So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[LizzieMaine]

Yep. One day about five years ago I got up in the morning and went to work, feeling pretty good about getting my debt load down, and then right before lunch my appendix exploded. Instantly I owed thousands of dollars that I hadn't owed seconds before, and I didn't even get any satisifaction out of it. Even the chicken noodle soup they served me just before they let me out of the hospital was cold.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Have you ever been in that situation where you are tightening the purse strings, or trying to, and the unexpected hits you, one after another? On Friday the outside window of a double glazed skylight unit cracked all the way across, that's not going to be cheap. And only last week the garage told me to be ready for a new clutch in the car, then this afternoon the ceramic hob that we cook on, cracked in two places, and it's only five years old. I tell you, sometimes I despair, I think just what else will happen?

Yep but you should be alright now, matey, as they usually come in 3's.
These trials are sent to test us, ya just gotta stand tall & laugh in the face of adversity.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Even the chicken noodle soup they served me just before they let me out of the hospital was cold.

Well it was probably a long walk from the local soup kitchen to the hospital.

 

[GHT]

Yep. One day about five years ago I got up in the morning and went to work, feeling pretty good about getting my debt load down, and then right before lunch my appendix exploded. Instantly I owed thousands of dollars that I hadn't owed seconds before, and I didn't even get any satisfaction out of it. Even the chicken noodle soup they served me just before they let me out of the hospital was cold.

You humble me, knocks my first world whinge into a cocked hat.

Yep but you should be alright now, matey, as they usually come in 3's.
These trials are sent to test us, ya just gotta stand tall & laugh in the face of adversity.

That's true, and as my missus regularly points out, "If you are looking for sympathy you'll find it in the dictionary, it's between sh*t & syphilis.

Well it was probably a long walk from the local soup kitchen to the hospital

Laughing in the face of adversity, no other way to deal with it really.

 

[Harp]

The reference is to Hawaiian Pidgin as “A CREOLE” not as “CREOLE”. Linguistically speaking, a pidgin (note the lower case “p”) is a l sort of business language, a means of communication between intermixed populations which do not share a common language. It is a language which is used out in the world, but no one is a native speaker. A pidgin is considered to have become a creole (note here the lower case “c”) when it is spoken in the home, as a native tongue. Under this definition, Hawaiian Pidgin can properly be considered “a creole”, though it is most emphatically not “Creole”.

Pidge is critically torn between ethnic talisman and viable native tongue, generic issues and all, grammar, usage.
My opinion is that Pidge is not Creole, and that is just mine take.

 

[vitanola]

Pidge is critically torn between ethnic talisman and viable native tongue, generic issues and all, grammar, usage.
My opinion is that Pidge is not Creole, and that is just mine take.

Well, I believe that it is pretty clear that Pidge was once a creole. It’s status today would be questionable, for there seem to be few real native speakers, and, as you have pointed out, it’s current use tends to be rather forces, as if one were making a point.

 

[Harp]

Bartender edit: Please remember the 'no politics' rule.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I could do without getting a postcard in the mail from some community-wrecking real estate parasite trying to get me to sell my house "within walking distance of desirable local attractions" to some gentrfier, by pointing out others "in your neighborhood" who have done so. Come the revolution....

 

[tonyb]

^^^^
We got those missives at least twice monthly on average when we lived in a rapidly gentrifying district.

There are now brew pubs and art galleries and the like where hardware stores and shoe repair shops used to be.

I couldn’t complain about selling our place for 350 percent more than we paid 15 years earlier. And I really wouldn’t wish to live around there anymore anyhoo. I have relatively little in common with people who can pay that kind of money for housing. They ain’t me, and I ain’t them.

I’m reminded of an old girlfriend coming to the realization that her friends and associates who shopped at a boutique-y (and spendy) mall housed in a century-old school building were no less materialistic than their parents and grandparents. The materials they just had to have may have been more bohemian, but they were no less material. “No sh*t?,” I replied, more than a little sarcastically. (The relationship didn’t last much longer.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

I bought my house to live in, and I intend to one day die in it. Ain't no pushy upscale trash gonna get me out.

 

[Héctor Fernández]

The ADT security system advertisement flyer. At least twice a week.

Hello, I already own the system, boy oh boy! Lol....

 

[belfastboy]

The ADT security system advertisement flyer. At least twice a week.

Hello, I already own the system, boy oh boy! Lol....

In these modern times the only mail I get is advertising flyers. I consider personalized mail the ones addressed to "Occupant" as most have no envelope at all.

 

[belfastboy]

I bought my house to live in, and I intend to one day die in it. Ain't no pushy upscale trash gonna get me out.

Me, I hope one day to sell my house to a fellow "upscale trasher" so I can move into an old folks home.

 

[tonyb]

I bought my house to live in, and I intend to one day die in it. Ain't no pushy upscale trash gonna get me out.

It is not to deny there are forces stronger than ourselves to resist going along with their plans.

 

[tonyb]

Me, I hope one day to sell my house to a fellow "upscale trasher" so I can move into an old folks home.

Aim for somewhere in the semi-rural Southwestern U.S., where it’s still relatively cheap and undoubtedly sunny. With all those decades under the clouds up there in beautiful Vancouver, BC, you won’t live long enough down desert way to ever develop skin cancer.

 

[belfastboy]

Aim for somewhere in the semi-rural Southwestern U.S., where it’s still relatively cheap and undoubtedly sunny. With all those decades under the clouds up there in beautiful Vancouver, BC, you won’t live long enough down desert way to ever develop skin cancer.

If we could finesse the health care issue we would have moved south a few years ago.

 

[tonyb]

If we could finesse the health care issue we would have moved south a few years ago.

Yeah, no kiddin’. Down here in God’s Country you just might need his intervention to avoid losing all you’ve worked for should you be so personally irresponsible as to fall ill.

EDIT: It’s reliably sunny most days over around Kelowna, ain’t it?

 

[belfastboy]

Yeah, no kiddin’. Down here in God’s Country you just might need his intervention to avoid losing all you’ve worked for should you be so personally irresponsible as to fall ill.

EDIT: It’s reliably sunny most days over around Kelowna, ain’t it?

Yes, that is just north of our little section of the Sonoran Desert system so hot summers colder winters. I live right on the coast where it is mild and wet 11 months of the year.....Seattle weather.
Up here we pay for our medical in the form of taxation. The downside is our medical system rations the services. Works well generally for serious life threatening illness other serious but not deadly medical interventions the wait times can be horrific. I have paid the money to a USA border hospital to do an MRI on my elderly mother to avoid the 9 month wait....it was to discern if she had cancer.

 

[GHT]

Me, I hope one day to sell my house to a fellow "upscale trasher" so I can move into an old folks home.

Did just that, although there's only two of us in this old folks home.

Up here we pay for our medical in the form of taxation. The downside is our medical system rations the services. Works well generally for serious life threatening illness other serious but not deadly medical interventions the wait times can be horrific. I have paid the money to a USA border hospital to do an MRI on my elderly mother to avoid the 9 month wait....it was to discern if she had cancer.

Our NHS is a form of taxation, we too have a long wait unless it's catastrophic, like being in a road collision or street attacked. My wife and I have both had surgery, she had a breast reduction to reduce cancer risk, then later, a knee joint replacement. I had a hip joint replacement. We took the view that as someone wanted to throw money at us in exchange for our London home, we could afford to pay for our medical necessities. Our decision also helps those on the waiting list, the more who pay for private treatment the shorter the wait for others.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The idea of living in a "home" in my declining years terrifies me, the idea of being locked up among people my own age -- few of whom I willingly associate with -- without hope of parole. The Kids -- who have been designated to take charge of my affairs if I'm incapacitated -- have been strictly instructed not to dump me into such a situation. No member of my family has ever ended up in such a place, and I won't be the first.