My wife showed me a newspaper article recently where the captain of a boat referred to the "star bird" side. :)
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I take issue with the answer about quotes. If the sentence is a quotation the period goes inside the quotes, but if the quotes are scare quotes or around the title of a book or movie the period goes after the quotes. At least that is what I was taught. (I just looked it up; apparently I was taught the British way.) In any case, there are two kinds of grammar issues. A lot of grammar issues are issues of style rather than substance--the quotes/period issue being an example, or whether to use a comma before the "and" before the last item of a series. How you do it doesn't affect the meaning. Other issues do effect the meaning. (I should have written "affect", since I meant alter or modify the meaning. To effect something--where "effect" is a verb, means to make something happen.) To me the most important thing is that the meaning of a sentence is clear and the sentence is not overly complex or convoluted in an effort to follow some rule of grammar.
Whenever I go to the bathroom to take a shit and read some tgr, as soon as I sit down and start pushing, the fucking cleaning guy comes in and starts cleaning toilets. Wtf.
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But of course ...
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So, this annoys me. I'm just going through a project we submitted on for a roof on a university building. The architect specified an EPDM roof in black. They also required that we submit information that shows it meets a minimum solar reflectivity that meets LEED requirements. Ummmm...... Don't specify a black roof if you want it to reflect solar radiation, you nimrods. I have no idea where these guys got their education but, even as a very little kid, I knew that black absorbs radiation, not reflects it. That's what white is for, you ninny.
Well at least you have a cleaning guy. We have a cleaning lady and she always seems to come by when I'm taking a relaxing dumperelle. Knocks and says Anybody in here? Yes. Then i gotta hurry up and bail and she's waiting outside with this f'ing look on her face like she caught me with my hand in the cookie jar. Just leave and come back in 20 for crap sake.
Automated phone systems that have a million long-winded menu options (which have recently changed, of course) so you end up zoning out and then have to listen to them again. Then, despite being so detailed and drilling through to several further menus you still can't find the option that you need and inevitably have to speak to a representative.
I'd rather have the cleaning guy come in and clean than have someone else come in and unleash hell in the adjacent stall. I hate taking dumps at work. We have a tech-bro company next door and its like they take numbers all day on whose turn it is to go next. Basically all college age kids who still live at home and don't clean up after themselves. Bathroom counter always covered in water and paper towels all over the floor because they can't seem to get them in the garbage can.
True. Dirty bathrooms are gross. Ours are impeccable because nobody ever has time to take a shit. I was at another location for the same company a few days a couple months ago, and thiers we're not clean. It was gross.
Still, a couple mins in peace to take care of business would be nice.
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I usually start yelling "Representative! Representative!" as soon as the menu starts. It usually works.
Speaking of which--fuck Suddenlink. It shouldn't take 6 weeks to get an appointment to rehang a cable that dropped last winter and which is lying across my neighbor's stairs. OTOH, maybe if the neighbor didn't have a steel roof that unloads on my yard they wouldn't have to step over the cable.
Torn/separated rib cartilage and the exercises it limits me to(running). I hate running.
^^^from a rib is way past inconvenient - from the sternum is the worst
ha! funny thing is that I have 2 other friends from Barre that live here in Jackson too
but I believe my poop fear stems more from collegiate days in burlington
ugh the sh*t that annoys me today is that summer finally arrived the past week but now snow and lows of 25 degrees are forecasted for this weekend
You think Burlington is/was bad? So I grew up in Williston and spent a lot of time in Burlington. And thought it was bad in that regard. Then I visited Amsterdam in HS . The real one. In the Netherlands. On a grey day in early March, 1987. The place was covered in dog shit. It was depressing. A few hours spent in a coffee shop helped improve my mood. 8) I got a kick out of watching from a haze filled room as the cops gave out parking tickets. I can't remember the name of the coffee shop. I think we were across the street from the Pink Panther. I remember one called the Fancy Free. Not sure if I was inside looking out or outside looking in. ;) It was that good. What were we talking about? Oh, right Barre. I just dig that you like to take off your shoes.