Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s Comments (group member since Sep 20, 2013)

Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s comments from the Net Work Book Club group.

Why isn't Australia's cutest marsupial considered a real bear?

Because it's not koalafied.

What do you get from pampered cows?
Spoiled milk.

Do lonely zombies crave hearts?

Yesterday I went to the fruit and veg shop and this woman was walking in just ahead of me. She gave me this very sneering sort of "I'm ahead of you, byotch" look, and I thought, What big teeth you have, grandma! There were a couple of people ahead of her and while we were all waiting to be served, I realised she was just pulling one weird face after another! Scrunching up her mouth, pulling it off to one side, then making a sort of cow face, and on and on. I thought, now that's odd--Tourette's or something? But when she got waited on she was perfectly normal, talking to the shop man like a regular person.

Don't know what her problem was, but it ain't me.

Especially when the "minority" they're talking about happens to be the majority in the particular place they're discussing. That really burns me up!!

Just like people who tell their kids lies to scare them. "If you get so much as a drop of water in your lungs you will die." That was a big one of my mom's. Or "If you sleep with your mouth open, a bug/spider/mouse will crawl into it." Greeeatt. Like a sleeping person can control whether or not their mouth opens? No wonder I have insomnia!

My 14 yr old's parents were told by her dentist not to "let" her sleep with her mouth open, as supposedly that would undo all the work of straightening her teeth and realigning her jaw--so Daddy decided she has to put that adhesive paper bandage on her lips at night to keep her mouth shut!! Sounds like child abuse to me.

"Politically correct" is annoying. Many if not most who use it don't realise that the term was coined by Mao during the Cultural Revolution (hardly one of China's shining moments). It meant writing or action or speech that toed the chinese communist party line in a way party officials found flattering or acceptable.

I have been chewing over "uncouth" in a corner of my brain all day. I wonder if it's a corruption of the French "inculte" (without culture)?

I have adopted a phrase from Phryne Fisher's mate Bert. When someone comes to pieces either emotionally or physically, he says they "come over all unnecessary." That can mean bursting into tears, getting the shakes, fainting, whatever. What a friend of mine used to call ""throwing a wobbly".

Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "And yet you never hear anyone described as "couth", do you?"

It's one of those odd words, like "unconscionable." You never hear anything described as "conscionable." And yet if you can be un-something, surely there is a something you can be?

I remember when it happened, the odour of fish was deafening! I thought at the time that Poirot or Miss Marple would have figured it out in ten days, max. My question is: what normal parent whose child is snatched, then spends their time travelling the world "gathering support?" The normal thing, in my mind, would be to take their remaining children home, to a known environment, and try to keep them as safe as possible.

But that's just me.

And yet you never hear anyone described as "couth", do you?

I knew a girl in highschool who had a form of "cat's eye." Her pupils instead of being round, looked like someone had pierced the black circle and it had run down into her iris. She was pretty shy; I can imagine that at that time in that place, she had a rough time of it. Not because she was "evil" but anything that differed from the norm was just oh so weird.

It's not always your best bet to dig in your toes and refuse to budge!

Legend has it she's still there. I've seen photos of what is claimed to be the pillar of salt, but not having been there myself, I reserve judgement.

She got salty when he forced the family to move.

It's a night animal, and people have always been afraid of them. Rats, snakes, goats, cats, spiders--anything the slightest bit odd or creepy gets associated with the devil.

In point of fact, goats, snakes, and cats all have pupils that open vertically, instead of around, like humans and most other animals. Therefore they are "not normal"--and long ago, that was enough to mean "evil."

Yup, I agree. Mr Cheato should be the one to pay. Our govt here is obviously PO'd and is taking it out on the receiver.

But my friend is in her late 80s and meant well, so I shall keep quiet. Yes she is wealthier than me (by quite a little) but never mind.

I suppose if the bat is OUT of hell, he's escaped, so he's getting away as fast as he can?

But if there's no tomorrow, it doesn't matter, so why do anything?

Tee hee!

Just thinking about one of my mother's often-used phrases: doing something "like it was going out of style," to mean doing it a lot, very intensely or very fast. Here in Europe it has a whole other meaning. If something is going out of style here, people distance themselves from it very quickly--style is everything! If something's in, it's great, but the minute it even smells like it's going out, they drop it fast.

Seriously annoyed; got an envelope from the US and because my friend didn't clearly mark it as a "gift" I had to pay 30 Euros customs fee--for a bunch of bias tape and a piece of fabric! Plus the man who brought it told me it had been opened in Customs...who knows what they took out. Supposedly there was an "invoice" but that did not tell me what was in it, just a breakdown of the fee I had to pay.

No, it's not in the Bible. It's in a lot of Bible movies, though.
The Bible has that thing about the law of the Medes and Persians, though..."and the word of the king cannot be broken", almost as an aside.


"Leave it with me."