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tonswil?!

scarey huh? sometimes stinken thinken.......will that translate?

tonswil----definition please

Freudian Slip, I believe....a pink one...

Oh!

My "Social Worker" phones me and says "I don't know if this is friend or foe........." she is trying to find me respite but it always involves me taking my son somewhere I can't leave him and I have no transport hence the "friend or foe".

When I mention lack of transport to the other side of Grimsby late at night {yet again} she mumbles something about a "voluntary driver" and she'll get back to me.

Weeks later, she mentions at the next "crisis meeting" {I've had no respite since the end of May} that there are no voluntary drivers.

...nothing like dealing with experts...nothing at all...

I once applied (well, it's happened more than once, but I remember the first time) for a government program and when I went back, they told me I was... 'overqualified'...

I was told by a speech therapist; ending staements in a question can be about insecurity.She said for some it is just a bad habit.She also said women do it more ,when speaking to men.

*quitely bookmarks at #34*

In a conversation relating to my husband's suicide, either "The kids need you" or "You need to stay around for the kids." I'm not trying to imply that I'm suicidal, rather I'm saying that my children are beautiful, complete little packages with their own destinies. Similarly, I am a beautiful, complete little package and if I decide that an early death is in the cards, that choice should have validity. The fact that *he* got to skip town, so to speak, exponentially multiplies my necessity to two little life forms? That just doesn't make sense. People mired in American culture are just ridiculous. We can't escape our sentimentality, even though it's hopelessly shallow. We can't grieve in a healthy manner, and all people can offer for consolation are pathetic, carelessly thought-out words meant to placate rather than achieve any real human connection. Ah, but that's our f*****g culture, isn't it? Consumerist holy-water.

Oh yeah, and speaking of consumerism..I resent anytime Dubbya uses the words 'democracy,' 'peace,' or 'free' in a sentence. I got a great article though! - http://www.madre.org/art_bush_un_quotes.html

*Is afraid to offer a or , however deep and unconsumerist.*

What, Dubya has actually spoken a whole sentence? I guess they must have got the remote-control operating properly. I though he was stuck on 'non-sequiteur' for the whole 4 years.

In addition to so many utterances of President Dubya, my pet peeves include:

*the phrase 'significant other' and other politically correct jargon that filters all the feeling out of the words or gives an unnecessarily complicated title to a simple concept,

*when people at dinner parties say loudly, "You're too skinny! EAT!'

*when someone tells a sick person 'You don't look so good!' ... as if that's going to make them feel better!

Cheers!
Raindawn

*feels muchly connected*

How *did* I manage to pick up the word 'muchly' on this site...I'm thinking it's Njan's fault...*ponder*

'I know how you are feeling'

No they don't.

"There's plenty more fish in the sea"

...usually shortly after the "Cheer up! It might never happen" and you explain that it already has.

aaah, but you can always reply 'Deeper you fish, the uglier they get...'

Trouble is the witty ripostes always come to mind five minutes after the offender has left the scene of the crime...

Nyssabird, there's a quote for you,
from "Blazing Saddles":

"...these are the salt of the earth, people of the land, the common clay...y'know,...morons."

I could have misremembered it, but you get the gist.


The idea that something might be beyond the 'well-meaning' person's ken and they should just shut up and pay attention is none of your business as far as they are concerned. They've done their dooty... Platitudes and greeting cards and canards and aphorisms take the place of uncertainty. They replay that old broken record "There, but for the grace of God, go I". Of course, we don't dare suggest the subversive idea that you might need the 'grace of God' to deal with their insensitivity and ignorance.

You are going nowhere. Fast.

people reading *anything* that is not an immediate emergency aloud, either to themselves or to a disinterested everyone-else-in-the-room.

Wonderful, good, you're reading the paper, nice to know you're updated on the state of the world or maybe just the state of 'Get Fuzzy', but I really don't want to hear it.

Anything read on a tannoy in a store that is read by a bored illiterate teenager whose tonsils are in the mic.