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« Reply #6135 on: 12:08:48, 09-06-2008 » |
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the constant fear of being surprised by Strinasacchi and friends shouting 'It's so small!'. That's gone straight to the top of my list too, George.  |
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« Reply #6136 on: 12:18:41, 09-06-2008 » |
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Oh, but watching pretty young women blushing as they are being frisked is the one thing that makes those endless queues for security pass in no time.
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Getting felt up by humourless security guards in the early hours before I've had enough coffee while my colleagues are waiting and watching is not my idea of fun.
Tell me about it. The latest search technique for us chaps appears to be for the guard to place his hands inside the trouser-band and to have a vigorous rummage. I wonder whether they ever find anything ... |
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« Reply #6138 on: 12:42:26, 09-06-2008 » |
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Oh, but watching pretty young women blushing as they are being frisked is the one thing that makes those endless queues for security pass in no time.
Well that wouldn't be me. I don't blush, I seethe and fume and silently rage and do my best to refrain from my natural instinct of punching someone who touches me where I don't want to be touched. And I would hardly describe myself as a pretty young woman, especially at airports early in the morning when I haven't had my coffee yet:  Getting felt up by humourless security guards in the early hours before I've had enough coffee while my colleagues are waiting and watching is not my idea of fun.
Tell me about it. The latest search technique for us chaps appears to be for the guard to place his hands inside the trouser-band and to have a vigorous rummage. I wonder whether they ever find anything ... pw, if you've had to remove your belt before being subjected to a trouser-band rummage, that sounds to me like a formula for disaster:  |
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[ Getting felt up by humourless security guards in the early hours before I've had enough coffee while my colleagues are waiting and watching is not my idea of fun.
Tell me about it. The latest search technique for us chaps appears to be for the guard to place his hands inside the trouser-band and to have a vigorous rummage. I wonder whether they ever find anything ... pw, if you've had to remove your belt before being subjected to a trouser-band rummage, that sounds to me like a formula for disaster: Oh yes, the belt has already been removed by then. The joys of modern travel: one stands in a public place with some stranger's hands down one's unsupported trousers, watching the tray(s) containing one's shoes, belt, jacket, wallet, laptop etc trundling away over the rollers .... nightmare. |
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Oh, but watching pretty young women blushing as they are being frisked is the one thing that makes those endless queues for security pass in no time.
Well that wouldn't be me. I don't blush, I seethe and fume and silently rage and do my best to refrain from my natural instinct of punching someone who touches me where I don't want to be touched. That will do just fine. Resentment and embarrassment are not so far from each other - both evoke exquisite shades of scarlet. |
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« Reply #6141 on: 13:20:59, 09-06-2008 » |
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I refer you to my previous self-portrait of a blue-faced, bloodshot-eyed, caffeine-deprived raging maniac. I was much cuter in university when I ran around with my friends startling unwary urinating boys with shouts of "It's so small!"  My next grumpy rant is that I have to retune my violin to A=430 this week. My violin is very unhappy at 430, and witnessing its suffering always makes me feel dreadful for not being able to afford a proper classical fiddle.  |
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« Reply #6142 on: 14:04:49, 09-06-2008 » |
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I was much cuter in university when I ran around with my friends startling unwary urinating boys with shouts of "It's so small!" Were they the same ones who exchanged numbers between 1 and 10 whenever you walked past? :-) |
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« Reply #6143 on: 19:08:33, 09-06-2008 » |
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Martle asked me to post my final squib at the hospital parking people, so here it is: Dear Ms Wright,
thank you for your letter of 5 June.
Obviously you and your “assistant manager” have decided to disregard the actual content of my last two letters under the cover of your grossly unfair “rules and regulations”. I note also that you have now descended to threatening me with legal action, and for that reason and that reason only I suppose I have no alternative but to pay your ridiculous fine and look forward to a time (which appears already to have arrived in Wales and Scotland) when money-grubbing companies like yours will cease to add insult to injury, in a very real sense, by exploiting patients in this way.
Since you are clearly well-acquainted with litigation, I suggest you take legal action against whatever school you went to, on account of the fact that they seem not to have taught you the elements of English grammar and spelling. I am not sure what I find more disheartening, the mindless greed of your company or the appalling standard of your letter-writing.
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« Reply #6144 on: 19:14:17, 09-06-2008 » |
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Martle asked me to post my final squib at the hospital parking people, so here it is: Dear Ms Wright,
thank you for your letter of 5 June.
Obviously you and your “assistant manager” have decided to disregard the actual content of my last two letters under the cover of your grossly unfair “rules and regulations”. I note also that you have now descended to threatening me with legal action, and for that reason and that reason only I suppose I have no alternative but to pay your ridiculous fine and look forward to a time (which appears already to have arrived in Wales and Scotland) when money-grubbing companies like yours will cease to add insult to injury, in a very real sense, by exploiting patients in this way.
Since you are clearly well-acquainted with litigation, I suggest you take legal action against whatever school you went to, on account of the fact that they seem not to have taught you the elements of English grammar and spelling. I am not sure what I find more disheartening, the mindless greed of your company or the appalling standard of your letter-writing.
Yours sincerely
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« Reply #6145 on: 19:38:17, 09-06-2008 » |
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As if done with a scalpel, Richard - appropriately enough. Very choice.
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« Reply #6146 on: 21:56:12, 09-06-2008 » |
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Grumpy new rant: I have just seen an advert for "WinkBingo.com", which features "opera", dont'cha know. Specifically, it features a lady singing "O mio babbino caro" while dressed as a Valkyrie. Another forum on which I post offers an emoticon bashing its head against a brick wall. Why don't we have that one here? At any rate, I am glad I have this room to offload in. I feel better now  Edited to add a YouTube clip http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vC-WQkvIIa8 |
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« Reply #6148 on: 22:13:24, 09-06-2008 » |
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Thanks martle. In the absence of a frustrated smiley, that will do |
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« Reply #6149 on: 22:16:14, 09-06-2008 » |
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Ok, Ruth. Try this for size.  |
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