Speech habits I loathe but can't break

2008-08-27T13:39:06Z

1. "Can I get...": It should be "May I have...?" but I'm afraid this particularly demanding sentence has crept into my everyday speech. 2. "And he was like: what the fuck?": He was like? He wasn't 'like' anything! There was nothing for him to be ...

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The School of Some Bloke Down The Pub

2008-08-26T14:01:16Z

Does it ever annoy you how many times in a day, week, month or year you hear the same tired argument (usually depleted by conversational Chinese whispers) being trotted out without anyone bothering to examine what they've said and actually decide ...

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Sign up to protect children's opportunities to read freely!

2008-08-20T10:04:52Z

As a child I read freely above and below what might have been considered appropriate for my age. From picture books to longer chapter books that, at the time, I might not have fully understood, I read as widely as my ability allowed and enjoyed it...

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Rant over. I've a wedding to finish planning...

2008-08-19T15:13:31Z

Wedding planning continues apace, with our vows chosen (we went for the traditional required statements, and that's it. Why make people sick having to listen to you promise to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every second Tuesday for life?)...

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Pet peeve of the day: childishness

2008-08-19T14:06:23Z

If there's one personality trait guaranteed to fuck me right off, it's people being unnecessarily childish. By this I don't mean childlike or playful. I'm quite happy for my friends and family to scuttle around like hyperactive terriers and enjoy...

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Three songs that mention weasels

2008-08-18T10:56:21Z

1. Beck - Loser Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber ’cuz one’s got a weasel and the other’s got a flag One’s on the pole, shove the other in a bag 2. Nick Drake - Hazey Jane II And what will happen ...

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A really bad time to lose focus

2008-08-14T14:12:49Z

This week is a really bad time to lose focus, lack momentum and generally run to a grinding halt. So of course I'm doing all three. My manager's manager (the überboss, or UB, as I shall henceforth term him, although he's considerably nicer than th...

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It's not I'm anti-social, I'm only anti-work...

2008-08-14T11:43:28Z

Work friendships, that is. I have a strange history of work friendships. At my first major job, I ended up with several close friends, mostly male, one of whom I shared a flat with for a year and another of whom I'm going to marry in four months....

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Enweaselment over. Normal service resumes. For given value of 'normal...'

2008-08-13T10:34:53Z

So, with text hugs from my beloved friend Aaron, real hugs from my beloved beloved Ash and a couple of hours of 24, season 3, I'm okay again. It helps that this morning I got emails from the CEO and my manager's manager reassuring me that they wer...

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I feel enweaseled. Help.

2008-08-12T13:41:15Z

Due to a variety of factors, not least of all a problem with a, shall we say, dissatisfied customer at work, I'm feeling rather feeble and tired. Enweaselment, as Ash calls it. As good as Terry Pratchett's references to Alzheimer's as an 'embugge...

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