suppose the British really do this?

[Alpo]

YouTube short. They have a list. And I'm wondering if the British actually talk like this or if they were doing this stupidly on purpose to make more people look at their video short?

 

Five reasons for blah blah blah

 

Number fifth, number fourth, number third...

 

Not number five, number 4, but number 5th, number fourth.

 

That's about the stupidest damn thing I've ever heard. You suppose the British really talk like that?

[Texas Joker]

A judge on a case I was party to once wrote reason the first through reason the fifth, so probably

[John Kloehr]

It's not so much a rule as it is a guideline...

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

7 hours ago, Alpo said:

YouTube short. They have a list. And I'm wondering if the British actually talk like this or if they were doing this stupidly on purpose to make more people look at their video short?

 

Five reasons for blah blah blah

 

Number fifth, number fourth, number third...

 

Not number five, number 4, but number 5th, number fourth.

 

That's about the stupidest damn thing I've ever heard. You suppose the British really talk like that?

You extrapolate your little world and assume everyone does the same or else they are weird.

Edited November 8, 2025 by Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

4 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

You extrapolate your little world and assume everyone does the same or else they are weird.

Well, for once I agree with Alpo.  This world is just crawling with weird people who don't do things I do the way I do.  WEIRD!!!

[Subdeacon Joe]

I've seen that usage for many years. 

Often as:

Item, the First....

Item, the second....

Item, the third....

 

and so on.

 

Edited November 9, 2025 by Subdeacon Joe

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

I've seen that usafw for many years. 

Often as:

Item, the First....

Item, the second....

Item, the third....

 

and so on.

 

I've seen item the first. I see no problem with that. But that's not what they said. They said number first, number second, number third.

 

That's idiotic.

1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Well, for once I agree with Alpo.

For ONCE??????

[Subdeacon Joe]

10 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I've seen item the first. I see no problem with that. But that's not what they said. They said number first, number second, number third.

 

Which is why I said "often," not always. 

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

6 hours ago, Alpo said:

I've seen item the first. I see no problem with that. But that's not what they said. They said number first, number second, number third.

 

That's idiotic.

For ONCE??????

Sorry.  I should have said "for third".

[Eyesa Horg]

If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, stop exaggerating.