Comments | bloodyaussie: Hello from Port Lincoln

bloodyaussie

Hello from Port Lincoln

Oct 21, 2008 10:56

I'm in Port Lincoln for two weeks for placement. Not a bad place to catch babies, it's right on the coast, a pretty rich town due to the seafood industry (especially tuna), and therefore great seafood! I get a view of the ocean all the way from home to the hospital. I'm staying with two other students in a five bedroom house, two bathrooms, two ( Read more... )

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knova October 21 2008, 17:06:09 UTC

At first I thought "Sticky" was some Australian slang I didn't know.

It totally should be. We should start using it.

bloodyaussie October 21 2008, 23:29:27 UTC

But what would it mean?

knova October 22 2008, 15:26:32 UTC

I think just the way you used it. As in dirty, but in a sense that it's dirty from a long-term, consistent neglect, but if you'd just taken the time to deal with the mess right away it wouldn't have become the 3 hour cleaning project it is now.

Maybe with an emphasis on the idea that you don't know what exactly is on it that's making it dirty? Like the coffee mug that's been sitting in the cupboard at work for the last 6 months.

It could be expanded outward to more than just physical things that are dirty because of neglect. A sticky situation is more than just one that's difficult to get out of, it's on that would have been easy to avoid in the first place with a little forethought. Like, "if the banks had insisted on people documenting their pay before giving them a 110% loan on a house maybe we wouldn't be in this sticky situation."