Today I'm angry about.....

[The Axman]

One Specific Charity Worker.

(After a request, I took some pictures of some charity do at my wife's school about a month ago. Downloaded photos onto a memory stick and gave them to the woman who'd requested them [never got the stick back either]. A couple of weeks later she asked to borrow the camera to download the piccys I'd taken. After a long-winded conversation in which I pointed out I'd given her the photos, she claimed she wanted to blow some up and needed a better resolution of picture than I'd provided. I gave her the benefit of the doubt because I'm not advanced technically with 'modern' technology, and lent her the camera overnight.
Well, fcuk me, if I don't go to download my own pictures a couple of night's back and discover I can't. Why not? Because some tw*t has managed to destroy the mini-USB port in the camera. By a process of deduction (which included huge argument with wife - "haven't touched it", "must have", " 'ckin 'aven't") I worked out it was demolished by said charity woman.
Saw her this morning, and after asking about her enlarged pictures, confronted her about it. She finally admitted she'd not managed to download anything and that she might have "slightly damaged the hole-thingy into which you shove the flat metally-thingy" as her 'metally-thingy' was all bent and didn't work anymore. When asked directly what she was going to do regarding my camera she just shrugged and then she had the cheek to suggest that it was my camera that had damaged her cable!
Fuming. Steam out of ears time. )

I suspect you should be angry about yourself as well. It must be an interesting camera if the files on the memory card are a higher resolution than the downloaded ones. It is also possible just to lend the memory card - hang on to your camera in future. Oh well, charity begins at home.

Yes. Lesson learnt - will not lend out camera again. Now I too will have to download from memory card and not from camera.

[Montreal Wanderer]

two things today...

the phrase "it's a big ask" - it's getting annoying now. "ask" is not a noun and shouldn't be made into one.

the irritating trend for interviewees starting all their answers with the word "so". STOP. IT. NOW!

Although it doesn't have many tables, I'd say this is a big Ask.

therefore - a small ask!

But still a Noun.

Indeed it has been a noun for a very long time.

a1000 Laws of Athelstan §5 in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. I. 230 Hæfdon ealle ða ǽscean.
a1230 Juliana 16 He failed of his as.
c1275 (1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 529 Eouer axe ich eow leue.
1781 T. Twining Let. 8 Dec. in Recreat. & Stud. (1882) 108, I am not so unreasonable as to desire you to‥answer all my asks.
1886 ‘Cavendish’ Princ. Whist 127 When your three comes down in the next round, it is not an ask for trumps.

It is also, of course, a newt or an eft whatever that is

c1325 Metr. Hom. 141 Snakes and nederes thar he fand, And gret blac tades‥And arskes and other wormes felle.
?a1505 R. Henryson Ressoning betuix Deth & Man 38 in Poems (1981) 175 Cum with me in hy, Edderis, askis, and wirmes meit to be.
a1530 (1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) i. xiii. 55 Nakyn best of venym‥as aske or eddyre, tade, or pade.
?1553 (1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 349 in Shorter Poems (1967) 30 The watyr stank, the feild was odious Quhar Dragonys, lessertis, askis, edders swattryt.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words, Magrasio, an Eft, a Nute, an Aske.
1840 J. M. Wilson Hist. Tales Borders (1851) XX. 31 He can lurk in the green moss like the yellow-wamed ask.
1876 S. Smiles Sc. Naturalist (ed. 4) ii. 44 He looked at the beast. It was not an eel. It was very like an ask.

[The Axman]

It is also, of course, a newt or an eft whatever that is

c1325 Metr. Hom. 141 Snakes and nederes thar he fand, And gret blac tades‥And arskes and other wormes felle.
?a1505 R. Henryson Ressoning betuix Deth & Man 38 in Poems (1981) 175 Cum with me in hy, Edderis, askis, and wirmes meit to be.
a1530 (1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) i. xiii. 55 Nakyn best of venym‥as aske or eddyre, tade, or pade.
?1553 (1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 349 in Shorter Poems (1967) 30 The watyr stank, the feild was odious Quhar Dragonys, lessertis, askis, edders swattryt.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words, Magrasio, an Eft, a Nute, an Aske.
1840 J. M. Wilson Hist. Tales Borders (1851) XX. 31 He can lurk in the green moss like the yellow-wamed ask.
1876 S. Smiles Sc. Naturalist (ed. 4) ii. 44 He looked at the beast. It was not an eel. It was very like an ask.

Tut tut Monty. 'Tis the terrestrial juvenile stage of a newt (or an ask) of course.

1840 J. M. Wilson Hist. Tales Borders (1851) XX. 31 He can lurk in the green moss like the yellow-wamed ask.

That's my kind of quote, needs to be in the Gardening Bed.

[Porrohman]

This fuel crisis is utter shit.
Morons moaning about the petrol prices going up and then buy £150 of fuel to store in the garage,I hope your fecking house burns down you set of nice people.
Nice bit of Tory spin as well....all fill up your cars...imagine the tax made off that little lot,next they will be telling us the economy is booming just so they can stick up the interest rates again...ca ching more money!

[Annoyed Grunt]

This fuel crisis is utter shit.
Morons moaning about the petrol prices going up and then buy £150 of fuel to store in the garage,I hope your fecking house burns down you set of tw*ts.
Nice bit of Tory spin as well....all fill up your cars...imagine the tax made off that little lot,next they will be telling us the economy is booming just so they can stick up the interest rates again...ca ching more money!

£38 million, apparently. Sales up 80%........and no strike in sight.

[The Axman]

Shock. Horror. You're not saying (are you?) that it's a government strategy to raise taxes by driving a panic. Surely not....

[Bruce Rioja]

Shock. Horror. You're not saying (are you?) that it's a government strategy to raise taxes by driving a panic. Surely not....

Panic buying does not equate to additional usage though, does it? So how might the government be strategically raising taxes?

[thebish]

Shock. Horror. You're not saying (are you?) that it's a government strategy to raise taxes by driving a panic. Surely not....

Panic buying does not equate to additional usage though, does it? So how might the government be strategically raising taxes?

if you keep your car permanently topped up (as per government advice) - then it is heavier - and uses more fuel = more usage..

[Bruce Rioja]

Shock. Horror. You're not saying (are you?) that it's a government strategy to raise taxes by driving a panic. Surely not....

Panic buying does not equate to additional usage though, does it? So how might the government be strategically raising taxes?

if you keep your car permanently topped up (as per government advice) - then it is heavier - and uses more fuel = more usage..

OK, I'll take my clubs out the boot then. That'll learn 'em!

[BWFC_Insane]

The government aren't being calculated here, they're just a bit thick.

The number of climb downs and counter stories they've had to put out in the past few days, about a number of topics, I've never know anything like it.

Best bit is where Cameron told a very elaborate story about the last time he had a pasty, quite recently in the past few months, even down to the place he bought it from and the size of said pasty. Except it turned out he was lying as the shop in question shut down nearly 10 years ago!

[Bruce Rioja]

The government aren't being calculated here, they're just a bit thick.

The number of climb downs and counter stories they've had to put out in the past few days, about a number of topics, I've never know anything like it.

Best bit is where Cameron told a very elaborate story about the last time he had a pasty, quite recently in the past few months, even down to the place he bought it from and the size of said pasty. Except it turned out he was lying as the shop in question shut down nearly 10 years ago!

Keveh. Can you knock a "Oh do feck off" off of my weekly quota, please? I think that that leaves me with three. cheers

It was five years by the way, so do feck off.

(Keveh - just the two. Cheers )

[thebish]

Shock. Horror. You're not saying (are you?) that it's a government strategy to raise taxes by driving a panic. Surely not....

Panic buying does not equate to additional usage though, does it? So how might the government be strategically raising taxes?

if you keep your car permanently topped up (as per government advice) - then it is heavier - and uses more fuel = more usage..

OK, I'll take my clubs out the boot then. That'll learn 'em!

good man! and take the roof-rack off and get your tyres properly inflated! you can save a teaspoon of fuel that way!

[thebish]

Best bit is where Cameron told a very elaborate story about the last time he had a pasty, quite recently in the past few months, even down to the place he bought it from and the size of said pasty. Except it turned out he was lying as the shop in question shut down nearly 10 years ago!

he bought it off a black gentleman he once spoke to...

[Porrohman]

Best bit is where Cameron told a very elaborate story about the last time he had a pasty, quite recently in the past few months, even down to the place he bought it from and the size of said pasty. Except it turned out he was lying as the shop in question shut down nearly 10 years ago!

he bought it off a black gentleman he once spoke to...

Al Jolson?

[bobo the clown]

Best bit is where Cameron told a very elaborate story about the last time he had a pasty, quite recently in the past few months, even down to the place he bought it from and the size of said pasty. Except it turned out he was lying as the shop in question shut down nearly 10 years ago!

he bought it off a black gentleman he once spoke to...

Al Jolson?

Nah. He'd have mentioned him on the "famous people" thread if he had.

[Worthy4England]

Shock. Horror. You're not saying (are you?) that it's a government strategy to raise taxes by driving a panic. Surely not....

Panic buying does not equate to additional usage though, does it? So how might the government be strategically raising taxes?

Everyone knows what a dint 38m spent in a couple of days rather than over a fortnight will make to the national debt. Have a good look at yersel Bruice...

[BWFC_Insane]

The government aren't being calculated here, they're just a bit thick.

The number of climb downs and counter stories they've had to put out in the past few days, about a number of topics, I've never know anything like it.

Best bit is where Cameron told a very elaborate story about the last time he had a pasty, quite recently in the past few months, even down to the place he bought it from and the size of said pasty. Except it turned out he was lying as the shop in question shut down nearly 10 years ago!

Keveh. Can you knock a "Oh do feck off" off of my weekly quota, please? I think that that leaves me with three. cheers

It was five years by the way, so do feck off.

(Keveh - just the two. Cheers )

I know what you meant to say there Bruce was "yeah, I'm a bit embarrassed to have voted for a party fronted by this man".

[The Axman]

Keveh. Can you knock a "Oh do feck off" off of my weekly quota, please? I think that that leaves me with three. cheers

It was five years by the way, so do feck off.

(Keveh - just the two. Cheers )

So, do I get four fckoffs too? And can I store them for later use or must I use them by the end of each week?

[Gooner Girl]

Today I'm angry about grown men acting like little kids and me having to try sort it all out. Honestly.

[The Axman]

Sorry. I was only asking if I get the same number as Brucie.