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orfeo
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TICTH my garden.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH my garden.
Run out of space for the bodies?
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
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Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH my garden.
Run out of space for the bodies?
Yes, because the damn plants keep trying to take over the place.
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Stejjie
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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... ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
[ 08. May 2013, 14:02: Message edited by: Stejjie ]
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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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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Firenze
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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.
But when you come to trial, explain it wasn't intentional.
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Mad Cat
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LOOK AT YOOOOOOOOOU!
Haven't you got a BIG VAN!!
Perhaps you *can* actually PUSH my Peugeot 206 out of the way at 70mph on the A1? When I'm overtaking a line of cars and am unable to get out of your mighty way?
YES! You should FLASH YOUR LIGHTS!! That'll MAKE ME DRIVE FASTER!!! Even though I'm IN A PEUGEOT 206!!!!
Really, shitwit, I would get out of your way if I could. You're a shit driver and I value my safety. I hope you don't kill or maim anyone else when you have that accident. Yes, when, not if.
Too high up in your cab to see the finger I'm giving you? No, and maybe you won't notice the vehicle you end up pulling into, you fucking tailgating fuckwit.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Firenze:
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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.
But when you come to trial, explain it wasn't intentional.
... but that you had a heart for it. The "God told me to do it" defence is still used, to the delight of atheists everywhere.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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I don't think I've ever posted on this type of thread before, but I found that this blaming attitude really bugged me - people can be so nasty when a disaster happens and, instead of standing in support of the victim's family, have to immediately find someone to blame. Often the people who are already suffering most.
So TICTH the blame culture.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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TICTH people who tell me I really should go to theater performances after I have explained that my poor hearing makes this an extremely frustrating experience. They seem to think the problem is a lack of self-confidence rather than the memory of many unpleasant hours spent in theaters.
When I could hear normally I loved the theater. That's why I dislike it so much now.
I wish these idiots would give me credit for knowing what I do and don't enjoy.
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TICTH people that insist on keeping church doors closed during a service.
They really, really should be open.
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Chorister:
I don't think I've ever posted on this type of thread before, but I found that this blaming attitude really bugged me - people can be so nasty when a disaster happens and, instead of standing in support of the victim's family, have to immediately find someone to blame. Often the people who are already suffering most.
So TICTH the blame culture.
(Thinking of late nephew E., and the various responses to that situation.)
Fuck yes with a cherry on top. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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L'organist
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posted by Evensong
TICTH people that insist on keeping church doors closed during a service.
They really, really should be open.
Maybe where you are, but don't lay it down for all of us. I can assure you that sitting in a small building with inadequate heating when the temperature outside is a bracing -3° celsius and the wind is directly aligned with the (facing each other) north and south doors both open would result in hypothermia long before the end of a service.
In the summer we do try to have our doors open, if only because it lets some of the warmer air into out beautiful stone box.
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Evensong
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Fine.
But I think today was about 16C and we were all about a mile from the front door anyways. *ppffft*.
Happy Ascension day anyways.
*grumble, grumble*
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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They do it to keep you escaping. I thought that was obvious.
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The Kat in the Hat
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Student Finance website. They expect me to remember a long number, a password and a security question from last year. No, I didn't write it down.
Actually, I could remember the password, but now it won't recognise my NI number and keeps telling me I'm using incorrect information.
Try calling the help line - wait in a queue for 10 minutes, then get told that the office is closed!
![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif)
I should have remembered this hassle from last year.
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L'organist
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Oh Kat, I feel for you.
Student Finance
They have so many "issues" (usually blamed on software) thar are "not something we're really placed to deal with":
- students with the same date of birth at the same address
- students with a parent who dies in the middle of the application process
- students with a parental estate stuck waiting for Probate and the survivor without a tax code because of having been a full-time carer
They add to their offences by not noting information "on screen" so you have to go through the whole rigmarole again: and they won't give you a full name or a number so you can speak to the same person twice.
MAY THEY BURN IN HELL
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QLib
Bad Example
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Tony Blackburn, you are a total and utter fuckwit. You have just implied that a radio station opening* with Bridge Over Troubled Water made a bad decision, because the song is "lovely. But wrong." Yeah, that's why it topped charts all over the world when it was first released.
Well, that's you all over, Blackburn. You are a witless, tasteless, mediocre tosser. You just don't get it and what's more, if you ever had it in the 60s (which I'm inclined to doubt), you had certainly lost it by the 70s.
[*Presumably Capital Radio in 1973]
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Boogie
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Originally posted by QLib:
Well, that's you all over, Blackburn. You are a witless, tasteless, mediocre tosser. You just don't get it and what's more, if you ever had it in the 60s (which I'm inclined to doubt), you had certainly lost it by the 70s.
Agreed!!
I listen to R2 a lot - never on Saturday afternoons.
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Golden Key
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Originally posted by QLib:
Well, that's you all over, Blackburn. You are a witless, tasteless, mediocre tosser. You just don't get it and what's more, if you ever had it in the 60s (which I'm inclined to doubt), you had certainly lost it by the 70s.
Reminds me of a great scene in "Field of Dreams". Two women are arguing.
--I was there in the '60s.
--No, I think you had two '50s and went right on to the '70s.
Also reminds me of the idiots protesting outside a 2008 political convention in the US, shouting "Recreate '68!" 1968 was a very awful year in the US. Anyone who thinks otherwise wasn't there.
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rolyn
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TICTH ---Stupid, dumb-arse, friggin long range weather forecasts that are so wrong they are worse than no prediction at all.
This May was predicted as being a hot and dry month . It's cooler than normal and chucking it down .
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marzipan
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TICTH transport strikes and both sides being stubborn and refusing to talk or negotiate.
(at least I can work from home. What about people who can't. Apparently their jobs are less important to your three days holiday etc.)
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MarsmanTJ
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TITCH Facebook. Trying to contact someone to let them know that something of theirs has been plagiarised, but it really isn't someone I want to be in contact with to 'add a friend'. But in order to send a message to them to reach their inbox I have to pay 66p??? Not a chance. I no longer have their email and really do not wish to be in touch with them, but they were a friend once...
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Chorister
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Really? I've sent several messages to people who are not on my friends list and never been asked to pay for it - is this something new?
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by Chorister:
Really? I've sent several messages to people who are not on my friends list and never been asked to pay for it - is this something new?
Messages from non-friends go to an "Other" box, which people are more likely to ignore. You can pay a dollar to have your messaged forced into his inbox.
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Ethne Alba
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Dunno about people keeping church doors open during services or not.....but right now TICTH places who don't even hold the services that are advertised on their notice board.
It's getting very boring
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Zach82
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TICTH rich assholes. My fiancee and I finally found an affordable 2 bedroom apartment, but we lost out to a couple that made over $120,000. So the rich bastards get the unaffordable places and the affordable places, and ordinary people get to live in fucking closets.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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You're learning. Now sign here for the Red Revolution. We'll call on you when required, comrade.
[goes off whistling the Red Flag]
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Zach82
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The landlord had the fucking gall to offer us a more expensive apartment after giving the cheaper place to a wealthier couple.
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Originally posted by Zach82:
The landlord had the fucking gall to offer us a more expensive apartment after giving the cheaper place to a wealthier couple.
It's called the unfettered free market economy in its fullest, freest, most capitalist form.
You should be proud to have met a landlord who so perfectly demonstrates the political position you have set out so frequently on this Ship.
John
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Zach82
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You should be proud to have met a landlord who so perfectly demonstrates the political position you have set out so frequently on this Ship.
What political position is that?
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L'organist
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Missionary ? ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Originally posted by Zach82:
TICTH rich assholes. My fiancee and I finally found an affordable 2 bedroom apartment, but we lost out to a couple that made over $120,000. So the rich bastards get the unaffordable places and the affordable places, and ordinary people get to live in fucking closets.
I don't follow this. Assuming that both you and your fiancee and the 'rich' couple could both afford the apartment, why would your relative income affect who got it? Are you saying that it's because the richer couple were a safer bet? This comment:
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Originally posted by Zach82:
The landlord had the fucking gall to offer us a more expensive apartment after giving the cheaper place to a wealthier couple.
suggests that income played no role in the decision. I'm confused.
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Marvin the Martian
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Originally posted by Anglican't:
Assuming that both you and your fiancee and the 'rich' couple could both afford the apartment, why would your relative income affect who got it?
One assumes the richer couple offered to pay more in order to ensure they got it.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Zach82:
The landlord had the fucking gall to offer us a more expensive apartment after giving the cheaper place to a wealthier couple.
Although the landlord may have thought "This couple look a better bet financially, so I'll sell to them" s/he may also have simply liked them more.
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leo
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TICTH landlord and housing benefit.
A parishioner has been given notice to quit because a new landlord is having is small flat refurbished and then increasing the rent beyond the level that housing benefit will pay.
So the bloke is about to become homeless.
When he find a a new flat, he will have to pay a deposit plus one month's rent in advance. But housing benefit cut all money when there is a 'change in circumstances' and it takes about 10 weeks to 'process a new claim'.
So where will he get the money from to get a new flat?
That is how many become homeless.
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Zach82
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by Zach82:
The landlord had the fucking gall to offer us a more expensive apartment after giving the cheaper place to a wealthier couple.
Although the landlord may have thought "This couple look a better bet financially, so I'll sell to them" s/he may also have simply liked them more.
All the landlord saw was our applications- I know the landlord decided based on income because the realtor told me.
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Uncle Pete
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Is this discussion going to continue? Get yer own thread, you layabouts!
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Lucia
Looking for light
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TICTH my throat which seems to be trying to develop something resembling tonsillitis 2 days before I'm supposed to be singing in a concert with the choir I'm in. We've been rehearsing stuff for it since the beginning of the year, I'm not pleased...
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Lamb Chopped
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TICTH my kid's school. They call me up demanding to know why I'm not down there to pick him up when they haven't bothered to let us know that the afterschool care program is cancelled for the rest of the week. Asked how I'm supposed to know that, I get sputtering--"but EVERYBODY knows that Mr. X is out of town..." Yeah, right. Hopefully boss from hell doesn't check the timeclock to see that I left nine minutes early...
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I know [assumption] because [person] told me.
TICTH everybody who takes anecdotes as truth.
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lilBuddha
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Yeah, I heard a story about people who do that, so you are probably right.
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Today and possibly a large number of days in the next month, I condemn Greyhound USA to Hell. Over and over again. Travelling on their own buses.
I don't think I've ever dealt with a more pathetically incompetent company. Even now that I'm in the USA, and have overcome the previous hurdle with the surprise requirement for a USA phone number, it still doesn't fucking work.
Whether it's the website's insistence on a US state or Canadian province for my billing address even though you let me pick a different country for the country field, the woman on the phone who insisted I couldn't book with her if my point of departure was in Canada even though Montreal was an option on the USA website for trips into the USA, or the guy on the phone who could handle Montreal but reckoned he couldn't book New Hampshire to Boston because it was run by a different bus company even though it's obvious from the times and the route number it's the exact same bus as the previous Vermont to New Hampshire leg he could book, the whole thing is a pile of shit.
I would love to march into their corporate headquarters, find a meeting of the head honchos and lay out my experiences. They would be weeping with embarrassment by the end.
And this is before I've even travelled. When, no IF, I get to the end of the bus legs I will celebrate with an extremely large drink.
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Grammatica
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The little biting bugs we call "no see 'ums." They love me; feeling is not mutual.
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Lamb Chopped
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Orfeo, tweet it, dude. and put Greyhound in your hashtag. That will sometimes net you an abject apology and reparations of some sort.
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orfeo
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First, I don't tweet. Second, which 140 characters would I select anyway? And third, I would much prefer a bit of competence to an apology.
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Tubbs
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Originally posted by orfeo:
First, I don't tweet. Second, which 140 characters would I select anyway? And third, I would much prefer a bit of competence to an apology.
You'd have to limit the choicer swear words to every other one. Good luck - hope you get where you want to go.
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