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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I'm offended that you only mention voles in your post, what about consonants?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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lilBuddha
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I was initially offended by the bad pun, however I have reconsidered. That was a fairly decent effort, considering the resources you are working with.
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jedijudy
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How dare you mention Wodder's resources! Who made you the resource sheriff of the universe? Just because his are widely known to be minuscule, doesn't give you leave to shout it out for all to hear. (Or see, in this case.)
Hmmph.
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QLib
Bad Example
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He's not a sheriff, but you're not a police person, so don't go telling folk what they can and can't shout about. You know what you can do with that light sabre of yours.
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The Weeder
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What gives you the right to criticise wielders of light sabres? Where would we be without them, I would like to know!
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Stejjie
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There's little that's more offensive than someone assuming that just because they need a light sabre, we all do.
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Dafyd
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I think we would have understood your emphasis perfectly well even if you hadn't decided to patronise us by using italics.
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lilBuddha
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Italics do more than create emphasis, they help delineate patterns of speech. They add character as well. Ooops, think I identified your problem.
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They didn't seem bizarre to me. Have you got a thing about actors? If you just have to quibble, you could have complained about the dreadful misspelling of "oops".
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Sylvander
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And what's so dreadful about Miss Pelling? Do you have any reason to be so offhandishly prejudiced against her? She may not conform to your standards of right and wrong but everybody has her merits. She for instance may well be lewd and lascivious. Which makes me even more offended that you have not introduced her to me yet. She may be shy and hence hesitant to talk to strangers.
Kindly hasten to mend that oversight.
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justlooking
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What makes you think that Miss Pelling wants to be introduced to you? Perhaps she already has a full and interesting life among her friends and neighbours in Oops. Even is she hasn't, even if she's bored to tears with the goings on of Oops' folk, it doesn't mean she'd welcome an introduction to any old letch.
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kingsfold
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Having met Sylvander, I can assure you that he isn't just 'any old letch'. However, discretion does not permit me to elaborate further...
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I'm offended that you haven't been explicit about being offended - are the instructions too complicated for you, perhaps?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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kingsfold
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Could you not tell that I was offended by justlooking referring to Sylvander as 'any old letch'? And that it was in fact such an offensive description that I was unable to say more?
And is now doubly offensive that you required me to spell it out explicitly. (And the concept of explicit letching is offensive enough in its own right ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) )
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QLib
Bad Example
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So people are supposed to know what you think when you type .... ? Is that arrogance or egotism? Or what?
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Dafyd
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You can use .... or **** or whatever you like. It doesn't make it any better. It's still foul language.
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Jahlove
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no it isn't Dafyd - to the pure all things are pure, including ellipses and asterisks. It's your dirty mind that is filling in the blanks here.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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And what, pray, is wrong with having a dirty mind? I think a dirty mind can be a great comfort, particularly when getting on a bit.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Did the world really need to know that? What the hell is that, a subtle advertisement for lanolin-based hand lotion?
Jeez, Wod, just seeing your name in the recent visitors list is offending me right now. Get out of my sight before I smack you out.
[ 14. April 2012, 04:34: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Here is a perfect example of a Bunny [remember Hefner, anyone?] as a neophyte Phelpsian demanding that everyone adhere to her rather bizarre moral code - and she didn't even off to use a riding crop!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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lilBuddha
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Knock off the naughty talk, like a couple of preteens you are. Not even doing it well. Besides, you'll cause Sylvander apoplexy.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Smudgie
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You should be ashamed of yourself, setting standards beyond what poor Kelly and Weasel are able to achieve. Just because they are chronologically far far far beyond being pre-teens does not mean that their level of maturity has kept apace. We should not reprimand them, we should show them true Christian pity and help them make the tiny tiny steps which will slowly but surely bring them to a level of social acceptability, thus keeping Sylvander safe, not by apportioning blame, but by reducing risk.
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Dafyd
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Oh yes, it's all about reducing risk now. We can't type a post without Health and Safety all over it. Why can't we decide to take some chances now and then? Live a little?
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QLib
Bad Example
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Oh, I am so sick of people bemoaning the Health and Safety culture. Do you want to live in a world in which children still gather fluff from under weaving machines? Do you - huh?
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justlooking
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Those of us from dark-satanic-millshire know what you're on about QLib but most folks around here haven't a clue. They know it's grim up north but they don't know why. You're talking a foreign language.
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Lyda*Rose
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I'm offended that you would form your own little coterie of misery based on your place of origin. Hello? We all speak English here, and a few words of explanation on most subjects- particularly subjects such as industrial history would keep us all involved. But, noooo, the rest of us couldn't possibly understand. Pah!
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justlooking
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Littlecoterie of misery!. There's nothing little about it. Not the coterie. Not the misery. We don't faff around putting a brave face on things, being all chipper and chirpy like some we could mention. Oh no! We embrace misery. We wallow in it. Why do you think people still go to Morecambe?
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Don't you diss Morecambe - it is a very exciting place - particularly on Thursday when the traffic lights change!
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Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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lilBuddha
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Yes, I can picture you sitting in the garden, waiting for the light to change. Yelling "Get off my lawn!" at the neighbor children. Ah, the joys of dotage, erm, old age, I mean being experienced. Very, very experienced.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Stejjie
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All this talk of an English seaside resort, and you have to spell "neighbour" the American way. It's just wrong.
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Jahlove
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How very non-U to mention our colonial cousins' non-U-ness
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lilBuddha
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The shame of it! Polite people would have ignored this. Intelligent people would have deduced that my iPad has an American dictionary* and is constantly fighting me. Oh, my bad, I just realized who I was addressing.
*The perils of reconditioned goods.
[ 14. April 2012, 17:36: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Kelly Alves
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Oh, how did I know that this was going to turn into some stupid pond war. And Guess Who started it.
Look, two hundred and thirty two years is a hell of a long time to be crying over spilled milk, and as far as I can tell, the sun has been setting on Your Majesty's realms for a hell of a long time, so when y'all perform the historical equivalent of downing shots of Grey Goose and weeping over your junior prom pictures, it's kind of pathetic. Not so much offensive as really, really pathetic.
I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but real love is tough love. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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kankucho
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I find your cultural imperialism frankly offensive. We didn't have junior proms over here until about 15 years ago, when the arrival of multi-channel TV brought an attendant tsunami of schmaltzy US teenybop sitcoms. Since then, our kids have been nagging to be allowed to get all dressed up for an evening of life-blighting emotional trauma too.
I expect you'll be commanding us to get all dewy-eyed about trick-or-treating next? This used to be a harmless evening of unconditional vandalism called 'Mischief Night' until the the world's leading free-market capitalist hegemony gave victims the chance to buy their way out of trouble and the young perps a learning exercise in socially sanctified extortion.
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justlooking
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"I expect you'll be commanding us to get all dewy-eyed about trick-or-treating next? This used to be a harmless evening of unconditional vandalism called 'Mischief Night' until the the world's leading free-market capitalist....
No! How can you be so wrong ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif) ? Don't you know your own heritage?
Mischief Night is the night before Bonfire Night and commemorates the mischief of Guy Fawkes and the other plotters. The 'Trick or Treat' carry-on is what Amercians have made of Halloween. Mischief Night doesn't involve extortion, it's just unbridled vandalism pure and simple.
[ 14. April 2012, 18:59: Message edited by: justlooking ]
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I suppose it's way too late in history to get all Lynne Truss-ish and be offended at 'Halloween' when it ought to be 'Hallowe'en'. But, what the hell.
[ 14. April 2012, 20:47: Message edited by: Bean Sidhe ]
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The5thMary
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quote:
Originally posted by Bean Sidhe:
I suppose it's way too late in history to get all Lynne Truss-ish and be offended at 'Halloween' when it ought to be 'Hallowe'en'. But, what the hell.
I'm offended at your name. I don't know enough Irish to know if you're being witty or what and that disturbs me. Bean Sidhe... hmmm... are you a Bean? Faery Bean or Human Bean?! Really, what are you?
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Kelly Alves
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Oh, don't get her started.
And by the way, Miz Siddy, I know where to put a stinking apostrophe, thank you very much.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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QLib
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I'm offended that you sided with Patio against the Bean. And evidently you aren't all that sound on the subject of apostrophe's - odoriferous or otherwise.
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Kelly Alves
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Nice. Now please explain to me where the phrase "apostrophe is" fits in the above sentence.
[ 14. April 2012, 22:03: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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justlooking
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You've missed out the possessive use - what could be belonging to the apostrophe?
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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You think you're so damn smart.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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No, darling, you've [that's you have to you] got it completely wrong - I KNOW I'm smart!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Kelly Alves
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Well, lah de freakin' dee dah dah-- I guess everyone has the right to be COMPLETELY WRONG.
I only wish you didn't see fit to exercise that right so often. It get very tiresome for the rest of us.
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Smudgie
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Fit? Exercise?
How could you use such foul language on a Christian Website? And on a Sunday too, which every Godfearing person knows is a day of rest.
Shame on you, Alves. Shame on you.
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QLib
Bad Example
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How dare you impose your so-called 'Godfearing' nonsense on the rest of us sane, well-balanced human beings?
Anyway, Sunday is First Day - so it's Saturday that's the day of rest.
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Rowen
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I resent your implication that I am sane and God-fearing?. How do you know my mental and spiritual state? Or presume to know, and judge likewise? Surely this is just between me, Good and my pyschiatrist?
[ 15. April 2012, 10:27: Message edited by: Rowen ]
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Dafyd
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The use of 'judge' in a derogatory sense is discriminatory against senior legal professionals and members of the bench. Please consider using 'negatively assess'.
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Kelly Alves
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Here's a book for you, Dafyd. And can I just say I am surprised and appalled that you would advocate the dumbing-down of our fine language.
And yeah, you heard me, I said OUR.
[ 15. April 2012, 15:38: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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