I won't bother giving you the extremly gruesome details, but for the last 36 hours or so I've been very ill. I swear I have lost at least a couple of pounds beacuse I haven't been able to eat any solid food other than light soup crackers during the time I was ill.
To top it all off, this morning, I wake up feeling better only to see my mother extremely pissed to find that the car battery she had just gotten replaced is starting to fail on her. She's heading toward goodyear as I write this to yell at mechanics. Posted by Mojo Jojo (Member # 256) on :
You were gone? I don't think anyone here noticed, but hey... Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
*sniff* And now depression sets in along with terrible gas. If only I could fart I'd feel better...........
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
Sounds like she has a short in her electrical system not a bad battery, but most mechanics these days don't test anything they just replace parts. Hope your fart came out ok.
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
Thanks. For the last 12 hours or so I've been taking anti-gas medicine. It isn't helping that much.
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
quote:Originally posted by MIB: If only I could fart I'd feel better...........
Sorry MIB, but when I read this I just burst out laughing. It just reminded me of my Dad and this things that he comes out with (from his mouth that is, not his arse!)
quote:Originally posted by MIB: Thanks. For the last 12 hours or so I've been taking anti-gas medicine. It isn't helping that much.
Try eating prunes: they helped my Dad - and don't we know it! HEHE
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
I don't have any prunes. The gas has passed for the most part, but now I'm suffering from bad muscle aches. You don't want to know where these aches came from. Pain killers don't help, but bitching about it on Flare does a little bit. Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
That's the spirit man! Whinge, whinge and whinge! You might even be soooo successful that you stealt my title of "King Whinger"!
HEHE!
(Oh yes, I can imagine where the aches are)
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
"Whinge?" Do you mean "whine?"
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
No, he means "whinge," a perfectly acceptable word used in the entire English-speaking world except the US.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Apparently, the Old English word for "whine" evolved into "whine" in the south, and "whinge" in the north (Scotland and such). That's what I glean from the Oxford English Dictionary, anyway.
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
OMG!!!! You don't know what whinge is and means!!
I thought I had heard everything!
Faints
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Sorry. We "cannae" all be aware of every word in every dialect of the language.
Posted by TLE (Member # 280) on :
That doesn't stop people from demanding you learn all their subtle linguistic differences. Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
quote:Originally posted by TLE: That doesn't stop people from demanding you learn all their subtle linguistic differences.
Right on! HEHE! Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
No, but if you weren't the lazy country on Earth, you could have probably figured it out. We managed to guess that Americans call trousers "pants" without a guide book. Besides, we haven't demanded. Shik tried to correct someone over daring to use a non-American word. And he's used "soulbond" in several posts, so he can hardly talk.
"Sorry. We "cannae" all be aware of every word in every dialect of the language."
Now, to be fair, "cannae" is quite a small regional word. "Whinge" is used in the entirety of the UK, Australia, and Canada. There's a teeny difference there.
Southeners also say "whinge" more than "whine", so the Oxford English Dictionary is wrong. Burn it.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
I was under the impression "cannae" was just the phonetic spelling for how "cannot" sounds with a Scottish burr. And thus, not a different word.
(In much the same way that I pronounce 'color' as 'keller' ... my pronunciation of the word has nothing to do with whether or not its a different word then anyone who pronounces it 'color'.)
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
You pronounce "color" as "keller!?" I suddenly have the most curious feeling to have a telephone conversation with you to hear what other words y'all North'ners are butcherin'. Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Actually, I have what I have been told is a 'southern' accent (ickity-ick) by my friends from NY and Boston and there-a-bouts.
I'm not exactly thrilled by it. Grrr.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, if the Northerners say you sound Southern, and the Southerners say you sound Northern, and you live in Baltimore, you probably have a "Mid-Atlantic" accent (whatever that is; I've just heard the term before). Of course, if you pronounce "color" like "keller", maybe your accent is just something screwed-up...
And figuring out what "pants" means isn't hard. Even in England, pants are still something you wear in the same location. But "whinge"... Sounds like some sort of piece of machinery. "Pull that lever and crank the whinge", or something...
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
MIB - how do you change your name like that?
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
well first you have to be a big idiot... then, change your name to annoy everyone
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
Oh I see, it's done like that is it? I think that I'll skip it HEHE!
HEHE
