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Raptor Eye
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I've had it with the miseryguts people today, they've got to me. From 'I'm not asking her (underlined)' to 'we used to do it properly', from vague questions which raise eyebrows when clarification is sought to tuts and 'didn't you know's' and miseryguts looks.
I don't want to shout or swear, I only want to quietly rant in exasperation and wish you'd all crack your face open by smiling and appreciating and giving everyone the best aspects of your characters instead.
I know that generosity of spirit is too much to ask, but at times the lack of it leaves me asking God for strength.
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anne
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Originally posted by Raptor Eye:
I don't want to shout or swear, I only want to quietly rant in exasperation
You are a far, far better person than me. I do want to shout and swear. I mostly don't actually do it, but I really want to.
Recently our church was given a (fairly expensive but not new) monitor which will allow us to show photos/slldes/etc in the coffee area. I was excited and grateful. Other responses included "it must have come from a dusty house", "so and so won't use it properly", "it won't work", "the kids will wreck it" and "it will get broken." How hard would it be to be a tiny bit happy and grateful? Or, as the voice in my head was yelling "don't be so bloody negative, you miserable b**tards!"
This is just the current example, but it happens all the time "that'll never work", "we tried that and it was no good", "no point asking for help/money/whatever, it never does any good" and so on. It usually turns me into Pollyanna, but it can be so exhausting.
Anne
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Gamaliel
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Harrumph!
Any church that invests in a new monitor to show slides in the foyer or whatever it is you call it deserves all the negative comments it receives ...
Is outrage.
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Siegfried
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I've never heard this term before. Urban dictionary defines it as
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A word describing a person who is against having any sort of fun at any time
Is that the usage here? if so, it's not quite how it's coming across.
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Ricardus
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Pfft. None of this would have happened when the previous incumbent was here.
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Gamaliel
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Indeed.
And if I'd read the response to the OP properly I'd have realised that it wasn't a new monitor, it was a second-hand one.
Makes no difference. It should still be destroyed ...
As for coffee ... pah! We ought to make do with water. It was good enough for St David ...
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jacobsen
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Oh assembled Scrooges, crack a smile, for God's sake.
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Gamaliel
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What do you mean?
I am smiling ...
There is such a thing as irony you know. You can look it up online. The internet is good that way:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony
Besides, if someone's a Scrooge, that's how they get their fun.
It's rather like the old joke about the two old Yorkshire fellas outside the Batley Frontier Club.
'What'd tha think to yon comedian?'
'S'alreet - for them's as likes laughin' ...'
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anne
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Originally posted by Ricardus:
Pfft. None of this would have happened when the previous incumbent was here.
Yes, there is some consolation in the thought that the incumbent after next, in a few years time, will be hearing all about how great it was back when we were able to put up the photos of all our events for everyone to see. Before the Scouts broke the monitor.
Anne
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balaam
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The present incumbent is never appreciated.
When one leaves his innovations leave with him, things reverting to how things were when the previous chap left (they were mostly chaps in those days.)
the innovations of the present incumbent will be accepted only when his successor leaves.
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Raptor Eye
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Not just me then Anne. They don't usually get to me, but today they seemed to be coming at me from all sides, along with other irritations. I had to try hard to remember the people who were agreeable, but they were there too.
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Originally posted by Siegfried:
I've never heard this term before. Urban dictionary defines it as
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A word describing a person who is against having any sort of fun at any time
Is that the usage here? if so, it's not quite how it's coming across.
A miseryguts is someone who always manages to reduce rather than lift the atmosphere whether being grumpy or sarcastic or negative or generally miserable in company.
I can name more than one who would say what Ricardus suggested.
Thank you Gamaliel for your tongue in cheek offerings. I wonder whether some people who can't smile are determined to wipe the smiles off of those who can. Perhaps it would cheer them up.....
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