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THE EEJIT THREAD

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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Before we go any further, ignore Google etymology. It's wrong.  Eejit is  an Irish pronunciation of idiot - as in eedjyut.
Down to business.  Just because you do stupid things, you don't  necessarily need to worry about it. Even young thrusters do stupid things. They even forget stuff.
This is a thread where you can share and laugh about it.
Anywayyy. .. What prompted this was the fact that I spent  twenty minutes ransacking the house for my lost hearing aid. .( I almost rang my mum who has contact with saints who deal with such things)
You're ahead of me here,aren't you? Yes. I found it in my ear.🙄
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Given up counting the number of times I’ve felt like a right eejit! The expression is in common use in our family, thanks to my Irish mum. I’m sure I’ll be contributing to this thread on a regular basis. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I look forward to it. There's safety in numbers @Ergates
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Well the wind blew  an old hawthorn down next to the electric board sub station. It was on the boundary, I was going to report it, however yesterday morning, National Grid backed a van into the drive and just got on with it. No idea who reported it.  However no one reported to the builders that a tree in the hedgerow  was across the pavement and hanging into the road.  I emailed the boss, got a bounceback  that  off until 7th Jan.  Took some photos and sent them to the foreman, an hour later someone turned up to deal with it. Was I the eejit by supposing that someone else would report it? They both came down xmas day.  What I hadn't checked was my fence panels, two flattened in the wind, I found this morning.  At least I didn't have a polytunnel take off this year, theres no cover on it.
  • ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
    B3 said:
    .. .( I almost rang my mum who has contact with saints who deal with such things)


    😂

    In high summer, the pigeons drive me mad landing in my robinia tree close to the house.  I was lounging on the sofa one evening, patio doors open.  An offender landed.  I couldn't be bothered to get up to shoo it off, so I looked around for something to lob.  To hand was the key to the aforementioned patio doors.  I launched it in a fine arc, hitting just inches below the pigeon, and watched with satisfaction as it flustered into flight!  What I forgot to do was note where the key landed.   As I got up to go and retrieve it, a sinking feeling descended.  Without it, the doors could not be locked.  Dusk was descending.  It was somewhere in a bed of lush growth and dense ground cover! 😱

    20 minutes frantic searching later, success ...

    Phew! 😁  


  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    It's also a Scottish word, as in 'awa 'n bile yir heid ya eedjit'.  :)
    Sunny Dundee
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    It's a truth universally acknowledged that a coccinella looking for an item in the cupboard will stare at said item and think aloud "it isn't here either, oh heck!". 

    Luxembourg
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