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MIB
Member # 426
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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.
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Mojo Jojo
Member # 256
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You were gone? I don't think anyone here noticed, but hey...
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MIB
Member # 426
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*sniff* And now depression sets in along with terrible gas. If only I could fart I'd feel better...........
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Grokca
Member # 722
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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.
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MIB
Member # 426
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Thanks. For the last 12 hours or so I've been taking anti-gas medicine. It isn't helping that much.
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akb1979
Member # 557
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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
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MIB
Member # 426
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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.
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akb1979
Member # 557
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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)
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Shik
Member # 343
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"Whinge?" Do you mean "whine?"
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The_Tom
Member # 38
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No, he means "whinge," a perfectly acceptable word used in the entire English-speaking world except the US.
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TSN
Member # 31
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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.
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akb1979
Member # 557
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OMG!!!! You don't know what whinge is and means!!
I thought I had heard everything!
Faints
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TSN
Member # 31
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Sorry. We "cannae" all be aware of every word in every dialect of the language.
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TLE
Member # 280
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That doesn't stop people from demanding you learn all their subtle linguistic differences.
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akb1979
Member # 557
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quote: Originally posted by TLE: That doesn't stop people from demanding you learn all their subtle linguistic differences.
Right on! HEHE!
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PsyLiam
Member # 73
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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.
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Malnurtured Snay
Member # 411
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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'.)
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Siegfried
Member # 29
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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'.
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Malnurtured Snay
Member # 411
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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.
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TSN
Member # 31
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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...
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akb1979
Member # 557
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MIB - how do you change your name like that?
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CaptainMike
Member # 709
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well first you have to be a big idiot... then, change your name to annoy everyone
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akb1979
Member # 557
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Oh I see, it's done like that is it? I think that I'll skip it HEHE!
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