What? There is only one use of the passive voice in this excerpt, and that explicity states the agent of the verb, and indeed inverting it to use the active voice would have just sounded weird.
05.10.2025 10:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@rattusmaximus1.bsky.social
What? There is only one use of the passive voice in this excerpt, and that explicity states the agent of the verb, and indeed inverting it to use the active voice would have just sounded weird.
05.10.2025 10:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dropped my pants in front of a police officer and everything.
22.07.2025 14:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Meh, when I was fourteen, I had to go to hospital to be resuscitated after downing a bottle of vodka in one, and I turned out ok.
Oh, hang on a minute...
Consistently tried to make my writing worse by enforcing 'rules' that its makers clearly didn't actually understand. I blame Strunk and White, as I always do.
16.04.2025 13:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The day that Grammarly told me to change every instance of till to 'til was the day I uninstalled it. That was about an hour after I installed it.
16.04.2025 12:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I just said "that was quite impressive" out loud to a spider. Meant it, too.
12.04.2025 23:29 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Target for the year beaten by March 11th.
11.03.2025 21:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There are several companies that I am boycotting and I have long since forgotten why.
15.02.2025 17:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Conversation with a cow-orker over Teams:
Me: Can you tell me your laptop's number? It would be on the underside.
Him: Where can I find that?
Me: On the underside.
Him: The underside of what?
Me: The laptop.
He tore the cable out of the HDMI plug turning it over.
And still I have a Tory MP with a comfortable majority, as has been the case for my entire life.
03.12.2024 15:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I assume the 'Milk Duds' are in the wrong place.
24.11.2024 22:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Pleased to see from the comments that I was not the only person to zoom in and look for Jack Nicholson.
18.11.2024 22:33 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I have forgotten. It was a long time ago.
18.11.2024 11:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ed knows, I have tried, but apparently my ears are impervious.
17.11.2024 23:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Now that I occasionally have to wear glasses, I have found that they are incompatible with headphones. The arms sit behind my ears, and the headphones press into them. Someone should solve this. Make it so.
17.11.2024 23:08 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Now that I occasionally have to wear glasses, I have found that they are incompatible with headphones. The arms sit behind my ears, and the headphones press into them. Someone should solve this. Make it so.
17.11.2024 23:04 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I take a dump of all my social media every few months. It wouldn't be a tragedy if I lost my minimal Twitter output, but I would be saddened to lose my FB history.
17.11.2024 19:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tots in pairs.
16.11.2024 21:17 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I drink paint.
16.11.2024 20:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 4 π 0What hath god wrought.
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