The Not Happy Thread

I think you missed the part about the throbbing manliness...

 

Ugh

 

All very congenial and affable on here nowadays eh?
How disappointed do you think people will be in 2017 when they realise that people - celebrities or otherwise - continue to die?
On another note, abolish the royal family.

 

My school hours got in the way of yet another job. I had the job for two days, but when they saw that my hours conflicted with my school hours they had to let me go.

On top of that I believe I may be suffering from hypoglycemia.

 

The Librarian is going to be running things?

Okay, I've mentioned before that, due to my situation, I understand British English fairly well, but the two things I've never been able to accept are "torch"not being one of these:



and "hire" being applied to things other than people. I now know what a "Kango" is, but damn if it doesn't sound like some sort of ethnic slur... Perhaps a "hoolie bar" is where one goes to meet a nice, sweaty, well-muscled Kango?

 

I imploded at the workplace - came home.

...suppose we're all entitled to this indulgence...one day a year. Definitely I would abolish the royal family, and the House of Lords, and the army, Britain as a nation state, teachers, middle-managers, West End theatre, North London, South Devon, Cornwall, the county of Oxfordshire, the Channel Islands go to Spain by way of apology. Abolish antiques, property ownership, bungalows, tasers - tasers particularly, I'm bound to be tasered in a supermarket. Abolish universities also, pledge sovereignty - all wisdom in the hands of the Dutch, they'll sort things out.

Very depressed, possibly till February :/

 

Oh, I get it, I just refuse to accept it.

From Wikipedia:

 

I'm with you on all those Briticisms, @Iain Aschendale. Torch for flashlight always feels imprecise to me. I get the etymology well enough, but I think the battery operated version is different enough from the flammable version to merit its own name. I mean, we drive cars not carriages. I knew what a Kango was because it's a common tool here in PR where all structures are made of solid cement, interior and exterior walls alike. Hanging a picture in PR is not a 10 min affair. Hoolie bar threw me for a loop, tho. @big soft moose, we call it a crowbar, not a wrecking bar. You may be thinking of a wrecking ball, which, yes, that's what we call that.

ETA: TMW you go to link an image of a wrecking ball and images of Miley Cyrus trump the actual item.

 

The mind boggles...

 

You can also call it a pry bar in America, though... As with all Americanisms, America is BIG, physically. These terms may well be subject to regionalism and to greater or lesser degrees of pedantic application. To me a pry bar is not quite the same as a crowbar, but I am sure there are all kind of examples where my particular application of these terms differs.

 

Yep, that's what it is for me too, but I've defo heard people use that term for what I call crowbar. Again, big country, lots of room for semantic shift.

 

A crowbar being used appropriately:

 

What am I seeing here? Is that Walter White as a gay Green Lantern? (Lambda is one of the lesser-known internal symbols for the community)

 

Gordon Freeman

 

Ah. That explains my confusion. I don't game.

 

Don't blame you.
Re. the crowbar, also known as a 'jemmy' in this locality, primarily in burglary circles.

 

You bloody twits! Accept that Brits speak one way and you bloody Yanks speak another and get along, damn it! >:[

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There, how did I do?