Discussion
From Transport News:
"One of the incidents happened when an agency driver forgot to put his handbrake on and the truck rolled forward causing £18000 damage.
The driver, who broke a bone in his foot, is now taking the company to court saying it did not tell him to put the handbrake on."
"One of the incidents happened when an agency driver forgot to put his handbrake on and the truck rolled forward causing £18000 damage.
The driver, who broke a bone in his foot, is now taking the company to court saying it did not tell him to put the handbrake on."
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What exactly IS a hand basket? It's one of those phrases I also use from time to time, without knowing what the f**k I'm talking about.
So, much like the rest of the time then.
From The Phrase Finder:
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Clues to the origin of "going to hell in a handbasket," meaning "deteriorating rapidly or utterly," are, unfortunately, scarce as hens' teeth. The eminent slang historian Eric Partridge, in his "Dictionary of Catchphrases," dates the term to the early 1920's. Christine Ammer, in her "Have A Nice Day -- No Problem," a dictionary of cliches, agrees that the phrase probably dates to the early 20th century, and notes that the alliteration of "hell" and "handbasket" probably contributed to the popularity of the saying. Ms. Ammer goes a bit further and ventures that, since handbaskets are "light and easily conveyed," the term "means going to hell easily and rapidly." That seems a bit of a stretch to me, but I do think the addition of "in a handbasket" (or "in a bucket," as one variant puts it) does sound more dire and hopeless than simply "going to hell."
Matt.
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I've said it before and will probably say it again, the whole damned country is going to hell in a hand basket.
Matt.
Quite right!
We've all heard apocryphyl tales about dodgy claims from some pitiful tosser who tripped over an atomised amoeba but the wife briefed me on a gem of an incident the other day involving a mate of hers who went into the back of a stationary car (a Bluebird) at some lights.
The speed of this interstellar collision? How about 1 mph? In fact, as the unfortunate woman assailed the wondrous outpouring from Datsun's top stylist, she immediately whacked on the brakes. The shunt would not have rippled the skin formed on a recently abandonned rice pudding.
You or I would have had a brief look at the back of the car, acknowledged the total absence of damage and moved on.
This guy, inspired by his fellow travellers, began to feign pain around his neck.
With the tedious inevitability of an unloved season, a claim against this unfortunate lady fell on the doormat over the weekend from Bloodsucker, Leech & Parasite, advising her that their 'client' would be seeking 'compensation' for injuries sustained.
I have volunteered my services should the lady wish to see the individuals and 'professionals' involved in this perversion of normality tarred and feathered.
Good, innit, know what i meeen mista?
(One day, Arthur will arise with the spwan of Uther coursing through his veins and on that hallowed day the massed hoardes of Albion shall rise up, up on Hell's hot wing, smiting the false prophets and decievers from this Kingdom and restoring the domain of Pendragon - and bullsh1t solicitors will face the wrath of Black Death, a grim steed, so full of menace and vengeful intent that it could stand as one with the darkness, save for it's burning eyes of crimson fire. And their heads shall lay there, by their sides.)
{I could do with an icon for a Dark Ages type warrior head, preferably with antlers or horns.}
How much crap is one supposed to take before going slightly off the rails?
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