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passer
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Having just read this, and with the distaff side having been peripherally involved in something somewhat similar in the last week or so, TICTH people who try to conceal their own lack of ability or competence by playing the race/gender discrimination card, thus doing a great disservice to those who actually are subject to race/gender discrimination. I despise the selfishness of those people, with their false sense of entitlement.
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Penny S
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People who embark, on weekend afternoons when the heat means that everyone else's windows are open, on lengthy and noisy pressure washing their flagstones. I keep thinking they've finished. And then they start again. And again. I was asleep. But I couldn't listen to anything if I was doing any more active Saturday pm stuff.
If they had been cutting their newly laid grass (and kudos for replacing over half the flags with that) they would have finished by now.
And again. Still, at least now it's been done, they won't have to do it again for ages.
And again. I suppose I might get used to it. Like the murmur of innumerable bees in immemorial elms.
That was a really long gap. And that.
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Doublethink.
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TICTH cars, insurance companies and commuting - in one big 'orrible mess.
-------------------- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell
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QLib
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TICTH The (Scum) Sun and its creepy, stupid and dangerous 'BOY, 4, HAS MARK OF DEVIL' headline and photo.
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Penny S
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I have seen that mark identified as a hairdryer burn.
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passer
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quote: Originally posted by ChastMastr: TICTH the worst Congress in the history of the United States.
Absolute bunch of nutters, howling at the moon. Like a gang of Veruca Salts who only want what they want. From this BBC report, this observation: quote: In his six years in office Mr Obama has issued 183 executive orders, compared to 291 across George W Bush's eight years and 381 for Ronald Reagan, according to a study by the American Presidency Project at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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quote: Originally posted by ChastMastr: TICTH the worst Congress in the history of the United States.
TICT a hotter and lower depth of H the people who voted them in -- and those who would have voted otherwise but stayed home.
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Sioni Sais
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quote: Originally posted by passer: From this BBC report, this observation: quote: In his six years in office Mr Obama has issued 183 executive orders, compared to 291 across George W Bush's eight years and 381 for Ronald Reagan, according to a study by the American Presidency Project at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
Nice quote passer. One would almost think that El Presidente and his aides have made the error of mistaking activity for effectiveness.
Still, look how many posts there are on this thread alone. On the same subject even. [ 31. July 2014, 12:25: Message edited by: Sioni Sais ]
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Spike
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quote: Originally posted by leo: Cold callers again - I had 5 different ones today.
Keep 'em talking. That's what I do, after all it's their phone bill, not mine. I had one once who got so pissed off he ended up accusing me of wasting his valuable time
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ChastMastr
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quote: Originally posted by Spike: quote: Originally posted by leo: Cold callers again - I had 5 different ones today.
Keep 'em talking. That's what I do, after all it's their phone bill, not mine. I had one once who got so pissed off he ended up accusing me of wasting his valuable time
I used to do that till I was desperate for work and went to a place that did that sort of thing. (It was a magazine sales thing.) The people there were similarly desperate (there was a sense of fear and sadness from just about all of them), and after a few hours of training I realized I ethically could not do that job; but the kinds of rules and penalties they had there made me realize that when I would play mind games with the people who called me, I was doing nothing but to harm the desperate people on the other end of the line (who get penalized or fired if they don't make enough sales, at pitiful wages)--and not the company which was making them do it--so I don't do that anymore. The most merciful and effective thing to do is tell them no thank you and hang up--they literally are not allowed to end the call themselves, at least at this place they weren't, so they're a captive audience which has to keep trying to sell their crap as long as you have not hung up the phone, and of course their calls are monitored for "quality control" which means that they are really trapped.
It's been a couple of years now but TICTH companies like that, my own mistreatment of the callers over the years, and the lack of a social safety net here which means people have to take even unethical and horrible jobs like that just to survive. [ 31. July 2014, 23:09: Message edited by: ChastMastr ]
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comet
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TICTH the easily offended, and further those seeking offense. It's like a trump card in a debate, nowadays.
"you can't call that an orange! it's a satsuma! I find that terribly offensive!"
and really the only response is, well, gosh, I didn't know it was offensive, I'm so sorry *abashabashabash*
and the Offenderati get to stalk off feeling all fucking superior.
you know what? sometimes you're just full of shit. until I manage to read minds, there is no way for me to know that you're a Friend of Citrus and that I just said something offensive. because let's be honest, here - every ten minutes something else fairly common becomes an offensive term. I can't keep up. nor will I try to speak so super carefully so as to never offend anyone anywhere ever.
you'll have to just take my word for it that I'm not a misocitrusist and take your fragile little shell home to polish it. Real people take their lumps. real people have the conversation and enlighten others. fragile little two-dimentional beings wear their offense on their sleeves.
(for the record, I told an aquaintance she looked beautiful today. apparently I'm oppressing her. but that is just one of a number of things lately. including on the Ship.)
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Firenze
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"Not to worry, eh? Few more years and nobody'll be oppressing you in the slightest."
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Baptist Trainfan
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Re. Comet's post: also the easily "upset" (in church contexts). I'm sure we've all met them ... IMO this can actually be a power-seeking ploy, or a mask to cover intransigence.
Not always, of course. [ 01. August 2014, 08:06: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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quote: Originally posted by comet: ... I told an aquaintance she looked beautiful ...
You can tell me I look beautiful any time you like, Comet. You'd be mistaken, but I shan't feel in the least oppressed or offended.
eta: Why would she feel oppressed when the compliment was coming from another woman? [ 01. August 2014, 14:43: Message edited by: piglet ]
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quote: Originally posted by comet: TICTH the easily offended, and further those seeking offense. It's like a trump card in a debate, nowadays.
"you can't call that an orange! it's a satsuma! I find that terribly offensive!"
and really the only response is, well, gosh, I didn't know it was offensive, I'm so sorry *abashabashabash*
and the Offenderati get to stalk off feeling all fucking superior.
So you're not making a complaint about those who post on this thread?
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comet
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quote: Originally posted by piglet: eta: Why would she feel oppressed when the compliment was coming from another woman?
I'm one for handing out praise when I see it's justified. We (as a society) seem awfully quick to find fault and are often very stingy with our praise. So when someone deserves some praise, I give it.
but apparently I'm judging her on her gender and superficial appearance and not her "inner truth". unfortunately, it was not a social situation where I felt free to tell her that I praise her outer beauty because her "inner truth" is as ugly as a bald dog's ass. quote: Originally posted by piglet: You can tell me I look beautiful any time you like, Comet. You'd be mistaken, but I shan't feel in the least oppressed or offended.
Darling, you are beautiful, and I say that having never seen your picture. Some things are more important.
Now stop fishing for compliments or I'll have to let Evil Comet out. and it's too nice a morning for that.
-------------------- Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Doublethink.
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TICTH the couple responsible for this situation, who would probably claim they don't believe in eugenics if you asked them.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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TICTH the woman who left her child locked in a hot car, and then ran over the woman who called 911 to report it.
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Kelly Alves
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Jesus, It's becoming an epidemic. People suck!
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Pyx_e
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I hate taking kids shopping so I always leave one of the windows open a little bit to let the smoke out.
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irish_lord99
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TICTH automotive manufacturers who design their cars to be impossible for the average consumer to maintain.
In order to change the parking light on our family Subaru, I had to start by removing the fecking grill off the front! Seriously? It took me almost two hours to change a $.99 light bulb! And I was quoted one hour by the mechanic... at a rate of $70 an hour, for a light bulb that wasn't even one fucking dollar!
I'm convinced that the manufacturer has engineers specially tasked to make these cars near impossible to work on yourself so that you are forced to take the car back to the dealership and pay them to do the work. Seriously, if you're going to make the bulbs that inaccessible, wouldn't the responsible thing be to make them a 50 year LED instead of incandescent?
Fuckers.
That, and what we really want is for you to take those engineers and direct them towards the fuel-efficient engine and drive-train department, not the see-if-you-can-find-a-way-to-fit-the-relays-between-the-radiator-and-the-cooling-fan department.
And in replacing the grill I broke off two of the clips that hold it in place, so it looks like I have to go to the stealer-ship anyways to get some replacements.
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Kelly Alves
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Apropos of jack shit, I just figured out a way to make Siri read the above post aloud. She's magnificent when she is pissed off.
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comet
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quote: Originally posted by irish_lord99: And in replacing the grill I broke off two of the clips that hold it in place, so it looks like I have to go to the stealer-ship anyways to get some replacements.
dude. zipties.
-------------------- Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Doublethink.
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quote: Originally posted by Doublethink: TICTH the couple responsible for this situation, who would probably claim they don't believe in eugenics if you asked them.
On a more positive note, public fundraising has achieved nearly 200,000 Australian dollars and got him moved to a specialist hospital.
Additionally CTH to the surrogacy agency, who haven't even paid the whole of the agreed fee to the mother - and have now phoned the family in a vague attempt to look like they care. [ 03. August 2014, 11:20: Message edited by: Doublethink ]
-------------------- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell
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ThunderBunk
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TICTH the use of congregations as arenaa for fantasies. Particularly when this involves horrendous amounts of backseat driving
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Foolish, potentially deranged witterings
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L'organist
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TICTH clergy who, having decided on one theme for a Sunday then announce before the first hymn a theme they'd previously told me they wouldn't be using.
Relief organist called me gibbering to report that the PinC announced "today we mark the Transfiguration of the Lord and our readings and music will reflect that".
The minutes of the last planning meeting state "Fr X has decided to keep Sunday 3rd August as Trinity 7 - a hymn may be included on Sunday 10th to mark the Transfiguration but this is not strictly necessary."
Its hard enough to persuade colleagues to play so I can have time off without clergy going off-piste inducing fits of the vapours
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irish_lord99
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quote: Originally posted by comet: quote: Originally posted by irish_lord99: And in replacing the grill I broke off two of the clips that hold it in place, so it looks like I have to go to the stealer-ship anyways to get some replacements.
dude. zipties.
Good idea. Ever consider a career in automotive design?
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quote: Originally posted by L'organist: TICTH clergy who, having decided on one theme for a Sunday then announce before the first hymn a theme they'd previously told me they wouldn't be using.
Relief organist called me gibbering to report that the PinC announced "today we mark the Transfiguration of the Lord and our readings and music will reflect that".
The minutes of the last planning meeting state "Fr X has decided to keep Sunday 3rd August as Trinity 7 - a hymn may be included on Sunday 10th to mark the Transfiguration but this is not strictly necessary."
Its hard enough to persuade colleagues to play so I can have time off without clergy going off-piste inducing fits of the vapours
But Father ALWAYS knows best ....... he's the priest not the organist. The priest is there to lead and serve, the organist to serve.
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Pyx_e
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Ah the world is a magical place full of people who can't wait to be offended and upset.
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Firenze
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I curse the skin that starts to peel. I curse the cream that's meant to heal. Because of this confounded salve I curse the grip I do not have. I curse the coffee scalding hot From greasy fingers slops a lot. And with every sting I feel I curse the skin that starts to peel.
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orfeo
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...oh bother, did someone make a ruling that Eighth Day was only for nice poetry?
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Firenze
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No. It's just that my brain has the verselock on.
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Uncle Pete
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From the pen of dear Firenze Acidulous verse will always Flo
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Pyx_e
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quote: Originally posted by Firenze: I curse the skin that starts to peel. I curse the cream that's meant to heal. Because of this confounded salve I curse the grip I do not have. I curse the coffee scalding hot From greasy fingers slops a lot. And with every sting I feel I curse the skin that starts to peel.
I think it has a nice OT feel to it.
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Penny S
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The rats responsible for the drafting of laws which denied an ex-soldier who had become the carer of his mother as she died of dementia, and who was then denied the money to pay for the electricity to keep his insulin refrigerated, and the food necessary to keep a diabetic alive.
Local paper report
The rats responsible for the funding changes leading to the closure of women's refuges (in some cases because of the demands that they be open to men.)
This is not the Britain I grew up in.
Then I watch the subversive stuff in the Commonwealth Games ceremonies, and remember that in the Olympics, and think of Melvyn Bragg praising John Ball and Tom Paine, and think maybe it is still out there, somewhere. (With part of it about to float off towards Ultima Thule, and who can blame them.)
How do we get it back from the rats? [ 04. August 2014, 16:49: Message edited by: Penny S ]
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Penny S
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Refuge Closure
And the rats who decided to collect a woman for deportation just before her daughter's wedding, and then to take her to the plane from Yarl's Wood at midnight in her pyjamas.
Seizure from wedding
Removal
I realise that had we been invaded by a certain mid century political party, they would have had no trouble finding people to staff the less savoury places they would have set up here.
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L'organist
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posted by Exclamation Mark quote: But Father ALWAYS knows best ....... he's the priest not the organist. The priest is there to lead and serve, the organist to serve.
No; the servers serve, the organist plays the organ.
But if Father wants music for the Transfiguration he'd better give some notice - that or learn to play the instrument himself. And since he's pretty much tone deaf I don't expect that to happen anytime soon.
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Palimpsest
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TICTH the person down the street who in the hot weather when all windows have to be open has decided it's time to do vocal exercises in hopes of fixing the wobble in her soprano.
and I don't mean Offenbach's Hades either.
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Penny S
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Whatever it is in my bedroom TV which decides, on an apparently random basis, that the hard drive to which it records things is no longer in a supported format and it cannot access the existing recordings.
This means a very long copying process to my computer (it is lying when it states the files are lost). Then I have to open each file and identify it, and change the name from a meaningless string of numbers (ciphered date info) to the name of the programme. But the downstairs TV, which can read the computer wirelessly and show videos from it, cannot read the changed file name, only the supposed lost numeric one, which can still be shown in Media Player, so I have to find the file under the name in one folder in MP, identify the the opening shot, find the numeric view of that shot, and then bring up that number on the TV. The TV cannot rewind or fast forward.
I am, you will note, complaining over facilities which I did not dream of when I had an analogue TV and no recording possibilities in the bedroom. But I wish the inventors of these marvellous toys ensured they worked sensibly before releasing them on the public. (And I did not dream of them when I went out to get a better TV, but having read the manuals, I did want to use what was on offer.) [ 05. August 2014, 20:08: Message edited by: Penny S ]
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TICTH the mini-despots in my employer's HR department. Apparently, if we still have the keys to our flat on Monday the sky will fall in and it will the end of civilisation as we know it. They will be paying rent for the flat until mid-September and know that we will have no furniture in our new flat until Wednesday but to let us stay over for a couple of days will contravene their processes. We have offered to pay the rent, but it makes no difference; we must be out by the end of Sunday.
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Lamb Chopped
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TICTH assholes who get their rear bumper touched (at 2 mph) on a rainy, oil-slick day, causing NO damage whatsoever to either car, and immediately think: "Ah ha! I can claim 500 fucking dollars worth of damage, get myself a nice new paint job plus clear coat, and medical costs besides!" Assholes.
And who the hell does 15 mph when they're six feet behind a stationary car waiting at a light? 2 miles an hour, if that, assholes. Don't give me that shit. Don't give my insurance company that shit, either.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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