Bitchin' or Banter?

you have an hour to leave it RQ
Can I come back on tomorrow please?

Oh all right then!
It's past my bedtime anyway, and all this bitchin' done wear me out.

Oh dear, I'm crying with laughter now...you lot are so funny!

I need something stronger than decaf tea now

G&T and

This thread could run and run (off on a tangent) so I will take it that the answer to my original question is it's banter then.

I'm off to join a boozy lunch soon and I won't post when I get back as the line between bitch and banter may become blurred.

Not the only thing which might become blurred!

Yes. It usually is fairly friendly banter. Just until someone decides to put a rather oar onto things. Then it becomes nasty and hurtful, as is often the intention.

And this said almost in the same breath as:

Oh, I get so bored with the arse licking that goes on on Gransnet. hmm

will never cease to amaze me. Don't know whether to laugh or cry- best laugh really and time for literally.

What?! Can you really take that post as arse licking? How?

I did say it was usually friendly banter. Nothing friendly about this thread that I can see.

until someone decides to put a rather (large? annoying?) oar into things

will never cease to amaze me. Don't know whether to laugh or cry- best laugh really and time for [ roastchicken] literally
Late lunch or very early dinner? Smells good, anyway.
Have a laugh, no point in crying

I'm off to join a boozy lunch soon and I won't post when I get back as the line between bitch and banter may become blurred
Sounds good, are you having ?
Cheers

Brasserie Blanc, and yes, a tint tincture was taken. Off to have a nap in front of Escape to the Country (hang on a minute, I live in the country )

Alea have you been out to lunch with Ramona

Some people do lead exciting lives, I just went to the supermarket this morning.
Now a cup of and perhaps Escape to the Country!

No, no, romona is presumably still lunching! Just DH and self, plus, alas too close, a "mature" couple (60!ish any maybe 50?) clearly internet dating and vying with each other to create a good impression ( converted Manor House, him! a bit flash, wild boar hunting in Estonia, her looking really tarty
Resisted the temptation to just say Get a room!!!

Actually, I thought this thread was the friendliest in a long time.All thanks to Ramona and her OP.

That sounds really interesting ^Alea*
I do like being nosy eaves-dropping people watching

Oh, I wish I could laugh at these little things. Why do I have to insist on stuff being funny?!

I have no shame do I?
Sadly I don't think he handled it all that well, although she maintained a hair flicking fascination when he went on at some length about his bowel cancer in 2000 and something!
She was more excited by his BMW and Triumph motorbikes, but the interest in pics on his phone of his dogs and (grown up ) children was unconvincing.
Who needs a cabaret??
Mind you I wish we had been sitting further away, TMI!

Sounding a bit acerbic, jngl, something up?

Alea - her sounds like my neighbour, you can have too much of it

He not her
"I'm a selfmade man and she's a manmade woman."

rosequartz - late lunch and a good laugh, yes- it was delish, even if I say so myself ;)

ooops forgot, yes with a few new pots and salad, hmmm