Something MT said on the Cheerful thread made me think of a phrase that one of my relatives used to use "It's being so miserable that keeps me happy" which I was always told was a catchphrase on the radio/TV aeons ago. So I did a search for who said it, and Google asked me - "did I mean its"

Erm... I've just been pushed into quitting my job....

Have you noticed on youtube when you look for a video, the little box comes up predicting what you might be typing, and its suggestions are always misspelled? It's upsetting!

When I first mentioned youtube in an email, without thinking I typed, 'U-tube'. Maybe that was more appropriate?

oh no, sorry to hear this

If you're serious about being pushed, could you have a case for constructive dismissal?

I don't know if i have or not, not feeling to great right now...Its just the way it happened, its wrong.

I'm feeling narked...my grandma offered to alter my most favouritest bestest crinkle vest because the straps were too long, which was really kind of her, BUT SHE IRONED AND STARCHED ALL THE CRINKLES OUT!

I think it was all a plan to make me look less scruffy....


(and then I feel horrible for being annoyed when she did me a favour....!)

Sorry to hear this, Soph. Hope you get something else soon.


Just wash out the starch and let the vest dry scrunched up. With any luck, it will be all crinkly again. I expect your Gran thought you hadn't ironed it!

Paint balling really hurts

I can imagine, although I've never done it myself - too big a target!

I was the smallest person out of the 120 people doing it, so I was the most obvious target, apparently

Randomly just feeling pretty down today.... No idea why... Hate days like this!!

aww, hope you feel better tomorrow muzikalbadger

I already have something... its just the way it happened, and that i got pushed

Walking down the corridor of the Mathematics Department today, none of the staff were in their usual rooms. Actually, following a couple of staff leavers at the end of the summer it's been "All change!" in my old department, with all staff being allocated new rooms. It was most disconcerting.

The probablity that everyone is in the wrong place has a name, 'derangements' (also known as 'subfactorials', but that doesn't sound as good!). So for example, it's possible to calculate the probability that when the stand-in postman walks down your road no letter is put through the correct letter-box!

Just saw this awesome video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGcd6PN7EE

Quite powerful, I think. And it does highlight that fact that so many of us are just in a constant rat race. It's important to stop and observe the beauty around us sometimes

Wow. It's chucking it down outside

Our entire school has completely changed round-maths is in history, science is where music used to be, etc etc! It's so confusing, and possibly the first year ever that the year 11's have been just as lost and confuzzled as the year 7's!

I have been given tuberculosis by a friend...

http://www.giantmicrobes.com/uk/products/TB.html

ooh careful... you could end up giving HIV or Polio to someone else!

Really sorry to read that, Lucky, but my wife (a specialist TB nurse) assures you that it is treatable, and no longer the big threat of olden days.

Your friend may be feeling guilty as well, although it's actually quite hard to pass on, and no fault should be assigned.


EDIT after looking at the link provided - think it's a spoof??

You've been had!

Hehe, Stetenoreve, I put the link in to avoid too much unnecessary sympathy. My friend gave me it because I said I'd always wanted it because it's the romantic disease, that all Victorian heroines die of.

For a slightly different literary take on dying of TB, try the novel by the Australian author Dymphna Cusack "Say No to Death."

I'll try and get hold of it to give it a read.
I do know that TB is not just a lovely, beautifying disease which is all bright eyes and red cheeks and lips... I wouldn't want real world TB, I'd only want Victorian novel TB.

I got my brother a Giant Microbe once.

This is 1940s TB (the novel was published in the early 1950s). It is romantic in a lot of respects but...
One of the "cures" at the time was to forbid the patients to speak. Can you imagine knowing your dying and being forbidden to talk to anyone...

Too...much....work!!

Just done some piano practise, and while practising scales ( ) managed to modulate during the middle of one. Started off in Ab major, and finished on a Bb only it sounded perfectly finished, so somewhere in the middle something went wrong without me noticing!

Why did Sukie keep turning the kettle off?

Definitely a "random" comment/question...

Just to be a pain in the posterior?

Because she was just trying to emulate Mary, Mary quite contrary - I suppose.

Because they'd all gone away - don't you know the rhyme?!

"Sukey, take it off again...x3
They've all gone away"

Sure they didn't just go down the cafe for a cuppa because some idiot kept switching the kettle off at home?

That must be it!



See, I imagined that they went away because the kettle had been taken off, and they therefore couldn't have tea.



That's what I thought.

I guess the kettle just took too long to boil! Perhaps Polly put too much water in it.

Just cos I am that sad......

aw!

Thanks for that, flobiano - just the sort of trivia I find really interesting!

Why is my dog frightened of thunder? and how am I go to teach when he is constantly barking at the thunder?

Facebook is broken. I can hear the howls of anguish all around the world...

oh good, I thought it was just mine that was broken

Because they can hear other soundwaves that we can't, and that coupled with inexplicable loud noise is enough to seriously distress some dogs. You can get plug in adapters from some vets that release a calming chemical to help your dog, or if it's really bad, I've had dogs in the past who need to be sedated during a thunder storm or fireworks display... *hugs* to your pooch! Hope you manage to get some teaching done.

It's definitely everyone. Have checked with other forumites too, Louise...

Yep, me too. Could get on breifly a couple of minutes ago but it's gone again now. I'm definately far too attatched to it

sniff *misses facebook* sniff


note to self: get a life!!!!!!


No, I have to say I use facebook on a professional level to keep in touch with other Creatives and cultural organisations and not at all to post what my dog had for his breakfast....

So that's what it's for!

O.M.G cannot get on Facebook. It's broken
Wow so many people must be totally lost right now haha.
I need to know what's been going on in the world!
I love FB.
PSL

I'm keeping myself amused via this forum, texting and emails...

LOL what did people do without computers/internet/phones etc...