But then people would point and ask, 'Who is that?' :roflmao:
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Having turned nit slayer during the summer holidays (with an encore last week) we've now had an e-mail from the school to say that there's been a report of scabies.
My OCD can't cope with this shit! :scared15:
Not Rat Scabies, I hope? Remember him, anyone?
I'm sorry, Nora..Haven't heard of a scabies outbreak for ages but I suppose schoolchildren can spread all sorts of nasty stuff.
I love The Damned! (Also have a soft spot for Captain Sensible's solo career, especially the classic, 'Wot')
I've got two bottles of bleach on the go. I'm like Lara Croft, only much older, smaller boobs, and minus the coordination.Quote:
I'm sorry, Nora..Haven't heard of a scabies outbreak for ages but I suppose schoolchildren can spread all sorts of nasty stuff.
Bloody scabies! (Not on my watch, cocker!) :lac:
One of my biggest irritations right now is people who mispronounce the word 'nuclear' as 'nucular'. Somebody did so on the news fairly recently while discussing Ukraine/Russia, plus Dr JC has done in a couple of his videos (mainly in reference to 'nuclear' families rather than weaponry), whose videos I generally avoid watching nowadays (for various reasons).
But I'll no doubt get shot down in flames and accused of being prejudiced towards and intolerant of persons with dyslexia.
Just recently I have had a problem with squirrels in my loft. I hate the bloody things, merely rats with good PR.
Although things have been quiet in the roof recently I called in a firm of pest controllers to have a look.
They didn't find any squirrels... but they did leave me with not one, but two holes in my ceilings: one on the landing, one over my bed - this latter one I only found when I went to bed :mad: so imagine my pleasure at having to clean and hoover up before I can go to bed, as that is where all the debris is. To make matters worse... I didn't get to sleep until 2 a.m. and guess who shortly has an eighty mile drive to work ahead of him?
I'd like to complain about people driving their car way too fast, particularly in villages, and small towns where the roads are thin, and short with blind corners. It's not just the young newbie car owners either. Often it's the middle-aged with their huge gas-guzzling personality-extension vehicles that are too big for our old roads anyway.
We recently had a ute plow into a thankfully-empty shop. That they injured no one was little short of one of those miracles thingies.
The truth is that driving slower will not delay you much at all, and it might even save lives, or a fine.
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My dad's (audio) CD player which seems to have to 'boot up' when you press the power switch on, in a similar manner to most DVD and Blu-Ray disc players, which seems to take ages.
Another 'oddball' operational design of it is that if you play a CD and press stop at any point on the disc, it seems to 'memorise' the position of where it was stopped and then carry on from there when the play button is re-pressed when the same disc is later reloaded, even if both the disc concerned is removed and the unit is switched off, and we then have to press the 'back' track key to return to the start of the disc, all in a similar fashion to cassette tapes.
That particular CD player model is a proper hi-fi 'separate' unit from a brand called AUNA, and it sounds good, but me and my dad find many of its aforementioned operational designs a bit of a hindrance, plus it didn't come with a printed instruction manual, and its remote control unit seems illogically laid out and confusing, plus can be rather slow-acting a lot of the time, even with fully-fresh batteries.
My mid 90s-era Technics SL-PG440A CD player installed as part of my bedroom hi-fi setup is a completely different beast altogether, as it functions as CD players should do pretty much instantaneously the moment the power is switched on and a disc is loaded and the play key pressed, and voila!
Today's biggest gripe of mine is that I've heard/read quite a few conversations/ discussions about those kids who got killed in an icy lake in Solihull the other day, and there were quite a few mutterings of the usual 'kids today...', 'parents today...' and even 'society today...' hyperbole, implying blatant youthful rebellion/ disobedience, irresponsible/neglectful parenting, and the usual 'that nobody really takes responsibility for anything nor anyone nowadays', which I personally found extremely distasteful, especially towards the poor bereaved family members of the children concerned.
One of the main reasons why this tragedy has so shocked us is largely because it's an extremely rare occurrence in the grand scheme of things, and if such tragedies were an everyday occurrence in this country they probably wouldn't be reported in quite the same way, and inadvertently kept lower key in the national news headlines. Same for many of the other horrible things that also happen to kids every now and then.
Also, as tragic as this is, it's still not really representative of contemporary society/youth culture, as I'm sure the vast majority of kids heed warnings about not playing near sources of danger, and most parents/carers ARE responsible.
Drivers who do 40k in a 100k stretch of road:mad:no wonder there are accidents and road rage.