super safe

[chris_ycrtft]

extra security at work last couple days. apparent threats from a disgruntled ex-employee.

i'm pretty disgruntled, too.

shit, i don't think i was ever gruntled to begin with. i could really use a good gruntling. who wantsta gimme a little gruntle?

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[garybartos]

I've heard you can get gruntled in certain towns in Mexico just across the border. If you're into that sort of thing.

[chris_ycrtft]

but you have to be careful - you could pick up an ease.

[miraclejones]

You'd think only the shevelled and traught are gruntled, but it's simply not true.

[chris_ycrtft]

it's a gusting state of affairs.

[chris_ycrtft]

So I looked up the etymology of disgruntled. Comes from an old word dating back to the 1400's - to "gruntle" meant to gripe or complain. As is "The peasants gruntled about the lord's high taxes, anon." Also a "gruntling" was another (totally adorable) term for a piglet...you can see the connection.

It was necessary to gruntle "about" something since the word couldn't be used as an intransitive, so they added the "dis". Since dis usually indicates an opposite, seems to me it should've been "engruntled" or "begruntled". Disgruntled ought to mean your cause for complaint has been relieved. But it doesn't.

Bloody-minded Saxons.