Now I can be messy with impunity.

[tea lady]

A Perfect Mess

[artme]

I've always known I was right!!

[joe greiner]

Preaching to the choir, are we?

Cheers,
Joe

[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.

[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

[tea lady]

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.

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.

[Sebastiaan56]

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....

[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.

[tea lady]

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?

[joe greiner]

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

About 35 years, I reckon.

Cheers,
Joe

[Gingermick]

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

[tea lady]

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

[Gingermick]

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

[tea lady]

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.

[Gingermick]

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