Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

onomatopoeia99

tea_lover wrote: »

(scarily, 40 is now just two years and a week away!)

pffft 50 is two years and 5 months, and I'm completely not ready to be 50. Or even 40. In my head I'm still about 25 :rotfl:

Pyxis

elsien wrote: »

Nothing - you can't see their name or their page at all, it's as if they don't exist on FB.

So if you can see some of their posts but not all of them, that's not being blocked?
Can someone stop a particular person seeing some of their posts/details, but let them see others?

codemonkey wrote: »

Ono - iirc it's a simile because of the use of the work like. It's been a ridiculously long amount of time since I studied English so I may be wrong.

Izadora wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that's correct. A simile is a comparison which uses 'like' or 'as' and a metaphor is one which doesn't.

Yes it is correct.

For example, as you've rightly said, "I saw the snow had settled like icing sugar on a Victoria sponge" is a simile.

A metaphor would be "I looked out and saw the icing sugar layers on the Victoria sponge of my front garden". (Not a very good metaphor, but you get the the drift!)



Another example of metaphor would be "he was experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions".
As a simile that would be " his emotions were up and down like a rollercoaster".

tea_lover

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

pffft 50 is two years and 5 months, and I'm completely not ready to be 50. Or even 40. In my head I'm still about 25 :rotfl:

In my head I'm about 13 :rotfl:.

It's not the age itself that bothers me, more that I thought I'd have done more by that point... if that makes any sense at all. I was just the same when I was 30 (if anything, I was probably worse when I was 30). I have no objection to being 40, or 60, or 80..... but I can't shake the feeling that I should definitely have ticked a lot more things off life's big to do list.

codemonkey

tea_lover wrote: »

In my head I'm about 13 :rotfl:.

It's not the age itself that bothers me, more that I thought I'd have done more by that point... if that makes any sense at all. I was just the same when I was 30 (if anything, I was probably worse when I was 30). I have no objection to being 40, or 60, or 80..... but I can't shake the feeling that I should definitely have ticked a lot more things off life's big to do list.

Are you me? I feel exactly the same way. Shouldn't I be competent at one thing in my life?

I have decided to learn German, if only because it's so different to Portuguese, that hopefully I won't mix them up. How do multilingual people do it?

onomatopoeia99

tea_lover wrote: »

It's not the age itself that bothers me, more that I thought I'd have done more by that point... if that makes any sense at all.

Yes, complete sense. When I turned 30 I was in a long term relationship, owned a home with my partner and had step-children (well, not married, but same difference). I had no "oh no, 30 already?" feelings as I was happy with where I was. 40 was completely different, the things I'd hoped for hadn't happened, probably not helped by my brother having got married not that long before, and my nephew being on the way. Suddenly it was "how did I get to be 40 so soon? There's so much still to do!" Not that much has changed in the last seven years.

Torry_Quine

Totally agree with the age thing and I'm older than 50!

Pyxis

codemonkey wrote: »

I have decided to learn German, if only because it's so different to Portuguese, that hopefully I won't mix them up. How do multilingual people do it?

Ich bin keine Wasserschildkröte. Ich bin ein Codeaffe.

System

Pyxis wrote: »

MessedUp, I'd be really upset too.

Did you arrange a specific time to meet? And how long ago were the arrangements to meet made?

Could it be that if it was a while ago, they just forgot?

However, if it was a recent arrangement, then that is very rude of them.

There was a specific time and it was over the course of a week i asked people, it was that week it was happening.

Tea i think i will leave people blocked, i never wnated people on there to begin with so i will stand my ground.

They all had me on facebook and not one person messaged me to say they weren't coming.

Ah well you live and learn.

Lol i turned up to work this afternoon to foundsomeone changed the rota and didnt tell me and i'm off. :mad: i wouldnt mind if they'd told me though im annoyed that i've lost 4 hours pay this week (and that i wasted an hour going there and getting back!). If i'd known i was off i could have seen Swain today, its getting a bit late to go to his now and i think his phone has died as he's not replying, so by the time he sees my message it will a bit too late to go. Ah well i get to see him tomorrow He's just had 5 weeks off and he's back at work on monday. *Fingers crossed* this year he gets a perm job there! I know one of the team leaders has left so thats opened up a possibility, shall have to see how he gets on Very proud of him for sticking at it though.

System

tea_lover wrote: »

In my head I'm about 13 :rotfl:.

It's not the age itself that bothers me, more that I thought I'd have done more by that point... if that makes any sense at all. I was just the same when I was 30 (if anything, I was probably worse when I was 30). I have no objection to being 40, or 60, or 80..... but I can't shake the feeling that I should definitely have ticked a lot more things off life's big to do list.

I thought my life would be different by 30. I though when i was younger by 30 id have a career, a house, be married and have kids :eek:

In actual fact i'm working part time, living in a houseshare with strangers, not married (but have the lovely Swain) and don;t have kids (not ready for them yet).

So its not what i expected BUT despite not having the things i thought i wanted, i'm happier having the things i do have. As far as 40 goes, i don;t know what the next 10 years will bring, but i'm not going to tell myself what i should have, i'm just going to enjoy the journey.

Pyxis

When I reached 35, I decided that that was a good age to be, so that's the age my brain is!