Ummm...as a whole, it's been good. He knows I'm not his real father, but that I am his dad. He refers to me as his dad, but calls me by my name, which is fine.

Our bigger struggle is that he is ADHD and has Aspie's...we've known the former forever, but the latter has been diagnosed in the last 6 months. It's been a challenge, but I think we're making progress.

Due to a combination of absent mindedness, incompetence, ineptitude and the forces of darkness conspiring against me, I had to go to the supermarket three times today.

As Lady Bracknell might have said, 'once is misfortune, twice is carelessness, but three times is a real embuggerance'.

Anyway, on the final visit I found myself in the checkout queue behind John Benjamin the jewellery expert from the Antiques Roadshow.

Whilst I recognised him I think I can say, with a fair degree of confidence, that he didn't recognise me.

For a seond I read that as John Betjeman.
Which would have been a miracle.
Or the start of a zombie apocalypse.
And me already smelling of blood, tasty blood - if not brains.

I really wouldn't want to die in Tesco. But by the author of Summoned by Bells might soften the blow.

Embuggerance? What a lovely word. :D

Sounds like a synonym for fuckery.

I, too, am pleased

I've used it from time to time, to describe occasions when the fates seemed to have conspired to put an obstacle in my way or cause other burdens to be visited upon me.

A bit of digging around suggests that it is/was military slang dating from about 1950. It gained greater prominence back in 2007 when the author Terry Pratchett was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's Disease.

The English language is remarkably flexible and I always think that it is a bit like Linux, available to all to adopt and adapt to their own requirements.

World Wide Words: Embuggerance.

Terry Pratchett

Flexible, very.
Wikitionary says, UK military meaning an obstacle.
Urban Dictionary says, a very minor problem.
Collins English Dictionary says, A niggling and irritating barrier or obstacle encountered when attempting to resolve a problem.
The English Project says Terry Pratchett made is popular but "the term is thought to have been coined by a Ministry of Defence official during the Falklands War to describe his frustrations".

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Embuggerance in my family is used to suggest an inconvenience you simply have to deal with. So not exactly anal rape, more like a little casual sodomy while in situations where there is only male company available. Literally a pain in the arse (no offense, Sheldon)

Although the phrase "like [or to] buggery" tends to mean "badly".
Burnt to buggery. Bleeding like buggery (although that could be horribly literal), smashed to buggery etc.

Do I win a prize for the most frequent resf to anal sex in one post?
PS - Sorry if this caused any problems. Pretty much all the words have already been used and I did try to be a bit hidey about it.

Also 'bugger' as a term of mock anger / affection often used for children and pets - or indeed anybody. Silly bugger.

It's perfectly cromulent.

I say 'bugger it' all the time. It is common language over here, and is generally acceptable even for children to use. I know I don't censure mine if they say it. Even when they're little.

Much preferable to the words Eva is starting to mimic now I must say.

Another way it's used here is, "Get to buggery!". That is usually directed at the dogs during BBQs, and it basically means, get the fuck out of here, and I don't care where you go, but if you get fucked in the arse while you're at it, that's fine with me.

Oh, oh, gimme your phone number, I've got a bunch of words I can teach her. :angel:

:lol2:

Good buddy's gf's grandson has been spending a lot of time around them. Good buddy doesn't really care for kids, so he's been getting even with gf by teaching the kid annoying things.

The latest is whenever the kid is around, buddy makes this 'na-na-na-na-na' sound (it's the sound the 'surfer' makes in a certain Taco Del Mar commercial). The kid adopted it right away.

The kid's driving everyone in his family nuts. He does it all the time.

:lol2:

Awesome.
:)