Anyone who starts a sentence with 'me thinks' or ends it with 'simples'

mudstack

...should have speaking privileges or participation in discussion forums revoked, or be put down.

Not a NSA agent

Me thinks you dont like this, simples.

mudstack

Not a NSA agent wrote: »

Me thinks you dont like this, simples.

cocks gun...

efb

mudstack wrote: »

cocks gun...

guns cock...

TheLastMohican

Iconoclast, methinks!

MightyMandarin

Do meerkats count?

Tin Foil Hat

'Methinks' is one word. If you are going to use non-standard English, then you need to use it correctly.

Mark Tapley

" The lady doth protest too much methinks"

TheLastMohican

That's what you think. Now. drink up - have ye no homes to go to?

One eyed Jack

mudstack wrote: »

...should have speaking privileges or participation in discussion forums revoked, or be put down.

Clickbait title with the ellipsis OP, very little to complain about after that really.

Clickbait titles are like those sentences your teacher used start, and would finish with...

TheLastMohican

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Clickbait title with the ellipsis OP, very little to complain about after that really.

Clickbait titles are like those sentences your teacher used start, and would finish with...

Is that you Ginsberg? 'Tis, isn't it?

Samaris

Just going to throw it in here and be a hipster, but I've used methinks for a very long time.

Although I do tend to use it correctly /cough.

DivingDuck

The OED defines "methinks" as:

"Now arch., poet., and regional."

You're just prejudiced against people from areas where it's common usage. Shame on you!

mudstack

Simples is the worst for me.
For the most part, especially on forums such as this I usually see it used in a belittling and condescending way.

eg. I'm right and you're wrong, simples.


Methinks is probably the lesser of the two evils but I just think it sounds stupid.
Often used in a pretentious and annoying way to say I think and is usually used in a belittling way or as suggestive of idiocy.

eg. Methinks, you are wrong and probably stupid.

Mostly used by idiots such as Jar Jar Binks.

For Forks Sake

mudstack wrote: »

Simples is the worst for me.
For the most part, especially on forums such as this I usually see it used in a belittling and condescending way.

eg. I'm right and you're wrong, simples.


Methinks is probably the lesser of the two evils but I just think it sounds stupid.
Often used in a pretentious and annoying way to say I think and is usually used in a belittling way or as suggestive of idiocy.

eg. Methinks, you are wrong and probably stupid.

Mostly used by idiots such as Jar Jar Binks.

FACT.

Must be true now, I've said fact at the end....

not yet

mudstack wrote: »

...should have speaking privileges or participation in discussion forums revoked, or be put down.

Or set on fire...



Simples.

Mesrine65

mudstack wrote: »

cocks gun...

efb wrote: »

guns cock...

Sex Pistols?

arayess

mudstack wrote: »

...should have speaking privileges or participation in discussion forums revoked, or be put down.

methinks is used in Shakespeare , considering he is arguably the greatest writer in English there is an irony you denouncing that that use the word "methinks"

Samaris

arayess wrote: »

methinks is used in Shakespeare , considering he is arguably the greatest writer in English there is an irony you denouncing that that use the word "methinks"

In fairness, I reckon most people are probably not using it because of Shakespeare. Anyway, Shakespeare also used aroint and bona-roba.

Although I'd be happy enough to see those words come back.

Aroint with you, thou bona-roba, thou breed-bate, thou bezonian wench! Thy cain-coloured complexion is better suit to the candle-wasters!

Ch'ill, Count confect, your cot quean comrades are of little use to me.

It'd certainly make the rows in the street outside every Thursday night (I live near a pub) more entertaining.

kneemos

I choose to ignore your rules and follow my own .

DEFTLEFTHAND

I choose the 'put down' option.