Gilly, I know you didn't do anything wrong with the sound.
But my great-aunt Maude was the sort of person that wasn't very good at listening and would jump to conclusions and assume that it was your fault - especially if it provided her with an opportunity to be negative or to moan about something.
OK, here's how my late great-aunt Maude would have responded:
Symbolthingumejig: oooh that's terrible. He should be locked up, he should. There should be a law against men like that. That's stalking. Look what happened to Jill Dando. She was lovely, she was...
Sassy: oooh what an awful thing to happen. How are you going to cope with a broken wrist? Don't know how I'd manage if I couldn't use both me hands. And you've got a broken car. You'll have to walk everywhere or get the bus. I've got a free bus pass you know...
Gilly: oooh that's bad. You wanna watch out, you do. You'll lose your job if you don't watch out, carrying on like that. Fancy cocking up the sound like that. My hairdresser the other day was saying...
Marzipan: oooh you poor thing. That's awful. Here's 2 shillings. That should get you by for a few days. You can pay me back later after you've got yourself a nice little job. But isn't it terrible, this Recession? All this unemployment and that. I remember the '30's when we had to...
OK, my whinge is that I've had a great week compared to the rest of the posters on this thread and therefore haven't got anything to whinge about.
So I'm whinging about having nothing to whinge about.
Anyway, Symbolistartist, just think to yourself how big your Asian critic's phone bill's going to be. That should put a smile on your face. After a few days he should get bored and move onto bothering someone else.
Sasseez, at least the accident was his fault and you should be in line for a barrow load of compensation? And at least you've got an excuse not to do much - or any work.
Gilly, at least you're still in a job - which is pretty good going. And at least you're respected enough to be asked to give a funeral speech.
Markizam - at least your parents love you enough to let you stay with them for a week.
My theory is that most if not all failed marriages are because 1 of them or even both of them have a personality flaw that makes it undesirable to stay married to them.
Most likely flaws are:
1 infedility
2 violence
3 lack of anger management
4 inability to truly love another person - selfishness
5 inability to stay committed to a lifelong relationship
6 over critical of their partners
7 obsessive compulsive behaviour
8 making mountains out of mole-hills when it comes to differences between them and their partners
9 laziness and lack of contribution to the family unit
10 addictive behaviour
11 combination of above
Think about all the marriage breakdowns you've known. There's always been some flaw in 1 or both of the people in the marriage.
The worst a girl could do would be to kill all known life in the universe. For example by exploding a few thousand nuclear bombs in a geometric spread around the surface of the Earth.
Torturing their child to death is also something I really don't want to see from a girl.
Every girl farts in public. It's a biological fact. Most of them do it silently.
I don't particularly care what pants girls wear. It's what's underneath that counts
Leg hair's fine. I don't mind it. Armpit hair's OK. There are other more important things about women than how well trimmed their body hair is.
Wait until marriage? Fine as long as she's not a big disappointment after mearriage.
Vegetarian. Fine as long as I can eat what I want.
Mid to Southern France going East to Southern Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Northern Italy, Lichtenstein, Austria.
Great weather, the Alps, Mediteranean beaches, historical cities, towns, villages, relatively safe, relatively high standard of living, great wines, some of the finest restaurants in the world, cultural and sporting events, variety.
I'd take myself away to a nearby natural beauty spot for a couple of hours and I'd sit down and think.
I'd try to determine what I wanted to do in this situation that I was in. I'd want to make the decision that was best for me - that I felt instinctively was the best course of action. I'd try to make my decision without being influenced by what other people might think of me.
You could:
1 Continue as you have been.
2 Cook and care even more for undomesticated siblings. On reflection you may decide that you enjoy caring for others.
3 Get out of there. Move to a different house - even back to England
4 Do some painting / decorating whilst still doing some of the cooking. Even in a recession there's still some houses that need decorating / painting.
5 Buy yourself a "yuck" house. Redecorate it and sell it. The housing market isn't going to carry on falling forever. And even in a falling market you can make money on the right house.
6 Or maybe a combination of the above.
Oh, and if nothing else, this thread shows that you'll probably make a great husband / long term boyfriend for the next woman that comes into your life.
I'd take intensive courses in Aramaic and Latin and go to Jerusalem in AD30, Easter time - and every year thereafter for the next 6 years till Jesus turned up.
I'd want to take a few independent witnesses with me and some hidden video camera equipment.
This is out of curiosity to find out if Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were divinely insprired historians or fanciful novelists.
I wouldn't change anything in history, because my changes might turn out for the worse in the long term.
But I would want to return to the present date with the results of my documentary.
I'd pick 9. And the one change that I'd make would be that everyone in the world could live for as long as they wanted in a a state of perpetual, youthful, able-bodied, good health, but that this would be on condition that they continued to be, or at least attempt to be, of net benefit to the rest of mankind.
With this wish I'd:
get wish 1 - everlasting life
I already have as much inner peace as I'd want, so wish 2 doesn't interest me
Wish 3 = death. Why would I want that?
Why would I want a relationship with a "superior being"? I'd prefer to have a relationship with a human being - ie an "equal being". So wish 4 sounds like it's for weirdoes only.
Wish 5 would be nice, but given everlasting life it would be more satisfying searching for and finding a good enough romantic partner.
6. What sort of POWER are we talking about? Electrical power? Horsepower? Political power? Power to make wishes come true? If it were power to make wishes come I'd have this wish instead of 9. If it's electrical power, all that would do would save about £800 per year on my gas and electricity bills which is not that brilliant.
7. Why would I want a massive amount of respect? A modest amount of respect from other people is good enough for me.
8. Love would come eventually if I had everlasting life. Why rush it, if you've got plenty of time?
10 $50 million? I'd get that eventually if had wish number 9. But then I'd probably stop chasing after money once I got to $5 million.
Mixture of memories, I'm not sure which one was the first:
1 going to the doctors for an innoculation and crying because it hurt, and on the way to the surgery, knowing that I was probably going for an innoculation because at the time I remembered my previous visit to the doctors for an innoculation.
2 the routine of my brothers gettting up and getting ready to go to school
3 seeing my sister as a baby asleep on the balcony of a holiday apartment in Italy
4 on the same holiday, watching light aeroplanes drop plastic advertising chits on parachutes into the sea just off the beach and my oldest 2 brothers rushing into the water to collect a stack of them
5 playing Millionaire with my older brothers and not realising I'd won because I didn't know how to count my money
6 hurting myself on the folding step of our 1st camper van
Cooking, cleaning, ironing, giving massages, doing the food shopping and baking fab chocolate cakes are all easy and straight-forward things to do for any capable man or woman.
Maybe the tricky part is doing them reliably and without getting stressed whilst fitting in all the other things that you want to do in life...
And almost every prisoner will tell you either "I didn't do it." or "I'm never going to do it again."
They're not going to proove themselves wrong by murdering their cell mates - unless they're absolutely completely crazy in a total lack of self control way - in which case someone like me would never get to share a cell with them anyway. Or at least not in the UK anyway.
I read somewhere that there are more people living now than have lived in the entire history of the human race - due to population growth and increased life expectancy.
I don't know if that's true or not.
But ghosts as portrayed in popular literature and films do not exist. Otherwise, someone would have produced sound scientific evidence to proove that they do exist.
There is sound scientific evidence that people lie. That in dark foggy conditions the imagination can make us think we've seen something that we haven't...
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RE: Why it can be good to be a bad mother.
My brothers and my sisters often say that we had really bad parents.And according to the traditional, conventional view of parenting they were awful parents.
But, looking back on it now, I can see that they did so many of the important things better than conventional parents.
And as I say to my brothers and sisters: "The proof of the parent is in the adults they produce."
All of my brothers and my sister are law-abiding, well adjusted, successful adults.