Ever just want to tear your hair out, or someone else's? If you cannot restore a sense of balance, you will run away from home? Just want to say some things without the constraints of staying on topic? Well, this thread is for you! If you just need a short break to let it all hang out, be a brat, then come on, you can do it. No holding back! Go for it, you can do it.
What kind of bow can't you tie in a knot?
The winner gets that warm feeling inside from happy endorphins being released
And of course applause 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
How am I going to pass airport-like security at the courthouse? I was thinking of dressing like the axe murderer! Omg!
Applause?
rooms to let, fifty cents...
No phone no pool no pets
I just hate sarcastic humor, sorry.
I Hope she is able to recover
There is no Viking in the passenger seat, but the driver can get verbal, and if someone heard it, that would be embarrassing.
What is 'in & out' - is that a drive through restaurant or what
Happy thanksgiving this weekend to 'those in the know' - we've got warm to hot weather here today was 29 degrees C with humidex - looking forward to cooler temps soon
My dad has his room so hot the I leave sweating & he's wearing a sweater! but he was that way in his 40's/50's/60's/70/s/80's so why different in his 90's - does anyone else get this problem? - should I wear shorts in a snow storm?
We have now coined the phrase - she's going to go Viking - when my mom who is all Norwegian is agitated with a UTI
Where'd they go?
Oh well, eat my dust Willy and Nilly.
It is interesting to delve into these things. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is useful, too; though you often need to go back to past editions because it gets updated regularly and older-fashioned phrases drop out of the collection.
What's getting my goat at the moment (wonder where that expression comes from?) though is the loss of perfectly sound, neutral technical terms which have become offensive because they are seen as pejorative even when in their correct context they are no such thing. There was a disabled lady on the radio yesterday flipping out about the word "abnormal"; but the man who'd said it, innocently if somewhat cluelessly, was merely contrasting normal with abnormal, i.e. not normal, i.e. not usual or typical. And that is *all* it means, when you're talking about foetal development. It's not a slur on people with disabilities, for crying out loud.
It took me straight back to explaining to a Jamaican classmate that the word "discrimination" merely meant drawing distinctions between groups, and did not necessarily imply that one of the groups was being singled out for unjust treatment. He trusted me on these things but still looked deeply troubled by the notion, even when our sociology lecturer backed me up.
That radio discussion, by the way, was about a new non-invasive prenatal test for Down Syndrome. Well, I say "discussion." Five very upset people shouting at one another for forty minutes, really.
Evidently mom was channeling her ancestors when she told a man she was trying to keep at bay one night that when she goes berserk she's been known to kill ten people at a time - ha ha ha