Cute mom! Cute bump! Cute crib!

Seska, you might want to frame your call to the cleaning people that you can't find it, and does she remember if/where she moved it?

Is a good idea - but how do I cover three different things having gone missing with that?

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Cute mom! Cute bump! Cute crib!

I concur with the above.

Is a good idea - but how do I cover three different things having gone missing with that?

You don't actually. You just frame it that way, so you don't seem like you're making an accusation, while anybody listening will hear the actual unstated accusation. So they know what you're upset about, but you're not immediately putting the firm on the defensive -- you're giving them a way to save face and still either get you your stuff back or fire the cleaner.

Seska, you might want to frame your call to the cleaning people that you can't find it, and does she remember if/where she moved it?

Well, you could make it just less accusatory with a sampling of that. "We're a little worried. Possibly she moved it and we just can't find these things. But they are missing. [Clearly unspoken but obviously there, or you can say it: it's highly unlikely they walked off on their own and we have already scoured the flat, but we don't really want to believe this of her]"

Well, you could make it just less accusatory with a sampling of that. "We're a little worried. Possibly she moved it and we just can't find these things. But they are missing.

I like that. Thanks. I'll give that a go.

Big dinner with wine has made me sleepy. Time for Radio 4 comedies in bed, followed by sleeping. All good things. Night-night, Bitches!

Night, Seska!

I remember my nephew declaring girls more trouble than they were worth when he was in college.

My youngest brother has reached the same conclusion. Which, given his dating history, is understandable. (He has plenty of female friends, it's just that the ones with which there's a mutual attraction seem to be prone to such behaviour as moving back to South Africa to give their ex-boyfriend another chance.)

Hey Brainy types - I can use some help with verbiage.

I sent an email this morning to my radio station:

Please stop playing the song "Date Rape"! Rape is never funny or amusing. I can't begin to tell you how upset I was this morning when my alarm clock woke me with the line, "now he gets it in the behind" and I got to have it stuck in my head for the next half hour.

I have never personally been the victim of this kind of attack but it's still a major hot button issue for me. I can't imagine how it must affect listeners who have actually been through it.

I'm seriously considering changing all my radios to another station. I prefer your station's format to most other local stations but I cannot continue to be subjected to this foul song any longer.

Please remove this song from your playlists. Thank You.

And got this reply:

it is actually an anti-rape song...

we all agree rape is never funny or amusing, but the point is that if you rape anyone you will be raped in prison.

the message usually get thru to those people.

hit me back with your thoughts

So far my reply only consists of:

Yes, I get that "Act 2" of the song is the date rapist getting it too, but this is my point - that it's never funny. Not even when the guy "deserves" it.

And I can get any further. I'm not sure if it's just that it's such a hot button that I can't articulate how offensive I find it...or what. Anybody got any thoughts to help me wrap up my idea with some coherency...that it's not about sex, it's stealing power, that it's someone so pathetic they have to violate someone in the worst way they can to feel stronger...that, that, that... sputter.

Or am I reacting too strongly? I'm (semi)open to being talked down - but not by some guy at the radio station who thinks that prison rape is an acceptable denoument. Thoughts?

The plumber finally arrived just as I was trying to make the pizza. Now he is hopefully being tortured by the delicious smell of pizza.

I might leave it there, epic.

Unless you want to reiterate that the song may make you chose a different radio station.