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Llanberis, Wales, England

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Invisible deities of your choice, give me strength!

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
I don't have a say in whether this thread lives or dies, as I'm not a Host any more.

A Host may well be along to let you know what really will happen to it.
 

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Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
Pfft.

Dons hostly furry hat

Comrades, you know the rules. Short winges, whines, moans and complaints only. Anything you want to have a proper rant about has its own thread. Excessive commenting on an original grumble will lead to TICTH being sent to the gulag for re-education. Again. And it's very cold in Siberia this time of year.

Stows hostly furry hat
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Flu. Especially, flu that comes and gets us after we've had our freaking flu shots.
 

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Posted by Nicolemr (# 28) on :
 
TICTH computer problems. Going to have to take my laptop in to be serviced soon. It's only barely usable.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
I'm on holiday and deliriously happy, so why are you all trying to ruin it for me when I check in here by reviving TICTH again? I was ready to come and spread love and flowers and this is what I get?

Bad Shipmates. Bad. No. Heel. Go to your kennel.
 

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Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :
 
Better qualified international applicants.
Church Councils.
Cancer.
God.

That's it for today.
 

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Posted by Patdys (# 9397) on :
 
And Orfeo, Do you really want to discuss your holidays and being deliriously happy in 'Today I consine to Hell'....
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
Dear Bicycle rider on skinny highway bike path-- the thing about wearing camo at twilight while driving alongside a row of trees? There's a reason they call it camouflage.

(takes out ledger book and subtracts ten years from life.)
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
TiCTH my hilarious body, who decided that the 5 days I'm travelling with 9 squirrely teenagers (who apparently don't sleep. Fucking EVER.) was the perfect time to inflict me with not only a doozy of a period a week ahead of schedule, but also the fucking plague. Chills, fever, snot every-goddamn-where, and hey, how 'bout cramps, too? (oversharing? Kiss my frozen ass)

Just for that, body, I'm punishing you severely with a buttload of junk food. And whiskey, once I hand the hooligans back to those who spawned 'em. Bad body, bad. Here's ice cream.

The 18 hour ferry ride we start tomorrow (with a total of about 120 teens from the whole fucking region) is going to be a motherfucking BLAST. Send booze!
 

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Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
TICTH The recurring stomach bug that meant instead of spending all night in a nice comfortable bed, I spent large chunks of it in the bathroom
 

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Posted by Macrina (# 8807) on :
 
TICTH my sodding freaking TOOTH that had to wait until right in the middle of my holiday to sheer off half its enamel. Luckily I am not in pain as the offending dentoid was mostly filling anyway but boy am I pissed off that JUST as I paid off the last of my dental bills and started to scrape some savings together it has to go on fixing this little useless bastard.
 

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Posted by Raptor Eye (# 16649) on :
 
TICTH thieves, who leave everyone looking over their shoulders and mistrustful until they're caught, then leave a nasty taste in the mouth of the people who trusted them.
 

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Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
Labyrnthitis - makes me dizzy - like having drunk a bottle of scotch without the nice taste.
 

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Posted by DangerousDeacon (# 10582) on :
 
My one day off in the week. An incredibly busy week awaits me. Five phones calls before 8.30, when I am trying to sleep in. Two from parishioners, two from colleagues, one of whom starts "I know its your day off, but ...".

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh.
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Freaking flu virus that combines a cough and high fever with HIVES WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? so it's probably not even the flu, o joy, and my husband determined to go back to work so he can spread it ever more widely.

And I have the least severe case of it, so I get the everlasting freaking joy of cleaning up everybody else's crap and waiting on them hand and foot. Not to mention sleeping on the couch. Where my butt is attempting to descend into hell between two cushions.

AND sciatica.

Where's the booze, Comet?
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 

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Originally posted by comet:

The 18 hour ferry ride we start tomorrow (with a total of about 120 teens from the whole fucking region) is going to be a motherfucking BLAST. Send booze!

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Just underway and my estimate was slghtly off. 200 goddamn squirrely teens. On one ferry. For 18 hours. There's no place for my team to sleep.

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGH!!!!
 

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Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
(Sends Comet 2 cases of 90% dark chocolate for herself, and 20 Twister games to keep the kids busy.)

TICTH the idiots who set up California law so that the criminal law age of sexual consent is 18, but there is NO *civil* law age of consent. So a child can be blamed for being sexually abused by a teacher-- blamed by the school district.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Praise the Lord for the resurrection of TICTH!

I might condemn the theologically muddled nature of the above, but I reserve today's for an instance last week when I was nearly run over by a cyclist (on a Boris bike) who, in the space of about 3 seconds, managed to:

a) Go through a red light
b) Turn the wrong way up a one way street
c) Mount the pavement at fairly high speed, with no regards to the pedestrians on it.
 

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Posted by Moo (# 107) on :
 
TICTH the website designers for Medicare D signups. I assume they had some reason for doing it that way, but I can't imagine what it was.

Almost everyone using the site is over sixty-five. This means that although they can use computers, most of them, including me, are very unsophisticated.

The first thing you fill out is name, address, social security number, and date of birth. I filled all this out, and got the reply that they never heard of me. I have been enrolled in Medicare D for eight years. I assumed I had made some typo, although I couldn't see it. I re-entered the information, and again they said they had never heard of me.

I asked my daughter to take over, and she figured out that the problem was the hyphens I had put in the social security number. A social security number has three digits, then a hyphen, then two digits, then a hyphen, then four digits. I have never seen a social security number written without hyphens. Nevertheless, the site designers decided that any social security number with hyphens should be rejected.


Moo
 

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Posted by Beethoven (# 114) on :
 
TICTH the invisibility cloak currently surrounding my car key. I'm hoping it only lasts 48 hours so the key will magically be in plain sight when I get home. I've already tidied up in the effort to find it; not sure what else I can do.
 

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Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :
 
TICTH the phrase "Women and Children first."
 

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Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :
 
Cockroaches - although the wretches are so hard to erradicate they would probably survive the fires of hell...

[ 17. November 2014, 20:49: Message edited by: Lucia ]
 

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Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
Laryngitis -- although I'm pretty sure I know where I got it from and would do it again in a flash (is that a sin of gluttony?), still I'm paying the price!
 

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Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
The piece of crap website that the State of Washington uses to enroll people in ACA and the clueless customer service people who staff the customer support lines.

It's been two weeks and many crashes, I've been double charged in order to enroll, they're still working on it, and I still haven't heard from the carrier I selected and I suspect they've lost it again and have no ambition to fix the problems caused in the crashes.
 

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Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :
 
TICTH passive aggressive shits who pretend to be filled with Christian love but in fact are just sniping from the corners and then running away from discussion when called on their shit.

If you think I'm convinced by that smug "I'm so superior" shit, think again.
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
People who advertise themselves as helping the poor, who then discover that the poor person in question is not Medicaid eligible (immigration category) and just dump them. Without hooking them up to any other kind of help.

Also, a certain person who is reported to have told the youth group at our church to tell their parents to give more money. WTF?
 

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Posted by blackbeard (# 10848) on :
 

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Originally posted by Pyx_e:
TICTH the phrase "Women and Children first."

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Originally posted by Lucia:
Cockroaches - although the wretches are so hard to erradicate they would probably survive the fires of hell...

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Originally posted by Stejjie:
Let it go? Out of my head? Yes please!

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Originally posted by Tubbs:
... And, for those of us of a certain age, Freedom for Tooting!

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I am Of A Certain Age.

Which is probably why the only people I recognised in the new Band Aid line-up were Bob Geldof and Bono.

TICTH getting old.
 

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Posted by passer (# 13329) on :
 

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Originally posted by Piglet:

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Originally posted by Tubbs:
... And, for those of us of a certain age, Freedom for Tooting!

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I am Of A Certain Age.

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Originally posted by Patdys:
And Orfeo, Do you really want to discuss your holidays and being deliriously happy in 'Today I consine to Hell'....

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I'll discuss it wherever I damn well please. I'm practically shitting rainbows here.
 

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Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
TICTH whatever twisted sense of history has caused actor Kirk Cameron to say "Pagans stole Christmas from Christians", and put his ideas into a film.


 

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Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :
 
TITCH: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
Because men just love being scorned, dontcha know!

One of those delightful phrases chock full with sexist assumptions.
 

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Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 

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Originally posted by Golden Key:
TICTH whatever twisted sense of history has caused actor Kirk Cameron to say "Pagans stole Christmas from Christians", and put his ideas into a film.

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Originally posted by Gwai:
TITCH: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
Because men just love being scorned, dontcha know!

One of those delightful phrases chock full with sexist assumptions.

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Ariel: TICTH space invaders.

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Originally posted by Ariel:
TICTH space invaders. There's the entire platform to choose from and hardly anybody on it. But no, you have to come and stand just 8" behind me. Every morning this week. Wtf? I can only assume I'm standing in "your space" but your train isn't even due for another 15 minutes. Until they put up a plaque and a Keep Off, This Space Is Reserved sign, I'm bloody standing where I want.

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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
I suggest you turn around, right in place, and boldly stare them in the eyeballs. Saying nothing.

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I already have. She doesn't notice me.
 

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Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :
 
If she takes no notice of you then you might get away with tying her shoelaces together.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH Beaujolais Nouveau day. What a con.

I have been reminded that yesterday was Beaujolais Nouveau day. Are there still superannuated Yuppies drinking this revolting pop?
 

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Posted by Brenda Clough (# 18061) on :
 
Perhaps you could start carrying a very long large umbrella. (Or a rolled poster, or a golf club, or a broadsword, or something.) Hold it under your arm so it sticks out behind.
 

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Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
"In my father's house are many tangents" is the subtitle of Heaven, and assuredly not of Hell.

If you wish to start a thread for the discussion of personal space invaders, knock yourselves out. Otherwise, knock it off.

Doc Tor
Hell host
 

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Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :
 
Well, the brunt of my anger has subsided while the TICTH thread was closed, but...

Last week some motherfuckers broke into our house and stole my computer, my roommate's camera, and a few other things. And ripped our alarm system out of the wall (tbh, I don't blame 'em, that thing HURT when it went off). And the door they kicked in needed to be replaced.

I bought the new alarm system, despite my underemployment, and had to take 2 days off work to be here until the place was finally secure again.

All of which leads to a -$85 balance in my checking account. And my temp assignment abruptly ended, and I have lots of expenses right now...

So I consign the bastards who broke into our house to hell today. Just not for eternity, though; I'm a universalist.

And it is kinda just part of the cost of living in Detroit. But only because these thugs think they can damage other people's homes and take their stuff. Anyone who thinks like that probably doesn't need to be consigned to hell, come to think of it. They sort of carry hell around with them.

Just next time, don't bring it into my house.
 

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Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 
Step back, tread heavily on their feet, move behind them, apologising profusely and realistically, and then at the appropriate moment push them in front of the train. They won't bother you again.

Ian J.
 

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Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 
Bugger. My last was for Ariel, quite a few posts ago.......

....I think I'll go and kick a UKipper......

Ian J.
 

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Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 
TICTH myself, for having wasted a golden opportunity to annoy a racist old sod wearing a UKIP badge. He was sitting outside the Polling Station yesterday, asking in an unctuous and oleaginous manner for the poll numbers of those coming in to vote (apparently this is legal!!).

I just wish I'd pointed out to him (gently, of course, and in Christian Love) that, if his party got rid of all the Awful Foreigners And People Not Like Us, he'd have no-one to wipe his arse and bring him a cuppa tea when he's in his nursing home........


Ian J.
 

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Posted by chive (# 208) on :
 
TICTH the weaselly ignorant stupid psychiatrist who decided it was appropriate to write to my GP a letter that contains a)irrelevant nonsense - why would it be clinically relevant that a Scottish person speaks with a Scottish accent, b) stupid irrelevant commentary that starts with 'I wonder'. You can wonder all you want you stupid bitch but if you'd asked me I could have told you that your wondering was nonsense and saved you all that mental energy and c)downright lies. If you're going to say you've discussed something with me, don't make it something that I can clearly demonstrate you didn't discuss. Also if you say I agree with something don't make it something that I can show, with written evidence, I have systematically disagreed with since 2009. That's just stupid.

How dare she have the arrogance to make up things she was clearly to lazy to ask about in the consultation. I am hugely distressed and offended. If I behaved like that professionally I would be sacked and that would be correct but clearly Dr Fuckwit will get away with it because she's a psychiatrist and I'm her patient or service user or client or whatever nonsense you want to call it and am therefore entirely untrustworthy.

And finally if you are going to write bullshit about me you should have the courtesy to copy me into your letter so that I could dispute it at the time instead of months later when it's in the system and all over my medical records.

And fuck you for having me find all this out in the middle of a fortnight's annual leave which I took because I was under a lot of stress and wanted to chill out. Instead of that I have to write stroppy letters to you and your boss and try to get this rectified.

Fuckwit
 

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Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
TICTH

People with rucksacks, especially on crowded tube trains.
Short people with umbrellas.
People eating smelly takeaway food on public transport.
The Jubilee Line escalators at London Bridge station.

Thank fuck I rarely travel into Central London these days.
 

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Posted by Snags (# 15351) on :
 
TICTH (briefly, because in other ways they're all good people) a selection of profoundly irritating arseholes from my "fellowship" who are unwittingly heaping straws on the back of this particular camel.

They can all just FRO.
 

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Posted by Beethoven (# 114) on :
 
TICTH IT 'support' teams that are less use than a chocolate fireguard. If I report a problem - in full, including all relevant error messages - then please, PLEASE do look at the information I send you. If I say that I've had a problem with something, as well as several other users reporting the same issue, why ask me to log on as one of them (who's out of the country at the moment, so I can't even ask to try this), rather than checking one of the things that I've set up which isn't working. And for goodness' sake, do NOT try telling me that it all seems to be working fine if you haven't looked at the actual problem reported...
 

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Posted by Snags (# 15351) on :
 
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
That came to you from Snags, the Ship's resident MCSE (Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert)
 

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Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
I stopped getting peeved with the basic support questions when I (as ICT Coordinator) was called to the Deputy Head's classroom because the monitor wasn't coming on.

The lead connecting it to the computer wasn't connected.
 

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Posted by Jemima the 9th (# 15106) on :
 
TICTH the monumental amount of faff involved in "helping" with the music for a service. Ditching the choir and music director probably seemed like a brilliant idea at the time, but the consequences for us poor numpties who get to fit in the endless jobs between our paid employment, caring duties, families etc is a royal pain in the arse.

Beginning to think about suggesting that all songs are accompanied by armpit farting.

[It's nowt compared with being lied about by a psychiatrist though. That's A grade evil.]
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
I'm sorry Jt9, but ditching the choir and the music director* and then complaining about having to provide the music for a service is rather like switching off the fire and complaining that it's cold.



* I appreciate that this may not have been your decision.
 

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Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :
 
*gggnnnnnn*

Much frustration, many confuse, so Doge.
 

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Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :
 
The person who thinks that a suitable price for an A.C. Black's out of print school carol book (£20 when in print) is £213.
 

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Posted by Jemima the 9th (# 15106) on :
 

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Originally posted by Piglet:
I'm sorry Jt9, but ditching the choir and the music director* and then complaining about having to provide the music for a service is rather like switching off the fire and complaining that it's cold.



* I appreciate that this may not have been your decision.

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Originally posted by Penny S:
The person who thinks that a suitable price for an A.C. Black's out of print school carol book (£20 when in print) is £213.

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Originally posted by chive:
And finally if you are going to write bullshit about me you should have the courtesy to copy me into your letter so that I could dispute it at the time instead of months later when it's in the system and all over my medical records.

And fuck you for having me find all this out in the middle of a fortnight's annual leave which I took because I was under a lot of stress and wanted to chill out. Instead of that I have to write stroppy letters to you and your boss and try to get this rectified.

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Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
TICTH myself, for having wasted a golden opportunity to annoy a racist old sod wearing a UKIP badge. He was sitting outside the Polling Station yesterday, asking in an unctuous and oleaginous manner for the poll numbers of those coming in to vote (apparently this is legal!!).

I just wish I'd pointed out to him (gently, of course, and in Christian Love) that, if his party got rid of all the Awful Foreigners And People Not Like Us, he'd have no-one to wipe his arse and bring him a cuppa tea when he's in his nursing home........ Ian J.

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I feel the same about Tories, Labour and Liberals (sigh).
 

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Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 
So do I - which is why I am a paid-up member of none of those parties, but of the only proper left-wing, 'socialist' party in the UK......



Ian J.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 

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Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
So do I - which is why I am a paid-up member of none of those parties, but of the only proper left-wing, 'socialist' party in the UK......



Ian J.

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Holy moly, we have another 'Tankie' in our midst!
 

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Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :
 


Not quite......

Ian J.
 

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Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
TICTH people who bit on things on ebay, then decide they don't want them after all
 

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Posted by ThunderBunk (# 15579) on :
 
TITCH emotional blackmail by charities.
 

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Posted by Eutychus (# 3081) on :
 
TICTH the fact that Black Friday is now a thing. In France. It's enough to make me want to join the Occupy movement
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
TICTH the chickenshit admins in the Orinda Unified School Distrrict.
 

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Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on :
 

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Originally posted by Penny S:
The person who thinks that a suitable price for an A.C. Black's out of print school carol book (£20 when in print) is £213.

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Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
Just use another arrangement - it's carols, there're more arrangements of each of them than any reasonable person could possibly want. Or do your own.

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
TICTH the chickenshit admins in the Orinda Unified School Distrrict.

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Update: the fuckers backed down!

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Originally posted by luvanddaisies:

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Originally posted by Penny S:
The person who thinks that a suitable price for an A.C. Black's out of print school carol book (£20 when in print) is £213.

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Just use another arrangement - it's carols, there're more arrangements of each of them than any reasonable person could possibly want. Or do your own.

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Originally posted by basso:

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Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
Just use another arrangement - it's carols, there're more arrangements of each of them than any reasonable person could possibly want. Or do your own.

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That comment could only have been posted by someone who doesn't understand books.

The OP clearly wants to hold in her hands (or give to a niece or nephew) the book she held as a schoolgirl. There are some books (the edition of A Christmas Carol we read from every Christmas comes to mind) that make me mist up just to think of holding them.

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Originally posted by Ariston:
Okay, that's it. Just so you all remember, Sioni killed the last TICTH after too many stupid tangents.

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Originally posted by basso:

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Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
Just use another arrangement - it's carols, there're more arrangements of each of them than any reasonable person could possibly want. Or do your own.

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That comment could only have been posted by someone who doesn't understand books.

The OP clearly wants to hold in her hands (or give to a niece or nephew) the book she held as a schoolgirl. There are some books (the edition of A Christmas Carol we read from every Christmas comes to mind) that make me mist up just to think of holding them.

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Originally posted by Ariston:
Okay, that's it. Just so you all remember, Sioni killed the last TICTH after too many stupid tangents.

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I'm sorry, I posted the above before reading downthread, because I should be going to get ready for w*rk but am doing an idiotic combination of procrastinating and rushing. Mea Culpa. Sorry.
 

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Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
TICTH Black Friday and the whole Mammonic, money/possessions-idolatrous system it's connected to.
 

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Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
TICTH "Morning Joe."
 

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Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
TITCH The Guardian - not for any of the usual reasons (too liberal, too fancy-pantsy, too interlectual, or even (shock, horror) - too turning-into-a-tabloid)

No, it's for this abomination of sloppiness and misreporting. (new information gleaned from DNA analysis of King Richard III skeleton).

It's perhaps to be expected that the whole 'there's probably a bastard in the queen's ancestry' teaser turns out to have just been clickbait. Then there's the 'he was blond and blue-eyed instead' one. Which appears to be - he was reasonably likely to have had some variant of blue/grey eyes (astonishing - accords with the portraits! How is this news?), and probably had blond hair in childhood. Well, fuck me. You've just described a person of English descent. Who would have thought it of a king of the English? Honestly, I'm struggling here to think of a single fully caucasian person I know who wasn't blond in childhood, except for the redheads!

However, that's just the pre-rant. (It should be noted here that I am not any of the following: history graduate, history student, history enthusiast, Richard III nut) - yet despite this, even I know the following 1.) Richard's only legitimate child was NOT called Richard, as the article claims. His name was Edward. And if the reporter wasn't sure, she could have just checked Wikipedia, instead of making shit up. 2.) Queen Anne was not, as the article claims, childless. She had a bunch of children*, she was just unfortunate enough to outlive them all. That is emphatically not the same thing as being childless. Careless and sloppy stuff all round.

*Who knows whether or not it is wise to regard Wikipedia as the repository of all wisdom, but if it is, then she had seventeen pregnancies and five children living at birth. Childless, in a pig's eye...
 

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Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
TICTH the monster headache that greeted me when I woke up this morning. It's one thing to have have a headache of this magnitude if you've done something to deserve it, but that's not the case. And it doesn't want to leave me....
 

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Posted by Doc Tor (# 9748) on :
 
TICTH veterinary science courses.

The Girl wants to study it at university - a tiny, almost niche, course requiring ridiculously high grades. The course requirements also include such a range of previous experience as to make it almost impossible for her, or anyone like her, or anyone with parents poorer than us, which is almost everyone, to apply in good conscience for a place.

That second barrier is what'll stop her - we simply don't have the money or the connections to make it happen.
 

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Posted by Lord Jestocost (# 12909) on :
 
Aviva. Quick enough to sell me a travel insurance policy, not so hot at actually getting it to me. Oh, I need to register with MyAviva to get my documents. Oh look, it won't let me because it can't match my name with any of its records. Oh look, it still can't an hour later, which would be 50 minutes after advising me "it may take up to 10 minutes for your documents to appear on MyAviva". And oh, goody, a phone number that costs me 14p/minute to hold on while you play Gregorian chant-fusion at me (even though another number tucked away on your site with a much smaller premium gets me to exactly the same holding position).

May your shrieks from the eternal flames rise to the ears of the Almighty only to be met with jazzed up Gregorian chant and a recorded voice thanking you for your patience.
 

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Posted by marzipan (# 9442) on :
 
TICTH trying to organise house viewings at a time when I can actually get there. No, I can't go see your house in the DAYTIME because that's when I'm AT WORK. The reason I ask for a viewing after X o'clock is because that the earliest I can get there!
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH the constant attempt to lump all black deaths at the hands of white law enforcement (or even pseudo-law enforcement) into a single category. In either direction. These are individuals, not fucking chess pieces.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
On a related note: dear USA. We are now the subject of a UN investigation on human rights violations. What exactly will it take for us to start checking ourselves?
 

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Posted by saysay (# 6645) on :
 
Fuck you, Rolling Stone magazine. Fuck you with a rusty farm implement.

I knew as soon as that UVA story ran exactly what was going to happen and yet you still forced me to live through it.

Let's recall this bit from The Morning After (which you made me drag off my bookshelf):

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To be part of this blanket of warmth, this woman-centered nonhierarchical empowered notion, students are willing to lie. My first year at Princeton, one student was caught fabricating a rape story. Mindy had spoken at Take Back the Night for each of her four years at Princeton, and she had printed her story in the Daily Princetonian. What's interesting is that her account didn't really stand out; she sounded like everyone else at the speak-out. Her story could have been the blueprint. Whatever else anyone can say about her, Mindy could really talk the talk.

<snip> Unlike most participants in the speak-outs, Mindy put her story in print. Once it spilled over from the feverish midnight outpouring of the march into black-and-white newsprint, the facts could be checked. The problem was that she claimed she had reported a rape, and she hadn't. She claimed an administrator had told her "to let bygones be bygones," and he hadn't. She told people that a certain male undergraduate was the rapist, and he complained to the administration.

<snip>Many of the Princeton students emanate a sense of entitlement. These students say, again and again, "It's not fair that I should be afraid." This is an idea that springs from privilege. Who besides these well-dressed, well-fed, well-groomed students would expect the right to safety and march for it?

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Originally posted by saysay:
Fuck you, Rolling Stone magazine. Fuck you with a rusty farm implement.

I knew as soon as that UVA story ran exactly what was going to happen and yet you still forced me to live through it.

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Let's recall this bit from The Morning After (which you made me drag off my bookshelf):

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<snip>Many of the Princeton students emanate a sense of entitlement. These students say, again and again, "It's not fair that I should be afraid." This is an idea that springs from privilege. Who besides these well-dressed, well-fed, well-groomed students would expect the right to safety and march for it?

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Originally posted by saysay:
How long, Lord, how long do I have to get called a misogynist and rape apologist for asking questions?

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Originally posted by anoesis:
Well, me for a start. A mere colonial, and the first person ever in my family line to attend any university at all - and that not one associated with any sort of entrenched sense of entitlement.

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I expect there are others. I expect you have encountered them. I expect you find away to swat them all away. Especially if they are economically and socially privileged. After all, they have everything else, don't they, these women - and yet they're still asking for something more.

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Originally posted by saysay:
How long, Lord, how long do I have to get called a misogynist and rape apologist for asking questions?

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This is the only question you've asked. Mostly, you've made assertions, including that Rolling Stone forced you to live through an article, and crowned this indignity by making you read through some book you already owned.

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Originally posted by Macrina:
If I'd have known fucking punctuation could erase people so easily I'd have learned how to use the bloody semicolon years ago.

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St. Gwladys: Humanist funerals - went to one yesterday - the first I have been to.

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
Bloody stupid tedious achey arm shoulder nerve pain thingy. Rubbish useless drugs call yourself an analgesic. Sodding pointless heat pad.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH Nick Clegg and the entire LibDem party for kow-towing to the Tories in a desperate bid for power.

What made you think that the numbers that don't add up now did so last year, the year before or even in May 2010?
 

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Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
ICTH the cretinous, tin-eared Sunday School mother who just called to tell me she didn't think the 'song' at communion was 'sppropriate for kiddies'.

It was Orlando Gibbons This is the record of John - how is that inappropriate for anyone, never mind your lumpen, overweight, dull-eyed offspring.

FTR I think it 'inappropriate' for your 6 year old daughter to attend church in fancy dress - at least I assume you thought it was a costume for her to be dressed like a c1980s hooker?
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 
TICTH lyric videos.
 

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Posted by Gee D (# 13815) on :
 
I suggest that we have an all-shipamtes moment of prayer for that mother. Next thing, she'll b decrying Messiah.
 

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Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Messiah!!! Are you MAD?

It talks about all sorts of unsuitable things for kiddies: death, suffering, rejection.

And besides, at longer than an EP its far too long.
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
TICTH this whole fucked up project. Why oh why did you hire me to remove your redundancies/clear up your structure/simplify your language (at vast expense of death to my brain cells) ...

....if you were only going to bloody put everything fucking well back????


WHYohWHYohYoYOYOY....
 

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ICTH the cretinous, tin-eared Sunday School mother who just called to tell me she didn't think the 'song' at communion was 'sppropriate for kiddies'.

It was Orlando Gibbons This is the record of John - how is that inappropriate for anyone, never mind your lumpen, overweight, dull-eyed offspring.

FTR I think it 'inappropriate' for your 6 year old daughter to attend church in fancy dress - at least I assume you thought it was a costume for her to be dressed like a c1980s hooker?

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I'm glad you TICTH this because it made me You Tube the piece. Great stuff! And what a dork that woman is to think otherwise!
 

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Posted by Barefoot Friar (# 13100) on :
 
TICTH militant fundamentalists who can't let people discuss something of interest without butting in to tell us, in no uncertain terms, that we're all wrong and going to burn in hell's fires for eternity if we don't immediately recant our horrid, sinful words and ask Jesus into our hearts to be our personal savior.

It almost makes me wish eternal conscious torment was real, so I could give 'em a taste.

But not for eternity. That would just be cruel.
 

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Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
TICTH friggin' bureaucracies, and their lack of paying attention, listening, and understanding--and inability to change their minds.


{Splits bureaucracy wide open, and pours compassion, empathy, and common sense in...and some comfort food, so they'll play nicely.}
 

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Posted by Spike (# 36) on :
 
TICTH pedestrians who start to cross the road just as the traffic lights turn green.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
TICTH 1) my boss; 2) workplace bullying

1 & 2 may not be wholly unrelated.
 

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TICTH 1) my boss; 2) workplace bullying

1 & 2 may not be wholly unrelated.

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Handy advice* from a former work’s council member/staff representative:

What you need are written traces of your mistreatment. Unless your boss is a complete idiot, they are presumably not bullying you in writing.

Here's what you do: send an email to your colleagues complaining, ranting and whingeing about your poor sad lot. ‘It’s not fair, why does s/he always speak to me like that, I didn’t do nuffink etc. etc.’ With a bit of luck (because this is the sort of thing people like getting involved in) one or more of your colleagues will send a sympathetic reply along the lines of ‘you poor thing, it’s not your fault, you know what s/he’s like’. And that, my friend, is a written trace of an incident of you getting bullied. If you can get a few of these on different occasions, even better. Stick that baby safely in a folder in your inbox titled ‘Personal and Confidential’.

Now, here’s the really cunning bit. You don’t need the permission of the sender of the aforementioned email to show it to the powers that be. Your name is in the ‘to’ field, so it belongs to you and you are at liberty to show it to whomever you like. And you never know when that thing might come in handy.

*I know, in hell . But’s it’s quite sneaky and devious advice, so I’m hoping I’ll get away with it
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
Before a hellhost shows up to puncture me--

Don't just save that sucker, print it out and take it home. Also forward to home email. If you think the PTB aren't going through your computer, you're naïve.

And be careful to stick to facts only "I can't believe he told me to edit all 30 volumes of the Britannica by Monday!" rather than throwing nasty names and vague accusations ("He's so mean") around. The former are more likely to be verifiable as actual real events, and even if they can't find outside verification, your coworkers' sympathetic response suggests rather strongly they are witnesses (or at least know that he is the sort who would do such a thing).

Okay,...OUCH!...to keep that pitchfork away from my rear OUCH! OUCH OUCH! ... TICTH lovely, lovely dental pain caused by having a wee bit of your jaw break off when the dentist can't get his drill through your ever-loving heavy-duty bone, and has to bring out the big guns. We hates bone pain, my precioussssss, we hates it forever with a passion.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
TICTH the driver of Newport bus YN53 GYY.

If a potential passenger knocks on the door that you have just closed, before you have moved off, it really isn't a good idea to flash your best sarcastic grin at that passenger. Newport just isn't that big a town.
 

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Originally posted by Egeria:
Those dumb shits who decided to join an originally peaceful protest march so that they would have a chance to vandalize local businesses (including my usual grocery store, which has had its windows smashed). Tell me, dumb shits, has Trader Joe's endorsed excessive force by police in another part of the country? And if you really cared about social justice, dumb shits, you wouldn't be taking out your dumb shit rage on innocent bystanders and destroying the credibility of your cause at the same time.

And incidentally been the cause of that helicopter hovering directly over my building, sometimes close enough to make the wall heater rattle, for the past three hours or so.

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