Do you belong to any other forums?

absent

Well that was a joke wasn't it? Maybe half a dozen people (generous estimate?) actually responded to the question while all the others repeated all the stuff that has been deleted in other threads recently. Never mind a piss off emoticon; we need a huge yawn emoticon.

What a coincidence Elegran that you should speak of some fearing the dark, a dear friend of mine has been terrified of the dark since October 1966, a grown man, retired school master and brilliant artist , most level headed , but when it comes to the dark , whoosh, this man shakes, has been known to vomit, what a pair he and I make with our silly phobias and both caused by the same incident, such is life for us mere mortals

Soon be time for Holby City - goodnight, people of good will!

I was!

Annie
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I wasn't referring to you Greatnan

Oh my gosh! Poor dog.

I am fine J08, thank you , one of my dogs has a rather nasty ear infection , affected her balance , which means meal times and walks take much longer than usual

Give it a rest GN.

Well if you don't understand Greatnan then the only suggestion I can offer is pop it in your files, switch off from it and then perhaps mull over it another day, yes ?

cross posted here - mine followed Greatnans at 18.34. Dogs walked, dinner cooking, off to watch the news (that'll be non contentious......)

How is it a distortion to quote somebody's exact words?

Oh my - what is all this about.

She is probably keeping well out of the way in case she is hit by the crossfire.

You alright Anniebach?

Totally now.

Never mind.

That is such a distortion of what anniebach said.

I think it was only Jingle who saw a possibility of anything contentious and Ana who saw a possibility of it being upsetting. Anniebach just said that she avoided all mention of snow.

Day follows night and night follows day. Oh dear! I should not have said that. Some people are afraid of the dark, they might be upset at my mentioning night. Or zealous protectors of their peace of mind might attack me for being so insensitive in bringing night into the conversation!

No, jingle, I don't get it. Nothing in the post could possibly be viewed as contentious.

And if not contentious, as such, at least upsetting. To Anniebach.

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Any thread can turn contentious. Give this one another ten minutes.

Ab was demonstrating how she would avoid threads which might turn out to be, for her, contentious.

Gottit?!