Words that you Luuuurrrvvve!!

The word 'bungle' or 'bungling' always makes me chuckle, don't ask me why ;D

Contrapseudoantitidisestablishmentarianistically

(varient of antidisestablismnentarianism) (which BTW makes an excellent password, as noone can type it without getting at lease one character wrong. Often including oneself).

Incredulous.

Not sure excatly what it means, but I like it.

quibbles!

Civil servants: Rule bound.
Seriously, if we didn't have to follow so many rules and procedures as to how to do things, a lot more would get done. If they made the forms we had to receive simpler this would benefit everybody, as would making schemes etc we run simpler. I can't speak for other departments, but in Defra we're (still) in the process of transitioning from two schemes (one relatively simple, one moderately complicated (obviously more complicated to those who don't understand farming, but that is unavoidable)) to one new scheme that was supposed to combine the best bits of both into one that is more easy to manage. The new scheme is horrendously complicated - there is one aspect where farmers or their agents have to complete a detailed environmental/historical/landscape audit of the farm, if this is completed to an acceptable standard they get a payment for completing it, which is based on the idea it will take three days. Two standards have been received so far, one so bad that it is doubtful two full days were spent on it, and ones that easily meet the minimum acceptable standard. These latter ones are taking on average 12 days for a 50ha farm (which is a small farm)! The work we then have to do to check it is of the required standard is about two days per application. This is neither the first nor the last thing that either the applicant (or their agent) or us need to do. And they're wondering why there have only been about 1% the number of applications they were expecting.

I like the word(s) 'Annual Leave'!! ;D