Jazmee27 
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What a lovely picture *that* makes (sorry, couldn't resist)
I once had a meeting at my house (Mom's, actually, as I still lived with her) and we had to cut it short when the one woman I was meeting vommited all over the floor
Reply #2761. May 28 11, 1:30 PM
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| lesley153
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The boy with nine-foot legs sitting opposite me, and his pal who was sitting next to me and only very slightly leaning on me, agreed that the smell was unbearable, so they moved away, which was good, because it gave me more leg-room and breathing space. The man in the other corner stayed put too, and we chatted till we got off the train.
One of the things we talked about was how people can overreact when things go wrong, and how unpleasant and unreasonable they can be, to other people like transport staff and shop staff, about things that really aren't their fault. I've heard about people buying train tickets, and punching the ticket seller because the price has gone up. He said that he knew someone working in a tube station giving information about problems with the rail service. It's not where he works, and the cancellations wouldn't be his fault even if he did work on them - he was just trying to help! - but travellers responded to his information by saying I hope you and your family all get cancer and die.
The prospect of public projectile diarrhoea, or a visitor puking on my floor, don't bear thinking about at the best of times - so why did I start reading this thread while I was eating? Ugh... and ewww! |
Reply #2762. May 28 11, 3:12 PM
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Lochalsh
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On to greater things, then: Lesley, I just posted a link on the Music board that craves your attention. :)
Everyone's invited, of course!
Reply #2763. May 28 11, 5:45 PM
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| lesley153
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| I bet I know which one it is, too! I have posted, but only some general thoughts. Answering properly will take time, and two o'clock in the morning may not be the best time to start if I want to get to bed before dawn. |
Reply #2764. May 28 11, 7:04 PM
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Lochalsh
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Well, it was a question, not a link, but I see you've found it, and I'm exceeding glad! :)
Reply #2765. May 29 11, 9:58 AM
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Jazmee27
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People are going nuts over the price of gas and food and movie tickets, too
Reply #2766. May 29 11, 7:39 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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I find it best to ignore gas prices...I just pump $20 or $30 and be done with it. After all, it's a 'must have' right?
Honestly though, I work where I live, so filling up is probably once a month, or less.
Reply #2767. May 29 11, 9:48 PM
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| lesley153
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| I put in about £20 or £30 and try not to look at how little petrol I'm getting. The car does about 18 miles to the gallon in town and 22-24 on open roads. It would cost me about £60 to fill the tank. Ouch. It's still cheaper than buying a new car, though. |
Reply #2768. May 30 11, 6:25 AM
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Professer
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Well at last it looks like something might be done re fuel prices lot of flack at the moment somethying will have to give.
Reply #2769. May 30 11, 8:26 AM
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| lesley153
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| I seem to remember reading that when George Osborne took a WHOLE PENNY off a litre of petrol (bring me my smelling salts) he didn't actually know how much of the price of a litre was tax. They've got to take more off, while we can still afford to eat. |
Reply #2770. May 30 11, 8:53 AM
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satguru
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Lorry drivers returning from the continent say the typical price there equivalent is £1 a litre. Everything else is down to purely government tax increases, as usual. The energy prices are the same relatively, if not more so, but that's because the French and Germans bought our energy companies and charge us a lot more to subsidise their home prices and stay popular. Who said we won the war?
Reply #2771. May 30 11, 12:37 PM
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| lesley153
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| Nobody with any sense! They own our energy companies, and Spain and China own our banks. Argh. |
Reply #2772. May 30 11, 2:22 PM
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| lesley153
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Cardiac exercise class today. I've been going for about four months, and always gone round with one, occasionally two, of the men. They're generally straightforward, cheerful and encouraging, and got me doing something I've haven't had the confidence to do for years - running (!) - and the women don't talk to me much... Some members may ask what you had, or say briefly what they had, but it's just a matter-of-fact exchange of information to get out of the way. Nobody dwells on it, and most people don't even ask. There was one woe-is-me man who said on his first session that he'd been SO ill, and he'd lost SO much weight, and he was SO young - I'm ONLY fifty - but he only came a few times and went back to work. That was good, because I have a fairly low woe-is-me threshold.
There were a lot of people missing today, probably because it's school holidays. I went round with two newish men till the half-way break, when we all drifted towards the kitchen because one of the women had brought in cakes for her birthday.
There's one woman there I haven't talked to but I've noticed that she always has a long face. Over the cakes, she asked me if I'd had a heart attack. No, I had a damaged valve replaced, 14 years ago and again one year ago. Which valve, because I had valve work too? Ah no, mine was a different valve... When the break was finished, I went round with her. It's not easy to say "I really need to go round with someone else." By the end of the session, I knew enough about her family and medical history to write a book.
Chatting is nice. Being forced to join someone in drowning in their self-pity isn't. Sorry if that sounds unsympathetic or harsh - but not that sorry.
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Afterwards I treated myself to some flowers. The florists are a married couple with two daughters. The adults take turns in the shop and being with the children. Father and older daughter have been learning to juggle. I told mother that I'd like to watch - on film or in the shop.
While I was there, the older daughter came in with a diabolo and gave us a ten-minute floor show. She's very good, and the tricks she did defied gravity and logic. And not an ounce of self-pity in sight. That cheered me up - a happy, talented youngster and some nice flowers.
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I often go shopping afterwards but today I went home and didn't emerge again till seven. I hadn't realised that there's a new price reduction schedule, and food that would once have been reduced to 90% at 5pm, and 50% at 10pm and then thrown away, is now being reduced to peanuts at 7pm. How to increase your shopping pleasure. |
Reply #2773. Jun 01 11, 5:39 PM
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| Jazmee27
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"Chatting is nice. Being forced to join someone in drowning in their self-pity isn't. Sorry if that sounds unsympathetic or harsh - but not that sorry."
I couldn't agree more.
Not unsympathetic or harsh at all.
Reply #2774. Jun 02 11, 2:43 PM
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Professer
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You seem to be going from strengh to strengh Lesley so pleased to har such great news.
Reply #2775. Jun 02 11, 3:32 PM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, Jazmee. It was a much more flattening experience than I could have imagined.
I assume she's working her way round, finding a new person each week to listen to her tale of extreme woe, and it was my turn this week. And I shall take comfort in the assumption that she was only talking to me because there was hardly anyone else there, and that she won't bother talking to me once the school holidays are over and there's a full house again - but next week I'm still going to make a beeline for the nearest man, and hold on for dear life. And every week for ever and ever.
Thanks, Gary, I do believe I am. :) |
Reply #2776. Jun 02 11, 3:51 PM
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| lesley153
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I got an email last night - one of those Shock! Horror! Danger! emails people like to send you. They're usually to warn you about something that will destroy your computer or kill you or take all your money, and they can usually be expected to be untrue.
While I am grateful that people have bothered to warn me, I don't know why they can't do it in a normal email. This one came in a "handwriting" font, bold and italic, in a variety of colours, and switching between 24-point and 36-point font for increasing emphasis.
I pasted it into Word and it needed eight pages. I changed it to a 10-point classic font, not italic, not bold, and it needed one page.
Do the people who compose these things think that they will carry more weight if they're two or three words to a line and six or eight lines to a screen? Are they scarier if they're written in red? I wonder if it occurs to them that it doesn't make the warning more salutary; it just makes it irritating: and if it ever occurs to the people who can't wait to spread the word, to have a quick look at Snopes and discover that this Dire Warning was a load of rubbish when it first appeared five or ten or fifteen years ago? |
Reply #2777. Jun 03 11, 8:30 AM
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Professer
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People that send those emails, write viruses etc have a boring life andif we ignore them they may go away.
Further to what David said, i find it rather ironic that we pay more for our feul then the rest of europe, the same as we do for gas and electrcity, as the companies that own them are foreign. We have to pay more then the country they are based in so the citizens of their own country do not complain.
Reply #2778. Jun 03 11, 9:27 AM
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| lesley153
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People that send those emails are very often well-meaning but don't know how many of these valuable warnings and terrifying stories are hoaxes. Very often they're peppered with quotes from, and references to, celebrities and supposed experts, who may not even know their names are being used, and probably never said any of these things in the first place, but well-meaning people will read them and take them at face value.
People that write viruses etc don't deserve to have a life. |
Reply #2779. Jun 03 11, 9:46 AM
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Jazmee27
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You forgot they have nothing better to do
Reply #2780. Jun 03 11, 12:00 PM
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