, "they" indeed, but certainly not "we": I find it weird when when people that watch the kicking-ball thing and happen to like a particular group of ball kickers say "we won". Makes me think of when a toddler "helps" in the kitchen – probably enjoying themselves and having a fun time with the person doing the actual work, who in turn may enjoy the presence of said toddler – and then says triumphantly, "we made a cake". I guess it's cute, in a way.
Isn't it just like saying "we won the war" when you were never a part of it. You identify with that team/community so you feel their victory is yours.
I personally don't watch football, I tried to as a kid but couldn't stand it for more than a few minutes, but I wouldn't say it's weird. Especially not when your hard-earned money goes on to buy your favourite team-branded clothes, season tickets, and whatever else that would go on to support them (i.e. their inflated salaries).
Arguably, one could say exclusively shopping at Asda would mean you should therefore see their success as yours, but that sounds silly.
Arguably, one could say exclusively shopping at Asda would mean you should therefore see their success as yours, but that sounds silly.
Yes but, that is because we don't have Supermarktes dabbling in weekly death matches. Though if we did... But, I'm sure this could be more logicaly concluded as a person who owns a lage share of Fruit Stock. Who slams the plebian based Materrace for using an innfirior product than what the Fruit Factory released last week.
Well They wouldn't have much of a carrere playing stupid backyard games. if it wasnt for the "Roayl WE" who go out, and buy the Season Tickets, Other Merch, and the BSkyB Licence to make sure that even the lamest person in the squad can have his very own Porsch-mobile. So yes I think very much bloody do have a right to claim some right to any win.
There is no absolute position that the personal pronoun for a team in Brit English is ‘they’ (see, eg, Noun-verb agreement on BBC Learning English at
https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv358.shtml).
We can use singular or plural verbs with many collective nouns depending on whether we are thinking of the group as a unit or as a collection of individuals.
In this case, “win for Liverpool - it won the English Premier League yesterday“ is what I would write but I think "they" is fine too.
"Hope this helps."
Here's a scale for you to demonstrate how much use of the foot and hand in a game nominally called "football" by the locals"
Foot.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....Hand
Now, "foot"ball in the vast majority of the world is right up against the left edge of the scale because any use of the hand on the ball is against the rules. Now, where on that scale would you like to place US style "foot"ball"?
I think the reasons for the name are historical, rather than a reflection of the way the ball is manipulated.
The English game that was called "football" for many centuries seems to have involved so much hand activity (throwing, catching, punching, gouging, wrenching, twisting etc) that it's puzzling that it was so called. When it was split into various flavours by codification of the rules, most of them retained the ball-handling element and the foot-related name.
"Americans don't insist on call that sport football, they just call it football."
They insist, because from what I've seen of it on any number of American movies, they pick up the damn ball, toss it to each other, and then cross a seemingly arbitrary movable line, lob it to the ground, and then half the audience cheers. There's very little kicking of the ball. You know, with the feet, that might otherwise justify calling the game football.
I mean, jeez, it basically looks like rugby being played by crash-test dummies.
It's not a bork or product placement.
If you can't be bothered to license your software properly though either incompetence, laziness, penny-pinching (or, no doubt, a combination of all three) then you have no-one to blame but yourself.
Don't forget the overwhelming satisfaction back in the day that used to result from replacing a popular hot-linked JPG with another image. It was up to you whether you went with the "Stolen from [insert website name here] or went straight to the Lemming porn.
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