A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

mardatha

Me me - that rant was the best rant I've heard in ages. God only knows why we bother to vote for any of the major parties when none of them have ever done a proper job for more than a week. Clueless erks who have the nerve to tell us how to live when they don't know themselves!!!
And I'm sorry but I think donating food is just aiding & abetting the TPTB to step back and do nothing.

VJsmum

prepareathome wrote: »

I know its a bit late but sending you a big, big hug and I hope by now they are fast asleep and you are as well or at least relaxing. Teenagers never consider others, its almost a biological impossibility - almost as some are wonderful, but on the whole most only see things from their own point of view, even when they get their own way they usually find something to moan about. Just never ever take it personally, as you will only find you are the one who is then making a mountain out of a mole hill with the two of them ganging up against you..........

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Thank you to you and everyone else for the hugs and the virtual chocolate. At least virtual chocolate doesn't have the calories. Doesn't taste as nice tho! :rotfl:

Peace seems to have been restored. DS has sincerely apologise to DD for saying she was fat - to any 15 year old this would be an issue but as she is a "big girl" it is even more of one. I spend all my time telling her she is beautiful and the weight will come off as long as she does it slowly and sensibly - then he opens his big gob and undoes all the good. :mad: He was actually trying to be funny - didn't work!

GreyQueen wrote: »

Mini rant alert I started reading a book last night, written by a professor and published this year by Oxford University Press and what have I seen in the first few pages? "Reigning in" where they meant "reining in" and an apostrophe inserted into a word which was a simple plural. Ye gods and monsters, this should shame a high school student. My grammar school English teacher would be spinning in his grave if he could see it. I'm considering pitching myself as a copy-editor to OUP on the grounds that I can do better........

Book's good, apart from the wincing moments.........

I spend alot of my time marking the assignments of University students (I was going to write University students' essays, but wasn't sure that was right ) - and they wouldn't know where to put an apostrophe if they were paid to. And as for there / their / they're....

Actually I was at Ikea on Sunday, and one of their big advertising posters / boards said that they would take back goods in there original packaging :eek: Someone deserves sacking for that.

So tis lovely, warm and sunny here and, on Thursday, I am off to Stockholm where the forecast is about 5 degrees and potential snow. S'not fair.. On previous study visits I've been to Dubai where it was 32 degrees.

greenbee

VJsmum - Stockholm today is 14 and was sunny when I arrived this afternoon MUCH warmer than Helsinki!

It looks like OH may have to go out to dinner for work on Thursday evening so I'll be left here on my own (I don't appear to be invited...) so if you're free, then let me know!

Byatt

prepareathome wrote: »

Byatt it does sound as if the SW is not a pet lover. What is the reason they give for the poor dog to go into Kennels when you cat sit, its not as if you live with DD and so are going and leaving her when you do, sounds totally like an excuse to me to get rid of dog - first in kennels when you are cat sitting then, most likely well you get on well ( this to DD) without dog when its in kennels so why not be kind and have dog put down / give it away as its just extra expense........shame you cannot find out if this has been suggested to other cases SW has. Why is it basically acceptable if you live on your own to have a cat, but not a dog, I have come across this attitude a lot over the years.

KatieOwl your letter ( second one) is great although I to would have felt like sending first one.

I have been out in garden doing bits and bobs nearly every day and little by little work getting down, I usually manage about 30 mins, might not be much but makes me feel so good. Today I actually was asked to look after youngest granddaughter which was a shock, son admitted they normally just ask her mum but he said he knew I would love to if I was up to it, by golly I made sure I was and had a lovely time, she is 2 1/2.

I went last week for blood tests dr has been wanting me to get for months, well some for months and some for about 2 weeks and went and got results today - low in calcium, high white cell count ( hospital have asked her to monitor me) and anaemic ( quite low but she will not give me figures, never does), so now going for more blood tests and under promise to do so tomorrow. Vit D result not back yet but she expects it to be low, says usually if calcium is low so is Vit D. So hubby has to have an x-ray on spine and neck and I will have blood tests, right old pair of codgers we will be tomorrow at the hospital. Right better get some sleep..........

Hugs and love to everyone, do you know your posts really keep me going, I read what you are all up to with all the problems and think if you can manage so can I.......you really are a wonderful lot of people, very special............xxxxxxxxx

PAH, I must admit I forget there are people who aren't dog lovers. I do understand people being nervous, but on the surface the SW has been fine on the occasions I've been there. DD's other SW is great and took pooch into the garden to play ball.

So glad you had a lovely time with DGD, what a lovely age although I imagine she was on the go.
I would ask your Dr for the figures as is your right, plus you can work with them when you actually know what's what.

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

When my Mother was dying of cancer the Dr arranged for the district nurse to pop in for 3 mornings when I couldn't make the journey, I found out that they had sent a trainee, who wasn't English. She was so terrified of my mum's dog (who was very lazy & very friendly) that she posted a carton of drink through my mum's letterbox for 3 days instead of visiting her!
Hester

That's truly awful Hester. Again, I understand some people are just afraid of dogs, but not to tell her manager, is a disgrace.

GreyQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

I spend alot of my time marking the assignments of University students (I was going to write University students' essays, but wasn't sure that was right ) - and they wouldn't know where to put an apostrophe if they were paid to. And as for there / their / they're....

Actually I was at Ikea on Sunday, and one of their big advertising posters / boards said that they would take back goods in there original packaging :eek: Someone deserves sacking for that.

I once had to be forcibly-restrained by friends because we were walking along the street and saw a chalk board outside a pub offering a wide variety of deserts. I wanted to go ask if they had a Kalahari or a Sahara, or perhaps even a Gobi, but my mates hustled me away..........:rotfl:

My pet peeve is the poor abused apostrophe and I have a long-standing plan for my retirement (should I ever get there) which involves getting a crack corps of similiarly bloody-minded pedants, arming ourselves with Tippex and Magic Markers, and setting forth to edit. I think we'll be called the Apostrophe Liberation Front.:p Joking aside, it is a serious matter when we spend the minimum of 11 years educating everybody and allow signage to be displayed before impressionable youth which is mis-spelled and has punctuation thrown at it in the folorn hope some of it may land in the right place.

If I ruled the world putting up signs in public which say things like DVD's for Sale and Strawberrys and Cream would result in having to pay a special premium on your business rates. Which would be used for remedial English classes, naturally.

Good job I'm just a private citizen, eh?:rotfl:

Went to the lottie after work and delved around in what will be the potato patch in a week or so. Harvested an interim crop of rusty nails, glass shards, scraps of plastic bags and the odd Early Neolithic flint tool. The old-timers were farmsteading up there, according to the flint guy at the museum. I must stroll around to them again with my Ferrero Rocher box of flints but we're now head down on the rollercoaster which is the growing season and if I'm not planting I shall be weeding and possibly occasionally sitting in a deckchair in the sun with a small beer.

I got my fencepost, too. Happiness is 6 feet of pressure-treated timber............

Have a good night, all, especially you lucky ones in Foriegn Parts. I'm so darned skint I stand in the International Foods aisle and get a cheap thrill.:p

smileyt_2

meme30 wrote: »

GQ:- Don't... it's a disgrace the levels of spelling and punctuation in this country. I love keeping contact by texting people but I think it can take a lot of blame for the way people both speak and write English.

Grandma:- I hope you get better news from Australia soon.

:mad:RANT ALERT!:mad:

I read the article about the Greeks and their potatoes. I find it quite depressing and inspirational at the same time! It's great that they are managing to save money this way but I do think we as a country are not far from reaching this level.
Yesterday, in A*da I was asked to donate food to a food bank for struggling families. It's a sobering thought that here we are in this country with our flat-screen televisions, internet, and endless pressure to shop and 'have what everyone else has got' and people cannot feed themselves and their children.
Many are in this situation because of losing work. The government is spending money on a think-tank to work out how to get people back to work! :eek: They really do not know how people in this country live from week to week, the struggles to pay the bills and feed the kids.
I get so frustrated by the endless 'in real terms' you are better off. How as a nation do we produce so many elitist people who then go in to politics! Are they preprogrammed to ignore the vast majority of the workforce? Just because someone has a good education, speaks well and dresses nicely does not mean that they know what they are doing! A bit of common sense would be a great asset!

climbs down off soap-box!
Am going to do the ironing to cheer myself up! :rotfl:

Dearest meme, please, take my ironing too, I would soooo love to cheer you up .... :rotfl:

Greyqueen, not so long ago Asda had big signs hanging from their ceiling saying, 'Together we're using less bags' - aaaargh! Used to drive me crazy. It should be 'fewer' bags, of course. May I apply for membership of your Apostrophe Liberation Front, please? We could set Nursie on any offenders .....

greenbee

Trust me, GQ one airport looks much like another, although the loos are better in some than others :-)

And most of the hotel rooms look pretty similar too ...

Only difference so far was that the view in Finland was of frozen see, and the view in Stockholm is of a street...

Byatt

Forgot to say, GQ love all the chat about Bees and their Latin names, had no idea there were so many types.

Is a wasp just a wasp or are there varieties? (I'm panicking now about my their's and theres and they're's... and my s'sssss' :eek::o:D)

bonnie_bumpkins

smileyt wrote: »

Greyqueen, not so long ago Asda had big signs hanging from their ceiling saying, 'Together we're using less bags' - aaaargh! Used to drive me crazy. It should be 'fewer' bags, of course. May I apply for membership of your Apostrophe Liberation Front, please? We could set Nursie on any offenders .....

I remember this, when I looked at the signs I could hear nails scratching down a blackboard :cool:

To DD's embarrassment I complained in Arg*s once that the laminated sign on the main desk stated "your" when it should have been "you're" - something along the lines of "your in the right place to save money" I think. The manager, aged 13, had the grace to blush and removed the sign.

DS however is more like me and was itching to insert a "c" to a nearby "LAND AQUIRED" :eek: sign. He was very happy when we drove by one day to see someone equally [STRIKE]anal[/STRIKE] perfectionist had done the job for him :rotfl:

Please sign me up for the Apostrophe Liberation Front

anguk

Several years ago a young lad in our village was killed in a car accident, on the main road where it happened there's a plaque nailed up on the telegraph pole he hit. I feel terrible because a young lad lost his life but that plaque drives me bonkers because it says "your always in our thoughts".

Now I'll be the first to admit my grammar and spelling aren't the best, I often make mistakes but I have a real bugbear about "your" and "you're". And if I was arranging a commemorative plaque I'd make sure the spelling was correct.