That’s probably what went on in the mind of the 36-year-old woman who foolishly (and drunkenly) lit fireworks and hoped the noise would wake up her sleeping boyfriend. She had planned to toss the fireworks out the front door but before she could, it exploded in her hand tearing off her thumb, middle and ring finger (those are some pretty important fingers!). The police said the explosion was so powerful that they found bone remnants embedded in the ceiling. Ouch. The Gainesville Sun]
olearymo
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 8:33 AM‘Trys’?
Holy shit on a stick. It’s finally happened. Has Casey Chan finally lost his brain?
I mean, I know, we’re meant to be polite about this, but guys. TRYS?!!?!?!!
RastusOxide
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 8:41 AM+1 on the typo, but also, are we to believe he remained asleep? :P
olearymo
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 9:04 AMI dunno man. Maybe. Thing is, that’s not a typo in my book. A typo is accidentally hitting the wrong key. This is just laziness.
Sam
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 2:14 PMVarious comments I’ve read from various Allure editorial staff suggest that they’re regularly fixing up spelling and gramatical mistakes of their US counterparts. I guess Danny also missed this one before he published the article.
olearymo
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 3:40 PMI notice the US one is worded differently and uses ‘tries’. Either it was always correct and the Aussie guys used ‘trys’, or they were both ‘trys’ and the US guys realized and changed it, and the Aussie guys haven’t had time.
If so, I’m not laying blame on them, but as I said on Casey. I certainly don’t expect Giz Au to spend all their day trawling content that should have been correct before it got to them (I’ve had a job like that).
Daniel
Friday, August 12, 2011 at 12:45 AMIn Australia, we speak the english language, therefore it has always been – and will continue to be “tries”.
A “try” used in his context (after a quick google search) relates to football lingo.
This reminds me of a sketch i watched a few years ago making fun of americans and the amazing race. They went up to people and asked them if they spoke “american”. Do you guys seriously think american is it’s own language? I mean, what excuse could you use to think australians use english differently? We have a few minor spelling replacements (i.e. “s” instead of “z”), but fuck, we’re not THAT different.
It’s school guys.
nobody
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 2:16 PMIt’s not laziness, it’s illiteracy.
olearymo
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 3:38 PM+1
Jon
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 2:36 PMDarwin award fail. Maybe next time.