Amusing anger management stitching

That's funny! You might consider marking it OT next time, for all it is on topic, generally those who are humour-challenged don't read the OT's lol

Very funny stuff, Sara!

Felice

>> >Enjoy the laugh!

I don`t think it`s a matter of being humour challenged, but who would want to waste time stitching up such ugly sentiments, let alone framing them! And would anyone actually like to have them hanging on their walls? I certainly wouldn`t!

Pat P

It would just make me feel bad every time I looked at them. What a bitter and negative way to live with this stuff on the wall. aeromom

Oh, yeah...that's something I'd really like to stitch to leave around for posterity. No thanks.

BonnieBlue

I didn't imagine for a moment the OP was suggesting one would stitch them - just take a look, for a laugh. She warned everyone the language might prove problematical to some.

There were a couple I might have stitched when I worked and put in the washroom so we could all get a laugh. I suppose the quote about wine that I stitched and that is hanging over the wine decanter would be out too - funny how many people get a laugh from that too.

Sheesh! Seems people prefer to disapprove rather than have a laugh.

Thanks Sara, What a fun site. It's nice to know there are others out there that have those thoughts on occasion and good for them that they actually have the nerve to put those thoughts on canvas.

There are some days I would love to do that.

Lucille

I don't know that I would want them hanging on my walls, but I thought the site was funny. I got a laugh from some of the designs, and it

*was* labled "anger management." I know that when I was having a particularly rough time at my last job, I had fantasies of stitching a particular sampler. It was a pastoral scene with lots of sheep and a traditional Irish blessing. I was going to take out the charted blessing and re-chart it for an alternative: "Those that love us, let them love us/And those that don't love us, may God turn their hearts/And if he won't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles/That we'll know them by their limping." I took great solace in planning out those changes, even though I never stitched it. The only point would have been if I had stayed at that job, then I could have hung it on my wall to remind me to watch my back and to enjoy the private insult of calling my co-workers a bunch of sheep. Instead, I got to enjoy a better revenge: I left.

But to the point, the site gave some of us a laugh. What's wrong with that? You don't have to want to stitch a design to appreciate it.

Elizabeth

Nothing at all - I laughed too - but I certainly wouldn`t want half of them hanging up, and wouldn`t have a very good impression of someone if I walked into their house and saw "Fuck off!" hanging on the wall - and certainly wouldn`t use decorative stitching for such sentiments.

I love that Irish blessing - now that IS humour!

Pat P

I like that - a bit like the one my VERY prim and proper Godmother had hanging in the loo saying "The Lord sees you weherever you are!" which always highly amused me when I was a small girl!

Just to clarify, I am not offended by the "F" word and it does not really bother me if someone uses it - but I do not LIKE that word, nor use it except very, VERY rarely in moments of really high stress (when it`s either that or HIT someone! LOL!) I don`t faint if anyone uses it, but I would find it a bit offensive if anyone DID have it on their wall, and think that it`s a slightly odd person who would waste valuable stitching time to produce something like that. My husband MIGHT use it occasionally - not often, but none of my kids, nor grandkids use it in front of me, nor would they tolerate anyone else using it in front of me - not because of anything I`ve ever said (apart from when THEY were small). It`s called "respect", I suppose.

I remember that when some Dutch friends visited us, their 15 year old son told me to "F*** off!" (I think I was laughing with him about something at the time). I really let really rip at him for that - as did his father, and it came out that some English boy had told him that that was just a slang way to say "Go away!!!" Poor kid!

Not "Nerve", Lucille - just bad taste!

Pat P.

There's a time and place for everything. I did say it was unlikely that I would hang those saying in any kind of prominent place in my home on the off chance someone might be offended. I do know how to act ladylike and would most likely have been surprised by a kid saying that to me, but I have been known to say something outrageous on occasion, generally just to see what affect it had on the person it was said to. Never, ever to a kid or where I thought someone might faint if they heard bad language.

Now having said that--what is your definition of "F*** Off?" Here in the U.S.A. it does mean "Go Away" so technically the kid did nothing wrong and possibly deserved an apology. An explanation of why it wasn't an acceptable way to speak to an adult, but still not incorrect.

Now, having given my lecture for today, I'll just quietly go away.

Lucille

Well, over here, amongst normal people, it IS considered pretty offensive. Sad to say it is becoming more and more widely used, even amongst children. Whereas it used to be pretty much only heard in children and adults of the lower classes, military, etc., it IS becoming more common. One of the "benefits" of a classless society?

And yes, it DOES mean "go away". Owed an apology? I think NOT! It still raises eyebrows in most places over here - even my kids comment if you hear too much of it from youngsters in the street - or from anyone, come to that - and it`s for sure that none of us are prudes. Even my son, who spent

14 years in the Royal Marines, and, I`m sure, used it pretty generally himself, would protest if it was used ad lib in his company, particularly if he was with a woman.

You will never - EVER see me use it on here, but I don`t die of shock if anyone else does - I know that most of you are American, and that it isn`t regarded as all that offensive by many of you. I just put it down to "Oh, he/she`s American - they just can`t help it!" (Duck ;-)))

Pat P

I use it fairly regularly, along with some other salty things, and always have. I'm not American. You have seen me use it on here when pushed to the limit. I admit I don't generally write it as often as I say it.

I know you do, and I take it from whence it comes! I wasn`t getting at you, honestly! LOL!

While I`m having a moan - so many of the films these days seem to use that word excessively - one day they`ll even set up an Oscar for which film can get it in most often! It jars.

Pat P

Oh, and while we are at it, I don't think that I would want to stitch in that corset and without an Ott lamp either. Judy

Exactly right, I meant just look and laugh. No, I doubt I'd stitch the F off and hang it up, but I"ll admit I'd consider one of the non-profane ones to be hung where I'd get the joke, and nobody else would have to exclaim over how terrible it was. Glad some of you enjoyed the humor I meant by posting the site!

Sara

I'm sure all of us military, prior service and family of service members like to be thrown in the category of lower class. Thanks much!

Lizzie

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."Joseph Chilton Pierce

Well, if the cap fits, etc. You must agree though, that bad language is synonymous with service life (I have had and still have a lot of service people in my family too) but it doesn`t have to spill over into the home. I swear like a trooper on occasion - it`s just THAT particular word that really gets my hackles up. Not so much in occasional use, but the constant outpourings of it that you get these days from the mouths of kids, and in films etc.

And isn`t it strange that people with Tourette`s syndrome always seems to latch onto that particular word above all others?

Pat P