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Edjukation gone to the dogs!

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    #2
    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov


    Huge implications for the government if true.


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    Areyouwell
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    I'm so upset over this, I probably won't sleep for the rest of the week.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Areyouwell wrote: »
    I'm so upset over this, I probably won't sleep for the rest of the week.
    Just sit up and count the sheeps! :pac:


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    humbert
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    It's a depressingly shit photo too.


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    super_furry
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    Does Joe Duffy know about this?


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    Sky King
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    Areyouwell wrote: »
    I'm so upset over this, I probably won't sleep for the rest of the week.

    Count sheeps

    *edit - d'oh beaten to it!


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    smcgiff
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    Clearly a covert trigger sentence to activate sleeper agents. The Government are rattled over the water protests.


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    dxhound2005
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    Usual RTE incompetence. Real story here.

    http://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-photo/sheppard-and-his-dog-walk-next-to-a-herd-of-sheeps-during-news-photo/457828598

    A sheppard and his dog walk next to a herd of sheeps during their transhumance in Robecco sul Naviglio, northern Italy, on October 25, 2014. Sheppards have started seasonal migration, moving sheeps down the moutains before the beginning of winter.

    Credit goes to Olivier Morin.


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    [Deleted User]
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    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Usual RTE incompetence. Real story here.

    http://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-photo/sheppard-and-his-dog-walk-next-to-a-herd-of-sheeps-during-news-photo/457828598

    A sheppard and his dog walk next to a herd of sheeps during their transhumance in Robecco sul Naviglio, northern Italy, on October 25, 2014. Sheppards have started seasonal migration, moving sheeps down the moutains before the beginning of winter.

    Credit goes to Olivier Moron.
    fyp! ;)


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    Donkey Oaty
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    That RTE story also has a picture showing "informational posters" in Ukraine.


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    Tokyo
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    Swedish photographer, and in France, so that explains the issue with plurals and collective nouns, but yeah, still shocking that it wasn't proofread before going live.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Right all ewes smartypants, how many of you could write the same caption in French unaided?


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    super_furry
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    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Usual RTE incompetence. Real story here.

    http://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-photo/sheppard-and-his-dog-walk-next-to-a-herd-of-sheeps-during-news-photo/457828598

    A sheppard and his dog walk next to a herd of sheeps during their transhumance in Robecco sul Naviglio, northern Italy, on October 25, 2014. Sheppards have started seasonal migration, moving sheeps down the moutains before the beginning of winter.

    Credit goes to Olivier Morin.

    Indeed. It's a sheeps-piracy!


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    the dark phantom
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    Its why


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    the dark phantom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭the dark phantom


    Its why I don't pay the license..


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    Macavity.
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    Not much of a story. :/


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    Donkey Oaty
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Right all ewes smartypants, how many of you could write the same caption in French unaided?

    Une sheeps entrepreneur avec chien et rendezvous de sheeps.


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    Macavity. wrote: »
    Not much of a story. :/
    What do you expect on a wet Sunday afternoon!

    mass rape and pillage in the Vatican, a heard of wildebeest strutting majestically across the plains of Lansdowne road stadium or just Bored Boredsters finding stuff.


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    FunLover18
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    1st year English!



    I'm not sure what is worse, the shepard, the herd or the sheeps!

    What's wrong with 'a herd'?


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    Tokyo
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    FunLover18 wrote: »
    What's wrong with 'a herd'?

    'flock' is the collective noun for sheep.

    Though the same collective noun is used in french for sheep and cattle (troupeau), so I can understand why it didn't translate well.


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    FunLover18
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    mike_ie wrote: »
    'flock' is the collective noun for sheep.

    Though the same collective noun is used in french for sheep and cattle, so I can understand why it didn't translate well.

    Ah yes, of course.


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    [Deleted User]
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    FunLover18 wrote: »
    What's wrong with 'a herd'?
    http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/kids/animals/groups/


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    Annasopra
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    All google searches I came back with suggest a group of sheep can be called flock, herd or mob.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Guy:Incognito
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    super_furry wrote: »
    Does Joe Duffy know about this?

    He doesn't care, BMW sales are up.


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    Pumpkinseeds
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    It's hardly surprising. Have you heard a teenage conversation lately? Whether it be on the phone or face to face it generally goes as follows. 'He said, like, and I said like, and he says like and like I said':confused:


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    FunLover18
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    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    All google searches I came back with suggest a group of sheep can be called flock, herd or mob.

    It does seem like a silly thing to get worked up about, if the writer had said 'a murder of sheep' or 'a school of sheep' I could understand but I would've thought using 'herd' instead of 'flock' would be fairly forgivable


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    Cantremember
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    Ad for spec savers.


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    Cantremember
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    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    It's hardly surprising. Have you heard a teenage conversation lately? Whether it be on the phone or face to face it generally goes as follows. 'He said, like, and I said like, and he says like and like I said':confused:

    Smh. It's like just so gayyyyy when she's like and so weird when my bae is like I dunno and then we're like OMG so stressed and kill me already.

    Weeps.


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