abogan, most of my interactions with the world are pretty good…it’s just that yesterday it seemed that every dickhead/government economic policy/newspaper article was conspiring to give me the shits. Mostly the human race consists of eminently decent people. Yesterday they all went on holiday somewhere else.
Of course, it had nothing to do with MY state of mind…
And *Primaflora, I reckon we should petition the guvmint about introducing a clause in the ‘child-whopping’ law to permit severe beatings for leaving the tops off jars too.
Well, I had an excellent day today. It’s beautiful, warm with a gentle sea breeze and I spent the day with my best friend, out in the bush.
Then again, nothing’s ever 100% perfect, so I’d just like to give a general notice to all mosquitoes on the Central Coast :
“FUCK OFF”
with a P.S stating : Melbourne’s nice this time of year, go check it out mozzies !
Thought I’d point out, for those furriners who don’t know, “shitting” in American means “pulling one’s leg” or just “lying”. As in, “You’re shitting me. No, really?”
I love how some of these common Chaucerian slang terms have completely different meanings in America than in Britain and current/former British Empire nations. “Pissed”, in British, always means “drunk”, but in American, it always means “angry”. (Except of course when it refers to the literal act of pissing.)
Masonite, we have sort of the same meaning for ‘shitting me’, but it depends on whether it is framed as a question or a statement.
As in, ‘You’re shitting me, right?’…is indeed suggesting that the person feels as if he is having his leg pulled.
OTOH, a simple ‘You’re shitting me’, or ‘You’re giving me the shits’ indicates that one feels extreme displeasure having to share in the company of said person.
To be pissed in Australia indicates that you are in a state of intoxication…as in ‘Geez mate, I got pissed as a parrot last night. Completely legless, but I had a grouse time. Nearly scored a root’n’all’.
Yet pissed-off equates more to the Merkin notion of angry.
El_Kabong, 'getting bent is not to be confused with getting rooted. Rooting and fucking are somewhat interchangeable here, while being ‘bent’ suggests you may have been smoking some peculiar sort of green herb. Mind you, it is NOT nice to ask a lady ‘D’ya wanna root?’…you have to be a little more circumspect in your request if you expect success!!
I’ve got to Rant Against Ants too, for taking over my kitchen temporarily, and dry-as-a-bone weather and all the freaking fires that go with it.
I curse a certain college dean who fills up my and my colleagues’ inboxes with bullshit pedagogical recommendations because, apparently, all our years of combined experience are not enough to make him think we actually know to teach a class or write a syllabus.
I’m counting down the days until our college czar of nearly 20 hellish years steps down and stops making hash of everything–unless, of course, I knock his beady-eyed ass down the administration building stairs first and take him out a lot sooner.
And a pox upon all the work, extra work, and even more fucking work that has piled up lately so that now I feel like crap, don’t sleep well, am off my feed, can’t concentrate, and the holidays just can’t get here fast enough. I am taking off tomorrow OFF.
List moderators who close down on topic threads and who also instruct people that they are not to discuss it privately.
Listen, you idiot, we’re adults here. Put the person doing personal attacks on moderation but let the rest of us continue the discussion! I don’t appreciate being moderated when I’ve not flamed anyone or gone off topic.,
Oh shit Primaflora, ya got a link or something…I’d LOVE to know what THAT one is about…
And for me, the nutter from work is STILL at it…if I hear one more hateful rant against her three-year old, I’m gonna deck ‘er. And coming from ME, the ever-so-diplomatic and resort-to-verbal-abuse-as-a-last-resort kambuckta, that’s sayin’ something.
Don’t wait for any additional provocation, give the nutter a preemptive decking. It will make you feel intensely empowered and that is our only concern.
I guess I am too, but it costs ~$7 for 40 tampons these days. I don’t want to use the alternatives (pads or that bag thing) but all the reliable brands are around the same price. What to do? I know it’s to pay for advertisements telling how I can wear white pants for 12 hours without a care, or how I will feel close to my mom when we both use the same brand, or whatever, but what to do about that?
it was over psychs releasing the subtest scores to parents from the Weschler IQ tests. There’s two ways of looking at it – parents pay through the wazoo for the tests so they are entitled to the subtests or the process of evaluation is done by the psych and nobody else should see the raw scores. The problem is that according to psychs parents are interpreting these tests in ways the test designers never meant.
It all got terribly emotional.
There’s also a fab battle over handwriting and whether kids need to have nice copperplate handwriting so they can be successful in life ::roll eyes::
