Today I'm angry about.....

[Hoboh]

This new bollox about free laptops and broadband for the poorest ........whatever happened to feckin working for a living?

I'm looking at setting up at home with Broadband and a new laptop.

I'm looking at paying £400 - £600 for the laptop and then a broadband package will cost me on average £40 per month.

So that's potentially over £1000 for my first year.

Labour muggers for you!!!!! Sod the grit let hoodies have free internet

Lord above I'm soooooo lost without Megson!!!!!!!

[thebish]

I'm angry now (or perhaps more just resigned) as I've just been told that my operation on Wednesday has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. Bag packed, time-off booked, head in the zone etc etc.

that'll be the "Today I am a bit resigned" thread you're after! (hope the op goes well...)

[Verbal]

Today I'm angry at how I can be in a library for about forty hours and not have this f*cking essay done.

[BWFC_Insane]

England throwing away their chance of winning a series in South Africa in the space of half an hour!

[thebish]

In keeping with my new year's resolution - I am learning by heart a poem every week...

I am ahead of the game - I am learning poem number 4 and it is only 2 weeks into January..

anyway - this one is one I learned as a child - some 35 years ago - but have now largely forgotten - and it irritated me back then!


the poem is "The tyger" by William Blake:

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

every other verse has the simple and straightforward aabb rhyming scheme (except the last which is basically a repeat of the first)

BUT - in this first verse SYMMETRY does not rhyme with EYE - however you say it!!


arggghhhhhhhhh!!!

(also - he can't spell TIGER!)

[Montreal Wanderer]

Calm down bish. Tyger was acceptable in the 18th century and eye does rhyme with symmetry in Edinburgh.

[thebish]

Calm down bish. Tyger was acceptable in the 18th century and eye does rhyme with symmetry in Edinburgh.

yes Monty (should have put a wink!)

and - no it doesn't! the only place I can think of where it might is Birmingham! maybe Blake was a closet Brummie?

[Montreal Wanderer]

Calm down bish. Tyger was acceptable in the 18th century and eye does rhyme with symmetry in Edinburgh.

yes Monty (should have put a wink!)

{b}and - no it doesn't! the only place I can think of where it might is Birmingham![/b] maybe Blake was a closet Brummie?

I was basing the supposition on the (alleged) Scottish ballad of Sir Patrick Spens (which you should learn as part of your resolution):

The first line that Sir Patrick read,
A loud laugh laughed he;
The next line that Sir Patrick read,
The tear blinded his ee.

Perhaps I should have said Dunfermline not Edinburgh!

[thebish]

Calm down bish. Tyger was acceptable in the 18th century and eye does rhyme with symmetry in Edinburgh.

yes Monty (should have put a wink!)

{b}and - no it doesn't! the only place I can think of where it might is Birmingham![/b] maybe Blake was a closet Brummie?

I was basing the supposition on the (alleged) Scottish ballad of Sir Patrick Spens (which you should learn as part of your resolution):

The first line that Sir Patrick read,
A loud laugh laughed he;
The next line that Sir Patrick read,
The tear blinded his ee.

Perhaps I should have said Dunfermline not Edinburgh!

ahhh - I thought you were positing an edinburgh pronunciation of "symmetr-eye"

maybe blake was a closet scots brummie hybrid? - in which case it wouldn't rhyme!

what immortal hand or ee
could frame this fearful symmetr-eye

[thebish]

maybe the art thread has run its course and we need a poetry thread?

[Hoboh]

Poetry!!!

[William the White]

Poetry!!!

Instant enthusiasm from the tramp.

start it up, bish...

[thebish]

Poetry!!!

don't ya know-it-ry......

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I'm angry that this thread is being hijacked by the wordsmiths

oh, and First Capital Connect - probably the worst train company in the world. Even their massaged performance figures read 62.8% of service less than 5 mins late. Not bad when around 70% of the trains haven't run for 3 weeks

[thebish]

I'm angry that this thread is being hijacked by the wordsmiths

oh, and First Capital Connect - probably the worst train company in the world. Even their massaged performance figures read 62.8% of service less than 5 mins late. Not bad when around 70% of the trains haven't run for 3 weeks

a train company that offers a massage service - even if a little late - can't be all bad?

[Prufrock]

RUBBISH black eyes. If you HAVE to get mugged, you at least hope for some manly battle scars. What do I get, an initial camp black stripe that made me look like Adam Ant had been disturbed halfway through makeup, that has now gone red and yellow so I look like some twatty rave kid. People keep looking at me thinking I'm on my way back from a warehouse. Eurgh.

[Gary the Enfield]

I'm angry that this thread is being hijacked by the wordsmiths

oh, and First Capital Connect - probably the worst train company in the world. Even their massaged performance figures read 62.8% of service less than 5 mins late. Not bad when around 70% of the trains haven't run for 3 weeks

a train company that offers a massage service - even if a little late - can't be all bad?

Problem is, they use the wrong kind of lubricant and are completely untrained, although that aspect is quite hard to gauge.

[Puskas]

I'm angry that this thread is being hijacked by the wordsmiths

oh, and First Capital Connect - probably the worst train company in the world. Even their massaged performance figures read 62.8% of service less than 5 mins late. Not bad when around 70% of the trains haven't run for 3 weeks

a train company that offers a massage service - even if a little late - can't be all bad?

Problem is, they use the wrong kind of lubricant and are completely untrained, although that aspect is quite hard to gauge.

Can you not express that any better?

[superjohnmcginlay]

RUBBISH black eyes. If you HAVE to get mugged, you at least hope for some manly battle scars. What do I get, an initial camp black stripe that made me look like Adam Ant had been disturbed halfway through makeup, that has now gone red and yellow so I look like some twatty rave kid. People keep looking at me thinking I'm on my way back from a warehouse. Eurgh.

Don't get mugged.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I'm angry that this thread is being hijacked by the wordsmiths

oh, and First Capital Connect - probably the worst train company in the world. Even their massaged performance figures read 62.8% of service less than 5 mins late. Not bad when around 70% of the trains haven't run for 3 weeks

a train company that offers a massage service - even if a little late - can't be all bad?

They'd manage to get that wrong as well!