Bored/Irritated Thread

[GreyBeard]

IIRC it was turned on back when we had a combination of Brassco starting tons of inane threads and robobots starting tons of spam threads. That way the active threads could continue while the others would eventually disappear without intervention by the mods.

[GreyBeard]

Happy St. Urho Day!

[thessarabian]

My condolences to Pastor Mary on the loss of her father. Safe travels to & from the funeral and please know you're in my prayers.

[pstrmry]

Thank you very much. That means a lot.

[ValS]

I'm irritated that I'm getting my third cold since January. Well, the first was definitely the flu which wound up as bronchitis and sinusitis. Then just as I was feeling better, I got another cold. I felt OK for a few weeks, and now here's a cold again.

Which leads me to my second beef . . .

CLOSE TALKERS! Ugh . . . I can hear people speaking in a conversational tone from at least six feet away. There's no need to be so close to me that we're touching. Someone in my circle is a notorious close-talker. I'll start out standing in a place, and after five minutes of conversation, I've moved back about five feet just to maintain some personal space. I'm sure it's quite comical to watch, but it's very stifling. And germy. Kids are naturally close talkers and I can handle that as part of my job, but not from adults. I wish I had the gonads to do as Jerry Seinfeld does in the close-talker episode where he gets nose to nose with the guy like it's no big deal. But I can't. I wasn't made that way. I was made to have at least three feet of no-fly zone around my personal planet. Calgon, take me back to the 1860's and giant hoopskirts, or the Renaissance with their broad farthingales. That would be such a relief.

[thessarabian]

I had someone like that once, drove me nuts. Luckily I tend to stand with my hands on my hips a lot. It only took one time of her getting poked in the buttons before she learned to back up. LOL- happened years ago & is still stuck in my mind.

I'm really irritated with Voldemort's older uglier brother (Governor Scott). Paying for a $500 billion dollar corporate tax break by cutting $430 billion out of the state education budget and $70 billion out of other programs like those that allow people with Downs syndrome and other handicaps to live normal lives outside of nursing homes (and without replacing the funding with money to pay for them to live in nursing homes). Seems like it's not just uteruses that need to corporatized down here.

[GreyBeard]

I have a grammar question for Word Girl.

"A friend of mine, (who or whom) she should remember, got into the newspaper today."

Which is correct in the above sentence, who or whom? Why?

[ValS]

'Whom' is correct in your example because it has no verb.

[GreyBeard]

I thought so because it is the object of remembered. But I was wondering if there was an implied is, making it a predicate nominative or an implied infinitive.

[ValS]

No, because the implied word should fit comfortably into the sentence. Unless you can show me what you're thinking, I can't see that happening in your sentence without changing the functions of the words.

[ValS]

Irritated. I can't get into the church to practice organ until after 6:30 or 7 because someone never bothered to let anyone know that the church would be unavailable all afternoon. My regular Saturday practice time is from 3 to about 4:30. I had to leave a message for my mom telling her that I can't call her tonight, something I do every Saturday at 7.

Another irritation: if you can do what you're doing in any other room in the building, why does it necessarily have to occur in the church itself? We have a very nice chapel. It's just that I can't exactly practice the organ anywhere else, now can I?

I don't express these things on Facebook because I get a lecture on the 8th commandment. But I have to say that I loathe the music part of my gig more than ever. I pray that we get more kids in the school so that I can go back to full time teaching and kiss this other headache goodbye. Intolerable conditions. I should start my own union.

Maybe you should start a dead pool on me. In the meantime, you can guess what my blood pressure was the last time I had it checked. And I'd never had a high reading before. Astonishing.

[ValS]

Stepped into the bathroom this morning and into a puddle. No, it wasn't a horrible thing, just a bad thing. My roof needs to be replaced and the landlord is having it done---but not until next month. The rain this morning was fierce and it just started dripping like crazy, right in front of the sink. Try doing morning things when you can't stand by the sink. Not good. Fortunately, there's no carpeting and I use really really cheap rag rugs in there, so no great loss. I put a bucket under the most active drips and had about half a gallon per hour while it was raining most vigorously.

At least it's cooler outside, but it's no 55 degrees as we were told it would be.

[LutherMan]

I hate the heat and humidity that comes this time of year.
I really miss winter...

[thessarabian]

Me too! It's REALLY hard not to crank the a/c to winter-like levels at times.

[LutherMan]

All these fireworks really irritate me. Esp. when you hear people who are struggling financially setting them off...