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It's not often that a photo has me gobsmacked/speechless but this is one of those-

Execution by cannon, in Shiraz, Iran, Mid-Late 1800s

http://t.co/4rbaH7SbuM

Looks like the worst way to kill someone IMO what's the point? Seems like a lot of effort to tie someone to the right place then make sure no one is behind the cannon etc just put them in a pit with lions

compasion / empathy fail ITT?

http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/the-most-absurd-human-rights-violations-127-execution-by-cannon/

Agree with Adam, strange posts itt.

http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/category/most-absurd-human-rights-violations/

Link above to the rest of the series, the blog seems interesting, didn't realise the extent of some of the harshness still happening to this very day.

Would have appreciated some sort of indication in the thread title what a horrifying image it contained.

Made me feel physically sick.

What i never understand/stood about hangings is why people go to watch. Seeing a dead body is the most horrifying thing in the world why would you choose to go see someone be killed no matter how much of a bad person they are?

you're right, missing an 's' out of compassion is unforgivable.
Don't know how I live with myself.

Sorry about that. I've changed the pic to a link to the photo where i spotted it.

Are spaces either side wrong? I always thought so, it seems to defeat the purpose, but old man Red insists on it, he even alters mine.
I've resisted contradicting him as yet, even though I know he's guess is probably as good as mine.
But, if I had someone to back me up..............

Morning Aunty.

Your Dad is wrong, but he'll not admit it, ever, he never does.

http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/punctuation/other-punctuation-marks/4/slash/

So it's bread/butter and not bread / butter?

Hi Teeks.

I was going to ignore that hilarious greeting, but it got me thinking that actually, we would only use 'Aunty' to address our real aunts, if we bothered with any prefix at all.

Strange that, never really occurred to me till now. Just another one of those tiny little customs that different cultures have which mean nothing and everthing at the same time.

Anyhoo, thanks for chipping in to tell me dad was wrong. I can always count on you!

P.S. Everytime I think of you reading my posts I just know your playing exclamation mark/brackets/italics bingo.  #paranoia?

Result.

Thank you Doobs, I think we will be using the 'Grammarly Handbook' quite often.
Sorry Mohican for hijacking your thread BTW. I tend to do that a lot.

Bread & butter, expressed as bread/butter, with or without spaces, has got nothing to do with the discussion at all. The slash indicates an alternative of the same thing. Bread is not an alternative to butter.

Bread & butter are different things, not alternatives to each other.

I had a sausage sandwich with red/brown sauce, for example, is perfectly correct. I had a sausage sandwich with bread/butter is just daft.

Aunty Daughter is correct. In fact it could even be Aunty/Daughter. Uncle Dad is wrong, however expressed. He always is, but never admits it. He is argumentative/stubborn, with or without spaces.

Oh no! They're ganging up on me.

It's the pseudo blonde leading the metaphorically blonde.

So'ok. The barbaric execution of a man pales into insignificance when the finer points of grammar are being discussed.

By the same token, you could argue that one execution pales insignificance when you consider the genocides where millions were, and for that matter still are being murdered.

In the kingdom of the blonde................

Sigh. Perhaps i should have put this ;) at the end of my sentence. It was a light hearted response to the light hearted but 'off topic' grammar tiff that has taken place. Nothing more, nothing less.

Burn.

Sigh..

So was mine.

Well, perhaps light hearted is the wrong word, but just taking the opportunity to make flippant yet hopefully poignant observation.

Certainly not a dig at anyone.

 :)

Yeah, I got that Mo'.
In fact I think I was posting to that effect when you got in first! Oh, and  :D just to be on the safe side  ;)

Ah, ok. Thought you'd taken offence. Back to grammar and what not,please.

Did you deliberately make a bollocks of that sentence so that I would have something to work with?

No Im not clever enough, too dew that sort'a thing. PLease correct at you're liesure.

I had a sausage sandwich with red/brown sauce seems wildly incorrect. If you're going to have a sausage sandwich in the future you could have red/brown sauce but if you've already had one why would you list the alternatives you could have? Spaces are obviously incorrect though so carry on.

"I had a sausage sandwich with red/brown sauce" is so obviously wrong, it should be "I had a sausage sandwich with Branston pickle".