Please explain

[notb665]

If you want to suggest a different but equivalent figure of speech then I'll go with yours.

"A troublesome, worrying and depressing feeling of impending utter devastation, destruction and ruin."

How's that?

 

[Softus]

Touché.

 

[noseall]

Softus, you are in danger of being a grouch.

 

[Trazor]

Softus, you are in danger of being a grouch.

Where did the words .....in danger of being.....come from...........

 

[Softus]

Softus, you are in danger of being a grouch.

Don't be silly - I have to sleep sometimes.

 

[Shutpa]

A 'doom merchant'? A topic being locked on an internet forum isn't really a cause to fill one with doom and despair. Is it?

Quite right not665, Breezer was not being a doom merchant - he was simply being pessimistic .

 

[tim west]

Don't be silly - I have to sleep sometimes.

Is that during daylight?

 

[Shutpa]

Don't be silly - I have to sleep sometimes.

Is that during daylight?

Isn't that when most of the wise old owls sleep?

 

[tim west]

Isn't that when most of the wise old owls sleep?

If owls are supposed to be wise why do they keep saying "Twit"?

 

[Shutpa]

Isn't that when most of the wise old owls sleep?

If owls are supposed to be wise why do they keep saying "Twit"?

They have been reading your replies!

 

[tim west]

They have been reading your replies!

ouch!