Today I Consign To Hell -the All Saints version

1174175177179180196

Comments

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Like the sort you get in BT-land? ☔
  • Indeed so - also in Piglet-land (west of Stirling).
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    And frozen rain - usually referred to a hail. :smiley:
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Huia wrote: »
    And frozen rain - usually referred to a hail. :smiley:

    They're different, meteorigically. Formed by different processes.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    Of course, now I think of it, you're right. I think I'm posting in what my youngest brother calls "check brain at door" mode'
  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    edited March 2024
    And then there’s wettest rain, which we get around here…
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited March 2024
    Indeed so - also in Piglet-land (west of Stirling).

    Pigletland isn't west of Stirling - it's sort of south-east. 🙂

    Oh hang on - I think I see what you mean ... 💡
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited March 2024
    Yes - if Baptist-land is Cymru, then Piglet-land is Alba.
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    Yes - if Baptist-land is Cymru, then Piglet-land is Alba.

    Whether the west and east of fair Alba can be considered the same land is probably open to debate (between the Gaels, the Picts, the Norsemen and the Men of Lothian).
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    As I'm part-Pict, part Norse, part Lowlander and living in Lothian, I'm not sure if I'm allowed an opinion ... :mrgreen:
  • Lily PadLily Pad Shipmate
    TICTH the mouse/mice who seem to be resident in my car. I found mouse poop in my glove compartment. Sigh.

    It appears a skunk may be nesting under my garage. Thankfully, she can't fit in my glove box.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    edited March 2024
    B****y Facepuke! Sign In. Do that - incorrect password. Do you want to create new password? Recovery code sent to email address. Enter code. Create password. Save new password. Sign in. Incorrect password. Rinse and repeat several times.

    My curse attend them.

    ETA Apparently it's a widespread problem.
  • MrsBeakyMrsBeaky Shipmate
    Firenze wrote: »
    B****y Facepuke! Sign In. Do that - incorrect password. Do you want to create new password? Recovery code sent to email address. Enter code. Create password. Save new password. Sign in. Incorrect password. Rinse and repeat several times.

    My curse attend them.

    ETA Apparently it's a widespread problem.

    It's Inst*gram too and according to the BBC website it's a global outage 😬
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Ah - so I wasn't alone. I got some bollocks about being signed out when I hadn't as well. I hope they've remembered my password, because I'm buggered if I can ... :rage:
  • Tree BeeTree Bee Shipmate
    Yes, I was in that circle of hell too, just after I’d posted an update so of course thought it was all my fault…
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    Not working for me either.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Purgatory Host, Circus Host
    I don't know if I want to C a six year-old to H, but J can go and sit in the naughty corner and think about what he's done.

    Yesterday I picked Captain Pyjamas up from school and he pulled the toggle of his coat out of his pocket and told me that J had pulled it off at playtime. [Playground assistant] had sent J to sit on a bench by himself by way of punishment.

    A few things. Why was J pulling on Captain P's clothes at all? And how the hell hard did he have to pull to rip the toggle off? I have now mended said coat (which incidentally I was only able to do because I am quite proficient at sewing. Other parents wouldn't have managed it.) Not having another toggle the same, I had to replace them both, so tried pulling the other one off. I couldn't do it (I had to use scissors) and I'm a grown adult. What is this child? Hulk? And even if he does have some kind of superhuman strength, it doesn't answer the first question about why he was ripping my son's coat apart in the first place.

    We were also Much Annoyed that the school also didn't spontaneously tell us about this incident, so husband en rouge asked the teacher this morning. To be fair to them, [playground assistant] ended up in the doghouse for not informing the teacher. She's a nice lady, but apparently didn't think this was in the Very Unacceptably Naughty category. Er, yebbutno.
  • Thinking of you LVR, gosh, pulling the toggle off, that is quite the strong kid. I hope over the last couple of days you have been able to resolve the issue around the behaviour and the poor communication and perhaps a staff training need. It's a lot. I'm just glad that Captain P was not hurt. That does not excuse any of what occurred and I hope the school staff can recognise the concerns do need addressing.
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    edited March 2024
    Really sick of this current fad for categorizing people as boomers, millennials, Generation this and that. I particularly hate the word boomer. Most of us don't boom. And assigning characteristics to an entire generation is on a par with Chinese astrology assigning the same characteristics to everyone born in a particular year.

    In fact I'm fed up with this passion for labelling generally. I know people want to find their tribes and it gives them certainty in an increasingly uncertain world, but there's no need to lay it all out on a plate and feed stereotypes and preconceptions.
  • TICTH rain ... again.
  • TICTH rain ... again.

    Ditto.

    And the usual concomitant Wind here, too.
    :grimace:
  • Also, presumably, very high tides today.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited March 2024
    Also, presumably, very high tides today.

    Yes, although the westerly wind mitigates things a bit. However, They will no doubt send down groundwater from further upstream. I curtailed my Pilates session in order to be back in good time, and made the right decision... :flushed: Happily, I was able to park the Fingermobile up a slope, away from the encroaching waters.

    Having just looked out, I see that the water level is already at the predicted height, with 45 minutes or so still to go... :grimace:

    And it's still raining. O! how I long for dry, warm Sun Shine (full of vitamin D), and less Mud.

    (singed)
    Ut-napishtim II

  • You need to gather your friends together and do a Rain Dance - backwards.

    No doubt a Hosepipe Ban would come in within days.
  • You need to gather your friends together and do a Rain Dance - backwards.

    No doubt a Hosepipe Ban would come in within days.

    Earnest orisons directed to Enki* have been efficacious - the Rain has abated, as have the waters of the Flood - at least, until tomorrow.

    *Enki is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki.

    I think Our Town has a permanent Hosepipe Ban, as anyone using a hosepipe would inevitably increase the ground saturation we already have...
  • Aside from the Rain (thanks be to Shamash aka Utu, we've actually had a gleam of Sun Shine this afternoon 🌞), TICTH the Royal Family.

    Who gives a Fig as to whether or not the Princess of Wales photo-shopped a picture of her with her kids?

    Surely there are more interesting Dead Cats to throw around, whilst the tories take away even more of our democratic rights in the name of British Values™...

  • Apparently, it's a sign of her imminent demise/divorce/disembowelling/the final arrival of the apocalypse (delete as (in)appropriate)
  • And I don't even like Figs.

    An article in today's "i" suggests that Royal photographs have been doctored for decades - certainly the late Queen, her mother and Margaret.
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    "Kate breaks cover after editing photo"

    "New analysis of the photo's metadata shows when the picture was edited and what type of camera it was taken on"

    For heaven's sake. It's not like she manipulated the photo to include/exclude people who weren't in the original or tried to deliberately deceive anyone, or even entered it into a competition.

    And I don't care whether she used a Canon 5D mark IV with a Canon 50mm lens currently retailing for nearly £3k. She can use whatever she likes to take her own photos. The nation is not reeling and it is not a breach of trust that can only be restored by whatever.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Who knew Photoshopping was an actual crime? When I think of the tweaking I used to do to pix of Our Elected Representatives it's a wonder I'm not typing this from B Wing.

    I thought post-production editing was all part of the process. Perhaps her mistake was not to go full-on Surreal.
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    The NE Man uses my brain as a parallel processing unit to store trivia, leaving his own brain uncluttered and free to focus on Big Thoughts. All matters pertaining to the Royal Family are stored as trivia in my brain.

    Thus his confusion, having listened to the news on the radio on his drive home.
    Why is it headline news that a model has touched up her photos? Jordan, who changed her name to Kate Middleton?

    Thank goodness for the information retrieval process from my brain to explain that Katie Price and Kate Middleton are not the same person.
  • Is it only me who thinks it is the height of rudeness to refer to the Princess of Wales as Kate Middleton? It's not her name any more. Not quite up there with deadnaming a trans person, but on the same lines.
  • Signaller wrote: »
    Is it only me who thinks it is the height of rudeness to refer to the Princess of Wales as Kate Middleton? It's not her name any more. Not quite up there with deadnaming a trans person, but on the same lines.

    Yes, it is rude. If one must be informal, let one refer to her as *Princess Kate* (assuming that she's OK with the short version of Catherine).
  • Equally "Meghan Markle".
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    I've always referred to Diana as Diana Spencer. It was her name. Yes, her title was Princess of Wales, but that wasn't her name.

    I've always been against the custom of women taking a man's surname on marriage. I refused ever to do this myself if the occasion should arise. I see nothing rude about referring to women by their maiden names - in fact for a long while it used to be perfectly normal in Ireland. My mother was always known by hers amongst her friends, just as they were to her. We all knew that formally one might be, e.g. Mrs John Casey, but in practice she was always referred to as Nuala Flynn. For me this is an acknowledgement of the woman in her own right.
  • I take @Ariel 's point, but we must remember that Miss Middleton married into The Royal Family.

    It is therefore incumbent upon us, as lesser mortals (and loyal abjects subjects) to treat members of that Family - appointed and approved by God - with the respect they deserve.
    :wink:
  • You can probably hear me coughing from here ...
  • Indeed, and it would seem that your Irony-O-Meter is in good working order...
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited March 2024
    I'm quite happy to refer to the Princess of Wales by her title; as far as we know, she took on the appellation Cambridge when she married (and Wales when the Queen died), and if it's how she prefers to be addressed, then that's fine. As far as I recall, the press didn't refer to the late Princess as "Diana Spencer" after she married - the gutter press called her "Princess Di" (which she allegedly hated), and the more upmarket ones called her the Princess of Wales.

    I'm happy to be referred to by my married name - I've had it now for longer than I haven't, and apart from anything else, it's something rather important that David left to me. As an aside, I also don't really understand why widows would remove their wedding rings; mine is staying very firmly where it is.
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    Piglet wrote: »
    As far as I recall, the press didn't refer to the late Princess as "Diana Spencer" after she married - the gutter press called her "Princess Di" (which she allegedly hated), and the more upmarket ones called her the Princess of Wales.


    I’m sure some still called her “Lady Di”
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    I am happy to call most people what they choose to be called - except various members of NZ's coalition government. :rage:
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    I still haven't got used to "the Queen" now referring to Camilla, or "the Duke of Edinburgh" being Edward. Or for that matter, "Prince and Princess of Wales." It'll probably take me a while to catch up; I found myself referring to "Prince Charles" earlier this week.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Spike wrote: »
    Piglet wrote: »
    As far as I recall, the press didn't refer to the late Princess as "Diana Spencer" after she married - the gutter press called her "Princess Di" (which she allegedly hated), and the more upmarket ones called her the Princess of Wales.


    I’m sure some still called her “Lady Di”

    Fair point.

    I see what Ariel means; as you'd have to be well over 70 to remember when we last had a King, it's not unreasonable that it's taking us a wee while to get used to it!
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    When I sing the office at Evensong, I still have to make a conscious effort to sing “O Lord save the king”
  • PuzzlerPuzzler Shipmate
    I when I hear the priest sing ‘ the King’ I am still surprised.

    Speaking of surnames, for a few years, my mother, my married daughter and I all bore the same surname, though our husbands were not related. My second husband had the same surname as my father. So I have my maiden name back. Strangely my daughter also married a man with the same surname.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    I see what Ariel means; as you'd have to be well over 70 to remember when we last had a King, it's not unreasonable that it's taking us a wee while to get used to it!

    I can clearly remember that when George VI died, there was a special assembly at school at which the headmaster made the announcement - with tears in his eyes!!!!!!!!
  • PuzzlerPuzzler Shipmate
    Not sure about the tears, but I remember the announcement and learning to sing God Be In My Head.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Spike wrote: »
    When I sing the office at Evensong, I still have to make a conscious effort to sing “O Lord save the king”

    Quite so; I suspect there are several places where that versicle comes out as "O Lord, save the quing". :mrgreen:
  • Go to the Church of Ireland: "O Lord, save the President".
Sign In or Register to comment.