The angry thread

jonclox · August 03, 2015, 10:46:19 AM

Its always the same when your in a hurry to post something off. The boxes you have are either just a fraction to small or vastly oversized.

jonclox · August 06, 2015, 03:48:09 PM

:'( Its my fault you realise. There we were sitting downstairs having a cuppa like you do mid afternoon when theres a crashed and something upstairs (?) obviously fell over and scared us all.
Now the lounge (cuppa room) is directly below the railway room

I got extremely glared at and unkind names given to me

I came directly upstairs and checked out the layout etc.
[/It wasn't my fault b] everything looked as it should.
SWMBO obeyd went outside to have a look round out there.
She found a couple of handful of dried out mortar which she had picked up off the neighbouring side road
I now have the pleasure of phoning round looking for a decent handyman to sort it out along with a few other jobs on the ever-growing 'roundtoit list.......... and paying for it all

MikeDunn · August 06, 2015, 04:04:46 PM

So what fell off

jonclox · August 06, 2015, 04:48:30 PM

Quote from: MikeDunn on August 06, 2015, 04:04:46 PM
So what fell off

Mortar from round the base of the chimney pot

Newportnobby · August 06, 2015, 09:38:29 PM

Who would fire a mortar at your chimney, Jon?

railsquid · August 07, 2015, 03:53:44 AM

A mortician?

Trainfish · August 09, 2015, 01:44:44 AM

I think there is mortar this than Jon is letting on

Zogbert Splod · August 10, 2015, 01:17:04 PM

In the absence of a 'mildly annoyed thread' I'll post this here...
Like most do, our small, local supermarket uses lighting with a colour cast to make fruit and vegetables look better. Unfortunately the tiny office supplies section is just there too. The consequence of that being that the pack of 'white' A5 card that I bought today turns out to be lemon yellow under my daylight bulb. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr and other expressions of that nature......

Newportnobby · August 10, 2015, 04:24:24 PM

Maybe you could make a lemon entry, my dear Watson

Trainfish · August 10, 2015, 10:39:28 PM

Just put a line of glue across the top of each page and hey presto, A5 post-it notes! Made of card.

I'm not helping am I?

dannyboy · August 10, 2015, 10:48:19 PM

Maybe you could make a lemon entry, my dear Watson

Brilliant!

dannyboy · August 10, 2015, 10:59:05 PM

I have just filled in an online form. Under 'Sex' it asks if I am Male or Female - what happens if I am a Hermaphrodite

(I'm not by the way

). But the one thing that does annoy me on forms

is when the form asks for 'Nationality' - can I find a box for 'English' ? Can I

. I can be 'United Kingdom' but not 'English' - I was born in England, (well, Yorkshire

and proud of it!).

I have seen forms that allow you to put 'Scottish' or 'Welsh' but not 'English'!

railsquid · August 11, 2015, 01:47:25 AM

Unless there's an English nation state, it's highly unlikely you could describe nationality as "English". What does your passport say?

dannyboy · August 11, 2015, 05:05:18 AM

Quote from: railsquid on August 11, 2015, 01:47:25 AM
Unless there's an English nation state, it's highly unlikely you could describe nationality as "English". What does your passport say?

I don't want to start 'splitting hairs', but if a man is from France, he is described as 'French', if he is from Wales, he is 'Welsh' - I am from England.

dannyboy · August 11, 2015, 05:18:57 AM

Quote from: railsquid on August 11, 2015, 01:47:25 AM
Unless there's an English nation state, it's highly unlikely you could describe nationality as "English". What does your passport say?

Out of interest, I have just looked at an online dictionary and I quote -

adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.

noun
the people of England collectively, especially as distinguished from the Scots, Welsh, and Irish. (my italics).

As I said in my OP, I consider myself to be 'English'

. David.