Thread: Now I can be messy with impunity.

I've always known I was right!!

Preaching to the choir, are we?

Cheers,
Joe

I heard the interview with this guy on Counterpoint the other day. A Perfect Mess - Counterpoint - 10 May 2010

He makes a lot of sense, particularly in the organisational world. Stifling bureaucracy is the result of over organisation. Looks like a useful book.

Just sounds like someone trying to get out of trouble with his mum. But yes limited mess is sometimes the best way to go. I generaly like things organised and in the right place but thats only because I have a bad memory so if its on the shadow board or in the draw I remember where it should be

Originally Posted by Sebastiaan56

I heard the interview with this guy on Counterpoint the other day. A Perfect Mess - Counterpoint - 10 May 2010

He makes a lot of sense, particularly in the organisational world. Stifling bureaucracy is the result of over organisation. Looks like a useful book.

Yes! That;s where I heard about it too. Usually I turn that show off, but I liked this guys arguments.

Originally Posted by Claw Hama

Just sounds like someone trying to get out of trouble with his mum. But yes limited mess is sometimes the best way to go. I generaly like things organised and in the right place but thats only because I have a bad memory so if its on the shadow board or in the draw I remember where it should be

One thing he said was that neat people actually spend MORE time looking for stuff than messy people.

Every garden should have a wild overgrown area imo. I know that such a space was reserved in medieval gardens for the faeries. Like every area of our lives....

BTW, I used the word impugn a few months ago and all the people at work had no idea what I was talking about. One of them even told me a week later that he'd looked the word up and it didn't exist. Needless to say that after I had corrected his spelling and he found the word he was a little more circumspect. These are highly educated engineers, but I cant reconcile the education and the lack of knowledge.

Originally Posted by Gingermick

BTW, I used the word impugn a few months ago and all the people at work had no idea what I was talking about. One of them even told me a week later that he'd looked the word up and it didn't exist. Needless to say that after I had corrected his spelling and he found the word he was a little more circumspect. These are highly educated engineers, but I cant reconcile the education and the lack of knowledge.

Impugn? How long were you waiting before you could work that in to a sentence?

Originally Posted by tea lady

Impugn? How long were you waiting before you could work that in to a sentence?

About 35 years, I reckon.

Cheers,
Joe

Originally Posted by tea lady

Impugn? How long were you waiting before you could work that in to a sentence?

well they were impugnin' my learnin', I couldn't think of a better word at short notice

im·pugn (im pyo̵̅o̅n′)
transitive verb

1. Obsolete to attack physically
2. to attack by argument or criticism; oppose or challenge as false or questionable

Origin: ME impugnen < OFr impugner < L impugnare < in-, on, against + pugnare, to fight: see pugnacious


Related Forms:

• impugnable im·pugn′·able adjective
• impugnation im′·pug·na′·tion (im′pəg nā′s̸hən) noun
• impugner im·pugn′er noun

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ok, they were criticising and challenging my learnin' and Joe, were you impugning my lexicographical wizardry?

Originally Posted by Gingermick

ok, they were criticising and challenging my learnin' and Joe, were you impugning my lexicographical wizardry?

Maybe it was impugnable. But I hesitate to be the impugner.

I can assure you that I got my learning from the most respectable of cereal boxes.