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Annoying phrases
I made a note of the phrases I heard on the radio today which bugged me. Some claim the NHS is worse since Labour came to power 'because some hospital trusts have been in deficit'. Debt, the word is debt. Perhaps some use the word deficit because this doesn't sound so bad.
Cash is always hard-earned, and families are always hard-working. Victims are always innocent, and tragedies are always appalling.
This afternoon I dismantled the set of shelves in the garage. They must have been at least 45 years old; the woodbeetle in them had long since died. I threw away much of the stuff on them. There were enough slug pellets to kill all the slugs in the parish; three plastic containers of malathion powder, one of which was so old it was coming to pieces; two tins of woodstain with lids that I couldn't remove; wire by the yard; a jam jar of rusty washers; five pairs of brackets for fixing shelves to walls; rolls of netting with different sized mesh; rusty spanners, one of which I think was for a lawn mower that packed up years ago; and a pile of thick yellow dust that might have once been a sponge.
Everything was covered in black dust and the screws were rusty. I managed to unscrew all but one, the last one, which I cut with a hacksaw. There's always one screw which won't unscrew.
Quote for today
For these democracies which are overflowing with phrases about peace are the most bloodthirsty instigators of war.
Adolf Hitler, 1938
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