The infinite box of King stands alone, empty and devoid of the sustenance it has provided to my family and I over the previous weeks, the final proof Christmas is over.
by TDog81
The infinite box of King stands alone, empty and devoid of the sustenance it has provided to my family and I over the previous weeks, the final proof Christmas is over.
by TDog81
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Like the scene from Babe pig movie when he done a good job.
That’ll do pig, that’ll do
Now let that box enjoy its retirement
Crispmas is really over 😞
Thank you for your service 🫡
We got a load of tins of sweets off various people. I’ve asked the missus to just hide them somewhere and not tell me, or better yet, bury them down the back garden. My January willpower is strong four days in, but I know the weakness will set in soon.
my family and **me**
Here’s why. A basic sentence will have a subject, verb, and object. For example:
> She hit me
In English first you have the subject which is the person or thing performing the action, then you have the verb which is the action, then you have the object which is the thing that the action is being applied to.
So why is it “she hit me” and not “her hit I”? This is because there are subject pronouns and object pronouns. The main subject pronouns are: I, you, she, he, we & they. That means you only use these pronouns when they’re functioning as the subject. Conversely we have the object pronouns which are: me, you (same as the subject pronoun), her, him, us & them. “Her hit I” sounds wrong because it uses an object pronoun for the subject and a subject pronoun for the object.
That’s also why “the … box … has provided to my family and I” is wrong. You’re using I, which is a subject pronoun, as the object.
This mistake is usually a case of hypercorrection. That’s a linguistic term for when someone thinks they’re correcting their grammar when actually they’re messing up accurate grammar. The reason being is that most people have been told that something like “me and my friend won a competition” is wrong and they take the wrong message that “me and X” should always be “X and I”. It should indeed be “My friend and I won a competition” because my friend and I are the subject so we should use a subject pronoun. But that doesn’t mean that it’s never “me and my friend”. That’s totally acceptable when that’s functioning as the object of the sentence. For example, “My mother gave a gift to me and my friend”.
This is also the difference between who and whom. Who functions as a subject, while whom functions as an object. “Who knocked on the door” is correct because the person whose identity we don’t know is the one performing the action, so they’re the subject. But “who did she tell” is incorrect because “she” is performing the action of telling to the person whose identity we don’t know, so that person is the object and we should say “whom did she tell”.
Sorry for the rant, but I feel like most Irish people go their whole lives without understanding the basics of grammar like this and I like to do my part to let people know why their grammar is wrong rather than just saying it’s wrong.
That box needs a cat
Mine didn’t last past Christmas night
King, we thank you for your service,
Judging by the condition of the box, I must say your family must be a somewhat civilised bunch?
I know that I would have gone feral on the closed half of the top about 3/4 of the way through.
Ate the last mince pie last night, dunno what to do with my life now.
In my house the final day of Christmas, is when I force myself to eat all the left over Twix Celebrations in one go and throw all the Cadbury’s Chocolate Eclairs in the bin.