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.

Jane wrote: "Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "That's when they chirp "But I'm only saying it to help you.""

Which probably should be in the phrases we hate thread."

It is. I got lost. Not the first time.

That's when they chirp "But I'm only saying it to help you."

You can take the Mickey, though, Groovy. They won't know what it means but you can say it.

Groovy wrote: "OMG!!! I know, right? Or when someone who hasn't seen you in a long time says: You've gained weight!

Really? If you hadn't of told me, I never would have noticed."

And then if you blush or get upset they act like you're in the wrong. I topped out at about 200lbs and relatives and strangers thought nothing of openly saying things like, "My dear, don't gain anymore!" or my MIL: "You're just fatter every time I see you!" I couldn't help it, I shot back, "And you're older."

I've since lost some of the weight...and stopped going to the open market. Crap, people.

Well, first church service after the summer break today. Nobody said anything about my bag, but that's not surprising. Pastor V. attended for the first time since April. Lovely.

"But to be fair...." usually said when someone has been very snide about someone or something....and then their "fairness" is often praising with faint damns.

I myself have a silly habit when I'm complaining/explaining in Spanish, I translate literally, "To begin with...to go on with...and to finish up."

Oh Lor', I've morphed into one of those women of a certain age I used to laugh at! If I lived in a private house instead of a city apartment I'd probably be running around in "overhauls" and a denim shirt and forcefeeding people my homemade pie.

I got it, and after a minute DH did too. Which since he is Spanish, and doesn't think in English, is not half bad!

I ran into a modern oddness. The older ones among us know the saying is "the proof of the pudding is in the eating." Meaning it may look nice and all, but until you get into a situation you don't really know what you've got.

Online a news page mentioned Mary Berry's house going up for sale with the following headline: "The proof is in the pudding."

T4bsF (Call me Flo) wrote: "I know what you mean Ori - there must have been a lot of dizzy people around my Mum, as one of her favourite sayings was "and what do you think she turned round and said to me" !!"

Do you know that made it into some historical book...I don't think it was The Englishman's Food: Five Centuries of English Diet but it may have been. The author, talking about people still ordering "a farthin's worth" of things in even in the 60s (meaning the minimum they would sell), mentioned how many people in London at the time were given to saying, "So I just turned rahnd and said...and he turned rahnd and said..."
People in Peru do it, too..."Y me volteo y le digo..."

Why can’t you hear pterodactyls use the bathroom?

Wait for it …

Because the P is silent.

This is not really a hate, but an oddity. My mother used to preface so many responses to something someone else said with: "Well, there's this much about it" and then whatever she wanted to say. It struck me this morning--what is the point of that? If it were part of a long discussion, you could say she was summing up all that had gone before, but she used it all the time. Another person I knew would preface his remarks with, "I'll tell you what it is..."

People are odd. I include myself.

I don't remember what it was about, but many years ago there was a big fuss in the Parliament with lots of paper wads being thrown (I kid you not) and "heeeaaaars!" The Speaker of the House was an older woman and she shouted "Order! Order! This place sounds like a jungle!" We cracked up and it passed into our family lexicon...along with "It's a jungle out there!" from the theme song to Monk.

Hear, hear! (note spelling.)

I meant that for the conversation, but also: how many times do you see it written "Here, here!" on the Internet? When it comes from the English Parliament--it means "listen to that guy, he's right!" Sometimes on the news they show a bit of a Parliament debate or whatever, one of the people is speaking and you hear this rumble go up of people saying "Heeeaaaar!" like something from the lion house at the zoo.

Oh I hear you! And then they act like it's your fault, not theirs!

Groovy wrote: "Here's a gender joke:

How many jokes are there about men? None, they are all true..."

Now now, there's another thread for jokes! This one is for phrases we actually like or love!

"Good job."
"Thank you."
"Oh, that was a help."
Phrases we don't hear often enough.

"Now, you didn't get this from me, but..." or they gossip about a mutual friend and then say "and if you tell her I said it, I'll deny it!"

The doing it, is worldwide, but the phrase "I'm only saying" is a British thing.

mrbooks wrote: "I'm not one to gossip

Well if you start out with that you obviously are."

Reminds me of that old saying, "If you can't say anything nice about someone...come sit by me."

Yup. As I commented way back at the beginning of this thread, it's like certain English people who say something devastating and then when you react, chirp "Well I'm only saying!" as if that somehow excuses saying it. Apparently the long version is "I'm only saying what everyone else is thinking."