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Happy New Year all , see you tomorrow xx

Savvybuyer

Mrs_stinkface wrote: »

Evening lovelies!
Hope everyone has had a fab day.

Can you believe I got my butt kicked by a 5 year old at bowling this afternoon??:eek::rotfl: the utter shame of it :rotfl:
Lots of fun was had by all though. We've ended our day with a lovely meal and snuggles on the sofa watching 'Inside out'.

Squigs, sal, SFSB, and all the other glitch testers- I rarely go to Sada these days so don't tend to partake but thank you for all your time and effort.:j

To everybody who is a part of this fabulous thread - I wish you love, happiness and kindness. May 2016 be everything you want and more.
Happy new year :iloveyou:

I had a swearing story, if anyone wanted to hear it:rotfl:. Some driver wasn't prepared to give way at the roundabout for me and just wanted to go. (That might be why there are those lines there so that you have to stop and give way:mad::mad:.) So I got called the usual supposedly strong word derivative that's now, in normal life, extremely mild (though the sizeable part of the population appears just to accept what the BBC tells them) and the name of a Worcestershire village:rotfl::rotfl:. I'm laughing because what was, presumably, an attempt to insult or abuse me totally failed and instead it just caused me to laugh. You may remember how a driver called me a "weirdo", in a rather nasty tone, a few months back on the car park in M and rather upset me. I thought it was quite inappropriate and that added to/made me feel upset.

The thing is that swearing has been used so much, that it's now commonplace everyday and fails to upset me - it doesn't shock me and it's always the same old range of words yet again. I think, if someone wants to shock me, they'd achieve it by saying something really unusual and therefore out of the ordinary but the swearing is the same thing and usual so it doesn't shock me.

Clearly, laughing at someone who is being abusive (or attempting, but failing, to be abusive) to me might compound a situation as it might aggravate them and make them even worse. If he'd got out of his car and moved towards me, throwing his arms at me, gesturing at me and swearing loudly at me in my face, then it would have been very different. That would have very likely made me fear physical assault. However, it was the way he shouted it but not really nasty tone but just said, a little bit of frustration and with me and him safely in my car. After he'd simply passed by, within seconds, I then laughed again after he'd gone. It rather made my day:rotfl::rotfl:. I know some people will totally disagree and find it thoroughly unacceptable. I think I would have got upset about him cutting me up if he'd just gone past and said nothing - or said something that, haphazardly, turned out to be, for me, a bit more ill-judged. But actually I just laughed and somehow it diffused the situation - I wasn't even upset about any cutting up but instead he just made me laugh. I'm sorry (actually I've no need to apologise for what is, is) but it was just funny. Someone else that heard him saying that loudly though may well have been upset - although I didn't notice anyone.

I felt "actually I agree with you, mate"(:eek::rotfl:) and thought it entirely justified if he was a bit frustrated. I'd never even think it was justified for me to say that to anyone else and just couldn't dare, so it certainly doesn't mean I'd think it was acceptable to go down the street and hurl "abuse" at some random stranger but, as regards it's effect on me on that occasion, it was probably the complete opposite of what he'd intended (even if he'd ever thought about anything at all before saying it rather than just doing so) and I'm sorry I'm just being immature (with my education and postgraduate degrees) but it was so funny.

I think I said - or suggested - before that I felt that that nasty 50 or 60-year old man that called me a "weirdo" would have upset me less if, instead, he'd sworn at me:eek:. And, there, today, now is the evidence! It's these people that fail to swear that just annoy and offend me:rotfl::rotfl:.

Thanks for reading! (I think I'd add a bit of a - contrary - thought to put into my signature.)

Note that I am not saying that I would encourage people to do the same thing to me on this thread, not least because others would object. In any event, it's not a place to hurl abuse and nothing would be achieved by doing that as it's place to discuss moneysaving and share moneysaving ways. However, it's the same as you wouldn't go onto something irrelevant when discussing something else. For example, in presenting the TV news you wouldn't go on about what you bought yesterday in the shops and bought as a present for your friend. You'd tell us the news. (Whereas, on this thread, we would absolutely mention what we bought in the shops and saved money on.) Occasional light asides may happen, on the news channels, but do not detract from the main purpose, which is the news. So, in the same way - although people would consider it gravely unacceptable too - we wouldn't go on calling each other some things on here, instead we'd discuss things pertinent to the discussions that arose (the 'general chat' of the thread) and share moneysaving. I might get back to doing the rest of the M list some time in the very early new year:rotfl:. I'm having a bit of a rest day today (despite the fact you's lot got me out doing quite a bit of shopping:doh::D:rotfl:).

newbie1980

i wonder if ariel will still be alive and kicking tommorow

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elliemoo

Right I'm off to watch Jools, be back after the bells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVrP6JaPUv0

Savvybuyer

Btw, I mutter absolutely everything regularly, and repeatedly, about every other driver on the roads when I'm in my car (alone or just with my brother of similar age). And I do so quite deliberately and because I want to. I don't normal use the name of the village he did, quite inventive perhaps I thought:D:rotfl:. Sorry! (I'm a fan of 'bad' language in certain situations these days.) But where I differ from what he did on that occasion is that I never say anything that could be heard outside of my car.

:rotfl::rotfl:Hey ho!

Savvybuyer

elliemoo wrote: »

Right I'm off to watch Jools, be back after the bells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVrP6JaPUv0

The bells?:eek:

I know what you mean:rotfl:, but it's just an interesting thing you've said from the POV of me with Asperger's. Like conjures up literal images of people holding bells for me! (Now that I think about it.)

Back after the bells then:cool:.

I'll probably be back - much to other's chagrin (:mad::mad::p:rotfl:) - before the bells.

The bells of St. Clements.:)

zippydooda

HILLBERN wrote: »

I bought kitchen taps (brushed) nearly £75 the last ones I had not from the same company but same design lasted 15years and I only changed them as we were having a new kitchen otherwise they were still good.
also Quidco

http://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/?gclid=CjwKEAiAwZO0BRDvxs_1w-qFnhkSJABo10ggqmaNMQbX0pTjQCfMzrHMF8KcSAWVBLVCn8qp6eAZrRoCn87w_wcB

forgot about them, extra 10% off now as well. :beer:

locarr

Happy Hogmanay here's to 2016!
May the best ye hae ivver seen be the warst ye'll ivver see.
May the moose ne'er lea' yer girnal wi a tear-drap in its ee.
May ...ye aye keep hail an hertie till ye'r auld eneuch tae dee.
May ye aye juist be sae happie as a wuss ye aye tae be.
Lang may yer lum reek!

HILLBERN

Happy New Year to all xx:beer:

hornetgirl

Do you remember the original Nirvana Elliemoo?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YKwfzAeKeSU

Brandy and champagne taking its toll, don't think I'll last till midnight, so goodnight and Happy New Year everyone :heart2: