How are you feeling now ?

Toretto, I've just input my comp pics for this weekend's AFL round.

Laughed when I saw the odds for your mob:

Adelaide (Form: W W L W W) $1.04
Carlton ('Form': L L L L L ) $15.00

Will the Blues win a game in 2018?

Has any AFL team ever gone winless in a full season?
(Oh, wait, I Googled. A few sides have. Most recently, Fitzroy went 0-and-18 in 1964...)

Essendon & Brisbane (though it is at the Gabba). That's all I see. Saturday night is going to be so painful. But I will sit through it. Just looking for signs of improvement for the long term, rather than a win right now, although a win would sure be fking nice!
 
Conflicted! I have some work waiting for me, but the fact that it's Sunday and I simply CBB, means I'll say 'fúck it'. It can wait until tomorrow...
 
Grumpy! Hate Monday's, hate busy Monday's especially when other people create more work than I should be doing. Still have another hour or so to go, but already had a gut full of today!
 
Grumpy! Hate Monday's, hate busy Monday's especially when other people create more work than I should be doing. Still have another hour or so to go, but already had a gut full of today!

Bank Holiday in the UK today... 😛 ..and I've got tomorrow off work... 😛 😛
 
I'll test you then, Toretto.

Meantime, imagine Jamie's Diary notes:

Monday - Disliked it
Tuesday - Disliked it
Wednesday - Disliked it
Thursday - Disliked it:
Friday - Disliked it
Saturday - Disliked it
Sunday - Disliked it:

Next Week - Will likely Dislike it
Next Month - Will likely Dislike it:
Next Year: May Dislike it

The screenplay writer for the 'Bridget Jones Diary'-type film is gonna have his work cut out!
 
Grumpy! Hate Monday's, hate busy Monday's especially when other people create more work than I should be doing. Still have another hour or so to go, but already had a gut full of today!

:: Puts on his Double English grad hoity-toity voice and points out, sternly, that Mondays, when used in the above context, should never be apostrophised! :

That should make you even grumpier, ha!:
 
:: Puts on his Double English grad hoity-toity voice and points out, sternly, that Mondays, when used in the above context, should never be apostrophised!

I can hear you saying this in your Double English Grad voice. 🙂 It's cute!

But my query is, as I speak in my Inquisitive Romanian Apprentice accent: "Monday's Classes are Literature and Art History." Is this correct or incorrect when using the apostrophe on Monday? I'm truly being sincere when asking this for I want to be proper.
 
You are 100% correct, Magdalina.

An apostrophe should, correctly, be used in just two instances:

When you are about to describe something as a possession.

'Monday's Classes' is spot on - the Classes belong to Monday. Similarly, 'Dogs' leashes' when you are talking about the leashes of more than one dog.

If you go past the markets here, though, looking for fresh produce your eyeballs get assaulted by idiotic (or lazy) storekeepers advertising 'TOMATO'S' or 'POTATO'S'.

When you are contracting, or abbreviating, two words

It's, eg, or Haven't or I'm...
 
I'll NEVER give up the Oxford Comma! Just saying . . .

I'm weird there, Mistoff.

If I type 'I am going shopping for bread, pate, cheese and salami', I don't bother with the Oxford comma.
But if I'm typing 'I like cooking my wife and my baby girl', ha', I put in Oxford commas! 'I like cooking, my wife, and my baby girl'

Though, if truth be told, it's way easier to spread that thought into two or three sentences!
 
I'm weird there, Mistoff.

If I type 'I am going shopping for bread, pate, cheese and salami', I don't bother with the Oxford comma.
But if I'm typing 'I like cooking my wife and my baby girl', ha', I put in Oxford commas! 'I like cooking, my wife, and my baby girl'

Though, if truth be told, it's way easier to spread that thought into two or three sentences!

When taking into account meaning, subtle nuances, etc., I have a hard time with the omission. Like, your sentence can be read as though cheese and salami are one item when they are two separate things.

Now without the comma altogether, your other sentence would be hilarious! "I like cooking my wife and my baby girl." 😱
 
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