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ORIGINAL: indysgill

I had to search for tragus, was that not painful?

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ORIGINAL: Darth Marenghi

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ORIGINAL: indysgill

I had to search for tragus, was that not painful?

I may actually have to stick the definition of tragus in my signature given how often this seems to come up! [:D]

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ORIGINAL: Sway

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ORIGINAL: Darth Marenghi

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ORIGINAL: indysgill

I had to search for tragus, was that not painful?

I may actually have to stick the definition of tragus in my signature given how often this seems to come up! [:D]

[:D]

Indy, after about 5 times of having them done, it doesn't seem any more or less painful than any other piercing.

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ORIGINAL: indysgill

I think its because that part is hard and almost bony that makes me wince when people say they have it pierced.

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ORIGINAL: steffols

Speaking to my mum and hearing how thick her voice is from crying all day. One minute, she has a job, next thing shes a 52 year old woman with 34 years in the same job and out on her ear. I just want to give her a cuddle so much. It's been such a hard week for her and just before Christmas as well.

I've arranged for her to receive a basket of flowers tomorrow morning to cheer her up a bit. Doubt it will do much good, but I'm trying.

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ORIGINAL: Chief

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ORIGINAL: steffols

Speaking to my mum and hearing how thick her voice is from crying all day. One minute, she has a job, next thing shes a 52 year old woman with 34 years in the same job and out on her ear. I just want to give her a cuddle so much. It's been such a hard week for her and just before Christmas as well.

I've arranged for her to receive a basket of flowers tomorrow morning to cheer her up a bit. Doubt it will do much good, but I'm trying.

That's a shame. I'd hate to be out of work and I'm only 31.

Not to be too nosey but did she get a redundancy package? She shouldn't be too disheartened though. My step-mum was 60 when she sold her business and started having to look for work. She got offered two jobs at once beating a lot of younger candidates. She had to refuse one of them and now works at Asda and bloody loves it, more of a social event for her than anything.

I think, depending on the role, older people are considered more reliable and less likely to fuck employers about.

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ORIGINAL: Chief

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ORIGINAL: steffols

Speaking to my mum and hearing how thick her voice is from crying all day. One minute, she has a job, next thing shes a 52 year old woman with 34 years in the same job and out on her ear. I just want to give her a cuddle so much. It's been such a hard week for her and just before Christmas as well.

I've arranged for her to receive a basket of flowers tomorrow morning to cheer her up a bit. Doubt it will do much good, but I'm trying.

That's a shame. I'd hate to be out of work and I'm only 31.

Not to be too nosey but did she get a redundancy package? She shouldn't be too disheartened though. My step-mum was 60 when she sold her business and started having to look for work. She got offered two jobs at once beating a lot of younger candidates. She had to refuse one of them and now works at Asda and bloody loves it, more of a social event for her than anything.

I think, depending on the role, older people are considered more reliable and less likely to fuck employers about.

Tesco and B&Q seems to be the standards there. And they get the value of it too.

Are you going home for Xmas Steffols?

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Unfortunately, I'm not Elab. My work won't allow me to have the Christmas period off. Although I found out a few weeks ago that they allow it for special reasons, and apparently, me wanting to go home for Christmas wouldn't be a problem. I wish I had known that earlier, as right now, its really killing me not being there for my family. I'm really not looking forward to Christmas that much now.

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ORIGINAL: Harry Tuttle

Fuck sake.

The guy three doors down from us (who is a Karate instructor and a driving instructor) is a proper cunt when it comes to parking in our street, to the extent that he's got three impending court cases for threatening behaviour (all of which are parking related and well out of order and he's genuinely looking at losing his license to teach karate to kids because he threatened a mother in front of her children, despite her having permission to park where she was off the council). Anyway, he came up with an idea, a good one to be honest, that everybody in the street parks diagonally which does actually help with the prety congested parking in the street. The problem is that we live at the end of the row, and there's a wall directly behind where we park so basically if we park diagonally we're actually impeding on the parking spaces next to us. This would be apparent to the stupidest of morons but despite that he's had a few words with the wife before about it (not while I'm about though).

Anyway, to cut to the chase. I was on my way home from a night out with work and as I was passing his house he was in the middle of parking. When he saw me he came out of his car to start to have a go at me about my wife's parking. Now I'm not a violent man, genuinely I'm not despite the fact I can look after myself, but I can be pretty intimidating when I want to so I basically had to tell him, at the end of a pretty extreme diatribe by him, that if he ever talked to me or my wife about the parking situation again then the paramedics would need a bucket and spade to get him in the back of the ambulance. I've honestly never seen anyone wilt so quickly in my life but I really feel like a cunt now. I honestly don't like to resort to violence, or even the threat of it because there's always the chance you'll have to follow it through, but the guy seriously doesn't seem to be able to respond to anything else.

What pisses me off the most is that after over 3 years of his bollocks I was nearly egging him on to continue just so I could leather the fucker. This is why I rarely drink, I'm easily led into some prety shitty situations. So basically despite me feeling like I was totally in the right I'm the one that's left feeling like a twat whilst I bet the fucking twat three doors down will sleep like a baby tonight.

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ORIGINAL: Harry Tuttle

Fuck sake.

The guy three doors down from us (who is a Karate instructor and a driving instructor) is a proper cunt when it comes to parking in our street, to the extent that he's got three impending court cases for threatening behaviour (all of which are parking related and well out of order and he's genuinely looking at losing his license to teach karate to kids because he threatened a mother in front of her children, despite her having permission to park where she was off the council). Anyway, he came up with an idea, a good one to be honest, that everybody in the street parks diagonally which does actually help with the prety congested parking in the street. The problem is that we live at the end of the row, and there's a wall directly behind where we park so basically if we park diagonally we're actually impeding on the parking spaces next to us. This would be apparent to the stupidest of morons but despite that he's had a few words with the wife before about it (not while I'm about though).

Anyway, to cut to the chase. I was on my way home from a night out with work and as I was passing his house he was in the middle of parking. When he saw me he came out of his car to start to have a go at me about my wife's parking. Now I'm not a violent man, genuinely I'm not despite the fact I can look after myself, but I can be pretty intimidating when I want to so I basically had to tell him, at the end of a pretty extreme diatribe by him, that if he ever talked to me or my wife about the parking situation again then the paramedics would need a bucket and spade to get him in the back of the ambulance. I've honestly never seen anyone wilt so quickly in my life but I really feel like a cunt now. I honestly don't like to resort to violence, or even the threat of it because there's always the chance you'll have to follow it through, but the guy seriously doesn't seem to be able to respond to anything else.

What pisses me off the most is that after over 3 years of his bollocks I was nearly egging him on to continue just so I could leather the fucker. This is why I rarely drink, I'm easily led into some prety shitty situations. So basically despite me feeling like I was totally in the right I'm the one that's left feeling like a twat whilst I bet the fucking twat three doors down will sleep like a baby tonight.

He wouldn't happen to not be the kind of person who doesn't know handle himself, would he?

Has he threatened to beat you to a heaving bloody pulp?

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ORIGINAL: Harry Tuttle

I'd say the lesson is that violence can be countered by the threat of greater violence (whether the person making the threat is capable of carrying it out or not).

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ORIGINAL: Olaf

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ORIGINAL: Harry Tuttle

I'd say the lesson is that violence can be countered by the threat of greater violence (whether the person making the threat is capable of carrying it out or not).

Noted. I can put a pen in my shirt pocket and tell hooligans that I've got a knife or something?

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ORIGINAL: Harry Tuttle

I'm fairly certain we'll hear no more about the parking situation off him again but that doesn't stop me ruing the fact I had to threaten to beat him into paste to achieve it.

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ORIGINAL: Harry Tuttle

I'd say the lesson is that violence can be countered by the threat of greater violence (whether the person making the threat is capable of carrying it out or not).

Noted. I can put a pen in my shirt pocket and tell hooligans that I've got a knife or something?

Nah, just tell them that their parents need to be good at jigsaw puzzles if they ever wish to see their loved ones in one piece again and they should fuck off. Or they'll beat the shit out of you, it's a chance you have to take. Thankfully I've been lucky this year.

Having said that I've got a pretty vivid imagination and am able to come up with some pretty vicious threats. If you imply that you have the ability to dismantle somebody one limb at a time then they tend to back off. I've been extremely lucky in that nobody's called my bluff yet...

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ORIGINAL: Olaf

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ORIGINAL: Harry Tuttle

I'd say the lesson is that violence can be countered by the threat of greater violence (whether the person making the threat is capable of carrying it out or not).

Noted. I can put a pen in my shirt pocket and tell hooligans that I've got a knife or something?

Nah, just tell them that their parents need to be good at jigsaw puzzles if they ever wish to see their loved ones in one piece again and they should fuck off. Or they'll beat the shit out of you, it's a chance you have to take. Thankfully I've been lucky this year.

Having said that I've got a pretty vivid imagination and am able to come up with some pretty vicious threats. If you imply that you have the ability to dismantle somebody one limb at a time then they tend to back off. I've been extremely lucky in that nobody's called my bluff yet...

"How do you like hospital food?"

*puts on sunglasses*

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ORIGINAL: Olaf

I was actually trying to make light of the situation as you seemed put out by what happened and in need of a laugh (I'd have done the same in your situation if I wasn't 5'11" and skinny). This failed miserably, alas.