Today I Consign To Hell -the All Saints version
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This is Today I Consign To Hell, the All Saints version.
We've been tossing this idea round in the Hosts' lounge for a wee while now, so here it is.
If you have a grouse or a grump, or next door's cat is getting on your nerves, or even if you're just really hacked off about something, tell us here.
Just one topic per post, please, and while responses of support and advice are OK (this is AS after all), if a particular topic becomes a bit overwhelming, we may suggest it gets its own thread. Please remember, too, that All Saints rules apply, so no personal attacks on Shipmates.
Have at it!
We've been tossing this idea round in the Hosts' lounge for a wee while now, so here it is.
If you have a grouse or a grump, or next door's cat is getting on your nerves, or even if you're just really hacked off about something, tell us here.
Just one topic per post, please, and while responses of support and advice are OK (this is AS after all), if a particular topic becomes a bit overwhelming, we may suggest it gets its own thread. Please remember, too, that All Saints rules apply, so no personal attacks on Shipmates.
Have at it!
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TICTH our Churchwarden and her partner (our Treasurer) who delight in passive-aggressive emails, blaming everyone else for the (largely unnecessary) overwork they've heaped upon themselves, and treating everyone who dares to disagree with them as an ignorant dummy.
They act in such an unpleasant way towards otherwise willing helpers that no-one wants to work with them any more, and people are beginning to walk away from our already small congregation.
I avoid them like the plague, in case I erupt into Levetiracetam-induced rage*. I take a hefty dose daily of Levetiracetam (aka Keppra) as an anti-seizure medication.
(*This is a rare neurobehavioral adverse effect of Levetiracetam, characterized by seething rage, uncontrollable anger, fits of fury, depression, violence, and suicidal tendencies. I have had a couple of bouts of this within the past year or so.)
IJ
Having discovered the perfect way to maximize aesthetic readability for my personal preferences, then discovering that my paranoid employer won't let it function at work. What do they expect me to do? My job?!?
The nerve!
† I'll go chunter about this on the moving thread .
So I consign the East Wind, which destroyed my beautiful Rowan tree, to hell.
We are still settling in to this too, even though it was first raised backstage a long time ago.
Apologies accepted as we get used to this.
Yes, the roads are clear, and some pavements are clear, but then you encounter an impassable - for a mobility scooter - mound of snow which means I have to risk my life on the roads.
On second thoughts, maybe it should be snow in general I condemn to hell?
The lurcher died last week - old lady a bit upset but not overly: the dog was 14 and just fell asleep one evening and didn't wake up. Her daily help and I sorted out funerary rites in the garden and we both felt slightly guilty that our reaction was the one dog would be more manageable for everyone - old lady, daily and me. The only time the dogs get more than a brisk 20 minutes is when I take them for a (usually) 2 mile or more run.
Message on the ansaphone last night: the children would like to discuss with me their plan for mother's new dog, etc, etc, etc. When I called the daily I discovered they're thinking a puppy amd thought it could stay overnight with me or daily! Have told daily I'm not prepared to do it and she isn't either; further, we're going to suggest that they get a dog walking company from now on because, to be blunt, its a hell of a tie to have to gear Monday to Friday around walking someone else's animal.
Children of the old dear have told her that the daily and me are being unreasonable!
Sorry, dog-owners...
(Are we allowed to comment on these posts....?)
IJ
The less power they have the more it goes to their heads - that being their weakest part.
The Organist - the arrogance and sense of entitlement from the children is mind boggling - I think Jacobsen has it right.
Huia
One fine day there will be a proper southern relief road instead of these Band-Aid solutions
"Irish-born US cardinal Kevin Farrell, a senior Vatican official, said it was "not appropriate" for the women to be taking part in the conference."
Did he now, did he really? Quelle surprise.....
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43330026
The children (both 50+) are both busy - as in I have an extremely stressful career and need my free weekends to keep up with friends and my children - so despite living less than 40 minutes away she only sees them about 3 times a year. After the old lady became incapable of doing her own housework it took 2 months for these children to accept that the daily needed to have someone else do her stuff on weekends...
I've tried hard not to be too judgmental but to me it looks and feels like selfishness on a grand scale.
Piglet, AS host
I'll add my voice to those who think TheOrganist's neighbour's children are being unreasonable: if their mum can't cope with one dog, why in blazes are they talking about getting her another one?
Common courtesy. Your boss is a dick.
Last week's Beast from the East affected many boilers thusly.
Just a thought.
IJ
I tried to steer the conversation round to my PhD subject, just to give him a hint that I do actually have a passing knowledge of Women's History, but he then explained my PhD to me, too.
No. You. Don't
You use cookies to track me. You put so many cookies up that the web browser takes 2 minutes to load the page. And then the browser freezes up while it debates with you about your cookies about whether it is absolutely stuffed full and wants to vomit.
TICTH browser cookies. Come to think of it, The Internet too.
That is highly disappointing, if not particularly surprising. Alas.
IJ