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Julie
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Apr 23, 2012 07:06AM
I think I may have set it up as a business. Oops. I'll check out the link and try to fix it. Thanks for your help. Hope I didn't get you in trouble at work. :)
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Fixed!! :) You're awesome. You should have new like on your page now.
Hurrah!And I do have a new Like, thank you.
Roundabout rantWho are these people who pass their driving tests having not understood the principle of indicating at roundabouts? I am sure I don't remember this being a theory test question, where (b), (c) or a combo of the two was the correct answer.
As you approach a roundabout do you:
a) accelerate towards the little white circle in the middle with a crazed, but determined look in your eye
b) slow down, then stop, look blankly around for a few seconds wondering why everyone else is staring at you before indicating where you'd like to go
c) see the brunette lady in the white car and think to yourself, "it's 7.30am on a Monday and she looks like someone in need of cheering up with a game of roundabout-guess-who-goes-where?" then proceed to action (b).
I was not amused after my third idiot in a row and yes, they nearly made me say the REALLY bad swear words
Being from the states, I don't have this problem but I can see how it would be annoying. We have people who pull out in front of you and drive insanely slow. Many a curse word has been uttered from me to them.
one of the things I loved about driving in the US was the turning right on red thing - does that still happen? The first time I came across it I was escorting some guys from the airport and they insisted on driving - he tried 'going left on red' thinking it would work over here. It doesn't - it just scares the bejesus out of the temp secretary who thought it would be a good jolly out of the office picking people up at the airport. :)
Right on red still works here and I love it too. Cuts out a lot of time. You know I assumed left on red would work over there too. Now I know better. :)
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That sucks. Five days is an eternity in internet time.
Oh right. I was just fairly surprised that you had only recently got an Internet connection.
I have satellite internet which as of late has been going in and out. Another downfall from living in the sticks.
Fair enough.I didn't mean to sound arsey about it; it's something that I guess I just take for granted.
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Moving house and BT moves slooooooowly
Julie wrote: "Right on red still works here and I love it too. Cuts out a lot of time. You know I assumed left on red would work over there too. Now I know better. :)"Don't try it :) British passengers aren't too good with and the police seem to frown upon it too!
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Don't try it :) British pass..."
Though if you do try it and end up on one of those police chase TV shows wave to us!
Emily wrote: "Melanie wrote: "Julie wrote: "Right on red still works here and I love it too. Cuts out a lot of time. You know I assumed left on red would work over there too. Now I know better. :)"Don't try it..."
Hahaha! I will. :)
OK - so this isn't a rant - more a confession...I'm currently hiding in the bathroom with the laptop doing booky blog stuff, whilst my other half thinks I'm busy ironing (the pile is huge and taking over the house, whilst I look like a hobo wearing creased clothes). I think I might be addicted to Goodreads - help!
I finally finished reading a book that was driving me batty! A Make your own adventure... I realized I HATE make your own adventures! Half the time all you are doing is reading something that leads to a dead end and have to go back and "try again" ugg If only all choices lead to a plausible ending it wouldn't be as bad, which some do. But no I had to read the one with only one ending and only one possible way to get there & if you stray from that then too bad to are going back and rereading things... booo... end of rant lol
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I'm currently hiding in the bathroom with the laptop doing booky blog stuff, whilst my other half thinks I'm busy ironing (the pile is huge and tak..."
I think it sound be a medical condition GR Syndrome, I think I have it too haha
You out of the bathroom yet Mel? I do tend to check if anyone has written a new review far too frequently on here actually.
Okay, I have a legitimate rant today. While standing in line for an event (in the scorching heat and humidity I might add) there was the most awful mom standing behind me, yelling at her kids every five seconds. The kids weren't being mean or even misbehaving. She was on her cell phone the whole time and couldn't be bothered by them. If her kids tried to talk to her she just yelled at them not to touch her. It just infuriated me.I really don't like parents like that. Poor kids.
It's just baffling how some parents act around their kids.When I used to work in retail I would sometimes see a kid bawling his eyes out and the mother was just shouting and swearing at him to shut up.
Melanie wrote: "OK - so this isn't a rant - more a confession...I'm currently hiding in the bathroom with the laptop doing booky blog stuff, whilst my other half thinks I'm busy ironing (the pile is huge and taking over the house, whilst I look like a hobo wearing creased clothes). I think I might be addicted to Goodreads - help!"
Help is available Mel: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/3...
I'm certain I'm addicted. I'd be embarrassed to admit how often I just pop into Goodreads to check for a new review and if anyone posted anything new and interesting in the forums.
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I hate that! But it always happens, if the women thinks the person on the other side of the phone is more important than her children then something is very wrong. I'd understand if they were misbehaving. Evil people/!
This is why I dislike most people. I always end up sitting next to the insufferable parents with the hyper hyperactive children that think the restaurant is a playground, or in front of the couple that thinks that the theatre is their living room and they can talk through the entire movie, or In back of the woman that has to answer her cell phone during a tense scene
In the movie, or smack her annoying teen on the head, repeatedly, etc etc,
Or behind the father screaming at his wife on a cell phone while ordering
A grande latte at Starbucks, oh Lord kill me NOW!
Ada-Lee wrote: "This is why I dislike most people. I always end up sitting next to the insufferable parents with the hyper hyperactive children that think the restaurant is a playground, or in front of the couple ..."I feel the same way. It's like everyone has forgotten how to act in public. I think the parents might be worse than the kids some times.
Michael wrote: "It's just baffling how some parents act around their kids.When I used to work in retail I would sometimes see a kid bawling his eyes out and the mother was just shouting and swearing at him to sh..."
Wal-Mart has got to be the worst place for that. I see parents acting like complete idiots there almost every time I go shopping. Lord, if I worked there I would probably get fired for telling the parents to knock it off.
Oh Lord Walmart! Every psycho family in a 50 mile radius "velcros" themselves to me and stalks me throughout the store, complete with Mom on cellphone, smacking her disrespectful teen boy and/ or girl, teeniebopper with zimples, and 2 kids in the cart, one sitting and screaming , the other jumping up and down demanding more candy! SHOOT ME NOW!
Living in the UK I don't get much of a chance to go into Walmart, but the one time I did go in one I was enthralled with the choice of shotguns on display.
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Okay, I love this page as it is my ultimate whining page.OH MY GOD EXAMS. WHY DO YOU EXIST (well, technically I do know why but that's beside the point)? Is anyone else having exams any time soon?
Michael, you have to wait 3 days for a license to carry a firearm here in Australia( hehehe) so it would be too late to help me!
Do you need a license for each gun?Guns can be good fun actually. When I was in Mississippi a few years ago me and some friends got to fire a shotgun and a little handgun in the woods.
We shot a tree and a large, plastic bucket.
We felt like real men.
Hayley wrote: "Okay, I love this page as it is my ultimate whining page.OH MY GOD EXAMS. WHY DO YOU EXIST (well, technically I do know why but that's beside the point)? Is anyone else having exams any time soon?"
No exams, but I had to turn in my final essays/project yesterday. We all got together for drinks afterwards and it was quite apparent that half of us were functioning on very little sleep and a whole lot of adrenalin. I feel a similar pain.
Ada-Lee wrote: "Michael, you have to wait 3 days for a license to carry a firearm here in Australia( hehehe) so it would be too late to help me!"
I actually have a permit to carry a gun in Missouri.
Lucinda wrote: "Dear Hayley,I rember when i did my school GCSE exams years ago and how they seemed to drag on & be neverending, with each science exam being 2hours 30 minutes long! I had 'mock' practise exams for..."
Thanks for the advice... I should probably get off Goodreads and actually revise now :D
Sadie wrote: "Hayley wrote: "Okay, I love this page as it is my ultimate whining page.OH MY GOD EXAMS. WHY DO YOU EXIST (well, technically I do know why but that's beside the point)? Is anyone else having exam..."
Glad to know there's somebody I can relate to.... I am editing this movie as of right now for Science and it is torture, so I understand your feelings.
Guns are a big deal here in Missouri. I believe we own upwards of ten rifles or so. Most are family guns only a few used for hunting. Deer season is like a national holiday around here. Especially in the sticks. :)
Michael wrote: "Do you need a license for each gun?Guns can be good fun actually. When I was in Mississippi a few years ago me and some friends got to fire a shotgun and a little handgun in the woods.
We shot ..."
You only need a license if it's a handgun and a permit if you want to conceal and carry. It's scary that I know these things. Product of my raising. :)
I like the notion of family guns, it sounds bizarre yet perfect.
It would be weird for me not to be able to have a gun in my house. With all the weirdos out in the world these days you can never be too careful. Some of them are extremely old. Kind of like antiques I guess. Others are just a lot of fun to shoot. I myself don't shoot that often but it's a nice stress reliever.
Julie wrote: "It would be weird for me not to be able to have a gun in my house. With all the weirdos out in the world these days you can never be too careful. Some of them are extremely old. Kind of like antiqu..."The weirdoes or the guns?
Who doesn't want to have SOME sort of weapon in their home? I mean seriously.... A knife, a fork, a pointy stick? Anything will do in a pinch. Bleach, ammonia, BBQ sauce... Peeps? ( microwaved peeps!) I hear they joust if you put toothpicks in them.... Oh thats an urban legend I'm sure!
( but I had it on good authority ) Although I've never tried it myself.....
Ada you are scaring me.Have you been drinking? If you haven't, I think you should start.
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Michael......How can peeps possibly scare you... They are just marshmallow baby chicks, or whatever is in season, covered in yellow sugar, or purple sugar or whatever?Besides when micowaved they don't explode, they just expand... Again....and again.......
OR SO IM TOLD! I have no personal experience with this, plausible deniability!
I missed the start of the weapon rant and just had to go back a page to see what caused it - otherwise it is a tad scary to rock up into this :)
