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.

Besides if they get blown away and someone else moves in there, you don't know what you'll get. They might be even worse!

Your neighbours are only nosey because you're fascinating, darlin'. Your backyard sounds lovely with the vines and the butterflies, and of course your lovely self and daughter beautifying it all.

Hellooo...
There's quite an echo in here....

"Foregather." It means to get together with others. Interesting because it sounds like you gather before something, doesn't it? And yet you foregather with someone--like say going to Comicon, so you can foregather with other fans of a certain comic artist.

True Mr B. I used to love to watch Paul O'Grady's animal programmes when we had access, but DH always refused. He finally told me he couldn't understand a word the man said. I wish we had a way to embed a recording of the way a Liverpudlian says "book". It's kind of like "bewk."

I remember reading that the Beatles were told they had to learn to speak clearly or they'd never get anywhere, certainly not in movies etc in those days. They kept the inflections but compared to the real Liverpudlian they practically spoke Oxford!

I like the British accents that I can understand. Some are totally alien, sound like they're speaking anything but English!

They apparently wanted us to talk working-class English, which is odd since the director sounded like Lord Peter Wimsey every time he opened his mouth.

Yep, if the second verb is understood, it's I.
She is taller than I (am).
If it's the object of a verb, it's me.
It's me!

We were drilled on that by older teachers, and by the time i got to the place where I was teaching (UK) English in a language school in about 1984, I was being told by the Brit in charge that saying "She is taller than I" was "middle class." As if that were somehow bad!!

Where IS everybody? "This place is a tomb! I'm goin' over to the Nut Shoppe, where it's fun!" (You've Got Mail)

mrbooks wrote: "I prefer those that portray families as they really are. In each others faces but always having each others back. Yes me and my brother and sisters always fought, I mean from oldest to youngest the..."

But you see that's why people write books and make movies...because they can make things go the way they want. In my case, it wasn't a family, it was a bunch of people with the same last name, competing and fighting and selling each other out for much less than a bowl of pottage. I don't need to read or watch "dystopia", I lived in one.

No, and I did get your email. I just haven't been doing things I should, like responding to friends. *hangs head in shame.*

S'okay, Mr B, I seldom lose my temper these days unless gravely provoked. And it takes some doing to do that. I haven't actually said that second thing for almost a decade.

I recommend you see the Australian film "The Castle", an indy film that was a surprise hit. I'd like a family like Darryl's. They may not be the sharpest knives in the drawer but they all think the other family members are just tops, everything they do is wonderful in each other's eyes. "How's the serenity?"

From The Quiet Man: "It is a matter of complete indifference to him."
I like to use that when someone criticises my opinions or beliefs. If they make me angry enough, the next remark is, "You've got me confused with someone who gives a sh**."

Wombles like presents...grin.

It means the person didn't like the ending.

Groovy wrote: "Like you, mrbooks, I was determined to be the exact opposite of the woman who raised me. I don't call her mother, because she doesn't deserve that title. My sister was treated like a QUEEN, whereas..."

I hear you Groovy. I was the unwanted last child who should have been a boy (wow, then I would have been the Little Emperor! For my folks a schlong between the legs meant total perfection) and my sister 3 yrs older than me was Little Miss Perfect. She and Lucy Van Pelt were separated at birth, and she was a mean little female pup all her life, which my parents couldn't see. That is until she got married and my dad died, and I left home. Then Mom spent more and more time with Miss Perfect and discovered the dark side of her personality; since I wasn't around to treat like dirt, she transferred her sarcasm and meanness to my mother.

Sis has a now-adult son I've never seen. I shudder to think what he's like.

"I wish it wouldn't have ended the way it did."

Oh dear. Written by a person who considers themselves a great reader.

I try to tell myself it's not their fault, it's the lowering of the most basic teaching standards.

"I wish it hadn't ended the way it did." Past perfect, one past event that occurred in time before another past event.

No, I have a Tidy Bag, like the good little Womble I am!

I so agree, MrB. My parents quarrelled constantly, basically because they married in their teens and never matured beyond that point. I decided I did NOT want raised voices in my house, and we don't have them. There are many ways of disagreeing besides shouting. You can even compromise, or negotiate, or take turns getting what you want if the other person wants something different.

As for the abuse thing, well. We've just had a particularly nasty child murder, which revealed another previously by the same person (in that case, it was her own child) who basically "removed" the kids because they were in the way of what she wanted. I can't even talk about such things because I get so angry I can't speak. And if I should, take cover!!

Then you'll like "multifarious." It means "many and varied". I have multifarious tasks to do today.