A man who “deliberately” infected two women with the HIV told a court he got the virus when a man sexually abused him.
“the human immunodeficiency virus” yes, but “the HIV?”
Pendants want to know…..
A man who “deliberately” infected two women with the HIV told a court he got the virus when a man sexually abused him.
“the human immunodeficiency virus” yes, but “the HIV?”
Pendants want to know…..
He should have gone to California. It’s a ‘misdemeanor’ over there, alongside petty theft and trespass.
Whereas giving someone a plastic straw is a more serious offence. California, eh?
I believe the formal medical term is “down with the HIV”.
@Dongguan John. “contracted” HIV.
“the HIV” seems fine to me. As in “the ATM”, or “the THORP”.
No less acceptable than The hoi polloi.
How’s that for pendantry?
Sutcliffe’s second victim contracted the virus after he complained he was struggling to put a condom on. She told the court that Sutcliffe had robbed her of “precious early months of bonding” with her child as she took to wearing gloves to feed and change the infant.
It’s almost as if those bigoted old Christian prudes were on to something when they warned against shagageddon.
The wages of sin, eh?
Judge Parry also imposed a sexual harm prevention order on Sutcliffe which – until further notice – prohibits him from engaging in lawful sex with another person unless he has told them he has HIV and they understood and acknowledged the disclosure.
This is silly enough in itself, but becomes farcical when you find out that…
Previously, Sutcliffe was subject to an order which required him to provide contact details of partners to Lancashire Police’s public protection unit and then wait for written approval before having intercourse wearing a condom.
It’s like we’re living in a gayer version of the ineffectual, politically correct police state from DEMOLITION MAN.
For fucks sake, these sort of people ignore driving bans. Does the government really think they are going to wait for written authorisation from PC Shag before jumping on some slapper?
What a job, eh?
“Hey Bill, Dave from Wigan has asked if he can shag Jayleen tonight. What do you think?”
“Whatever, I’m having breakfast. You seen the newspaper? Sure I brought it in”
Judge Parry also imposed a sexual harm prevention order on Sutcliffe which – until further notice – prohibits him from engaging in lawful sex with another person unless he has told them he has HIV and they understood and acknowledged the disclosure.
Did the people framing this law not realise it wouldn’t prevent him from engaging in unlawful sex? Makes you think, eh?
Just goes to show that the use of articles in English is highly idiomatic.
In this case, my POV being no article is better, because whether countable or not it isn’t used singularly, and “aitch eye vee” is now a proper noun, not just an abbreviation. So I’d no more say “the HIV” than “the AIDS” or “attacks on Milosevic regime infantry positions by the NATO”.
If it can be “the HIV,” we have to decide then whether “a HIV,” or “an HIV.”
I’d have said
“A touch of the HIVs.”
I think you need to expand the abbreviation.
“The human immunodeficiency virus” reads ok so
the HIV
The one that annoys me is “the HMRC”
“The Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs”??
Talking of which….
ID papers.
What does the D stand for?
“Dentification”
Gamecock: so we just look impertinent police directly in the eye and give them a big smile when they ask for ID?
Pedantry overload.
Call the the cops..
We should form a National Pendant’s Society. Or should that be Pendants? Or Pendants’?
Am I missing some pedant / pendant in-joke here or is that just a simple typo that the pedant in me wants to point out?
In joke. Polly Toynbee once, through a typo, called me a pendant. Thus we’re pendants around here, to the vast amusement of all when someone tells us it’s really spelt pedant. Chortle, chortle
Jack C @ 3.37
Avoid the problem – National Society of Pendants.
“ID papers.
What does the D stand for?”
Its “papers” that is tautology:
ID = Identity Document(s)
[I’ve got a nagging feeling I’ve been dimmer than usual and have missed something.]
Ah – the sage of Tuscany. Where would we be without her?
ID is slang for IDentification.
But wait (pendant alert!): Somebody being ID’d would be identificationed ???
Ah – the sage of Tuscany. Where would we be without her?
Not in Tuscany
Doesn’t it rather sound like some Nigerian or other African wrote the article? “The HIV” indeed!
@Patrick, October 31, 2018 at 3:49 pm
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Vainglory
Link 3 – “Tim Worstall, you pendant”- Polly Toynbee
HTH
Good point, ViP. Could be English is a second language.
Obviously a grammar mistake.
Its supposed to be ‘teh HIV’ – which you get from teh geys. Off the intertubes.