Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[Ziggy]

I think Im on my way to a nervous breakdown! After a week spent working 10am till 9pm, I just can't let go of my work. Ive spent the last few hours reading a book, then trying to sleep...but have now given up again. Right now, Im up and working on corrections for my paper. This annoys me for I need my sleep. Ive got to go back into the office again tomorrow morning and I need some rest!

Here's a tip. Just close your eyes and pick a random event from any other aspect of your life past or present (it won't matter what) and think about it for a few seconds. You'll be sound asleeep before long.

HTH

[xbl]

Here's a tip. Just close your eyes and pick a random event from any other aspect of your life past or present (it won't matter what) and think about it for a few seconds. You'll be sound asleeep before long.

HTH

Oh believe me, that isnt going to work. Not now, at this time and this place after reading the email I just got.

[Ziggy]

Oh believe me, that isnt going to work. Not now, at this time and this place after reading the email I just got.

You're doing it wrong I said think of something past or present. I didn't say anything about made up stuff.

[MP_MFC]

Old people at cashlines.

I GUARANTEE you it's a three stage operation.

1. Card in. Avoid the "check on screen balance" button and proceed directly to "print mini statement" button. Take staement and absolutely avoid the "carry out another transaction" button and press cancel.
   
2. Scrutinise the mini statement with your feeble eyesight ensuring that your available balance is checked, double checked and if your wife/husband (assuming they are still alive) is with you get them to double check it.
   
3. Re-enter your card and withdraw £10. Of course. Because you always wanted money didn't you???
   

b*****dS......................

Have you ever encountered step 4: Re-enter your card and take another mini statement/printed balance.

Because subtracting 10 is so difficult.

[IainMorton]

That bloody "I kissed a girl and I liked it" song that's going about just now. I hear it once and it's stuck in my head for hours... AARRGGHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fuctifano]

That bloody "I kissed a girl and I liked it" song that's going about just now. I hear it once and it's stuck in my head for hours... AARRGGHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was literally just going on to this thread to post that.

[Ayrgirl]

That bloody "I kissed a girl and I liked it" song that's going about just now. I hear it once and it's stuck in my head for hours... AARRGGHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was on the radio at work last night and the young lass at work sang it for hours last night. When I was leaving work this morning she started singing it again and now it's stuck in my head once more

[An Sionnach]

...or i have to interprete german poems

Ich habe diese Bucher vorbei Gunter Grass:

DIE VORZÜGE DER WINDHÜHNER

ONKEL, ONKEL

HOCHWASSER

DIE BÖSEN KÖCHE

NOCH ZEHN MINUTEN BIS BUFFALO

BERITTEN HIN UND ZURÜCK

32 ZÄHNE

STOFFRESTE

DIE BLECHTROMMEL

GLEISDEIK

KATZ UND MAUS

HUNDEJAHRE

DIE BALLERINA

POUM; ODER, DIE VERGANGENHEIT FLIEGT MIT

DIE PLEBEJER PROBEN DEN AUFSTAND

AUFGEFRAGT

ÜBER DAS SELBSVERSTÄNDLICHE

BRIEFE ÜBER DIE GRENZE

TSCHECHOSLOWAKEI

ÜBER MEINEN LEHRER DÖBLIN, UND ANDERE VORTRÄGE

DAVOR

ÖRTLICH BETÄUB

DOKUMENTE ZUR POLITISCHEN WIRKUNG

AUS DEM TAGEBUCH EINER SCHECKE

MARIAZUEHREN

DIE BÜRGER UND SEINE STIMME

DIE VORZÜGE DER WINDHÜHNER

GLEISDREIEK

AUSGEFRAGT

LIEBE GEPRÜFT

DER BUTT

DENKZETTEL

DAS TREFFEN IN TELGTE

KOPFGEBURTEN: ODER DIE DEUTSCHEN STERBEN AUSAUFSÄTZE ZUR LITERATUR

WIEDERSTAND LERNEN

DIE RÄTTIN

ZUNGE ZEIGEN

DEUTSCHER LASTENAUSGLEICH

EIN SCHNÄPPCHEN NAMENS DDR, LETZTE REDEB VOM GLOCKENGELÄUT

GEGEN DIE VERSTREICHENDEZEIT

UNKENRUFE

GESTERN, VOR 50 JAHREN, 1999

EIN WEITES FELD

DIE DEUTSCHEN UND IHRE DICHTER

NOVEMBERLAND

FUNDSACHEN FÜR NICHLESER

MEIN JAHRHUNDERT

FÜNF JAHRZEHNTE

IM KREBSGANG

LETZTE TÄNZE

BEIM HÄUTEN DER ZWIEBEL

DUMMER AUGUST

DIE BOX

I'm also happy to help with your English translations! B)

[MarvMarvSuperMarv]

Adverts in the middle of Films, Film4 especially. Ruined Braveheart last night.

[Reina]

Ich habe diese Bucher vorbei Gunter Grass:

D'oh!

[An Sionnach]

D'oh!

Haw you, don't be so picky!

1. I'm not at school

2. All Gunter Grass's books I have are English translations, usually by Ralph Mannheim, although several volumes of his poems have the original German opposite the English translation

or were you just getting your hand in for starting back at work?!

[Reina]

Nah, I'm just a pedant by nature. Sorry.

[An Sionnach]

Nah, I'm just a pedant by nature. Sorry.

Wee minx!

[centralparker]

Ich habe diese Bucher vorbei Gunter Grass:

The only one I've read is The Tin Drum, but I thought it was excellent. The film is good too.

Can you recommend another one of Gunter's books?

[Reina]

The only one I've read is The Tin Drum, but I thought it was excellent. The film is good too.

Can you recommend another one of Gunter's books?

I did a module at uni on Gunter Grass - try some of his short stories. Katz und Maus is quite good. I found The Tin Drum a bit dull. I hate being 'forced' to read a book - maybe I should try it again.

[saints1884]

Old people are worse when they are at the post office.

The other week I was in there and this old dear was at the counter,she was told three times to put her post office card in the machine,after that she was told to put in her pin number,before it was even processed she decided to take her card out...Four fucking times she did it She didn't seem to notice the big line of people behinde her.

[An Sionnach]

The only one I've read is The Tin Drum, but I thought it was excellent. The film is good too.

Can you recommend another one of Gunter's books?

Certainly:

Dog Years (Hundejahre)

The Rat (Die Rattin)

The Flounder (Der Butt)

Crabwalk (Im Krebsgang)

Are all excellently entertaining reads.

However the following:

Local Anaesthetic (Ortlich Betaub)

The Plebian's Rehearse the Uprising (Der Plebejar Proben den Aufstand)

The Meeting in Telgte (Das Treffen in Telgte)

From the Diary of a Snail (Aus dem Tagebuch Einer Schneke)

Are for real Grass enthusiasts, primarily because they involve the political machinations of the Social Democrat Party, Willy Brandt and his political rivals. You would only fully benefit from reading them if you have some knowledge of German politics from the early 1960's onwards.

More info HERE

I did a module at uni on Gunter Grass - try some of his short stories. Katz und Maus is quite good. I found The Tin Drum a bit dull. I hate being 'forced' to read a book - maybe I should try it again.

Try it again, try it again. It's a work of genius.

The tale of a young boy, Oskar Matzerath, who sees which way Germany is head in the 1930's and opts out by deciding not to grow up, using a deliberate fall down the family's cellar steps as the excuse for his subsequent lack of growth. By disassociating himself from the adult world he can sit back, observe and record the chaotic progress of the German nation during the Second World War. The episode where he sits hidden under the rostrum at a Nazi rally and totally disrupts it by beating out a counter tempo to the Waffen SS band's drummer throwing everyone into confusion until a near riot breaks out is hilarious.

On the flip side, the bravery and resiliance of the fated defence of the Polich Post office in Danzig/Gdansk in the face of Nazi tanks and stormtroopers during the fall of Poland had me in tears.

At the very least rent a copy of the Volker Schlondorff film Die Blechtrommel.....

B)

[An Sionnach]

Oh fart! Just when I was looking forward to passenger traffic tailing off after the end of August and giving us a biit of peace, THIS LOT are turning up!

Ruggery Buggery Indeed!

[Hank Scorpio]

Adverts in the middle of Films, Film4 especially. Ruined Braveheart last night.

It's already shite, anyway. No great loss.

Just had a call from a woman at Amazon, my tele is now not due intil Monday between 12 and 4. It was meant to be here today!

[centralparker]

Certainly:

Dog Years (Hundejahre)

The Rat (Die Rattin)

The Flounder (Der Butt)

Crabwalk (Im Krebsgang)

That's the one about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff at the end of the war? The biggest maritime disaster in history. I think I'll give that one a go.