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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Right. Pomegranates are in season, a fruit with delightful Hellish connotations, so I'm in a giving mood.

Let's try this again, shall we? This is a thread for condemning all those little things to Hell. Things that don't require a thread of their own.

That means, the Greek chorus needs to keep itself under control and not wander off into a dozen smart alec posts in response. Got it?

Right. On your marks. Get set. Go.


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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH pomegranates, and especially myself, who buys them EVERY SINGLE YEAR and always forgets to eat them when they're at their best. I never learn.
 

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Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
TICTH insurance companies who refuse to insure eldest Rogueling at all on our bog standard car just because he is seventeen. How is he supposed to learn if he can't practice?
 

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Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH my emotions, and the situation they have put me in.
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
Motherfucking gas prices.
 

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Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
TICTH bastards who can't be arsed to tell you haven't got the job, and recruitment agencies.

Fuck the lot of you.

AG
 

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Posted by FooloftheShip (# 15579) on :
 
TITCH all viruses. Without fear, favour or exception. What the fuck is the point of them, other than making you feel like shit?

God has some explaining to do. Wasps are a forgiveable lapse; viruses though.....
 

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Posted by claret10 (# 16341) on :
 
TITCH dentists, i hate them, but a necessary bloody evil humph
 

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Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
TICTH the child support agency.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
TICTH bills, tax papers, insurance papers and all other important documents I have to fill out, and I haven't got a clue where I left them.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH urban 4x4/SUV/Chelsea tractor drivers. If you can't park in supermarket and multi-storey car parks either learn how or get a smaller car. You're supposed to park between the lines, not treat one as an aiming point and straddle the bloody thing.
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
TICTH urban 4x4/SUV/Chelsea tractor drivers. If you can't park in supermarket and multi-storey car parks either learn how or get a smaller car. You're supposed to park between the lines, not treat one as an aiming point and straddle the bloody thing.

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The bastards do it so that no-one might scratch their precious vehicle.

You may like http://youparklikeacunt.com/ - apologies for naughty URL title.
 

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Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
TICTH shoddy workmanship, which it sometimes feels is the only kind available here. Before the plumber came my radiator was merely not heating up, now is is leaking water all over the floor...
 

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Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on :
 
Jon Donninson of the BBC passing off photo's of wounded children in Syria as fatalities in Gaza. The BBC is rapidly becoming a very bad joke.

[Why yes, I did edit out your duplicate post. Sometimes I am just filled with the milk of human kindness, even if it is a little sour

[ 19. November 2012, 20:50: Message edited by: PeteC ]
 

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Posted by Stercus Tauri (# 16668) on :
 
A certain Canadian insurance company, who happily paid a contractor who billed them for clean-up work that I had done. Meanwhile, we're still waiting for the contractor to do a permanent repair to storm damage where a tree fell on the house three weeks ago. Their "customer service" employee says I must be patient. A pox upon them unto the third and fourth generation.
 

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Posted by Tubbs (# 440) on :
 
TICTH office moves. Particularly ones that I'm asked to organise.

Tubbs
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH the extremely large number of jerks who think the goal of comments on Youtube music videos is to say the nastiest things possible about whatever kind of music you don't like.

It's fucking tiresome. Every damn video, a litany of "this singer is WAY better than..." or "this singer is CRAP compared to..." I don't fucking care about your pissing contest.
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
TAXKCDFT:

http://xkcd.com/481/


[EDIT: For those who are not mindreaders, Karl is helpfully providing you with a link to an item from the webcomic called XKCD, which is suggesting that people don't pay attention to the content of their Youtube comments. We are still researching what on earth the first 8 letters of this post are supposed to convey, but we provide you with this helpful editorial so that you know that Karl's account has not in fact been taken over by a spambot.]

[ 19. November 2012, 23:18: Message edited by: orfeo ]
 

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Posted by The Weeder (# 11321) on :
 
TICTH- the utter bastards who killed on of the the wild pigs who live in the Forest, and hacked off one leg, leaving the rest of the beast to rot.
 

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Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
TICTH drunk idiots who want to argue that they couldn't possibly have a $30.00 tab. I'm the sober one you dumbass, I KNOW how much you had.

Also people who screw in my bathroom. Please stop fucking in there, you are tearing the sink off the wall
 

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Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 

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Originally posted by BessHiggs:
Also people who screw in my bathroom.

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Originally posted by BessHiggs:

Also people who screw in my bathroom. Please stop fucking in there, you are tearing the sink off the wall

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Originally posted by comet:
We're down to one or two screwings a year.

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Also people who screw in my bathroom.
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Would a prominently placed videocamera help?

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Originally posted by Earwig:
Yup, and the UK's Advertising Standards Agency.

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Originally posted by orfeo:

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Originally posted by Earwig:
Yup, and the UK's Advertising Standards Agency.

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I'm sure that will work marvellously FOR A MEXICAN AD FROM LAST YEAR.

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Originally posted by IntellectByProxy:

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Originally posted by comet:
We're down to one or two screwings a year.

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About my average then.

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Originally posted by Erroneous Monk:
TICTH depression

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Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
Burn in hell, you evil soul-stealing black dog.

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He does. We're in hell together every day. He likes it.
 

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Posted by Matt Black (# 2210) on :
 

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Originally posted by BessHiggs:

Also people who screw in my bathroom. Please stop fucking in there, you are tearing the sink off the wall

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WTF?
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
TICTH the lay members of Synod.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

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Originally posted by BessHiggs:

Also people who screw in my bathroom. Please stop fucking in there, you are tearing the sink off the wall

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WTF?

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(psst-- I think she runs a bar. As you were.)

(also, I have to say the pun opportunities inherent in your response...)

[ 20. November 2012, 17:34: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 

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Posted by Caissa (# 16710) on :
 
TICTH the House of laity of the Church of England General Synod.
 

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Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
TICTH the rat in my kitchen which is currently terrifying me. And because my bathroom is through the kitchen I'm scared everytime I need to go to the loo. Driving to my mates house a mile away for a pee is not really an option. I'm actually looking forward to going to work tomorrow to get away from it.

And I also CTH the council who have privatised their rat murdering department and you now have to pay by credit card (which I don't have - but thank you aforementioned mate for letting me use yours) and will take three weeks to come round and murder the bastard. By the end of three weeks I'll be a basket case.
 

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Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
You can't just put out poison?

TICTH the people who want to feed the homeless on Thanksgiving Day at the church where I work. We get more calls from such folks in the days leading up to Thanksgiving than we do the whole rest of the year put together. Nice of them to think of the homeless once a year, but I get hungry every single day, and I suspect the homeless do too. I wish to God we could charge people for the privilege of serving on Thanksgiving Day -- and a premium for those who want to just hand out food, not cook or clean.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
TICTH UB40 earworms.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH people who use credit cards or EFTPOS for every freaking little purchase. Buying my lunch would be 50% quicker if you had those cute little slips of paper called dollars in your wallet. No PIN to remember, no processing delay while the computer system checks if you're the right person. No retrying after the shop assistant says it didn't go through.

And ESPECIALLY no umming and ahing about what extra thing you need to buy because of the $10 minimum.

[ 21. November 2012, 01:27: Message edited by: orfeo ]
 

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Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH the managers who are persecuting a disabled man in my office, to try to get rid of him. I have never come across such wilful ignorance of the correct policies in all my time as a trade union steward. They wouldn't recognise a reasonable adjustment if they fell over it.

You ignorant fuckwits, he was disabled when you employed him. Did you think his brain injury would suddenly heal itself?
 

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Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
TICTH the feeling of absence and loss. Particularly loss of my beautiful daughters. I miss them.
And also, TICTH my ex wife.
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
TICTH the desk-bound years that so patterned my muscles that a couple of hours back at the PC was a night and a day of pain and cramping.
 

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Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
TICTH - the sappy ansaphone messages that end with "God bless" -
You're so happy to bless the nth PPI Claims Company cold call?
Just stop it, now.
 

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Posted by cheesymarzipan (# 9442) on :
 
TICTH endless impossibly short deadlines.
The reason we told you the work would be done on that day is because that is when it could be done. We're not faffing around for the sake of it, we're working as fast as we can. We're already doing stupid amounts of overtime. That's not the point. The point is that you are not the only person who wants things done immediately. And our work takes time. And currently we can't actually do more than one thing at once. And the longer you spend pestering us for an earlier date, the longer it will take us to do what we are supposed to be doing today, and the later the deadline will be.

(I'm not grateful for the work - we all are - we just need more reasonable deadlines so we can all catch up on some sleep)
 

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Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
TICTH stupid neoprene elbow brace that itches, is hot, hurts and makes it darned near impossible to drive, brush my hair or wipe my ass. It sucks, but I know it's the only way mu stupid frigging elbow will ever get slightly better. I still HATE it!

ETA, I also hate being old and broke down enough to need a brace in the first place

[ 22. November 2012, 04:26: Message edited by: BessHiggs ]
 

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Posted by Spiffy (# 5267) on :
 
TICTH padlocks clearly labeled for "Outdoor use" that obviously weren't tested in Oregon's verdant hills. THREE bloody months after installing it on my outdoor fuse box, when I go out to reset the breaker I blew it's rusted completely shut!

(I cut off the hasp and got to the breaker that way. I have power tools and I'm not afraid to use them in my pyjamas at 9am on a holiday.)
 

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Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
TICTH Tony Abbott.
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 

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TICTH Tony Abbott.

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I expect the Daily Heil will be lauding him and saying how we should do the same, etc. etc.
 

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Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
TICTH The RAC. I was told when calling them this morning that they do not cover breakdowns that are suspected to be caused by flood damage and that they would charge me £85 if they came out to me. Why has this not been mentioned during my 16 years of membership?
I'll be moving to a diferent breakdown provider when my renewal becomes due
 

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Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :
 
TICTH picking up the wrong spray-can this morning. One heavily-tinted armpit.
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
That just made my day.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH i) Rotherham Council and ii) Michael Gove and Nigel Farage for firstly removing children from foster parents based on their membership of UKIP and secondly for making political capital of that decision.
 

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Posted by Ceannaideach (# 12007) on :
 
TICTH City Sprint for being unable to find their arses with both hands and claiming that they've attempted delivery despite me being in all day. Lying bastards.
 

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Posted by Imersge Canfield (# 17431) on :
 
I can t find or work out what TICTH means.
 

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Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
Today I Call To Hell
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
An alternative for the 'C', which I tend to go for, is 'condemn'. More punchy.
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
I think the original was "consign" but I prefer "condemn", myself.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Ah yes, consign. I do recall.

Anyway, basically it's "Today", and "Hell", and whatever C-word one feels is most appropriate for depositing one's frustrations about the world into the dark fiery netherregions.
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
And on that note I'll call/consign/condemn the makers of my not-particularly-old garbage disposal, which rusted through on Thanksgiving Day. O joy. Guess who's been mopping up and shopping for a new one, when I've no money to spend?
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH Rain. For causing a security alert that meant Mrs Sioni and I spent four hours getting to, inspecting but most just hanging around the store she works at, all due to water getting into the alarm sensors.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH Drivers. You, the bastard who feels the need to cram in the small space front of me instead of the vast open space behind, gaining 1/3 a second farther down the road as the whole rest of the motorway is jammed. And the fucking moron who was content going slow until I passed him after which he decided we are in Grand Prix contention and must pass me at all cost, becoming a major danger to the drivers he was careening around.* And You, going half the speed of everyone else. If you are afraid of driving at speed, get off the road, you are a danger. Use public transport, you will live longer and so will the rest of us. And, Madam, if you cannot drive in your lane, what makes you think you will drive better half-way in mine?
The lot of you, and more, who all decided to join me on my journeys today.

*Especially true since I began driving a MINI. Particularly Mercedes and BMW drivers. Can anyone explain this? I passed the same in my Toyota RAV 4, no such reaction.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
TICTH the Daily Telegraph's web-site, which has suddenly limited international readers to 20 articles per month, thereafter charging £20 per year.

WTF?
 

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Posted by Amazing Grace (# 95) on :
 
TICTH fleas.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
TICTH digital television. Now that the weather's turned cold again I have the choice of watching the stations in Cubist mode, with clicks and squeaks, or blank screens. I have an indoor aerial and booster and they aren't helping.

I really wish they'd just have left television alone and on analogue. The picture might have been snowy at times, but the reception since going digital has been so consistently bad that it seems like a rip-off having to pay for a TV licence when half the time you can barely see the programmes.
 

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Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
TICTH having no heating and hot water. I also CTH the technician who has already been round here four times (count'em) to fix the sodding thing. And while we're at it the patronising lady who I'm going to get on the phone tomorrow morning insisting that aforementioned technician is a highly competent professional and that he does a perfectly good job of fixing people's heating.

Aaaaaaaaaaarrghhhhhhhhhhh and brrrrrrrr
 

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Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on :
 

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And on that note I'll call/consign/condemn the makers of my not-particularly-old garbage disposal, which rusted through on Thanksgiving Day. O joy. Guess who's been mopping up and shopping for a new one, when I've no money to spend?

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Originally posted by Starbug:
TICTH the managers who are persecuting a disabled man in my office, to try to get rid of him. I have never come across such wilful ignorance of the correct policies in all my time as a trade union steward. They wouldn't recognise a reasonable adjustment if they fell over it.

You ignorant fuckwits, he was disabled when you employed him. Did you think his brain injury would suddenly heal itself?

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Originally posted by Amazing Grace:
TICTH fleas.

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Originally posted by churchgeek:
I know as someone with a mental illness that people are fine with you having a chronic illness or disability. It's just when you actually have symptoms from it that they get annoyed, intolerant even.

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Originally posted by comet:
oh yeah. gotta love the "shouldn't you be over that by now?"

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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
...(except his own) and easily conquered if you simply "pull yourself together."

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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
No, don't do that. I've got a new heavy duty one. We can consign him to that.

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TICTTGD just doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
 

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Posted by Dark Knight (# 9415) on :
 
TICTH the Australian Dept of Foreign Affairs, the embassy in Italy, and the disgusting grandmother and great-grandmother in this utterly appalling story.
And ICTH the 'Family' court system here, which has aided and abetted in the ongoing kidnapping of my children by their mother.
 

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Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
TICTH 5am shift starts. I know it's a good thing I've got a job but I struggle to believe it when the alarm clock goes off at 3.15 am
 

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Posted by Mullygrub (# 9113) on :
 
TICTH fricking Grandstand commentators and their inane obsessions with odd-sounding (in their opinion) town names.

It's "Queanbeyan". Chyah. We got it the first time. And the time after that.

Stop clogging up the entire session's cricket commentary with your adolescent jokes about Queen-bees and King-bees and Worker-bees and pollination and fertilisation and reproduction. Presumably (and perhaps that was my first mistake) you were hired for this gig because of your remarkable balance of cricketing smarts and your skill with a squishy, black, bulbous thing on the end of a stick, and NOT your riotously witty and relevant sense of humour.

PS. Chive and DK: GAH! (on your behalf)
 

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Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :
 
TICTH blasted heads of management who instead of solving problems, or at least trying to tackle them, make their subordinates suffer countless meetings about self-reflection and well-being and how to support each other; and who bombard us with loads of meaningless trite in paper form or by e-mail on the same.

So not getting to the root of it all (and yes, it's all about you and your own job, cun[c]tatory bitch!) and just 'talking' about it is going to help, eh? As if! Bugger off, you bastardly beast!
 

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Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
TICTH:

• Responsibility (I'm a youngest child FFS).
• Prudence ( I hate being politically correct.)
• Indecision ( Because it's bloody hard to know God's will)
• Penal Substitution ( Because it sucks)
• The South African Cricket team ( Because they lasted when they shouldn't have)

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Originally posted by Dark Knight:
TICTH Tony Abbott.

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
TICTH Newport Transport, yes, another fucking bus company only this one has an oh so cool driver who wears shades in the pitch-dark who "couldn't see you mate".

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Originally posted by Tina:
'Ooh, it's Christmas!' No, and no.

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
You in that car, yes you, the old bloke in the little silver car. You know who you are - you're the one who suddenly hoved into view about a foot from my elbow when I was going down Prince of Wales Road at about 30mph. You're the one with whom I politely remonstrated about passing distance. And the one who moved his hands like a fisherman fabricating tales of his near catch to indicate that he thought a foot was easily adequate.

Read the fucking highway code. Especially the bit about overtaking cyclists. You'll find it says something about leaving the same space you would for a small car. The only small car that'd fit in the space you gave me would have "Matchbox" written on the underside.

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Did you take his number? If so report him to PC Plod. That will bring soem hell on earth into reaching distance .....
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
... people who never bothered to look up the word "literally" in the dictionary.

Just heard on Animal Planet-- "This is literally a Catch-22 situation!"


Oh, really. So Joseph Heller scripted it, is that what you're saying? Or did you stumble across Youssarian's flight manual?
 

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Posted by QLib (# 43) on :
 
Yeah - and I'd lay down good money on the proposition that it probably wasn't even a figurative Catch-22 situation either. With a side bet that the fucker hasn't even read the book.

[ 02. December 2012, 06:36: Message edited by: QLib ]
 

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Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
TICTH eczema, especially on my eyelids. Not the most devastating of conditions, by a long shot, but just stop itching!

[Edit: added smilie]

[ 02. December 2012, 06:38: Message edited by: Stejjie ]
 

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Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on :
 
TITCH the asshats who maintain the grounds of our co-op. They were supposed to work on the lawn and blow the leaves away from the walkways and front porches of the apartment buildings this past Thursday. Every Thursday they're supposed to be hard at work, pruning trees and doing all their landscape things. However, lately they've been slacking off in a major way and yesterday morning... a calm and peaceful Saturday morning... everyone got jolted out of deep sleep at 7:00 a.m. by these morons and their screaming loud leaf blowers! 7:00 in the morning!! On a weekend! And they continued on making an unholy racket for two hours... in a co-op that has only eight buildings! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I seriously wanted to kill the lot of them.
 

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Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on :
 

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TICTH eczema, especially on my eyelids. Not the most devastating of conditions, by a long shot, but just stop itching!

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
You in that car, yes you, the old bloke in the little silver car. You know who you are - you're the one who suddenly hoved into view about a foot from my elbow when I was going down Prince of Wales Road at about 30mph. You're the one with whom I politely remonstrated about passing distance. And the one who moved his hands like a fisherman fabricating tales of his near catch to indicate that he thought a foot was easily adequate.

Read the fucking highway code. Especially the bit about overtaking cyclists. You'll find it says something about leaving the same space you would for a small car. The only small car that'd fit in the space you gave me would have "Matchbox" written on the underside.

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Did you take his number? If so report him to PC Plod. That will bring soem hell on earth into reaching distance .....

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You'd like to think so. It's not the experience of most cyclists. If you can get the police interested at all in a incident where no-one was injured, they'll usually hide behind "no independent witnesses". You can even send video evidence and even though you're a lawyer still find the police aren't interested.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH blue Christmas decorations. Blue is not a Christmas colour. It is as appropriate for Christmas as it is for food.

Blue tinsel and baubles are wrong. Blue lights are for emergency vehicles. I saw a blue-nosed Rudolf at the weekend

Blue is a good colour for football shirts on Merseyside, but that's all.
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
Matron! I think it's time for Sioni's special injection. He's - erm - tired.
 

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Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :
 
Sioni, here you go.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
TICTH blue Christmas decorations. Blue is not a Christmas colour. It is as appropriate for Christmas as it is for food.

Blue tinsel and baubles are wrong. Blue lights are for emergency vehicles. I saw a blue-nosed Rudolf at the weekend

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Boogie: Agreed. Blue is a cold colour - we need to feel warmer at this time of year, not to be reminded of icicles. Brrrr!

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Yeah, not so much where I'm from. We want to be kept cool this time of year.

..... except for this week

SO, TICTH the bloody fucktardish DID weather, flaunting its unpredictability like a french maid in a nun costume.
 

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Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :
 
TIRTH* Arriva for having stupid fare structures and being generally unreliable and shit. And I will drive them there on a Nottingham City Transport Bus for having stupid fares, being unreliable AND not giving change. I know I could get a card from the City Centre but I have to get the bus there and I only go to Nottingham twice a year (which is far too many).


*Today I Recall to Hell - as they were previously called here but somehow escaped again.
 

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Posted by Huntress (# 2595) on :
 
TICTH friends who put me in such a situation that I find it easier to take myself apart and castigate myself for how I feel than just admit that my "friends"* are acting like jerks - all in good Catholic love of course.


*Fortunately the type in this hell post are fewer than the truly good ones in my life.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH the exceptionally rude customers who expect staff in a Newport store to speak Welsh and worse still, denigrate their "foreign accent". Yup, it's the staff's fault that they are English.
 

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Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :
 
Thinking about that Sioni...

TICTH my complete inability to learn new languages. I make some small headway in Welsh (Say Somthing in Welsh beginners lesson 2) and completely forget everything I learned before. I think my brain is getting too full.

Dwi ddim yn medru siarad Cymraeg achos dwi'n gwybod dim byd! (or something like that - it should say I can't speak Welsh because I don't know anything)

(edited to conform to Ship language rules!)

[ 06. December 2012, 09:01: Message edited by: Bob Two-Owls ]
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 

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Thinking about that Sioni...

TICTH my complete inability to learn new languages. I make some small headway in Welsh (Say Somthing in Welsh beginners lesson 2) and completely forget everything I learned before. I think my brain is getting too full.

Dwi ddim yn medru siarad Cymraeg achos dwi'n gwybod dim byd! (or something like that - it should say I can't speak Welsh because I don't know anything)

(edited to conform to Ship language rules!)

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Originally posted by Doc Tor:
TICTH my body, which is absolutely fucking useless at fighting off infection. I cannot afford, professionally, socially, familialy, to spend another day feeling like a warmed-up sack of crap, yet here I am, at 1 in the afternoon, still in my dressing gown, hacking my lungs up and unable to any of the extremely limited list of jobs I have to do.

The sooner I get to replace everything with shiny, shiny metal, the better.

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I have the same problem. And I am asthmatic on top of it. And I work with kids. So, whenever the latest kid-born virus trots around, not only do I catch it in three seconds, but I can look forward to 2-3 weeks of being a human Pez dispenser of phlegm, and sounding like a bagpipe left out in the rain. So I join and support your consignment.

(Just finding tenuous areas of connection where I can. )
 

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Posted by Caissa (# 16710) on :
 
TICTH defenders of capitalism and trickle-down economics.
 

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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Caissa:
TICTH defenders of capitalism and trickle-down economics.

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No need to call us. We're already down here looking for the keys to the BMW
 

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Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
TICTH over-the-top sports fanatics who act like the entire universe is going to end in a horrible bloody catastrophe because the Tennessee Vols Football team can't seem to find a new head coach. GET OVER IT!!!! I'm sick and tired of hearing this drivel, I almost wish the elections weren't over so I could be annoyed by some other inane conversation topic.
 

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Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
TICTH spending fifteen agonizing hours on an impossible sermon.

Then having your supervisor tear out your basic premise in two minutes flat when you present her with a draft and then tells you to just tweak it a bit, but you can't do that because the argument is no longer coherent. But she can't see that.

OMFG.

I will have no choice but to present utter drivel.


 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH people who cannot find the mark whilst using a toilet.
Gentlemen, take matters in hand, step forward and aim.
Ladies, if you do not wish to place your precious bum on a surface where someone else may have sprinkled, don't you baptize it either.
 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Evensong:
I will have no choice but to present utter drivel.

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Ach, it's not like you'd be the first preacher ever to do so.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
TICTH the idiots who perpetrated the prank which seems to have led to this tragedy.

I hope they can live with themselves.
 

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Posted by Yam-pk (# 12791) on :
 
My reponse in support of piglet is, I think, illegal under UK law and the rules of this site
 

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Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
TICTH people who keep talking after I have told them that I have serious hearing problems and can't understand what they are saying.

They seem to think that if what they have to say is very important and they can say it briefly, I should be able to understand.

Today it was the audiologist's receptionist phoning about an appointment. I gave her my e-mail address and asked her to write me. She kept on talking I finally said, "Look, e-mail me." and hung up.

Moo
 

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Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Moo:
TICTH people who keep talking after I have told them that I have serious hearing problems and can't understand what they are saying.

They seem to think that if what they have to say is very important and they can say it briefly, I should be able to understand.

Today it was the audiologist's receptionist phoning about an appointment. I gave her my e-mail address and asked her to write me. She kept on talking I finally said, "Look, e-mail me." and hung up.

Moo

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quote:

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Originally posted by piglet:
TICTH the idiots who perpetrated the prank which seems to have led to this tragedy.

I hope they can live with themselves.

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quote:

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Originally posted by The Rogue:
TICTH the idiot cyclist who thinks it is OK to ride with lights so bright that people going towards him can't see properly.

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Any idea where he got his lights from? I could do with some better ones. Every time a car comes towards me when cycling at night I get blinded and can't even see the verge. It doesn't help that some buggers never dim their lights.
 

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Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
TICTH the flourescent light tube in our kitchen which went 20 minutes before B&Q (DIY superstore, for those not familiar with it) closed - which is 10 minutes' drive away.

And then B&Q for not having the right one (yes I realise that's probably unreasonable, but... but... just but...).

And then me for buying completely the wrong one anyway, meaning we'll have to be sharpish away from our church Christmas meal tomorrow in order to go and get a replacement, otherwise we'll be doomed to use a small bedside lamp forever and ever.



(The big question is, can I work all this into tomorrow's sermon?)
 

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Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
Stejjie--

You could do something on "what do you do if the light in you goes out"...FWIW.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH Apple Maps (and possibly also people who rely on it and ignore actual road signs)
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
Whatever happened things like, oh, say, directions, paper maps, and road signs? I'm a hardcore technogeek but I don't trust those things. According to most of them my neighborhood doesnt yet exist.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Aye, to hell with the bastards both at Apple and Google for this consequence of their silly war. There was an app and it works. it could be in the store now.
People, If you are going somewhere you've never been, cross check your map resources!
 

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Posted by ExclamationMark (# 14715) on :
 
Football (girly bladder kicking) and all its satanic imps and minions

[ 10. December 2012, 07:21: Message edited by: ExclamationMark ]
 

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Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
Re maps:

ALWAYS check multiple maps.

Years ago, there was a tragic case of a SF family up in snowy mountains. Whatever map they had (paper, IIRC) said that a backroad was open. Problem was, it was closed during the winter. They wound up getting very stuck, and the father died on the way to find help.

The family was eventually found. But IIRC finding was delayed because no one expected them to be on a closed road in the winter.
 

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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
Lorry drivers on 2 lane motorways who decide to overtake the lorry in front of them, the speed differential being officially “snail’s pace”, and therefor effectively bringing the speed of the M18 down to 55.1 mph for ten minutes or so.

Then they get to a hill and the lorry driver in lane 2 now finds HE is the slowest, and instead of braking and pulling in, he decides to wait for the lorry in lane 1 to pull ahead before he pulls in, thereby bringing the speed of the M18 down to 54.9 mph for another ten minutes.

Thank God for glass sunroofs, so they can see the obscene gesture I make as I go past!
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
And what, pray tell, is the speed limit of the M18?
 

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Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by orfeo:
And what, pray tell, is the speed limit of the M18?

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70 mph.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Ta. Just wanted to know whether deano had some reasonable grounds for complaint, or whether he was going to deserve some of the withering scorn and contempt I reserve for people who believe that speed limits are mandatory minimums. Carry on.
 

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Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 
TICTH the hidden sexism that assumes because women always want the nice interface, low-powered option in pink.

Jengie
 

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Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
In the absence of heck, which is probably more suitable, TICTH the NHS job application process, and particularly the 53-point "job description" that actually does not describe the job in any way at all, for that you have to go back to the advert...

AG
 

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Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
TICTH (again) earthquakes.

I was sitting here making snowflakes when this wee shake hit. Mag 2.90, but only 5 km deep and 4 kms as the crow flies, so not enough to damage anything except it juddered my mousing hand and now the start button on my computer is at the top right of my screen instead of the bottom left, which is a bit disconcerting.

The cat didn't even bother to wake up.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Did it mess up your snowflake???
Just not right.
 

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Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Deer. They walk across highways, get hit by cars and die, and the driver has them come in the windshield injuring them physically and psychologically. I know we have too much snow so they are looking for easier ways to walk, so also TICTH gun laws that have discouraged deer hunting, and snow itself also TICTH.
 

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Posted by Rosa Winkel (# 11424) on :
 
TICTH anthropocentrism.

[ 12. December 2012, 15:36: Message edited by: Rosa Winkel ]
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
TICTH snot.

Of all the miraculous things my body can do, creating copious amounts of snot is one I can do without.

Pass the tissues.
 

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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by comet:
TICTH snot.

Of all the miraculous things my body can do, creating copious amounts of snot is one I can do without.

Pass the tissues.

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quote:

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Originally posted by deano:

quote:

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Originally posted by comet:
TICTH snot.

Of all the miraculous things my body can do, creating copious amounts of snot is one I can do without.

Pass the tissues.

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Can you clear it out like footballers do? With one finger closing off a nostril and then a good blow? I can't do it. It just goes down my chin and stuff.

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quote:

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Originally posted by deano:


I loathe shopping in actual shops.

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quote:

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Originally posted by deano:

I loathe shopping in actual shops.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Stejjie:
TICTH my wife's work who yesterday quite casually cancelled her leave for this afternoon, meaning she's unable to go to our daughter's nativity play at school. (While allowing someone else to keep their afternoon's leave for the same reason, even though they booked it later...).

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quote:

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Originally posted by Stejjie:

quote:

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Originally posted by Stejjie:
TICTH my wife's work who yesterday quite casually cancelled her leave for this afternoon, meaning she's unable to go to our daughter's nativity play at school. (While allowing someone else to keep their afternoon's leave for the same reason, even though they booked it later...).

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Is there mercy or clemency here? Can I redeem someone I've called/condemned/consigned to hell? If so, I wish to un-call my wife's work, as they did let her have the afternoon off work after all (and praised her for her forbearance when she agreed without kicking up a fuss). So she could go, she was happy, older daughter was happy and there was love, peace, hallelujahs and Fabergé eggs all round.

If I can't un-call them, could the flames be at least turned down a little bit for them?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Firenze:
TICTH WW1. At least, I think that's where the trouble started. If a generation of Edinburgh tradesmen hadn't died in the trenches, then maybe this house wouldn't have been gerrybuilt with green timber, indifferent brickwork and a roof designed to move heat from inside to outside as briskly as possible. And I would not be - despite central heating - so sodding cold and raked with draughts the whole sodding time.

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quote:

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Originally posted by orfeo:
Sounds to me like your big problem isn't your co-workers, your big problem is a bloody stupid rule.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Kyzyl:
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck....

Yet another fucking school shooting in the US...

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Words fail.


 

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Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
Just a reminder that sympathy is in All Saints. For those wishing to vent further, there is a new Hell thread started. Thanks.
 

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Posted by George Spigot (# 253) on :
 
Chancel tax.

I mean what the fuck?

What's it got to do with me if some church roof needs repairs. Apparently even atheists are not immune from this.
Looks like we will have to take out expensive insurance cover.

I feel sorry for the farm owners who are more or less going to be sued for payment they can't afford over this by the church of england.

Bastards.
 

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Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
TICTH the dodgy theology used by a fairly senior local clergyman who justified the Lottery by saying that St Mathias was chosen by lot, so Lotteries are in the Bible.
(Apologies if you do the Lottery)
 

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Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH my sister, who chose yesterday (my husband's birthday) to text me about which of us will have Mother over for Christmas dinner. Mother is mentally ill, by the way, so neither of us are particularly close to her.

Why wait until now? Why not just pick up the bloody phone and talk to me? And why try stirring up an argument on his birthdaywhen you've had 12 other days in December to do it??? Or was that the point?

We're pretty much resigned to having Mother over at our house this year. However, Mother-in-Law will also be staying with us for the holidays. Being recently bereaved, she's not in a very good state, so it's not ideal to have my Mum there as well. My sister does know all this.

Funny how it all went quiet when I said we'd have Mum on Christmas Day if she does New Year's Day!
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Dear gossipy fake-nice buttmunch: I want to slap your face. Both of them.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
I spent hours yesterday and today working on something in Photoshop with layers, gradients and all the rest of it. It's wanted for Monday morning. Just put the finishing touches to it and saved it as a jpg to see how it worked, and found on coming back to it that I'd also accidentally managed to save the psd file as one single file with all layers merged, before closing it, so nothing is editable and nothing can be recovered.

That's what, twelve hours' work or so on a quite slow pc. They'd better like the jpg, that's all I can say.
 

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Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
TICTH the cyclist who nearly ran me over this morning, from behind, on the pavement.

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quote:

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Originally posted by FooloftheShip:
TITCH Wonga and all its animated matiness. If ever I saw the road to hell scattered with rosepetals, it's in those adverts.

Warning: this may or may not make sense to anyone outside the UK. For that I apologise.

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I'm inside the UK and it makes no sense. Not owning a TV pays off yet again.
 

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Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
I get Wonga adverts on the sidebar of my computer. I concur in CTH.
 

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Posted by Jenn. (# 5239) on :
 
norovirus. Meant I missed end of term celebrations, nativity service and carol service and general fun. Also, it hurts to eat and drink but I am very hungry and thirsty. Tis not fair.
 

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Posted by Mullygrub (# 9113) on :
 
TICTH all the well-meaning but totally conceited adults posting on Facepants today about how a person's worth is not in the score they get at the end of their (Australian) high school education.

Of course it's not.
They know that.
We know that.
You even knew it at the time of your own schooling's end. And with the exception of your wiser-than-thou conceit, you turned out okay. So lay off, kay? The kids'll be alright.
 

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Posted by Spiffy (# 5267) on :
 
TICTH people who get upset at you when you call them the fuck out for posting every five fucking seconds another fucking thing about Sandy Hook because twenty years ago there was a shooting spree at your middle school and despite lots and lots of therapy it's really not the kind of thing you like reliving every time you open Facebook.

Also, fuckers posting graphics with bad theology can eat a bag of dicks in a fire.
 

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Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
TICTH the utter bastards who murdered six people vaccinating children against polio.


 

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Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
TICTH the utter bastards who murdered six people vaccinating children against polio.

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You beat me to it. I was just coming here to post the same thing.

And while we are at it TICTH whoever had the stupid idea to run "a fake CIA hepatitis vaccination campaign" (as mentioned in the article)that has put these health workers at risk and as well as the health and lives of those who need these vaccines.
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
Geoffrey Clark who proposes "compulsory abortion when the foetus is detected as having Downs, Spina Bifida or similar syndrome which, if it is born, will render the child a burden on the state as well as on the family."
 

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Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
Eugenics has being going mainstream for a while
 

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Posted by Sergius-Melli (# 17462) on :
 
TICTH the shitty day I'm having at work - where a customer made an accusation that I was being racist to her.

*||:Breath in - peace and harmony; breath out- anger and annoyance:||*
 

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Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
The bastard that drove his car into a puddle in order to splash me, shower me from head to foot as i walked along the pavement.

Wish i'd got his numberplate so i could report him.
 

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Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
TICTH Teeth
 

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Posted by Matt Black (# 2210) on :
 
Our online banking which is repeatedly crashing this morning meaning I can't do my clients' completions on a vefry busy day of the year for completions; it's pissing with rain and my poor clients are standing around waiting to get into their new homes. A large dose of double pneumonia on their behalf to the tech-twats responsible!

[ 20. December 2012, 10:11: Message edited by: Matt Black ]
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
TICTH mobile phone manuals that consist largely of helpful instructions like "Do not chew or suck the phone or battery."

Also TICTH being overcharged for this phone. I got some extra credit by way of compensation when I went in but have just realized this is probably not the full amount and I can't face going back to the shop for a third time.

quote:

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Originally posted by Doublethink:
TICTH Teeth

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Yes, and the provision of NHS Dentists.
 

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Posted by Kasra (# 10631) on :
 
TICTH the estranged husband who a) doesn't want anything to do with us (= me and his son) but is b) contesting the divorce with all his might and main. Just co-operate already and I'll stop bugging you! Then you can marry HER which is what you want! I'm not even asking for ANYTHING!!!!! seethe, mutter, curse
 

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Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
TICTH winter. Specifically, winter storm Draco which has stranded me in fucking Nebraska.
 

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Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
TICTH the asshole who walked away with my purse on this lovely day that I was enjoying with my visiting brother's family.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Oh, FUCK that noise! SO not right!

Sitting here wishing the SOB much axeyness, Lyda.
 

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Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
Thanks, Kel.

I'm trying to make a mental to-do list for tomorrow to apply for a new DL, to cover getting some cash from newly opened accounts, and changing automatic billing from old, now empty accounts that are about to be debited for regular bills to new full accounts so I won't lose services. And trying to recapture some Christmas spirit so the bad guy doesn't totally win this round.
 

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Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH Eric Pickles and his patronising 50 ways for councils to save money
The council I work for has already implemented most of these.

Actually, TICTH the whole Coalition. Never before have a government made so many attacks on workers's rights in such a short space of time. Cynical bastards, the lot of them - how many free sandwiches and awards ceremonies do they still get?
 

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Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
He certainly look like he never met a free sandwich he didn't like.

Like most politicians then. Never follow your own advice.
 

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Posted by ExclamationMark (# 14715) on :
 
... Parentdish and Mumsnet for their smugness
 

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Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
TICTH people who quote a post and then type "This." Especially when they don't have anything else to say.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Fed up now. I've been overcharged for my new phone. I pointed out to the sales assistant when I went back again today that it says that phone credit is included and should not be charged as an extra. He agreed it was misleading but said I was charged the right price because phone credit was extra. We went round in circles for five minutes before I decided to try other sources.

As I've now discovered, the customer service email bounces, the call centre people are very polite but completely out of their depth (sounding as if they have no idea what "email" might be, let alone supply a valid email address) and don't ring back, the Facebook page isn't staffed and that just leaves the Helpers on Twitter who are taking a very long time to get back to anyone.

Shan't be buying another phone from this lot again.
 

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Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by RuthW:
TICTH people who quote a post and then type "This." Especially when they don't have anything else to say.

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^This.

You forgot the caret.
 

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Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 


TICTH people who make me laugh when I want to be ANGRY!
 

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Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
Geoffrey Clark who proposes "compulsory abortion when the foetus is detected as having Downs, Spina Bifida or similar syndrome which, if it is born, will render the child a burden on the state as well as on the family."

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He's also queried health care for over 80's. A UKIP candidate, if anyone's wondering.

[ 21. December 2012, 21:01: Message edited by: Bean Sidhe ]
 

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Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
TICTH the NRA idiot (Wayne LaPierre, IIRC) who gave the NRA's official "answer" to school shootings.

It boiled down to:

• More guns!
• It's not our fault!
• More guns!

 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
Who knows what will happen next. Maybe someone will decide that Wayne LaPierre is another "bad guy with a gun".

That's a pretty arbitrary description, which leads to the NRA's apparent goal: gun law by private citizens.
 

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Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
Another pretty arbitrary description is "genuine monsters, who are so evil ... that no sane person can ever possibly comprehend them" and today I consign Wayne LaPierre to Hell for uttering it.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
I think Wayne LaPierre is in serious danger of the eternal fires of Hell, never mind the Ship's version.
 

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Posted by rolyn (# 16840) on :
 
TICTC . Continuous rain in SW England.
 

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Posted by Meg the Red (# 11838) on :
 
TICTH the useless shit-for-brains life-form downstairs who is currently blasting the bass on his stereo so hard I can feel it vibrating through my keyboard. My little grandson is staying overnight and just asked me why the floor was shaking. And TICTH our property management company, which has never managed to shut the bastard up for more than a few days at a time. And now that their office is closed for the Christmas break, we can look forward to several days and nights of this.

The only consolation is that the fuckmuppet in question will be stone deaf by the time he's 30, if he should live so long.
 

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Posted by Jigsaw (# 11433) on :
 
The noro (winter vomiting) virus.
We can't visit my mother-in-law over Christmas as her care home has a case of the virus and is closed to all visitors, and the local church can't come and sing carols for the residents on Christmas Eve.
 

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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
Dementia.

My wife cried when her mum - 86 -, who has dementia, ate the party food my wife had put in her mums fridge.

My wife thinks her mum will be normal again if she treats her as normal. She won't. She's gone and my wife is only hurting herself, her mum, me and the kids by pretending her mum will be normal again.

my wife is on the edge. Do I kill her mum before she kills the mother of my children, my wife?

one quick shove on a frosty night when I'm taking her mother home and job done.

But I would have the rest of my life to live with the guilt. But if my wife does something silly what about that guilt? Hobson's Choice really.
 

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Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
Is this intended to be funny ?

There are other choices.
 

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Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
He is saddened and pissed off by the situation and rather naturally, although unreasonably, p.o.ed at his poor mother-in-law. This is Hell, so he expressed a hellish fantasy. :shrug:
 

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Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
I hope so, it was rather too realistic for comfort.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Creeped me right out, too, for the record, DT. No rule against it, but no rule against pointing out that there is a big difference between ranting that you wanna kill someone and methodically outlining the way you might do that.
 

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Posted by Qoheleth. (# 9265) on :
 
It's Christmas.
It's the time when many of our neighbours are drawn to join us.
Fantastic.
So I labour to produce a special service booklet, laid out nicely with graphics 'n all.
And I foolishly delegate the printing to someone else.
.
.
.
.
Then the organist prompts me to take an advance look.
Every side of every page is printed crooked. Not just an odd one.
Someone watched 160 copies of 6 sides come off the copier crooked.
Someone hand-collated 160 copies.
Crooked.
And no-one said a word
No one suggested a re-print while there was still time.
So amateurish.
So disappointing.

 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
As I said before, http://forum.ship-of-fools.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=017661;p=4#000157
 

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Posted by Mad Cat (# 9104) on :
 
TICH self-pity, and the nasty wee voice that say: you'll never.... you'll always be..... and the really vicious one that pretends to be one's mother.

FUCK. THE. FUCK. OFF.

Now I sound like Gollum.
 

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Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
Mad Cat--

IMHO: if Gollum had been able to do what you just did, his life might have gone better. FWIW.

(Gollum needed the Ship??? )
 

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Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
Deano--

Your situation sucks , and you need someone to help you deal with it. No one should have to deal with that, especially alone.

*PLEASE* find someone to talk to: therapist, clergy, crisis line. Maybe there's a support group for people dealing with demented elders?

Don't give up.
 

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Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
TICT people that believe only in suffering is truth found.

And Spiritual Directors that say unless you keep coming to spiritual direction, you aint dinkum.

Fuck that kind of emotional blackmail bullshit.
 

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Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
"you ain't dinkum" ?
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Evensong:
TICT people that believe only in suffering is truth found.

And Spiritual Directors that say unless you keep coming to spiritual direction, you aint dinkum.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Mad Cat--

IMHO: if Gollum had been able to do what you just did, his life might have gone better. FWIW.

(Gollum needed the Ship??? )

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Doublethink:
"you ain't dinkum" ?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Justinian:
TICTH the fuckwit on one of my webpages (I'm not linking) who's attempting to equate male circumcision with all forms of female genital mutilation and has been coming back to this issue for days.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
In pretty much every culture, century after century of teaching generation after generation of both genders that everything about a woman-- her talent, her intellect, her history, her accomplishments, her insight , her soul-- is absolutely secondary to her capacity to move someone's dick, and we're surprised when our young men follow through on that mindset?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Porridge:
TICTH people who get to the tops of escalators and STOP DEAD, luggage and all, while deciding where to go next. I can tell you where to go . . .

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quote:

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Originally posted by mdijon:
Or who stop dead on the platform immediately on leaving the train with a full carriage behind them. Or who dawdle three abreast in the tunnel to the platform. Or who move their trolley in dream-like bliss across the packed aisle in the supermarket boxing one in.

In short, all the inconsiderate morons who walk/dawdle/stop their way through crowds as if only they exist.

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Originally posted by mdijon:
Or who stop dead on the platform immediately on leaving the train with a full carriage behind them. Or who dawdle three abreast in the tunnel to the platform. Or who move their trolley in dream-like bliss across the packed aisle in the supermarket boxing one in.

In short, all the inconsiderate morons who walk/dawdle/stop their way through crowds as if only they exist.

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Not to mention the inconsiderate morons who have no patience to wait for people to get out of their way. I am sorry that I am not able bodied enough to get out of your way at your speed.

On second thoughts, no I am not.

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Originally posted by deano:
TICTH those people who buy newspapers whose photographers have to ask children to cry to make better pictures. . . . So can those people stop buying newspapers and watching programmes that they like because they are encouraging exploitation.

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On a similar vein, ads that use children to hawk product.
 

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Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
TICTH people who are, always and forever, in a rush. You know who you are. Every single day you oversleep, have that extra cuppa, watch five minutes too much of the Today show and then go out and enter the world at a dead heat.

You endanger the rest of us in traffic. You trip over old people, the disabled, and children. You curse at pedestrians who are exchanging pleasantries with others and drivers who are waiting until the intersection is clear before proceeding. You bark at bus drivers, cashiers, receptionists and bank tellers who are trying to do their jobs at normal, accurate speeds.

You tell them all, "I'm in a hurry!" Just as though lack of efficiency on your part constituted an emergency on their part. You make the world a more stressful place.

Start earlier.
 

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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
TICTH Clouds!

I received a pair of 10x50 binoculars to get back into astronomy as a hobby for Christmas and it's been cloudy ever since!

Clear up!
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
the world may have ended while we weren't looking, because I can't agree with Twilight enough on her above post. If your life is that hectic, downsize. and I say this as a chronically over-volunteered person.
 

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Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
Oi you. My now former boss.

I thought you were one of the good people. One of the precious few lawyers who isn't an inhuman shark. I thought we got on kind of well and appreciated and respected each other.

So yes, I'm pretty damn pissed off that you didn't ever quite get round to mentioning to me that you had resigned, until the Very. Same. Day that you walked out of the firm. Partly because it's bloody rude, and partly because if I'd known about it we could have done something to prevent you leaving a bloody unholy great mess behind you.

Because let's face it, archiving paper was never your forte, and now you've moved on with your life and here I am, left behind with sodding fifty boxes of débris to sort through that you never quite got round to organising in the last five years. And just looking at the overflowing boxes full of crap is making me lose the will to live.

Happy New Year to you as well.
 

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Posted by Meg the Red (# 11838) on :
 
Stupid home sales "parties".

I'd be delighted to attend your get-together to catch up with former co-workers IF I weren't expected to purchase mass quantities of overpriced cookware/tupperware/candles/jewellery/toys/gawdknowswhat, and I'm pissed off that I seem to hold more value to you as a potential customer than as a friend. In truth, I'm kind of relieved tht you're freezing me out if I'm only admitted into your presence after displaying my chequebook.
 

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Posted by beatmenace (# 16955) on :
 
TCTH the two 'sleb' mags on the newsstand this morning outing the (female) 'slebs' who may have put on weight over Christmas. If the cover pics are to be believed they look perfectly alright to me....

TCTH the publishers who believe that evaluating womens (miniscule) weight gain/loss sells mags and what that says about us as a society that wants to read this stuff.
 

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Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :
 
TICTH...the blethering idiot who did NOT clear up their dog's excrement from right outide my front gate.

( + coming home in the evening didn't help...)



 

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Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH the morons who owned our house before us. The cretins thought they'd save money by not buying any underlay for the hall and stair carpet. Instead, they GLUED THE CARPET TO THE FLOORBOARDS! Imagine what fun it was to rip that up. Oh, and they also tacked it to the stairs, so the bare stairs are now littered with random tacks and shreds of carpet that all need to be pulled out individually. Brilliant!
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH people who want us to do translation of printed materials into a language they haven't got a font for, and then airily inform us that they expect a computer file they can hand over to a "professional" who will add logos, photos, and other layout elements in a crazyquilt-like design. You freaks, don't you realize that the only way you'll even be able to READ the stuff properly (much less have it print properly) is if I send it to you in a PDF form? Which will of course not lend itself to being redesigned. Or you could shell out a few bucks for the font, but that ain't gonna happen. We're all about the pennypinching here.

Especially TICTH the fact that I am going to have to have a tedious long explanatory conversation with at least three people ("What's a PDF? Oh, that's fine, I can just open it and change things in Word, right?" Grrrrrr) and possibly have to lecture on the properties of fonts as well.

You're paying us too.damn.little.
 

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Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH customers who spout such trash talk that I am unable to resist the need to talk politics at work.
 

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Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
TICTH whoever nicked all the hubcaps off our car.

[ 08. January 2013, 06:42: Message edited by: Lucia ]
 

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Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
TICTH the dickheads who are trying to interfere with placing defibrillators in our department. I really hope they're a waste of time, I want them to never be used, because I don't want anyone to have a heart attack on my watch, but if it happens and there's no first aider handy, or they can't find the thing (yes, I'm looking at you, fat gent in your fifties who is being an arse about it and keeping one hidden), someone has a good deal more chance of spending half a day with the undertaker than half a month in hospital.

AG
 

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Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
toothache. that's all.
 

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Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH technicians who swear blind that they have fully tested the new software version (but actually haven't), then create merry hell becuase the software (which wasn't tested) doesn't do what it should. Also CTH are the damn software manufacturers who brought out a new patch for this software halfway through our test period and didn't tell us. So now I have to arrange a new patch install for the software that we upgraded just before Christmas - all for an application that is going End Of Life ad won't be supported soon anyway!
 

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Posted by MarsmanTJ (# 8689) on :
 
TITCH any form of 'going paperfree' that doesn't actually do what it says on the tin. Today's irritation: 'paperfree checkin' where the airport has already let you know that the 'SMS/email' checkin stuff they won't accept, so you have to print out THREE sheets of A4, rather than the one card they used to give you when you checked in, and being reasonably sure that when you GET to the airport, you will get to boarding and they will say 'oh, this isn't good enough either' and print one of the old-fashioned card ones because their readers are crap, but if you didn't have the paper version they would charge you some exorbitant sum to 'check-in' at the counters.

This dislike of 'paperfree-ness' also extends to universities that are 'cutting down on paper use so we are more green as a campus'. That is to say their students have to print out materials instead of them giving them to them. I happen to have access to a high-speed laser printer, so it merely costs me money, my classmates on inkjet printers I am absolutely convinced are damaging the environment more by printing it all as opposed to university photocopying/laser printing, but it doesn't count on the university's 'carbon footprint', perhaps it should?
 

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Posted by Alex Cockell (# 7487) on :
 
TICTH the Tories and Lib Dems for getting the Benefit Uprating Bill aka Let's Fuck Over The Poor Even More through its 2nd reading in parliament...

They've just locked in a real-terms cut to many state benefits...
 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
TICTH...scorpions. In my bedroom.


 

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Posted by Amazing Grace (# 95) on :
 
TICTH viruses. Computer and cold/flu.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
TICTH...scorpions. In my bedroom.

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Originally posted by Alex Cockell:
They've just locked in a real-terms cut to many state benefits...

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
TICTH...scorpions. In my bedroom.

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Sorry, but my first reaction was Cool!

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Originally posted by comet:

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
TICTH...scorpions. In my bedroom.

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Sorry, but my first reaction was Cool!

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my second reaction would be, "somebody help me get down off the ceiling!"

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Originally posted by jacobsen:
TICTH the "wrecking crew" who swim two or three abreast, ever so slowly, making it impossible for others to get past. And I'm always among the slowest, till I meet them!

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Originally posted by no prophet:
Governments. All of those governments who pass bills they dreamed up after elected and rammed through parliament and all of our asses, which degrade the quality of life, enrich the rich, and destroy. To Hell With You All with a solid k'beauts to your panky on the way, and the boots to your mogin as you are porch climbed, bleeding into your deserved Pandemonium of cess and gleet and rotted glair.

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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
...that "360° feedback" thing is a big fat LIE. If it was really 360° I'd get to say what I think of my managers. Which is the only bit of this soul-destroying exercise which I might actually be interested in.

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:

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Originally posted by no prophet:
Governments. All of those governments who pass bills they dreamed up after elected and rammed through parliament and all of our asses, which degrade the quality of life, enrich the rich, and destroy. To Hell With You All with a solid k'beauts to your panky on the way, and the boots to your mogin as you are porch climbed, bleeding into your deserved Pandemonium of cess and gleet and rotted glair.

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<my itals>

I get the drift but wtf do those words mean?

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And I'm the knob!

Old timey Sask-Man slang from behind the perogy curtain. K'beauts - to kick (give the boots to), panky (spanker, your butt), porch climb (home made rocket fuel you drink that puts you on the roof prior to falling off), mogin (your gut, stomach), cess (liquid manure). Gleet and glair are rare medical terms for penile syphilitic discharge and mucous with the consistency of egg whites, respectively. Thus, infectious rotten sperm, also implying a couple of unwashed friends who've infected and reinfected each other.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
TICTH snow.
 

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Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
TICTH Flu.
There seems to be a very muted public discussion of the worst flu season in decades. Meanwhile people at work are dropping like flies. At least most of them are too sick to come in.

[ 11. January 2013, 04:00: Message edited by: Palimpsest ]
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
TICTH motherfucking EVERYTHING.

I'm being nibbled to death by ducks.

the dog has a sprained ankle and needs lots of care and since he's 5 bazillion pounds and roughly the size of a benevolent mastodon just getting him in and out to pee takes the whole family and lots of grunting and slipping on the ice and face planting in the snow and all the while he has this look on his face like getting hoisted up and down the steps is some great lark and we should ALWAYS DO THIS! and while he's indoors he can't move much so he spreads out comfortably in the living room, thus becoming the whole of the living room floor and making all trips to the bathroom or the kitchen damn near impossible. And he's in pain so I can't even hate him.

and I CTH the fucking ice everywhere that caused mister big fluffy clumsyass to fall and hurt himself in the first place.

though the ice did make me scare the hell out of a jogger and her little sissy dog while I went sideways down the road yesterday. so that was a small plus.

I also CTH the cute little fucking kitten who so sweetly and cutely DESTROYED my phone charger by shredding the housing for the entire length of cord and leaving little nibbled bits of rubber all over my bed. And while I'm Cing her cute little fuzzy ass TH, she can bloody well stop carrying her dinner, one kibble at a time, into my bed and squirreling it under the blankets so I climb into bed with goddamn purina crumbs every goddamn night.

YOU ARE NOT A SQUIRREL. FUCKING STOP IT.

Don't gimme those big kitten eyes. I'm immune to cute.

fuck you.

I also CTH the shitty ass weather system that's predicted to bring us RAIN in fucking January. We already have shit for snow, and now rain? fuck you, mother nature! you and your scary fucking roads!

and the bills this month that are roughly 3X the paychecks. fuck you, money.

and I C to the lowest, nastiest depths of H my septic tank that chose NOW to be full and off-gas into my fucking house, so I came home to the smell of poo. in an effort to beat a potential clog (so much cheaper than pumping) I used a lot of this stuff that is the consistency of snot and smells like cheap plastic frankenflowery soap. then i sprayed with lysol. and now my house smells like plastickish, soapy, lysolly poop. and dog farts. because that has to be going on right now, too.

naturally.

And H gets to have Ced to it with great passion the MOTHERFUCKING MIGRANE that has been rocking this whole fucking mess for two days. because god forbid I get to have one crisis at a time.

and finally, this afternoon... because God has a hilarious sense of humor... I get to have a raging case of the shits. Hoo-fucking-ray.

scatalogically yours,
Comet, Gimp Dog, Fart Dog, Neurotic Kitten and the Great Cloud of Poop.

so hey - ya'll come visit. Everything's fucking GREAT.
 

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Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
I'd put that in the quotes file as the best TICTH post in years, comet, but I will bite my lip and just offer you a hug and a prayer.
 

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Posted by Nanny Ogg (# 1176) on :
 
TICTH my landlady who has just given me notice to quit after inspecting the property yesterday. Just because I stood up to her bullying
 

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Posted by cheesymarzipan (# 9442) on :
 
TICTH period pain when I need to concentrate on work!
 

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Posted by Yam-pk (# 12791) on :
 
The Three ****-ing Horse Shoe's roundabout and my incompetant driving on my test
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
TICTH the Daily Mail, who have turned the ire of their hard of thinking readership on this poor lass by lifting her story (with no permission) from a local paper and parading her in front of said baying braindead arseholes in a national bullying exercise.

Dacre, you are a cunt of the highest order.
 

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Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on :
 
Can't consign her to hell cos I'm called to love her, but I'm not called to like her or never get angry or rant about her so "Today I Am Finding It Difficult to Love...." my senior colleague.

You know what, I don't care if you don't understand that a person can mourn the passing of an animal almost as deeply as that of a person. It doesn't matter whether you understand it or not. It's irrelevant.

When a colleague who is hard working, diligent and reliable, who has coped well under a lot of extreme stress over the years and is currently coping with working under quite a lot of stress. when that colleague rings in in tears and says that they're really sorry but they've just got in from the emergency vets after having their fourteen year old cat put down and they're not in a fit state to a)come in to work or b)leave their teenage son (who's also been through a lot of stress) home alone to bury the cat and clean up the mess, then you don't get annoyed with them and tell them to pull themselves together because it was only a cat and is better off dead as it was obviously sick, so have a cup of coffee and get in to work. You actually care that something, even something you don't understand, has caused them such distress.

I would feel like this with any cat who'd been part of the family as long as Charlie. But for your information, dear colleague, that cat has kept me sane through some of the toughest times imaginable. He embodied unconditional love in feline form - maybe not because he loved me, maybe just because I waited on him hand and foot, but it was good to be able to nuzzle into his fur when we were sad, to be able to offload our stresses and worries to his unquestioning ears, to be able to calm down by stroking his soft fur and listening to his gentle purring, and to be moved to laughter by his antics even on the darkest days. And now he isn't even there to comfort me for the fact that he isn't there and that stinks.

Yes, it was the right thing. He was a good age for a cat, death was just round the corner for him, but it was never going to be easy to say goodbye. Given some compassion, I'd probably have been able to go in to work in an hour or two, so your words were pretty counterproductive actually. But you need to know that, in a job where I was feeling seriously unvalued, I now feel completely unvalued. Now I am not sure which emotion is stronger, sorrow or anger. Stupid bitch.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

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Originally posted by Smudgie:

I would feel like this with any cat who'd been part of the family as long as Charlie. But for your information, dear colleague, that cat has kept me sane through some of the toughest times imaginable. He embodied unconditional love in feline form - maybe not because he loved me, maybe just because I waited on him hand and foot, but it was good to be able to nuzzle into his fur when we were sad, to be able to offload our stresses and worries to his unquestioning ears, to be able to calm down by stroking his soft fur and listening to his gentle purring, and to be moved to laughter by his antics even on the darkest days. And now he isn't even there to comfort me for the fact that he isn't there and that stinks.

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Fuckin' A.

Got that vibe from a couple people when my cat died, and the only thing I can say is they never showed enough concern about what insanity and psychic cliff-edges that animal might have been pulling me back from to earn any right to judge me. And the people who did know, did.
 

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Posted by ToujoursDan (# 10578) on :
 
Chain cut, bike stolen. Happened a week ago but I'm still pissed.
 

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Posted by Eleanor Jane (# 13102) on :
 
Can't call it to Hell, 'cos I suspect it's already there... Death.

What is it with people just absolutely going away? No phone calls, no email, Facebook, Twitter... just gone, silence and absence? The finality of "I will never see or hear from you again" (at least while I'm alive and who knows afterwards). It's a crapper.

And it amazes me that we don't talk about it more. It's like people are going around with a big secret that no-one wants to acknowledge. Being 'in the club' with other people who've lost a loved one is something useful, but nothing brings them back.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 
TICTH the brain-dead fuckwit from the council who came past during the night last night and ploughed the snow-bank outside our house into a 4-foot wall of snow-boulders, blocking us in.
 

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Posted by Josephine (# 3899) on :
 
TICTH Dr. Andrew Weil, for his better route to migraine relief:

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Finally, if you continue to have attacks, try to change the way you think about the headaches. Migraine is like an electrical storm in your head - violent and disruptive, but leading to a calm, clear state in the end. You may, upon reflection, discover that it is not so bad to let yourself have a headache once in a while.

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First, migraine isn't a headache. A headache may be part of a migraine attack, but for many migraineurs, it's the least part.

Second, migraine doesn't lead to a calm, clear state at the end. Most migraine attacks are followed by a postdrome, with another day or two or three of continuing neurological impairments.

And finally, about "letting" yourself have a migraine: Do you advise other patients to let themselves have a seizure or a heart attack or a stroke once in a while?

Grrr.

[ 14. January 2013, 22:34: Message edited by: Josephine ]
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
Most of the advice in the article is sensible, but the last paragraph or two, not so much. My migraines do not lead to a "calm, clear state," but an exhausted relief. Has the tosser ever experienced a migraine?
 

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Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Men who sexually assault and rape, I'm stimulated today to call them to hell and genital amputation by yet another CBC news story about the rape and murder of the young Indian woman on the bus. The report was about the widespread parallel attacks all over the country. And I know that these happen everywhere in the world including to some of us and our loved ones. May God deliver all of them to whom they belong, the devil. No quarter.
 

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Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
The phone company. After my DSL connection wouldn't get past 1.5 mb I replaced it with a cable modem. I tried to discontinue the dsl on the phone and after a half hour on call waiting efore the service rep told me the isp had to do the disconnect, even though the phone company billed me. The isp said the phone company had to do it (another three phone calls to the ISP) and then I went back to another half hour phone wait to insist that they disconnect it without disconnecting the phone.
Three days later, the phone stopped working. I figured this out two days later. Yet another phone call to an automated repair using a waiter's borrowed phone since there are not longer public call boxes in my part of town. Where is the Tardis when I need it?
Today I have the phone line back without DSL.
This seems to e part of a recent trend of everything taking two interactions to get stuff done that should take one. The hellish punishment should include the usual tortures of the damned with a cheery voice repeatedly thanking them for their patience and understanding.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH Oracle and Malicious hackers. Oracle for creating Java and not attending to security and the malicious bastards who make security necessary.
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
Angry Birds level 6-14. You utter, utter bastards.
 

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Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
Angry Birds level 6-14. You utter, utter bastards.

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That's totally got to win the prize for the how sad is your life thread in Heaven.
 

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Posted by Sergius-Melli (# 17462) on :
 
This probably should have gone in yesterday, but:

The Rt. Hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath who still is drawing an MP's salary but turns up about twice a year and does other paid employment the rest of the time...

In fact put into this mix all Hon. and Rt. Hon. Members who claim their wage for public service but rarely turn up to parliament and make their non-parliamentary jobs their full-time equivelant.
 

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Posted by Nanny Ogg (# 1176) on :
 
TICTH my landlady (again). She is a lying cow who has given the housing officer different reasons for giving me notice to quit than I was led to believe. I hope he lies and deceit trip her up and land her on the arse she talks out of
 

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Posted by Prester John (# 5502) on :
 
TICTH the little bastards who robbed me tonight. I may be minus a smart phone but now you geniuses will be doing jail time.
 

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Posted by Mrs Shrew (# 8635) on :
 
Earache. Three days of it, now spreading to jaw and head and neck.
 

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Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
There will probably be a few snow-related ones so here's mine. TICTH the fool in the Land Rover coming the other way today. It was a main road and the steady stream of traffic had cleared the way into two snow-free tracks plus a mound of dirty snow down the middle. So Land Rover Oaf deliberately drives with one wheel on the mound, spraying dirty snow over the clear tracks, pedestrians and windscreens of oncoming vehicles. Prick.
 

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Posted by Yam-pk (# 12791) on :
 
TICTH the Israeli government in particular & Zionism in general, particularly the obnoxious settlers, the illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and the general shittiness of their treatment of the Palestinians
 

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Posted by The Kat in the Hat (# 2557) on :
 
TIDTH Job application forms. I hate having to sell myself, especially to people who know me. They know what I can do, but if I can't prove it on paper, to match the criteria they are looking for...
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 

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Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
There will probably be a few snow-related ones so here's mine. TICTH the fool in the Land Rover coming the other way today. It was a main road and the steady stream of traffic had cleared the way into two snow-free tracks plus a mound of dirty snow down the middle. So Land Rover Oaf deliberately drives with one wheel on the mound, spraying dirty snow over the clear tracks, pedestrians and windscreens of oncoming vehicles. Prick.

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<4x4 tangent>

That reminds me:

You know the difference between a Range Rover and a hedgehog?

On a hedgehog the pricks are all on the outside.

</4x4 tangent>
 

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Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH diarrhoea, which the reason I saw my GP this morning. The GP gave me a little pot to provide a stool sample (apologies to anyone of a nervous disposition, by the way). The latest I could hand in the sample today was 12 noon. Could I go? Of course not! So now my next chance is Monday before work, which adds an extra 2 days to the time I have to wait to get my test results!

Thank you so much, Body - you get me all worked up enough to have a rectal exam (I told the nervous people to look away!), but then won't give me the one thing I need to help my GP fix it. Fucking crap!

The only upside is, if I can do the sample on Monday, I'll have to post it through the door on the way to work before the surgery opens - so I will literally get the chance to put shit through someone's letterbox!
 

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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:

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Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
There will probably be a few snow-related ones so here's mine. TICTH the fool in the Land Rover coming the other way today. It was a main road and the steady stream of traffic had cleared the way into two snow-free tracks plus a mound of dirty snow down the middle. So Land Rover Oaf deliberately drives with one wheel on the mound, spraying dirty snow over the clear tracks, pedestrians and windscreens of oncoming vehicles. Prick.

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<4x4 tangent>

That reminds me:

You know the difference between a Range Rover and a hedgehog?

On a hedgehog the pricks are all on the outside.

</4x4 tangent>

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I've heard similar ones about G-Wiz and Prius owners.

Still jokes are a renewable resource.
 

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Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on :
 
TITCH toxic Christian Union politics and UCCF in general
 

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Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :
 
TICTH Southampton Football Club for sacking Nigel Adkins. He got the club promoted to the Premiership in just two seasons when the original plan was to take three years and this is how they repay him! Morons! What do they think this will do to the team's morale? Not to mention the fans (sorry, I forgot they don't count).

If he'd been sacked In November I'd have understood it, but not now they've finally hit a winning streak. Sheer insanity!
 

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Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 

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Originally posted by Jade Constable:
TITCH toxic Christian Union politics and UCCF in general

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Anyone who can have a falling out with Steve Chalke should have been C'd to H a long time ago.
 

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Posted by Huntress (# 2595) on :
 
TICTH the idiots who would deny they are misogynists but whose misogynistic behaviour includes demeaning remarks, commentary, twitter and online 'trolling' about a woman's appearance if she has the temerity to speak in a public forum. (Professor Mary Beard is today's example). The automatic response to a female who makes herself unpopular or even just visible, in some cases, is to zone in on every physical 'imperfection' and use this as some justifiable reason for disregarding her as a person.

I am fed up with the culture that a woman's worth is calculated by her appearance and that her right to have contentious opinions is denigrated because she does not match the 'phwoar-get-a-load-of-that-I'd-do-her-if-she-were-lucky' ideal of some who are hopefully in the minority, but who seem to be remarkably proficient in spewing out direct hatred (anonymously, of course) online.


 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
TICTH the left rear brake on my car that decided to lock up TIGHT as I was coming home from work at THREE AM when there's no one on the roads but me and the moose. I had to walk back into town, (in the cold and dark and icy roads and me in a skirt, goddammit!) wake up a friend, and borrow his car. GRRR!!!

but many thanks for my very understanding friend who was very sleepy and I suspect will wake up in the morning wondering where his car got to.
 

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Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 

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Originally posted by comet:
TICTH the left rear brake on my car that decided to lock up TIGHT as I was coming home from work at THREE AM when there's no one on the roads but me and the moose.

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Originally posted by Huntress:
TICTH the idiots who would deny they are misogynists but whose misogynistic behaviour includes demeaning remarks, commentary, twitter and online 'trolling' about a woman's appearance if she has the temerity to speak in a public forum. (Professor Mary Beard is today's example). The automatic response to a female who makes herself unpopular or even just visible, in some cases, is to zone in on every physical 'imperfection' and use this as some justifiable reason for disregarding her as a person.

I am fed up with the culture that a woman's worth is calculated by her appearance and that her right to have contentious opinions is denigrated because she does not match the 'phwoar-get-a-load-of-that-I'd-do-her-if-she-were-lucky' ideal of some who are hopefully in the minority, but who seem to be remarkably proficient in spewing out direct hatred (anonymously, of course) online.

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Originally posted by Moo:

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Originally posted by comet:
TICTH the left rear brake on my car that decided to lock up TIGHT as I was coming home from work at THREE AM when there's no one on the roads but me and the moose.

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I trust that you and the moose did not have a close encounter.

Moo

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Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:

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Originally posted by Huntress:
TICTH the idiots who would deny they are misogynists but whose misogynistic behaviour includes demeaning remarks, commentary, twitter and online 'trolling' about a woman's appearance if she has the temerity to speak in a public forum. (Professor Mary Beard is today's example). The automatic response to a female who makes herself unpopular or even just visible, in some cases, is to zone in on every physical 'imperfection' and use this as some justifiable reason for disregarding her as a person.

I am fed up with the culture that a woman's worth is calculated by her appearance and that her right to have contentious opinions is denigrated because she does not match the 'phwoar-get-a-load-of-that-I'd-do-her-if-she-were-lucky' ideal of some who are hopefully in the minority, but who seem to be remarkably proficient in spewing out direct hatred (anonymously, of course) online.

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This works especially if they are left-wing. Check out what happens to Laurie Perry for examples.

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TICTH Germain Greer for criticising Australia's left-wing, female PM's dress sense and saying she had "a big arse". I double consign the media to hell for not calling Greer to account as much as they should - imagine the outrage if a right-wing male had said it.

 

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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 

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Originally posted by Evangeline:
TICTH Germain Greer for criticising Australia's left-wing, female PM's dress sense and saying she had "a big arse". I double consign the media to hell for not calling Greer to account as much as they should - imagine the outrage if a right-wing male had said it.

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
You know, I think my monitor is about to short itself out from the collective energy of three continents' worth of Shipmates holding back comment.

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You could have relieved the pressure by quotes filing.
 

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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 

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Originally posted by Evangeline:
Happy to oblige Deano

Germaine Greer & Julia's big arse

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Brilliant! Now that right there IS a good use for YouTube!
 

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Posted by Josephine (# 3899) on :
 
TICTH Discover Bank. I want to make a payment on my daughter's student loans. They will not let me make the payment by credit card or Paypal. They will only accept the payment if I give them the routing number and account number for my checking account.
 

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Posted by beatmenace (# 16955) on :
 
The COMMENTERS on THIS - not the item. I'm well behind the Enough Food IF campaign.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/enough-food-if-anti-hunger-campaign--100-charities-and-celebs-back--biggest-coalition-in-since-make- poverty-history--113236531.html

Particularly the bloke who posted this gem

"870,000,000 are starving because they will do absolutely NOTHING to help themselves! "

or this

"What rubbish! The more we give them, the more they breed and the hungrier they become! Leave them alone to sort out their own mess! It's not our problem! It's natural selection!"

or this

"I'm afraid the only way to bring peace and end poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa is for it to be re-colonised by Western powers."

If the population needs to be reduced to ease poverty i can suggest the first 3 names on the list!
 

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Posted by jbohn (# 8753) on :
 
Stupid fucking Medicab driver that put my mother -in a wheelchair with a recently broken ankle- in the back of a cargo van, whilst only loosely strapping the wheelchair down, and leaving sandbags sliding around on the floor. Meaning, she got to try and stabilize the tilting/sliding wheelchair, whilst keeping her broken ankle up to avoid having it rammed by the sandbags sliding about...
 

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Posted by TeaAddict (# 14946) on :
 
TICTH moving to a new flat. The paperwork alone sucks, nevermind the actual effort of moving stuff. As for the cost...
 

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Posted by Ronald Binge (# 9002) on :
 
Today I call to Hell the swollen prostate gland while not cancerous is unravelling my father's ability to cope with his Parkinsons.

Fuck you, you fucking fucker to fuck.
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
TICTH the way it's apparently impossible to offer anything for auction on eBay without dozens of shady characters appearing asking you to take it off auction and deal direct.
 

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Posted by The Intrepid Mrs S (# 17002) on :
 
And all the idiots on eBay who agree to buy something and then make up a whole string of stupid excuses about why their hamster has eaten their PayPal account (grrrr)
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TITCH overly and those who use this appalling word*.

I've no objection to new words; they become necessary as existing vocabulary is found insufficient, but I have yet to see "overly" used when "over", "excessive" or just occasionally "overtly" would not be better, let alone adequate. It isn't simply that I don't consider it a word; we're lumbered, but it's a lazy, sloppy, ill-defined word.

And while I'm posting this as a Shipmate, remember that I'm a Host too.

*Nothing personal, this is the latest example of way too many, by literate posters too.
 

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Posted by Organ Builder (# 12478) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
TITCH overly and those who use this appalling word*.

I've no objection to new words...

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Originally posted by Organ Builder:

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
TITCH overly and those who use this appalling word*.

I've no objection to new words...

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Given that the OED states this usage first appeared in its modern incarnation in 1806, I am reminded of the words to St. Paul: "'Tis hard for thee to kick against the pricks".

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OK, it isn't new, but its use has increased and inclusion in the OED is no indication of merit.
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
TICTH estate agent bumpf. Forests were levelled so that 20 pages of full-colour puffery for services I neither want nor need could transit briefly from letterbox to recycling bag. God only knows what natural resources were raped to produce the accompanying CD.

Go. Away.
 

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Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 
TICTH Windows 8.............

Ian J.
 

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Posted by Cryptic (# 16917) on :
 
TICTH more ebay idiots...

Have just sold a couple of things over the weekend. I take great pains to describe things accurately, completely and concisely on my listings as (i) it's only fair to do this and (ii) it helps me to sell the stuff.

Why then, do I need to put up with so many idiots?

My listing says that I'll post the item, or you can pick it up from my home or office (suburbs specified in the listing), so why do I get an email that says "can I pick it up from you if I win it, and where from?" Read the listing idiot...

I'm selling something brand new, in the original packaging, it still has the plastic wrap on it, It says that in the listing. There is a photo on the listing showing the original packaging and the plastic wrap, so I get an email asking "does the item work?" It's new, in the packaging. Of course it works you idiot...

The "does it work" idiot then emails and says "I'm just in town for today so can I make you an offer and pick it up from you before I go home?" No you can't, idiot. That's against the ebay rules, so that's why I ignored your bloody email... (I have had many emails like this. I used to politely go back and tell the person that they were welcome to submit a bid. They never do, not once, ever, not even when the item sells for less than they offered, or doesn't even sell at all. Idiots...)

Then the idiot that wins the item emails and says "can I pick it up tonight at 10pm? I know that's late but I have a busy week coming up." Sure, that's fine I reply, I'm always up late (and anybody that wants to come to my house and take junk away is always welcome). I sign off the email with my name, address and phone numbers. "Great, I'll come over now. What's your address?" Read the email, idiot...

One of the classics from years ago was an item I listed, marked "post to Australia only". I received an email "would you post the item to Norway". Not unless Norway has just moved to bloody Australia. Idiot...
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
it's beginning to look like ebay tribulations deserves it's own thread, rather than a running theme on this one.
 

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Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
TICTH random people who like to ask me questions like "do you know Jesus?", "are you born again".

TICTH shining faced annoying 'Jesus is my personal saviour' evangelical nimrods. I'm as likely to answer those questions as I am to discuss your bowel habits. Jesus has yet to save me from the likes of you! TAFFAARD!!
 

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Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on :
 
TICH workplace bullies - and the sickening feeling of being isolated and unable to change it.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 

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Originally posted by comet:
it's beginning to look like ebay tribulations deserves it's own thread, rather than a running theme on this one.

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Ebay has the gift of putting you together with people you'd run a mile from in any other circumstance.
 

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Posted by Darllenwr (# 14520) on :
 
TICTH South Wales Valleys Emergency Services response times. This morning (link here) a train hit a landslide and was derailed. The accident happened to the train I was waiting to catch at about 06:20 this morning. At 06:20, I was stood on Bargoed station platform waiting for that train.

At 06:40, the signalman informed the waiting crowd that there would be no train down from Rhymney and that the first train for Cardiff would be coming from Cardiff at 07:01. He also told us that the train we were waiting for had "hit a tree".

By the time my train left at 07:02, there was no sign of Emergency Services. I saw Emergency vehicles heading to the scene at 07:20, by which time I was already 5 miles away in Ystrad Mynach.

As a former first aider, I know about the Golden Hour. By the looks of it, the Emergency Services missed that hour this morning.

And they tell us that Wales is not a second class nation ...
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
(But the Caerphilly Observer is a seriously cool name for a newspaper. I didn't even know there were people who enjoyed cheese-watching.)
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
TICTH this guy.

Translation: Ever give someone chance after chance after chance, and try again and again to mend fences, only to have them use it as an opportunity to remind you they've written you off, forever? And are quite proud of it?

And no, I can't just blow them off--this is someone I need to figure out a way to work with, but they've made it very clear they are never going to make an effort to work with me.
 

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Posted by Darllenwr (# 14520) on :
 

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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
(But the Caerphilly Observer is a seriously cool name for a newspaper. I didn't even know there were people who enjoyed cheese-watching.)

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Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
TICTH the half witted moron in pay section who managed to fuck up my pay this month so I'm £1000 short. I'm sure he or she doesn't notice a grand coming of his wages but it gives me certain problems such as paying my fucking mortgage and petrol to get to work.

About 18 months ago I moved to a contract where I'd get the same amount of money every month (before that it was complicated depending on what weekends and shifts I worked). In that 18 months I have never had the same amount of pay at all. It's not complicated - click the button that pays me the damn money.
 

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Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on :
 

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
TICTH this guy.

Translation: Ever give someone chance after chance after chance, and try again and again to mend fences, only to have them use it as an opportunity to remind you they've written you off, forever? And are quite proud of it?

And no, I can't just blow them off--this is someone I need to figure out a way to work with, but they've made it very clear they are never going to make an effort to work with me.

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
TICTH this guy.

Translation: Ever give someone chance after chance after chance, and try again and again to mend fences, only to have them use it as an opportunity to remind you they've written you off, forever? And are quite proud of it?
....they've made it very clear they are never going to make an effort to work with me.

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Originally posted by MiceElf:

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
TICTH this guy.

Translation: Ever give someone chance after chance after chance, and try again and again to mend fences, only to have them use it as an opportunity to remind you they've written you off, forever? And are quite proud of it?
....they've made it very clear they are never going to make an effort to work with me.

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Oh Yes. After a while you get shit sick of wearing the T shirt.

Solution..... Ebay the t-shirt. Eat more cake.

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Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
TICTH the morons who think it would be quite fun to find an aircraft packed full of fragile human lives and explosive fuel, coming in to land over a densely populated area, and dazzle the pilot.

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Shocking and terrifying.
 

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Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
TICTH whoever is behind today's killing in Tunisia, threatening to destabilize further the fragile process of democracy here.

Under the old regime opponents were silenced, did we go through a revolution for nothing?

[ 06. February 2013, 18:04: Message edited by: Lucia ]
 

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Posted by Eleanor Jane (# 13102) on :
 
Teeth! WHY don't they work without regular, expensive, painful, and massively unpleasant repairs? My bones just sit there doing their job - why can't my teeth hold up their end of the deal?
 

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Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :
 
internet based, time deadlined, career essential ridiculously long, non intuitive application forms. (that don't bloody save and do what they should)
 

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Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
The fact that despite pay section promising me that my missing thousand quid would be in the bank in three working days it isn't and when I phone to raise this issue they tell me they'll give me £400 tomorrow. Yes thankyou and the rest. Apparently they hadn't noticed, despite being told by both me and my union rep that they had wrongly put me down as getting nil pay for ten bloody days.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Spam. Here we go again. The first lot started to trickle through into a webmail account at around 9pm and they'll continue to pile up until tomorrow morning. Hotels, insurance, cruises, ppi claims, poker. Over and over again, day after day. I mark them as spam and it makes no difference. And my webmail account is now pretty much doomed.

Why do spammers waste so much of their time showering the world with emails which are ungratefully received by almost everybody and deleted without reading?
 

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Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 

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Originally posted by Ariel:
Why do spammers waste so much of their time showering the world with emails which are ungratefully received by almost everybody and deleted without reading?

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Some years ago I heard that about three percent of men who receive spam mail for Viagra respond. If someone sends out ten million spam letters for Viagra, they will receive 300,000 responses. Apparently sending out ten million e-mails with the same text is not expensive or time-consuming.

Moo
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH the people who flash their headlights to let me (and other drivers) know there's a speed camera van further up the road.

First off, if you were paying any attention you'd see that I was traveling slow enough to not require the warning. Unlike you my adherence to the speed limit isn't solely based on whether I think I might get caught. Although I do like the idea of randomly flashing my headlights at people when there isn't a speed camera around, just to get them to slow down.

Secondly, the reason there's a speed camera van on the main road through this suburb so often is because people speed on its broad, sweeping bends all the time and it's fucking dangerous. Maybe all 3 of you headlight-flashers were just passing through the suburb, but I live here. And maybe you didn't notice the 2 roadside crosses right about where you were signalling me, but I drive past them most days and I know they're there because an idiotic show-off thought he could do the broad, sweeping bends at about 100 km/h instead of the mandated 60 km/h and killed his passengers in the process. I also know they weren't the first to die on this road.

So you know why I don't appreciate your flashes and won't return the 'service' for anyone? Because I fucking well want speeding drivers to get caught. I want them to not know in advance the van is there. I want them to get hit in the hip pocket and to lose points on their licence, in the faint hope that they'll go around the bends a bit slower next time and I'll be safer and maybe won't have to hear the sound of squealing tyres in the distance quite so often.

You can take your headlights and fuck off.
 

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Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 

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If someone sends out ten million spam letters for Viagra, they will receive 300,000 responses.

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Originally posted by Pyx_e:

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If someone sends out ten million spam letters for Viagra, they will receive 300,000 responses.

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I sent a stiff letter of complaint.

Fly Safe, Pyx_e

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Originally posted by John Holding:

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Originally posted by Pyx_e:

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If someone sends out ten million spam letters for Viagra, they will receive 300,000 responses.

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I sent a stiff letter of complaint.

Fly Safe, Pyx_e

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You're a hard man, Pyx_e, a hard man.

John

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Originally posted by rolyn:
TICTH . Inacurate 5 day weather forecasts . The week before last was given as all wet . It was 40% accurate , in other words asumming the complete opposite would have been nearer.
The following week was the other way round . Forecasters gave mainly dry and it turned out mainly wet .

If you guys don't really know what the weather's gonna do just say so , that would be far more help.

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
TICTH their and there. I fucking well know the difference but manage to type the wrong one with an almost pathological consistency, but do not always manage to correct.
Yes, it is the fault of the fucking words.

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Originally posted by rolyn:
If you guys don't really know what the weather's gonna do just say so , that would be far more help.

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TICTH people who ring up the weather bureau and say things like "I'm booking my wedding for April next year, do you know if it's going to rain on the 12th?" and get upset with the bureau's response.
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
Viri. I'm not in the mood for the crud. I have other things to do. my house sounds like a consumption ward. we're going through the nyquil like a bunch of drunks. fuck this shit.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
WWF style smackdown of my computer:

Monitor timing out all day. Computer refusing to start up all weekend, at various times. Google Chrome acting like a whiny little bitch. Huge amateurish slog through a variety of maintenance issues. Computer doing everything apart from sending La Cosa Nostra over to my house to whack me before I could finish my homework. And guess what. TWO ESSAYS IN THE BAG, MOTHERFUCKER! ONE OF THEM IN REALLY BAD SPANISH! EAT ME, YOU STUPID PIECE OF CRAP DELL! HA!

[ 11. February 2013, 02:22: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
TICTH Next door's wind chimes
 

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Posted by Sergius-Melli (# 17462) on :
 

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Originally posted by Boogie:
TICTH Next door's wind chimes

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Good Lord, please don't say your my neighbour. I was getting fed up with my own wind chimes last night!
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
<waves over the fence>
 

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Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :
 
TITCH The constant snorter who works over the filing cabinet from me. It's been days and he's still at it...
 

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Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 
I think I have done this already but just to make sure:

TICTH migraine

Jengie

[e.t.a. if I could string lots of words together coherently it might be worth a decent rant, but it has deprived me of that ability so I will have to content myself with this]

[ 11. February 2013, 20:20: Message buggered about with by: Jengie Jon ]
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
PULL!

comet, Hellskeet

[ 12. February 2013, 00:06: Message buggered about with by: comet ]
 

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Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :
 
TICTH...when someone else beats me to the quotes file. It's just so not fair. It doesn't matter if Someone else beat me there by three hours. And, you know who you are, don't you Missy!


 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 

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Originally posted by Ariel:
Spam. Here we go again. The first lot started to trickle through into a webmail account at around 9pm and they'll continue to pile up until tomorrow morning. Hotels, insurance, cruises, ppi claims, poker. Over and over again, day after day. I mark them as spam and it makes no difference. And my webmail account is now pretty much doomed.

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Your Lord says, "You can not make one hair white or black;" and you, in order to overcome the word of your Lord, will be more mighty than He, and stain your hair with a daring endeavor and with profane contempt, and, in an ominous foreboding of your future, already begin to make your hair the color of flames.

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Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :
 
"Hair the color of flames?" Jeez, don't show that one to comet.


And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature,* and is itself set on fire by hell. James 3:6
 

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Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
SAAS (the people who administer student finance in Scotland.)
We filled out the form for our son last summer, giving my husband's income exactly and an honest stab at mine. Husband's income alone means that son will get the minimum, so we didn't think mine mattered too much.

It was bounced, on the basis I had under-reported my income. Never mind that under-reporting mine made bugger-all difference to the outcome. I did mine properly, and they were right - I'd missed out £36 I'd been paid for invigilating an exam. We resubmitted.

They bounced it again - I had no documentation to cover £96 I'd been paid cash-in-hand. They suggested a letter "from my accountant" on "headed paper". I'm a PhD student - I don't have an accountant. And it'll make no difference anyway. Regardless of what I earn, they can't award less than the minimum. They have agreed I don't need to source an accountant to check my finances and confirm the £96 cash-in-hand.

Now they've said they need to see my last tax return before confirming that they'll give my son a minimum award.

It's February. We knew last August that our son would get minimum award. They knew last August that they'd be giving our son the minimum award. They have even confirmed to us that none of my documentation will make the slightest difference to the final award "but that doesn't mean that we don't still have to see it. "

[ 14. February 2013, 14:16: Message edited by: North East Quine ]
 

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Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on :
 
T-bloomin'-Mobile.
Costing me a mini-fortune in time and money trying to sort them out.
Almost thirty years I've been a customer. Eventually got conned into changing from pay as you go to contract sim. Great, except when the phone and the sim go through the wash and die. Sorry, Madam, you're tied into a contract. You will have to pay over £100 to buy yourself out.
As you're a valued customer (yeah, right!) we'll reduce your contract from £10 a month (on a non-existant sim that I can't use) to £5 a month (likewise) and can buy a new phone and new sim and transfer it.
Instead, after a couple of months of being unable to find the right phone at the right price, I decide that I need a contract phone instead of a contract sim because of my new job. I contact them about it and, hey, when they changed the £10 contract to a £5 contract on the non-existant SIM, they recommenced the 24 month contract and if I want to break that contract I'll now have to pay £150 penalty! I can't change it to a phone contract. So I'm paying them a bloody fortune for a non-existant phone and will have to continue to do so for two bloody years!
After hours of debate they agree to cancel the contract phone I'd ordered before trying to cancel the sim, and to transfer the payment towards another contract phone. Great, I said. (Why couldn't you just have done that in the first place?) The phone won't come until after the weekend, they said, and I will be charged the same price as a contract phone. Great, I said. Now I contact them to see why my phone hasn't arrived, a fortnight later. "You cancelled your order" they reply. I did BUT ON THE PROMISE OF A CONTRACT WHICH INCLUDED ANOTHER PHONE. "No, we never said that".

So what do I have? I have a contract on a dead SIM for what turns out still to be £10 a month or £150 to finish it. A fortnight without my new phone, which I can't really afford while I'm paying for a dead SIM. And now no agreement to transfer the SIM contract to a phone contract which took me over two hours to negotiate last time.

Valued customer, my backside!
 

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Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
The white van man who tailgated me and my pupil for about half a mile this morning before overtaking us and promptly parking right in front of us with no signal, then reversing towards us while laughing. Oh wow, what a big tough brave man you are that you can intimidate a nervous female learner driver. I bet all the girls think you have a really massive dick when you tell them that story.
 

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Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
Over here, we could have taken down his number and reported him for aggressive driving -- and, with a witness in the car, it just might have stuck. Does the law let do that over there?
 

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Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
Yes, but it's really not worth the hassle. I'm seriously thinking about getting a camera fitted to the car though.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
GoPro, mate. Durable and high resolution.
 

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Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
If a man goes on holiday and doesn't record it on camera has he really been on holiday?
 

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Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
He'll know when his credit card statement arrives.
 

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Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
TICTH the insurance company that holds my annuity. It is supposed to issue a payment on the 15th of every month -- which arrives at the bank the next day but isn't credited to my account until the following day.

If the 15th falls on a Friday, it arrives Monday and is credited Tuesday.

If Monday happens to be a holiday (as it is over here next week -- Presidents Day), it arrives Tuesday and is credited Wednesday.

Thus I, a retiree living on a fixed income, have to wait five days past the due date for money I desperately need. Thank God for credit cards.
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
I can't decide if this goes here or in the prayer thread. (amazing how much overlap is possible) I have GRR and "oh help" in equal order.

septic system has been down for about a month. it's evil. A great plumber has been working on it for two days. seems my heat tape failed and the whole thing has been frozen solid. he's gotten a lot thawed, but in the process the toilet seal failed and is oozing poop soup onto my floor. awesome. when it froze up the toilet backed up - a whole bowl full of the grodiest stuff ever. now slowly oozing out onto the floor.

of course.

last night it snowed again. actually, it's still snowing. I have a foot of heavy, soggy stuff in my driveway. Got stuck getting the boys to school. to get the plumber HERE I need to do about an hour's shoveling. I should leave to work in about two hours.

The plumber called. get this. for him to go further, he needs to remove the toilet. which means I am now tasked with somehow getting all of the ... stuff... out of the toilet bowl. before I go to work. which will likely require a shower (hazmat gear?) assuming I even manage to figure out how to do that. and get the driveway shoveled. and get to work. somehow.

I can't even begin to tell you all how much I dread what I am about to do.

I've told the boys, we're going back to outdoor plumbing. so much more civilized. this is horrific. revolting. and thankfully there will be no video footage of what I am about to attempt.

So, when youre going about your day, and things seem challenging, close your eyes for a moment and picture me bailing and siphoning liquified shit, retching and swearing and generally making a complete disaster of things. meanwhile outside, the snow is coming down, down, down. picture the look on my face, the creative language I'm using. picture poo flying everywhere and the dogs cowering in fear.

picture all that. then sit back, and SMILE. I'm just here to serve as a source of entertainment. Hey, no problem. I'm here for ya.

and if you are of a generous spirit, pray for me. 'cause what I am about to do will likely require therapy to get over.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Between your tank and my stupid ass computer's consistently impeccable timing as to screwing up online homework assignments, I'm beginning to suspect some asshole out there with a couple of voodoo dolls and some graveyard dirt having a gay old time.


Whatever, we must unify in defeating the hex BEGONE! you fucking ever present life hassling gremlins BEGONE! as in GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!

[ 15. February 2013, 19:10: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 

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Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :
 
TICTH utility providers who send letters saying "We provide a variety of times and appointments to suit you. We understand you might be out when we need to inspect our meters."

Do you hell as like. You have exactly two weeks worth of appointments available, with no more exact timings of 8-1 and 1-6, weekdays only. Which is a fat lot of use to someone who live on their own, and works weekdays, being out from 7.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. I offered Saturdays, and the possibility of being available from 4.00 - 6.00 on three of the weekday evenings over the next four weeks, (thereby only losing half a day's pay, not a full day) and any time next week, the last week of March and the first week of April, but that wasn't good enough.

Oh, and there are threats of legal proceedings if I don't make and keep an appointment.

So, when your children grumble about school staff being missing, and you complain about how uncommitted school staff are, and how dare they take a day off in term time, just remember you were the one who insisted I take that time out.


 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Japes: Whether such things are possible for you with your location/job I don't know, but I fucking well tell people to ring me on my mobile, 20-30 minutes in advance, and I will then drive home to meet them. None of this idiotic waiting in suspended animation.

Comet: This may be one of the few times this is appropriate in Hell:


Yes, people, I started this thread, so I can bend the rules a bit if I want.
 

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Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on :
 
Yes, Comet deserves a prayer exception. How absolutely awful. Between Comet's story and the Carnival Cruise adventures it's a horrible day indeed.

 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
it's done. I'm only having minor flashbacks.

and tonight, WE FLUSH!

PS - I'm also now high-centered on a 3 foot snowberm but I don't care because I GET TO PEE INDOORS

[ 16. February 2013, 04:14: Message edited by: comet ]
 

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Posted by alienfromzog (# 5327) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Between your tank and my stupid ass computer's consistently impeccable timing as to screwing up online homework assignments, I'm beginning to suspect some asshole out there with a couple of voodoo dolls and some graveyard dirt having a gay old time.


Whatever, we must unify in defeating the hex BEGONE! you fucking ever present life hassling gremlins BEGONE! as in GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!

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quote:

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Originally posted by comet:
it's done. I'm only having minor flashbacks.

and tonight, WE FLUSH!

PS - I'm also now high-centered on a 3 foot snowberm but I don't care because I GET TO PEE INDOORS

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Billy (plumber) came by this morning, towed me out of the berm and plowed my driveway. The things some people will do to get to my plumbing.

I'm surrounded by amazing people.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
"Tonight we flush" has to be used in a signature or sitcom or movie or SOMETHING.
 

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Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
Crystal Fucking Palace Fucking Football Fucking Club and their fucking stadium and the chaos it brings to the local area every fucking Saturday.

This evening, we had tickets to a BBC recording. We allowed more than enough time to get into central London, but due to the thousands of brainless fucking morons who descend on the area to get excited about 22 men chasing a bit of leather around a piece of grass, the traffic was gridlocked and all the buses were full so we arrived too late to be allowed in.
 

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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 

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Originally posted by Spike:
Crystal Fucking Palace Fucking Football Fucking Club and their fucking stadium and the chaos it brings to the local area every fucking Saturday.

This evening, we had tickets to a BBC recording. We allowed more than enough time to get into central London, but due to the thousands of brainless fucking morons who descend on the area to get excited about 22 men chasing a bit of leather around a piece of grass, the traffic was gridlocked and all the buses were full so we arrived too late to be allowed in.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Would you be someone who thinks a person should move where the work is ? Because if so, you don't have a valid point there.

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quote:

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Originally posted by deano:
The club and and stadium were there before you arrived.

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Why live in London if you can't cope with the lifestyle?

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Originally posted by Gextvedde:
TICTH the word random. Why is everything now fucking random? “Look at his hat, it’s sooooo random”. No it’s bloody not it’s just unusual. The person selected it at the shop and selected it to wear today. Nothing random about that process at all is there. Stop using the word until you know what it means you fucking plumb.

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In the hacker circles I moved in during college 40 years ago, Random was not a new word. In fact I lived in a dormitory called Random Hall. (A certain publishing company didn't allow it to be called "House".

When someone says a hat is random, to me it means the wearer chose it by picking it from a box without looking.
 

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Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
How precious. NOT.

Me, I just wish people would remember that I am away and write me a chatty note from time to time, especially with the latest gossip.
 

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Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
Earthquakes and aftershocks - today, on the eve of the second anniversary of the fatal quake the was a wee shake, just as a reminder.

Huia

[ 21. February 2013, 04:13: Message edited by: Huia ]
 

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Posted by Dormouse (# 5954) on :
 
TICTH my fucked up vertebrae and the fact that one slightly awkward movement has left me in a lot of pain and unable to move from my computer chair. Well, at least I've got the Ship to keep me entertained until the drugs kick in. I hope the drugs kick in...
 

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Posted by Bene Gesserit (# 14718) on :
 
TICTH: Life. For being so ******* short.
 

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Posted by rosamundi (# 2495) on :
 
TICTH this morning's van driver who followed me, on my bike, the length of a residential street, right up against my back wheel, leaning on his horn and revving his engine.

Cars were parked down the full length of both sides of the street. I was acting as advised by the Highway Code and cycle training:

Rule 67... Leave plenty of room when passing parked vehicles and watch out for doors being opened or pedestrians stepping into your path...

I was also fully aware you were there. There was no room for you to overtake me, as the space down the middle of the road is only wide enough for one vehicle at a time. There was no gap in the parked cars for me to pull over and let you past. as soon as a gap did appear, I signalled and pulled into it.

You risked my life, disturbed the peace of a residential area early on a Sunday morning (I was going to Keen People Early Mass with Extra Latin - this was about half 7 this morning), and broke several rules of the road. For you to then wind down the window and swear at me was completely unnecessary.

(here's the Google streetview but this has more gaps in the parked cars than there was this morning).

[ 24. February 2013, 09:48: Message edited by: rosamundi ]
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH Airlines that schedule international flights at times that aren't convenient for either departure or arrival unless you live in a megacity.

I live in a decent sized city, not the middle of nowhere, and my Californian friends aren't exactly in a wilderness area either. So why would you make me leave home before 6am my time to get there, and make them leave home about 4am their time to pick me up?
 

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Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on :
 
TICTH complementarianism and the biological reductionism it induces in people. My vagina doesn't have an impact on my personality and neither does it make my gender female by default, ffs*.

*my gender is female, but not because my biological sex just so happens to match
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
(after listening to a certain female relative go on and on.)

Maybe the reason you have so many damn problems with most of your female relatives and ALL of your female friends is that, given the choice between contest and camaraderie, you pick the damn contest every damn time.
If you gave the women in your life 1/10 of the respect, compassion, and support that you give, oh, the Comcast guy, we would fall down on the floor and never stop sobbing from astonished gratitude. If all you care about is who's Alpha, life is gonna get pretty damn lonely.
 

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Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
TICTH Couch grass. Fucking stuff!

AG
(who has just spent two days digging mile upon mile of it out of his allotment)
 

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Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
TICTH Accountants that fuck up then expect you to pay their bill for the extra work they have to do because they fucked up.
 

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Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :
 
To a couple fuckwits in RL who fortunately don't have a clue how I feel about them:

Yes, darling I understand you are Oh So Smart and a writer. I am just a hack editor whose goal in life is to destroy your brilliant words. And even worse I haven't taught in a classroom. Well, sweetie, despite those sad shortcomings, I do happen to have a clue how to do my job. You do not actually need to recommend that I should do x before y. Believe it or not even dim little bulb that I am I found that stupendously obvious. Oh yes and the cutsie notes whenever you turn in work reminding me of the related pieces, yeah honey I do this fulltime and have for a couple months now. I know them by now.
P.S. if you're so brilliant, you might try learning to use a computer. Most of our generation has.

Oh and while I I'm here, you sir can stop the fatherly act. Yes, you're old enough to be my dad, I am fully aware of that, but I don't really care. You can stop touching me, stop patronizing me, and try treating me like a colleague albeit a junior one.

Thanks,
Lots of love
 

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Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
TICTH the School Run and the traffic chaos it causes. Why can't the little buggers walk to school like I used to?
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 

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Originally posted by Spike:
TICTH the School Run and the traffic chaos it causes. Why can't the little buggers walk to school like I used to?

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I'd like to add to that the joys of being a mom who works nights while the kids go to school so damn early. Why can't they start school at noon? it's so much more civilized.
 

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Posted by Otter (# 12020) on :
 
Mandated crappy software, outdated hardware, and central mis-management services network not-support. What do I have to do to print this document, sacrifice a chicken? Goat? Asshat cow-irker down the hall?
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Yes, I am indeed trying to get the finalised document to you today.

I might have a better chance of achieving that if I didn't have to answer 5 e-mails from you in the last hour.
 

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Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 

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Originally posted by Spike:
Why can't the little buggers walk to school like I used to?

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They still mostly do where I live. Which is only about four miles from you!
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
The irony is that many who don't, don't because their parents fear the danger from traffic.

Much of which is - erm - parents driving their kids to school...
 

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Posted by Thurible (# 3206) on :
 
TICTH Househunting and bastard cash-buying developers outbidding families who just want a decent bloody house that hasn't been "improved" to turn it into some sort of designer showpiece that prices every normal family out of the buggering village.

Thurible
 

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Posted by Antisocial Alto (# 13810) on :
 
TICTH my fellow Amurricans, for being so terrified of a single-payer health system. Seriously how are we supposed to pay $600 a month in premiums alone for a family of three? That's more than our mortgage.
 

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Posted by rolyn (# 16840) on :
 
TICTH Banker's bonuses .

Oh, but if we don't give them zillions of quids we won't get such a high level of skill in the finance industry.

Tell me again. Just how difficult is it to fuck up the entire Western economy ?
 

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Posted by Ad Orientem (# 17574) on :
 
Garlic.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Crucifixes, mirrors and pointy sticks as well.

(Just kidding. Are you allergic or something?)
 

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Posted by Ad Orientem (# 17574) on :
 
LOL!

I just think it's vile muck. It should be consigned to the deepest depths of hell. If I had my own kingdom I'd ban it under the most severest penalties.
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH the pastor and assorted other idiots who think a scrap metal (read, steel) drive involving hacking up applianes and loading the jagged edged pieces is an appropriate fundraiser for 14 year olds. Oh, and for making three Saturdays of this mandatory for everyone wishing to go on the event. And for telling me cheerfully when i point out that one such child came home with a cut finger and a large slash through his jeans, "oh, i think most of the kids got cut up, don't worry. The church has liability insurance" !!!
 

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Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :
 
TICTH safes I've been able to open before, but never seem to be able to now, but which my co-workers can easily open on the first try always. How does a safe know who's spinning its dial? And why do they hate me?
 

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Posted by The Rhythm Methodist (# 17064) on :
 
TICTH those 'worship leaders' who think it's OK to drown out every attempt at conversation before the service, by practising with the amp turned up. Those worship leaders whose egos are so large, they have their own gravitational fields. Those who - in their arrogance - presume to intersperse their vacuous, quasi-musical offerings, with equally vacuous verbal dross. Those who can't tell the difference between self-indulgence, and the Spirit of God. Those that substitute hype for spirituality.... and those who will only sing songs which are so new, the ink hasn't dried on the page.

It is as well for you, that these aren't the "days of Elijah": He'd kick your asses off the stage, and garrotte you with your own guitar strings.

May you spend eternity listening to the sound of your own voice....through other people's ears.
 

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Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by The Rhythm Methodist:
TICTH those 'worship leaders' who think it's OK to drown out every attempt at conversation before the service, by practising with the amp turned up.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Snags:

Oh, and people who think "These are the days of Elijah" is either good or new.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Snags, for once the absence of a link is to be commended. Many thanks.

Sioni Sais
Hellhost

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quote:

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Originally posted by Moo:

quote:

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Snags, for once the absence of a link is to be commended. Many thanks.

Sioni Sais
Hellhost

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Should I take that as a friendly warning not to Google it?

Moo

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Originally posted by Kyzyl:

TICTH - snow plow drivers. Specifically, those of the City of Winona, Minnesota.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Evensong:
TICTH My accountant. Again.

I told him I was going to lodge a formal complaint with the Department of Consumer Protection and he tells me his lawyers will sue me for defamation.

Can he do that?

*sigh*

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Hostly Notice

Seriously, this isn't the place to ask for legal advice.

Sioni Sais
Hellhost
 

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Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
Sorry Sioni. Wasn't my intention to ask for legal advice. Just a chat.

But maybe that's a girl thing?
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 

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Originally posted by Evensong:
Sorry Sioni. Wasn't my intention to ask for legal advice. Just a chat.

But maybe that's a girl thing?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Evensong:
Sorry Sioni. Wasn't my intention to ask for legal advice. Just a chat.

But maybe that's a girl thing?

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Evensong, this makes me want to rip your fucking uterus out and feed it to the cats. You lose your license for the second X chromosome. "Sorry I was so fucking vague and stupid, but that's what us girls do!"

fuck you, you pathetic rock. Being an idiot is not a girl thing, it's an Evensong thing. Own it, don't smear the rest of us with your shit.

*sigh* PS - call consumer protection and ask them. I'm sure they hear that all the fucking time.

[ 12. March 2013, 01:49: Message edited by: comet ]
 

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Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
I think ES was asking for girl talk.

Well that's quite the girl talk! Would hate to see it get angry in here.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
I have spent two-thirds of the working day checking internally and then explaining why I can't do something a client asked me to do. "Because I don't want to" and "because I said so" not being sufficiently convincing reasons.

Doing the actual thing, if it was actually a good idea, would probably have taken about half an hour.

Other things that need doing haven't got done while I spend time explaining why I'm not doing something.

I fucking hate days like this.
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 

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Originally posted by orfeo:
I have spent two-thirds of the working day checking internally...

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Can somebody pass the brain bleach please?
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
As in within my organisation. Ew. Ewwwwww.
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
See, your day could have been worse.
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
Housework. I hate hate hate HATE HATE H*A*T*E it. I feel like taking to living in squalor. More squalor.
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by comet:

quote:

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Originally posted by Evensong:
Sorry Sioni. Wasn't my intention to ask for legal advice. Just a chat.

But maybe that's a girl thing?

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Evensong, this makes me want to rip your fucking uterus out and feed it to the cats.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Firenze:
Housework. I hate hate hate HATE HATE H*A*T*E it. I feel like taking to living in squalor. More squalor.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Firenze:
Housework. I hate hate hate HATE HATE H*A*T*E it. I feel like taking to living in squalor. More squalor.

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quote:

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Originally posted by tessaB:
Come to the dark side young Firenze.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:

quote:

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Originally posted by comet:

quote:

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Originally posted by Evensong:
Sorry Sioni. Wasn't my intention to ask for legal advice. Just a chat.

But maybe that's a girl thing?

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Evensong, this makes me want to rip your fucking uterus out and feed it to the cats.

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Most of us got to this point a long time ago. Don't let anyone stop you.

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You too?

Shit.

Dunno how I managed that.

I always tried to be nice to you since I rather like you.
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 

 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
A warm thank-you to the credit card company who unexpectedly sent me an "annual credit card statement". I nearly had a heart attack when I opened it, thinking it was a bill and that someone had been running up a three-figure sum on my account without my knowledge. What's the point of sending this? I don't want it and didn't ask for it.

And what's more you got my address wrong. Why did you change it? I've lived here for years. You had no reason to change it and I'd never have found out if someone hadn't kindly redirected it for me.

I really don't understand why companies do this - my insurance company suddenly decided last year that I now live 11 doors away. Why? There's no need to amend address records unecessarily.
 

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Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
TICTH people (the most well meaning sort) that say they hope you get another warm fuzzy friend soon when your friendpet of sixteen years dies.

FFS. It's like saying "Hope you find another Dad to replace the one that died today soon".

Doesn't happen people.

Pets are unique, just like people. They cannot be replaced.

They are mourned because of who they were and the friendship and love they brought.

[ 14. March 2013, 12:51: Message edited by: Evensong ]
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
Amen, sister. it wasn't 12 hours after my boy passed away that I had people asking me when I was getting a puppy. what the hell?!?
 

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Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
The best response to that one was one my children, who said "no, we're having chicken for supper". Made the point.

TICTH snow. We have now about 8 feet in the yard. Last weekend I shovelled the roof again, and didn't need a ladder. It is snowing again, and 15 cm are forecast (6"). My next post will probably be about an ice age.
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
Everyday I'm shovelin'...
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH my dear dear boss, who (naturally!) managed to thank each team member by name in detail at the celebration and then most inexplicably forgot who I was when his eyes landed on me. Which didn't prevent him from taking credit for my accomplishments ten minutes later, of course.

And a certain in-duh-vidual in a different department who took out her temper on me because she was mad at said dear dear boss AND at the marketing people. I have nothing to do with the decisions of either, sweetie. All I do is shield you from him. And you--you don't know which end to kiss and which end to slap.
 

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Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 

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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
you don't know which end to kiss and which end to slap.

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Fuck it, (((Comet & Evensong))), and boy howdy.

[edited to accomodate the fucking pickypants among us.]

[ 15. March 2013, 02:53: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 

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Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Fuck it, (((Comet & Evensong)), and boy howdy.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Tortuf:


It is now 6:50 p.m. local time and no one knows where the hell the surgeon is or when he will start.

Shit

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If it's 6:50 pm the surgeon will be at the country club. Don't people know that?

( for your mom, but yeah, Shit says it all).
 

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Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 

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Originally posted by Porridge:
Senator Rob Portman can go fuck himself.

What is it with these people? Marriage equality is Just Terrible, Evil, and Against God . . . until it turns out his son is gay.

So NOW it's all okey-dokey.

You fucking twat. It's fine to discriminate against those strange Others, right? Only now it's your own son's ox being gored, so Change Of Heart.

As if you fucking had one. Or a brain. Or the imagination of a fucking guppie.

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Originally posted by Antisocial Alto:
many people of Portman's generation have followed a similar path- disapproving of the gayz until they actually knew and loved one.

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quote:

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Originally posted by RuthW:

quote:

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Originally posted by Porridge:
It's fine to discriminate against those strange Others, right? Only now it's your own son's ox being gored, so Change Of Heart.

As if you fucking had one. Or a brain. Or the imagination of a fucking guppie.

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You beat me to it. What kills me is the implication that he can only be moved to do some soul-searching and then do the right thing because of his personal experience. What does this say about his ability to do the right thing about problems that don't have a personal impact on him and his family?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:

quote:

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Originally posted by Antisocial Alto:
many people of Portman's generation have followed a similar path- disapproving of the gayz until they actually knew and loved one.

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He apparently sat on the knowledge for two years before conveniently rearranging his conscience.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:

quote:

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Originally posted by Antisocial Alto:
many people of Portman's generation have followed a similar path- disapproving of the gayz until they actually knew and loved one.

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He apparently sat on the knowledge for two years before conveniently rearranging his conscience.

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quote:

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Originally posted by QLib:
<in response to RuthW and Antisocial Alto>

Maybe your cynicism is justified - perhaps you know more about him than I do - but I would have said that two years is not an unusual amount of time for a deeply conservative person to adjust to the idea of a gay marriage in the family. Yeah, he should have admitted it before, but, for my money, the real test of his character and integrity will come with what happens next, not what went before.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Porridge:
Oops -- we are discussing, and we have been officially warned not to. Maybe we should move this topic to the Another Damn Fool Republican thread.

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Porridge:
Oops -- we are discussing, and we have been officially warned not to. Maybe we should move this topic to the Another Damn Fool Republican thread.

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Hostly Notice

Yes, me included (but I'm mad about it too)

This Portman character is not to be mentioned on this thread again. Porridge's suggestion should be followed instead.

Sioni Sais
Hellhost
 

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Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :
 
TICTH... what I've decided to call San-Fransplainers. Like "mansplainers," kinda. (I've ranted about this on facebook already today, so some of you may have seen it.)

All I have to do is wear a Detroit-related t-shirt in San Francisco, or mention I'm from Detroit to a San Franciscan, and suddenly they're telling me all about what went wrong with my own hometown. Even though they've never been there, don't know anyone from there, and have never read anything authoritative on the subject (and, as I pointed out on facebook - the New York Times, the SF Chronicle, and other national/international news agencies aren't authorities on Detroit). Generally, they have a really simplistic explanation, often one which contrasts the (alleged) stupidity of Detroit with the (alleged) genius of San Francisco. E.g., Detroit never thought to have more than one industry (an assertion that isn't true). I assume this means San Francisco has more than one industry. (Are computer programming and internet apps two different industries? Are we counting Palo Alto and Napa Valley as San Francisco? We're probably counting tourism here, thanks to the nice weather in this part of the world.)

See, I'm oversimplifying there. But I know enough to know that. San-Fransplainers are simply talking out of their asses and managing to make that sound condescending. (Maybe that's another industry?)

So...lady at the bus stop this morning... "What happened to Detroit" wasn't just crime. Crime doesn't suddenly pop up out of nowhere. "Crime" isn't a simple cause of anything; in fact, it's a symptom of other, much more complex problems. You gave away your own prejudices when you shivered when I said I lived in Oakland, and when you complained that you can't take a direct bus anymore to San Anselmo (something you apparently find so unreasonable, that there isn't public transit magically available to take you out of the city on those rare occasions you wish to venture out). Just. shut. up. Oh, and try not to leave San Francisco ever again. Not only will the rest of the world disappoint you, but the rest of the world will find you as annoying as I do. So kindly leave us to our own business, thank you very much.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 

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Originally posted by Porridge:
Oops -- we are discussing, and we have been officially warned not to. Maybe we should move this topic to the Another Damn Fool Republican thread.

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You get points for at least realising.

If a topic is worth this much discussion, then it was worth its own thread somewhere.

*consults manual for ways of shifting the whole thing*
 

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Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
TICTH the enforced jollity in every single pub over the national holiday of another country.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH every Englishman, American and Australian* who is pretending to be Irish today. You unpatriotic bastards.

*other nationalities are available (and culpable).
 

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Posted by jbohn (# 8753) on :
 
What if we're Irish-American? Are we allowed a dram or a pint then?
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
As long as you do not enjoy it. Now move off Spike's lawn! And mind Sioni's as you go.
 

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Posted by Sine Nomine (# 66) on :
 
Americans will celebrate any country or culture's holiday that involves alcohol. Oktoberfest. St. Patrick's Day. Cinco de Mayo. We don't care. Just pass the booze.

[ 18. March 2013, 01:36: Message edited by: Sine Nomine ]
 

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Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
Australians don't bother to wait for the holidays.
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
I'll happily expend a few quiet smirks in the direction of the local "Irish" who abbreviate Patrick as Patty.

[ 18. March 2013, 03:04: Message edited by: Leorning Cniht ]
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Ahem.

We interrupt this idle banter for some Hellhost commentary.

Yet again, I am going to point out that if you feel like being all chatty about some topic, then create a separate Hell thread for it.

This particular edition of TICTH has been doing remarkably well, and has survived a long time. But just lately you've all gone and turned it into a coffee lounge or water cooler or something.

I'm not saying that the rule is no response, ever. But dammit, if you're going to be the 3rd or 4th person in a row commenting on the same topic, that's a discussion. And if we're going to discuss a particular topic around here, then there's a lovely button for creating new threads. Go ahead and press it.

TICTH is intended to be for short, sharp bursts of being pissed off at the world that don't warrant threads of their own, often because they're not of general interest and/or they're individual experiences.

Okay?

Now shape up, or I'll just go and close this thread on the grounds that you're all getting too comfortable with it.

orfeo
Hellhost
 

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Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
Just do it already, willya?

Happily there seems to be a lack of green food colouring in these climes
 

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Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 

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Originally posted by orfeo:


This particular edition of TICTH has been doing remarkably well, and has survived a long time. But just lately you've all gone and turned it into a coffee lounge or water cooler or something.

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Originally posted by deano:
At the risk of stirring up a Hell Host or two for discussing something but I cannot resist….

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Congratulations. Because you are such a moron, I wouldn't get any sense of satisfaction from rising to take that particularly pathetic piece of bait.
 

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Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
TICTH today, because so far it's been crap, and it has the potential for getting much, much worse in the next ten minutes. Arse.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH the stupid fat bastard on the 26A bus out of Newport at 17:20.

Why do you persist in standing at the front, with your arse and rucksack filling the gangway at the narrowest point on the whole bus?? It's not as if there aren't any seats but, oh, that would mean being six feet further from the door. This must happen at least three times a week.
 

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Posted by Inger (# 15285) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
TICTH the stupid fat bastard on the 26A bus out of Newport at 17:20.

Why do you persist in standing at the front, with your arse and rucksack filling the gangway at the narrowest point on the whole bus?? It's not as if there aren't any seats but, oh, that would mean being six feet further from the door. This must happen at least three times a week.

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Originally posted by MarsmanTJ:
TITCH Angela Merkel. Playing chicken with the Cyprus (and probably the wider EU) economy to score cheap political points in her own country. IT seems to be for two simple reasons:

1) She can't afford to be seen to be 'bailing out Russians' by her own people and
2) Germany is jealous that Cyprus actually has a successful banking infrastructure so they're trying to destroy it.



As you can imagine, the large numbers of charities on the island (one of whom my parents work for) are justifiably not pleased by having their bank accounts stolen from.

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Posted in error in Purg and transferred at MarsmanTJ's request. (B62, Purg Host)
 

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Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
TITCH the assholes who ransacked my brother's family's house. Luckily no family member or employee was home.

But shit!
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH the UK government's latest damnfool idea. These £1,200 rebates will be absorbed in higher childcare fees.

Choice my arse.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
After this morning, I'd quite like a 5-kilometre exclusion radius around me for just a few hours. Everybody, just fuck off for a little while would you? Ta.
 

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Posted by Spiffy (# 5267) on :
 
TICTH medical professionals.
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH the fact that my boss who hates me has scheduled my annual review for Holy Week. Given his predilectiond to save the most abusive for last, I expect I'll get ripped a new one right before Maundy Thursday communion service. Feel the love.
 

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Posted by AmyBo (# 15040) on :
 
TITCH the asshole brother-in-law who lets favorite niece climb all over me for an hour before announcing that her baby brother was puking earlier in the morning. I've been home in bed for 2 days now.
 

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Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :
 
Spring. It was -27°C yesterday, blizzard overnight, and snowdrifts are blocking all the roads.
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
TICTH people who mistakenly believe that because they have a fancy car they're entitled to use two parking spaces.

And their spiritual brothers and sisters who put their bags on the seat next to them on a train full of people who are standing.

Not all psychopaths end up inside.
 

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Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
TICTH people who mistakenly believe that because they have a fancy car they're entitled to use two parking spaces.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
And their spiritual brothers and sisters who put their bags on the seat next to them on a train full of people who are standing.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Moo:

quote:

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
TICTH people who mistakenly believe that because they have a fancy car they're entitled to use two parking spaces.

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Some of them think they're entitled to four parking spaces, just to make sure no other car comes near theirs. Sometimes the car ends up being keyed by an irate individual.

Moo

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
Obscenely named but apposite website.

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Originally posted by Anglican't:
I thought some recent NHS reform meant that you were supposed to be able to choose which hospital you visited?

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:

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Originally posted by Anglican't:
I thought some recent NHS reform meant that you were supposed to be able to choose which hospital you visited?

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Things are different in Wales, on a number of levels.

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I'm guessing too many lefty politicos falling over themselves to be the heir to Bevan.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 

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Originally posted by Anglican't:

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:

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Originally posted by Anglican't:
I thought some recent NHS reform meant that you were supposed to be able to choose which hospital you visited?

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Things are different in Wales, on a number of levels.

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I'm guessing too many lefty politicos falling over themselves to be the heir to Bevan.

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Originally posted by Yam-pk:
Iain Duncan Smith, George Osborne and Danny Alexander (useless collection of UK non-entity politicans):

Rather than raising taxes on people earning over 100k, rather than raising taxes on peoples' homes which are worth more than a million quid, they tax disabld people on housing benefit with spare rooms...

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quote:

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Originally posted by Anglican't:

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Originally posted by Yam-pk:
Iain Duncan Smith, George Osborne and Danny Alexander (useless collection of UK non-entity politicans):

Rather than raising taxes on people earning over 100k, rather than raising taxes on peoples' homes which are worth more than a million quid, they tax disabld people on housing benefit with spare rooms...

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They're not being taxed, so you can fish them out of hell for us. (But feel free to leave Danny Alexander in there, if you like.)

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Cut the disingenuousness, Tory Boy.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Anglican't:

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Cut the disingenuousness, Tory Boy.

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If anything, I think it's the height of disingenuousness to deliberately confuse a tax and a reduction in benefits.

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quote:

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But back in keeping with the spirit of the thread: TICTH - Hacked Off. I'm, er, hacked off with their (seemingly successful) attempts to kill the free press in this country.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
At the same time as these reductions were announced the 50% tax rate was removed, showing just how "fair" IDS and Gorgeous George really are (Danny Alexander is irrelevant).

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quote:

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
They are very different.

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quote:

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At the same time as these reductions were announced the 50% tax rate was removed, showing just how "fair" IDS and Gorgeous George really are

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quote:

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(Danny Alexander is irrelevant).

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quote:

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What is free about a press that runs scared at the threat of libel writs, which only the rich can afford?

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quote:

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Originally posted by comet:

happy motherfucking spring. I think I might make a snowman just so I can shoot him.

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I may just steal this statement, crediting your good self, of course
 

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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
TICTH Global Warming. Where the fuck is it? We have snow in March here and it is shite. I want heat, and sunshine, here now.
 

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Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
..... toys r us. It's an Abacus ffs, acres of shiney plastic and cheap shit and NOT ONE ABACUS!

capitalist spoon feeders r us

P
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by deano:
TICTH Global Warming. Where the fuck is it? We have snow in March here and it is shite. I want heat, and sunshine, here now.

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quote:

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Originally posted by The Midge:
After rummaging in my undies drawer looking for ‘Tuesday’ I hear by condemn days-of-the-week socks to hell. They are guaranteed to induce OCD. The only use for the darned things is to tell how long they have been on my feet in the unlikely event I forget to change them everyday.

I also condemn those who buy them for me as stocking fillers. The bastards know they wind me up.

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quote:

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Originally posted by The Midge:

I also condemn those who buy them for me as stocking fillers. The bastards know they wind me up.

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Thanks for the idea!
 

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Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :
 
TICTH irresponsible pet owners. I've been seeing cats all week trying to find shelter from the crazy-ass weather in nooks and crannies and under hedges. The same ones first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

Why do people own pets if they never spend time with them and don't want to look after them. Bastards. They should all be stripped, cast into the snow and left to survive on bin scraps
 

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Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 

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Originally posted by deano:
I want heat, and sunshine, here now.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Huia:

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Originally posted by deano:
I want heat, and sunshine, here now.

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If you moved to NZ you'd have it - but we probably wouldn't let you in.

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Unfortunately I’m a martyr to jet-lag and having to set my watch back twenty years would be quite unpleasant.

When are your millennium celebrations scheduled for?
 

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Posted by Stercus Tauri (# 16668) on :
 
TICTH... Communications between hospitals. If the cancer don't kill you, then the little office troll working the fax machine will probably do it. Thank God for surgeons who can outsmart the trolls.
 

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Posted by Meerkat (# 16117) on :
 
TICTH the sodding stupid chefs who say 'skollops', when we all know that the word is 'scallops'
 

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Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
TICTH church websites with no mention of Holy Week Services at all.
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Ticth bosses who ding me on my annual review for using FMLA. Oh, and for coming in on my scheduled day off to help the company out in a time of crisis. Egg sucking son of a porcupine.
 

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Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Meerkat:
TICTH the sodding stupid chefs who say 'skollops', when we all know that the word is 'scallops'

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quote:

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Originally posted by Anglican't:

The word is 'scallop' but it can be pronounced 'skollop'.

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quote:

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The word is 'scallop' but it can be pronounced 'skollop'.

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Definitely. If I used any other pronunciation at the fish shop, no one would know what I wanted.

While I'm on the subject TICTH the fact that Tasmanian scallops have been pretty well unobtainable here for months. The only ones worth eating here. Imported scallops have usually been frozen and when thawed are half the size they started as and they cook into white rounds of what feels like rubber.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
TICTH the demon of the small hours who sticks a sharp pitchfork into sleep, puncturing and deflating it immediately when his shift begins.

Sod off back to the bilges of Hell. I'm sick of you wrecking my nights.
 

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Posted by Meerkat (# 16117) on :
 
Originally posted by Anglican't:

The word is 'scallop' but it can be pronounced 'skollop'.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It COULD be pronounced 'arsehole', but it would still annoy me!
 

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Posted by deano (# 12063) on :
 
TICTH Psoraisis - the long winter we're having means that my regular winter-long psoraisis is taking longer to clear up and itching like buggery.

(BTW - when I were a lad in't 70's pit village where I grew up scallops - pronounced "scollops" of course - were slices of potato fried like chips.)
 

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Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by deano:
TICTH Psoraisis - the long winter we're having means that my regular winter-long psoraisis is taking longer to clear up and itching like buggery.

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This is very un-Hellish and definitely un-TICTH, but as an eczema sufferer who's finding the cold hard-going at times, .
 

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Posted by Evangeline (# 7002) on :
 
TICTH secular bloody humanists who start FB posts and national newspaper articles with "It's Good Friday, I don't believe in God but blah blah these are my views." I don't particularly give a flying fuck about your views and the fact that you're using the excuse that it is a day of Religious commemoration to justify your secular humanist rant is .....annoying to say the least.
 

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Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
TICTH Lord Carey, for foregoing the chance to spread the wonder and mystery and grace of the Easter story to instead write an article that effectively translates as "moany, moany, moany, whinge, whinge, whinge repeat ad nauseum".

Happy Easter to you, too.
 

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Posted by Angloid (# 159) on :
 
I was just going to add George Carey. But I refuse to refer to him as Lord. The very last thing a bishop and servant of God's people should be is a Lord, even less that he should use that status to spread hate against people who do not conform to his lower-middle-class vanilla sexual morality.
 

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Posted by Angloid (# 159) on :
 
PS does he not realise that Chris Bryant is a former (technically still, as ordination is for life) Christian priest who for all we know might still be in active ministry if it wasn't for the bigoted attitudes of him and those like him?
 

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Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
TICTH: Party Poppers in Church.
 

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Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Angloid:
I was just going to add George Carey. But I refuse to refer to him as Lord. The very last thing a bishop and servant of God's people should be is a Lord, even less that he should use that status to spread hate against people who do not conform to his lower-middle-class vanilla sexual morality.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Anglican't:
TICTH: Party Poppers in Church.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Desert Daughter:
"reduce activities which will make you inhale a great amount of air".

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...... which kinda puts the mockers on hanky panky in Gay Pari'
 

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Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
TICTH websites that have white print on a dark background. It is harder to read, so much so that I frequently decide it's not worth the effort.

Moo
 

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Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
TICTH food poisoning .

I feel like I've been fed head-first through a mangle.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH the 24-hour blood pressure monitor that is gripping my arm like a vice. Damn thing nearly made me faint. How is THAT going to get an accurate reading of my usual blood pressure?
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Dude, getting pissed about it is only gonna raise your blood pressure.

(I'm sorry. Hope you're OK.)

[ 02. April 2013, 04:01: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 

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Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 

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Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH the 24-hour blood pressure monitor that is gripping my arm like a vice. Damn thing nearly made me faint. How is THAT going to get an accurate reading of my usual blood pressure?

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quote:

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Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH the 24-hour blood pressure monitor that is gripping my arm like a vice. Damn thing nearly made me faint. How is THAT going to get an accurate reading of my usual blood pressure?

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Hosting taking a toll? just remember - when reading another damn stupid post, close your eyes, visualize a clear, cool, still pool of water surrounded by lush greenery. birds are singing all around you. you take calm, deep breaths. and then shove the stupid fucking poster under the water and hold him there.

works for me.

Ohm.
 

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Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :
 
Comet 'him' huh, got someone in mind have you? And to paraphrase palimpsest's post, You fat bastard.
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
oh baby, I've got a list.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
If you're all going to mill around like complete morons having a conversation in a place you're not supposed to, allow me to puncture a whole series of breathtakingly stupid assumptions you've made.

1. I'm not wearing this thing because my blood pressure is high, but because it may be going too low.

2. The cuff is adjustable over a wide range. The girth of my arm, impressive as my biceps are, is not an issue.

3. The cuff is fitted correctly. It was not fitted by me. It's SUPPOSED to be gripping my arm like a vice. THAT'S the issue.
 

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Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :
 

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Originally posted by comet:
oh baby, I've got a list.

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After reading your posts for 8 years, I know damn well you have several lists...

[Sorry Orfeo, no more commentary]

[ 02. April 2013, 08:18: Message edited by: Patdys ]
 

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Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
TICTH typing up a cassette inaudibly recorded by my boss with the dictaphone about a mile away from her mouth, not in my first language, on a subject I know nothing and care less about (if I understood the words and could hear enough of it to know what it was about, I'm fairly sure it would be boring), in an open space office where the phones ring and people talk and the printer makes a noise like a rocket taking off just behind me.

I am losing the will to live.
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
Cassette? Dictaphone? Does she need a calendar to inform her what bloody century it is?
 

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Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
TICTH: Mick Philpott.

Not sure about Mrs Philpott yet. I'll await the judgement.
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 

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Originally posted by Anglican't:
TICTH: Mick Philpott.

Not sure about Mrs Philpott yet. I'll await the judgement.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
Well, I'm glad you've got some amusement out of the whole business.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Anglican't:
TICTH: Mick Philpott.

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Yeah , too right . See how he likes being burnt alive
 

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Posted by mdijon (# 8520) on :
 

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Originally posted by Anglican't:
Given that the critics of the headline are often guilty of equally sensationalist claptrap, I reckon you've got to laugh or cry at what passes for debate sometimes. On this occasion I chose to laugh.

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But these were 6 real flesh and blood children who were burnt by their father being exploited for political point scoring. Sensationalist claptrap is one thing but laughing about the emotions stoked up around this case probably just demonstrates the incredibly depersonalizing effect of internet news commentary.

I'd like to think it does anyway.
 

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Posted by Nanny Ogg (# 1176) on :
 
TICTH being made homeless and the lack of one bed housing due to the "bedroom tax"
 

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Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :
 
TICTH people who think they're organized but aren't.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH, me I guess. I made a joke in reply to Anglican't just up thread, without reading what Anglican't was commenting on. Nothing funny about that case or the yellow journalism surrounding the reporting on it. Tragedy is all it is.
 

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Posted by rolyn (# 16840) on :
 
Not sure if yesterday's tabloid headline "We'll have sex on our kid's graves" counts as yellow journalism .

I'm slightly gratified by the fact that the only humping philpot does from now won't be of the kind that produces kids.

TICTH -- The tragedy of the human condition.
 

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Posted by Nanny Ogg (# 1176) on :
 
TICTH people who promise they'll phone you later don't. I hate being left high and dry and uncertain
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by rolyn:
Not sure if yesterday's tabloid headline "We'll have sex on our kid's graves" counts as yellow journalism .

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quote:

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Originally posted by rolyn:
Not sure if yesterday's tabloid headline "We'll have sex on our kid's graves" counts as yellow journalism .

I'm slightly gratified by the fact that the only humping philpot does from now won't be of the kind that produces kids.

TICTH -- The tragedy of the human condition.

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
So been there. "Kelly, I have noticed you have been falling away in worship. Remember each time you are missing church, you are defying God's command to take part in the Eucharist. Don't be faithless in your worship."

"I'm sorry, the six or seven people I informed about my 2 month bronchial infection must not have passed on the info. Oh ,they did? And you still are shaking your head? Well, fuck you very much."

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Originally posted by orfeo:

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Originally posted by JoannaP:

quote:

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
So been there. "Kelly, I have noticed you have been falling away in worship. Remember each time you are missing church, you are defying God's command to take part in the Eucharist. Don't be faithless in your worship."

"I'm sorry, the six or seven people I informed about my 2 month bronchial infection must not have passed on the info. Oh ,they did? And you still are shaking your head? Well, fuck you very much."

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Frankly I would have liked somebody to get in touch to tick me off for missing church - it would have shown they had noticed (and given me an opportunity to request communion at home). The total utter silence was hard to take, as Dinghy Sailor says.

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Nobody "got in touch." I got the silence , too, The speech I got was when I was shaking the Pastor's hand after service, having finally recovered enough to drag myself there. Still pale and sweating and shaking so hard I can remember having trouble with the handshake. And , as I said, I had let a variety of people in my peer group know how sick I was. (My sister confirmed that she had told a number of people including the Pastor, herself) They also knew what time I wasn't spending being sick I was working a six-day a week job, for minimum wage. Instead of doing those well-checks you are talking about, they decided I was missing the extra-church events and weekend clubbing and rock concerts because I didn't like the church anymore, and passed this version of events all over the church. Nobody asked me a thing. I was told what everyone had decided.

And how is telling someone they are "defying God" without asking a single question about their circumstances showing concern?

I don't think you would have liked that.

[And Dinghy Sailor--I trust you knew I was empathizing.]

[ 07. April 2013, 04:22: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
 

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Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
TICTH being assigned to a senior school that teaches Philosophy and Ethics in place of Religious Education when my major is Religious Education.

Take two lessons on critical thinking? No problem (seeing as how my undergraduate degree is in theology not philosophy.)

So those twelve detailed lesson plans I just handed in for a 60% assignment were a complete waste of time?

Excellent. I love wasting my time.
 

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Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck fuck.

Extreme stress
 

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Posted by Dinghy Sailor (# 8507) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
[And Dinghy Sailor--I trust you knew I was empathizing.]

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quote:

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Originally posted by Evensong:
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck fuck.

Extreme stress

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quote:

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Originally posted by RooK:
Look! Look! Orfeo has feelings! Poke him! Poke him right in the feely parts!

In other news, I wonder how difficult it would be to load paintballs with capsaicin. Use a low-velocity launcher to ensure no physical harm, but I dares ya to lick that off yer fur ye wee yard-shitting bastard.

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How kind, an arthritis treatment.
 

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Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :
 

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Originally posted by orfeo:
Finally, my secret's out. I am in fact a St Bernard that can type.

You don't know what a relief it is to come clean after all these years.

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Thank God, I was afraid you were gay.

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
Hey! Canines have sexuality TOO, y'know.

TICTH my local politicians for passing a scheme to help 'financially disadvantaged' people to pay their traffic and parking fines.

Hey, I've got a scheme for that, too. It's called not fucking incurring traffic and parking fines in the first place. Haven't paid a cent in two decades!
 

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Posted by cheesymarzipan (# 9442) on :
 
TICTH coughing so much my back hurts.
 

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Posted by Nanny Ogg (# 1176) on :
 
TICTH my current lady who has just visited to demand rent and also state that I have to have the house inspected by her estate agents and have it in tenantable condition despite the fact she is getting decorators and builders in as soon as I leave

Naturally she came round when the housing office is shut so I could not phone them to check my rights until tomorrow

She does have my deposit which is more than my monthly rent - I doubt I'll get any of that back
 

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Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
Try directgov - also there is a mediation service re deposits, so if she withholds you may be able to appeal the decision.
 

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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :
 
TICTH Putin's Pontificating Pet
 

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Posted by Gee D (# 13815) on :
 
Nanny Ogg , you really must get yourself to a tenants' advice service or a community legal centre. I don't know what the law is in your part of the world, and it would take time which I don't have to look it up. I do know that the laws in the various jurisdictions here have very substantial protection for tenants, and I'd be very surprised if there aren't similar protections for you. These include:

* A maximum amount of bond which can be taken - here it's 4 weeks for unfurnished premises.
* The bond is held by a government agency and is the tenant's money until the landlord proves an entitlement to it before a tenancy tribunal or local court.
* A landlord cannot simply throw a tenant out, but must prove an entitlement to possession in a court or tribunal.

In the case as you describe it, with renovations to take place once you leave, it would be very strange if a landlord were able to claim any part of the bond for cleaning or minor repairs. Get advice urgently, so you're in better control of what happens.
 

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Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
TICTH The "wonderful" vicar who took over at a parish where I gave 3 1/2 YEARS of virtually unpaid time/support to reinstate their choir & decent music after a previous organist walked out mid-service.

Thanks for using the magazine to announce that 3 out of 4 evening services wouldn't require choir and that a "good new children's choir" would cover Christmas carols: fantastic for the morale of the singers and put me in my place publicly.

Thanks, too, for staying in the church office throughout my last evensong, only appearing to hand over a bunch of flowers just before the blessing and then leaving even before I finished my 20 words of thanks.

Thanks for being so sensitive that you decided not to mention the very sudden death of my partner and my children's parent . And it was especially caring to ensure that you dropped a note through my letterbox ON THE DAY OF THE FUNERAL about changing all the hymn lists for the next 2 months - PLUS a typed note about how happy you were sure I'd be that the cathedral had decided to make you a canon because of your "pastoral strengths".

What a woman - what a pastor!
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH today's crop of spamming morons who want me to believe the United Nations, of all things, has decided to compensate me with 5 million dollars for when I've been scammed.

I'd at least like my criminals to have some intelligence.
 

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Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 

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Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH today's crop of spamming morons who want me to believe the United Nations, of all things, has decided to compensate me with 5 million dollars for when I've been scammed.

I'd at least like my criminals to have some intelligence.

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Further to this, TICTH all those who, despite all the warnings not to do so and the sheer ludicrousness of what's in the e-mails, still believe them and open them, thereby not only essentially robbing themselves of ££££ or $$$$, but also encouraging people to keep doing this.
 

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Posted by Meg the Red (# 11838) on :
 
Look Dude, I know that in your own strange little mind you're expressing sympathy for those of us whose jobs might disappear, but stopping by my desk to say "I really like you - I hope you're still here in two weeks!" is Not At All Fucking Helpful.

Please be so kind as to STFU, then drop on your head and bounce twice.

Oh and TITCH our useless provincial government, whose hasty dumbass knee-jerk funding decisions have thrown every educational institution in the province into crisis.
 

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Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :
 
TICTH the way that the autism scare over the MMR has affected NHS policy in a way that buggers up vaccinating children who had an adverse reaction to the first MMR.

Apparently, NHS doctors aren't supposed to blood test for immunity, but my kind and helpful GP said we were a special case and it would put our minds at rest and solve everything if the first MMR had, in fact, done the trick. Results are back and lo! I have a child with no immunity to measles, and an NHS suggestion we go private for a single vaccine. To a clinic which is 3 hours away. It has taken us 4 NHS appointments, with 5 NHS doctors / health visitors, over the past 6 months to get to this point.

 

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Posted by Nanny Ogg (# 1176) on :
 
TICTH people who row in front of you in your home and then get huffy with you for telling them to stop or sort it out elsewhere
 

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Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
The hose pipe was invented for this situation.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
To follow up a previous instalment, THIS time the e-mail even said it came from Ban Ki-Moon.
 

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Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
TICTH cancer in Golden Retrievers. My buddy of 11 years died yesterday after a huge mass on his spleen burst. This sort of thing on a spleen in a Goldie = hemgiosacrcoma and is fatal even with surgery. So I let him go. Fuck.

(Not sure if this goes here or Fuck Cancer but I don't really care.)
 

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Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :
 
(((((Kyzyl)))))
 

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Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
Whoever, whatever, caused the two explosions at the Boston Marathon about 30 minutes ago. News just coming in. Suspicious, possible it could be "natural", but my gut says no.
 

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Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
It is not looking good.
 

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Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :
 
Live BBC coverage here, they are now reporting two bombs detonated - probably inside the Fairmont Hotel.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
TICTH bastards who can plan and carry out acts like this.
 

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Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH the bastards who use events like this for their own purposes.
 

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Posted by Taliesin (# 14017) on :
 
Doctors who don't take people seriously. Who assume that a person explaining their own symptoms are just miserable or moaning or wrong.
Who can't be arsed to look at a person's notes and check newly prescribed meds for contraindications.

I know you're busy. But just because she's old and sad doesn't make her stupid. But now she is horribly.fucking.ill.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH the United States Senate.
 

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Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
TICTH looking for something I know is in the house, but can't find in any of the usual places. And spending longer looking for it than I will using it.
 

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Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 

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Originally posted by Doc Tor:
TICTH looking for something I know is in the house, but can't find in any of the usual places. And spending longer looking for it than I will using it.

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TIC myself TH. I mean, seriously. Plain bloody sight. Fuck it.
 

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Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
TICTH anybody who can say: we have over 50,000 lbs of ammonia in 2 tanks on site but there is absolutely no risk of fire or explosion. The worst thing that can possibly happen is a leak, which would be fixed in 10 minutes, and which would cause no lasting injury.
 

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Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 

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Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH the United States Senate.

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Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH businesses in the USA (and quite possibly other countries, but it's the USA I'm dealing with the most at the moment and noticing) that continually quote prices as something 'plus tax' and won't tell me the grand total.

I don't really give a shit how much is going to you and how much is going to the government, okay? That's your fucking problem. I want to know much I've got to pay.

Thank God that this form of pricing is illegal in Australia.

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
This is because it is a variable. Depending upon the state and city.

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Originally posted by orfeo:

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
This is because it is a variable. Depending upon the state and city.

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Do these businesses not know where they are, then? Pretty bloody worrying, especially when I'm trying to book hotels.

And if the issue is not knowing where I am, it's pretty damn easy to set up your website to ascertain this. Plenty of sites do. I've dealt with UK sites that know to show me all prices without VAT because I'm in Australia and therefore not liable for VAT.

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Originally posted by orfeo:

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
This is because it is a variable. Depending upon the state and city.

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Do these businesses not know where they are, then? Pretty bloody worrying, especially when I'm trying to book hotels.

And if the issue is not knowing where I am, it's pretty damn easy to set up your website to ascertain this. Plenty of sites do. I've dealt with UK sites that know to show me all prices without VAT because I'm in Australia and therefore not liable for VAT.

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Originally posted by sophs:
For fucks sake! When you're given a wedding coat to alter, the idea is to actually ALTER the damn thing. And not seem surprised when the bride phones a week before the wedding to ask where it is. You are a prize idiot who deserves to be damned to hell and will be paying me the cost of the coat i may have to be buy to replace the glorious vintage lace one I orginally bought.

Thank God I still have the dress so the day won't be ruined by your idiocy.

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Originally posted by rolyn:
TICTH ---Pot-holes and general decay of UK road surfaces.

If, or when, this recession comes to an end it will take one shit-load of tar to put all our roads right.

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Originally posted by Evensong:

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Originally posted by rolyn:
TICTH ---Pot-holes and general decay of UK road surfaces.

If, or when, this recession comes to an end it will take one shit-load of tar to put all our roads right.

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Bring back the Romans!

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
I am two smartass remarks away from flipping a library table on your ass.

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Originally posted by orfeo:
I think I might have done this before, but TICTH Greyhound USA for having one of the shittiest websites I've seen in a long time.

Utterly. Fucking. Useless.

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Welcome to public transit in North America. It is assumed that only the poor would travel by bus, and since you are poor, Fuck You.
/s
 

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Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
To be fair, Travelodge UK used to assume that only residents of the British Isles would wish to stay at their hotels. But I outsmarted them. I found their sekrit code.
 

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Posted by South Coast Kevin (# 16130) on :
 
TICTH drawing false dichotomies as an arguing technique. It's come up a couple of times here today and I'm annoyed. Grr.

Don't think I've used that smiley before. Feels a bit better.

Or that one...
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
To the annoying little fucker who wouldn't leave my bar tonight: you were here when I came on shift. you stayed here all fucking night. I had to kick you out after closing. I quit serving you hours ago, yet you stayed. and stayed. and talked all fucking night. and then want me to go to your house? in your dreams, you little sad excuse for a man. die in a fire.

Dude, I've been hearing about your divorce and how you wuz wronged for 4 fucking years now. get the fuck over it. She's remarried. She has a baby, for fucks sake. move the fuck on. NOBODY CARES ANYMORE.

and don't tell me about how hard your $90K/year job is. fuck you. you work two weeks a month, make an obscene amount of money as a fucking cook in a cafeteria, and I'm sitting here on minimum wage listening to you whine and bitch and complain and I'm supposed to have sympathy because your cell phone gets no reception in your kitchen? FUCK. OFF.

and if you, you grotesque skeez, tell me one more time how hot you think my daughter is, I swear by all that is good and holy I will pee in your cuervo and smile happily as you suck it down because you won't be able to taste the difference, you slimy little scuzzbag.

and you know what? yes, my daughter is gorgeous. blood tells. she also shot your ass down and that just stings, doesn't it? I hope it stings like a motherfucker. because you don't even know that she is also smart, and fun, and talented, and kind, and all those things that really fucking matter. you claim you are her "friend" yet you know nothing about her except that she polishes up nice. fuck you. fuck you very much. fuck you with a broken fiberglass tent pole. coated in vinegar. and splinters.

I swear if you come back tomorrow and think you can spend my entire shift sitting here bugging me and never fucking leave and hang out when I close and generally act like a stalker, I'm going to clock out, take you off the premises, and beat you until you make squishy sounds when you walk.
 

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Posted by Meerkat (# 16117) on :
 
Comet... I am speechless (well, almost). That has to be the dogs bollox of rants!! If I had a hat, I would take it off to you!! What an uber-amazing post!!
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
If it weren't for Hell I'd probably be in prison.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Listen, sunshine, I'm sick of you being almost permanently on your mobile phone on public transport. You don't talk to people, you subject them to a long monologue where they can hardly ever get a word in edgeways.

This is annoying but frankly after tonight when you actually weren't on your mobile, but vigorously picked your nose, then ate it and sucked your fingers noisily for half the journey, I'd rather you were on the bloody mobile.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 

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Originally posted by Ariel:
Listen, sunshine, I'm sick of you being almost permanently on your mobile phone on public transport. You don't talk to people, you subject them to a long monologue where they can hardly ever get a word in edgeways.

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Originally posted by South Coast Kevin:
Sorry loggats but TICTH people saying 'the Church' when they mean 'my Church'. I'm sure it's mostly done completely subconsciously, but the implication of specialness irks me.

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Alternatively, news media that say 'the Church' and almost always mean the Church of England, and even then just the bit that happens to be shouting loudest and has caught their attention for their current news piece. (cf. Christian Voice, but other loud shouters may also apply).
 

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Posted by South Coast Kevin (# 16130) on :
 
That too, Lord Jestocost, that too...
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
But we ARE the Church /runs
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
TICTH being fucking ignored in the hope that I'll just go away.
 

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Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
TICTH being fucking ignored in the hope that I'll just go away.

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Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
TICTH being fucking ignored in the hope that I'll just go away.

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But you said you ran away ...

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Originally posted by rolyn:
TICTH ---Pot-holes and general decay of UK road surfaces.

If, or when, this recession comes to an end it will take one shit-load of tar to put all our roads right.

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Originally posted by ken:

TICTH the continual resurfacing of the main road my street opens out on to. They did it once already this year. And twice last year, if not three times. Once it was done twice in six weeks.

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Crystallising it even more .
TICTH -- the 3 or 4 way temporary traffic lights used in town for road works which cause absolute chaos around 9.OOam .
Why not just turn them off for a hour an a half and have a freakin tea break.
 

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Posted by 3rdFooter (# 9751) on :
 

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Originally posted by rolyn:
TICTH ---Pot-holes and general decay of UK road surfaces.

If, or when, this recession comes to an end it will take one shit-load of tar to put all our roads right.

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You can't have the tar cos they are using it all in Lewisham.

TICTH the continual resurfacing of the main road my street opens out on to. They did it once already this year. And twice last year, iof not three times. Once it was done twice in six weeks.

Right now one of the side streets is being redone and they hit a water main and flooded it. Was meant to be opened again on 1st of May and no sign yet...

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A water main? Luxury!!!

While stripping the end of our road, they bisected the gas main. At Midnight. Causing the evacuation three streets.

Not much sleep to be had in a council office, I can tell you that.
 

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Posted by Sober Preacher's Kid (# 12699) on :
 
TITCH my uncle, and my other overbearing family members who somehow think jobhunting is easy. When you're young, and graduated during a recession, and employers take months to get back to you, if they do.

I want to give the whole fucking world an attitude adjustment.


 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
TICH sickness. And aging. And death.
 

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Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on :
 
Feels a bit trivial after the previous post but TICTH Pickfords for losing my dustpan and brush and reacting by denying that they ever had them.
I also CTH everybody at IKEA involved in the design and manufacture of the dustpan and brush in my flat. How can you screw up something that basic?
 

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Posted by Anglican't (# 15292) on :
 
TICTH: Bed bugs. Though I suspect even the fiery pits of hell aren't enough to kill the buggers.
 

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Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 

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Originally posted by Anglican't:
TICTH: Bed bugs. Though I suspect even the fiery pits of hell aren't enough to kill the buggers.

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Actually heat is the one thing that will kill them. Bring on the brimstone!
 

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Posted by tessaB (# 8533) on :
 
TICTH toothache . Why did You design teeth which get abscesses, so the tooth can't be fixed until the infection clears up?
Pain!
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH my garden.
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 

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Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH my garden.

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:

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Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH my garden.

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Run out of space for the bodies?

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Yes, because the damn plants keep trying to take over the place.
 

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Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :
 
TICTH the word "intentional" used in a Christian (esp. worship & mission) context. Heard it so many times at the Baptist Assembly over the weekend that it made me just... just... grrr...

Egs:

"We need to be intentional about serving our communities" (as opposed to doing it accidentally?)

"Let's be intentional now about seeking God" (if people weren't "intentional" about it, why would they have travelled half-way up the country to Blackpool to attend worship services (amongst other things)? Or is it intended to guilt-trip people?)

Or having a "heart" for something, as in "God's given me a real heart for the poor", or "I've a real heart for mission" - just say "I really think mission's important" or something, it's no less "holy".
Just... just...

[ 08. May 2013, 14:02: Message edited by: Stejjie ]
 

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :
 
Never heard that one, but if I do I think I'll go straight to killing the perpetrator. It's the only kind thing to do.
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 

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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
Never heard that one, but if I do I think I'll go straight to killing the perpetrator. It's the only kind thing to do.

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