The art of inconsiderate standing

[Miss Demeanour]

Some people are just amazing.

Totally absolutely frickin unbelievable 

Just on the journey into work this morning got to the tube station and went to pick up my free newspaper from outside. There was some immobile blob of a wumman , who had obviously arranged to meet someone,  who had decided it was appropriate to stand right in front of the newspapers. She was getting really ticked off with people hustling her trying to get a paper.

Why don't you just MOVE !!!!

Go into tube , swerve the suitcase and pully behindy people , and then get to ticket barrier. Bloke stands just in front , rifling through pockets trying to find his ticket.

Why don't you just MOVE !!!!


Get to work and then one of two the swirly whirly doors not working and some people outside the working one having a last desperate fag before entering the palace of oppression ; have to ask them to get out of the way.

Why don't you just MOVE !!!!

 

[Darwins Selection]

  People move in mysterious ways.

[Cool Hand Luke]

Not a moving experience, Miss D.

It's moved Cool Hand Luke, though. Happy to blast these miscreants with my kangaroo gun.

Might use it on Darwin, too. He was my hero, but I just realized that he needs emoticons as a crutch. I am a broken man.

[Darwins Selection]

Not a moving experience, Miss D.

It's moved Cool Hand Luke, though. Happy to blast these miscreants with my kangaroo gun.

Might use it on Darwin, too. He was my hero, but I just realized that he needs emoticons as a crutch. I am a broken man.

I would never be without my crutch, even though it is lightly used these days.

Emoticons are needed in communication with the common folk, much as you would pat a dog on the head. Then you may persuade yourself that they understand some of the words.

You may recall this was covered in some depth by Aeschylus' Postulate on the Social Differentiations of the Human Species. Sadly I only possess the rather poor 1783 translation into Latin by the College Firenze, should you wish to re-visit the piece.

[Cool Hand Luke]

I agree on the 1783 translation: does no justice to the work at all and massacres subtle nuances.

I intend creating my own Latin translation when time permits. In the interim, the original Greek is adequate.

[Nick]

On this subject, my medieval Italian is a bit rusty, but I see that Clive James' translation of the Inferno is up for an award. So that was what he was doing in the London Library for so long

I may have to have a look at that.

[Landlady]

Misogynist .....................or do my emotions betray me

[Nick]

Aeschylus' The Eumenides is not so much misogynistic as patriarchal. Mind you, the Appolonian view was not widely accepted at the time.

[Cool Hand Luke]

Has Nick had a brain transplant ?

[Barman]

Where is the fish out of water emoticon....?

[Cool Hand Luke]

No, Landlady, there is no misogynistic bone in Cool Hand's body.

As an example, he is deeply concerned that Miss D might encounter further human impediments on her way home from work.

[Cool Hand Luke]

Where is the fish out of water emoticon....?

Where is the fish out of water emoticon....?

No need to carp, Barman.

[Darwins Selection]

Where is the fish out of water emoticon....?

Where is the fish out of water emoticon....?

No need to carp, Barman.

Double jeopardy I see.

[Cool Hand Luke]

Just desperate to see the emoticon twice.

[Landlady]

Don't you just also hate those people who swerve off to one side (right or left) without doing a shoulder check.............

Did they never do their basic motorbike training