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35 a. Returning to posts to alter thenm completely is distracting and confusing but will only (really) annoy one person.

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A good scrubber will have a sparkling jam pan. ...and you'll be able to see your face in it.

How do you 'see' the Irish udt? (not a philosophoical question) Do you have some kind of Celt-vision goggles that lets you know where they are?

19.1 i a) Smut is always there if you look hard enough. 22. Arguing the same point with an obvious nutter is playing their game. *no it isn't.. yes it is.. no it isn't..I knew you'd say that.. you child.. idiot..* 23. Any insult should be scrutinised for irony/post modern intent before umbrage is taken. If umbrage is taken please keep the receipt.

iamherenot-here-anymore

Courtesy and respect? You have a hidden agenda and I suspect you are not alone. You don't recognise humour, irony or self-mockery (witness your off-piste post in the "Shock Horror - Recession hits ED!" thread that ended up dealing with cup cakes). There are many like you; wanting us all to experience what you see as "a wake up call" to gain "perspective"... really?

iamhere Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why do you want to bore us to death as you put it > by telling us what you do for a living - Frank > Myles ?AVP - Manager: Cash Equity Trade Support at > Merrill Lynch > > "2009 bonus payout - Merrill Lynch. > > Merrill Lynch arranged for payment of billions in > bonuses in what appeared to be "special timing". > These bonuses totaling $3.6 billion were one-third > of the money they received from the feds' TARP > bailout. In addition, the timing of these bonuses > angered many American people because they were > authorized before the bank was to be acquired by > Bank of America. It is now a foregone conclusion > that without the rescue by BOA, Merrill would have > collapsed. In 2008, Merrill lost billions yet > still paid out 3.6 billion in bonuses" > > What do you have to say about this with you > knowledge close to hand? WOW - from requesting others to exercise humility to this. Now I see why you were away for so long. iamhereseething. peace my arse.

iamhere Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > let me clarify - please take a look at my previous > posts on this forum - it was long ago and I have > not been on here ever since, so don't until now, > have first hand experience of being part of a > debate on here. I would not have, until now, > passed comment on the things that I have been > referring to around rudeness of speech. > > I am sorry that you have made a presumption about > me and my knowledge of this site - it was not my > intention to hoodwink. > > Thx. Thankyou for the clarification - I am aware of your position and was merely correcting your untrue statement about being new. One can go months without posting but it doesn't prevent one from reading (lurking). As for presumptions I'm afraid I make them all the time until and unless corrected - it is a fault but something bound to happen when 'conversing' with pseudonyms 'is it not?' Another presumption that has sprung to mind is that your delivery smacks of the ecclesiastical and if that is untrue I will stand corrected again. No offence intended. This is, after all, only chatter is it not?

iamhere... You joined this forum almost a whole year before I did and a full 14 months before Frankie. You first posted way back in Feb 2010 so stop trying it on. If you have been a member this long I would have thought you'd be used to the robust style of debate that sometimes ensues and have something to say you would find a way to do so without calling foul any time somebody is 'rude' to you. As for muddying the water this thread is as clear as pea soup to me with ingredients being thrown in by anyone who happens across an obscure stat/quote and thinks they can crowbar it in to support whatever argument they imagine they are supporting and then demanding that others prove their tosh is wrong "Go on, prove it. See! You can't, so I'm right!". All this is acceptable if sometimes irritating (as I also frequently am - not least when torturing grammar) because it's a forum not an ecclesiastical college. Double peace.

And a bouncy castle is positively de trop, admittedly we had a bouncy Hogwarts for Josh's 5th but this year we're going with the Flibberty 'Den Kit'; it's just soooooo Shropshire, do you now what I mean?

I prefer your version - Saskatchewanian sounds like the rhythmic chorus shouted out by the bass saxophones in a Glen Miller song.

Did you intend to stifle irony too? If you want debate without the whimsy, the irony and, yes, the puerile insults then the Drawing Room is the place for such po faced grown-up stuff - here anything (almost Frankie!) goes.

Nice pic of Arsene using his fingers to count how many goals his team have let in...

helena handbasket Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I'm probably the only Saskatchewanite in the > village. Is that a kind of sarcastic coal?

True but in the lounge there is always room for whimsy http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFZnQucbrZNys31XvVnD6DzC9z_dM-3z3jDB0Pw_ZvJds0HTUBUg

Frankito Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh buggah, I remember nothing! I am much better > with visuals. http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSK1YB_tbwgKOZDLpTSWZsbxRIYkD2JFqnSOZlxgyz1p6zTrqZm + http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSNshElnJ2jIk6gL8RlPKDkEhM_c9j-7j4xddPEggQT47iXcql2U_wBGoyU1g = http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSCCIpX2y-rOToiUg6vhBBK_sWZxy9w8aoMQJsWnmFZsr-Q_j1PSw http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSK1YB_tbwgKOZDLpTSWZsbxRIYkD2JFqnSOZlxgyz1p6zTrqZm + 0 = http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT-ZQHELZsAmyWGMQtxxIZunwuP7A81sK_TFk86n8gBZAO5UQd_SjwyM9yUYw

Well I suppose they have a unique take on the issue... http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRqoq8-2PAEKJ7FXq4fM18rk1QMI7jNO-1g7HxxIpXJbWCrqXq_

Love the pronunciation of canoodle - like Canad-le, a rare Saskatchewan form of fondling.

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's all your fault FrankieBoy, the mothership has > just landed... Yep, strange scorch marks all over the forum... though that could just be LM falling asleep while Rome jam burns.

RosieH mea culpa. But I too have found myself bewitched by someone who later turns out to have the ideology of a facist tortoise and you raise an interesting problem with which to wrangle. A 'skilled' tory or a lazy socialist idealist? (I was going to add or a boring neither-one-or-the-other LibDem but that would be predictably unfair and as a result of the coalition I'd like to think they've learned a few tricks). Frankito I notice you don't quibble about my brand being 'Happy Shopper' whatever the dish itself. But maybe I am more on-trend than I thought... http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTewuIQv67DRsgrhGyWM68ov3YEL1sRk5-tMuWHrXjcB-LbjO1AFvSyxBHSzw

RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What a superficial oaf you are maxxi. Ugly?? > Putting some labels on yourself there sir. > > I'd have likened it to sex with a tory: dirty and > wrong, a sound thrashing the MSG of the physical > act of love. For those few, sweet, heady seconds, > you believe yourself equals, there's nothing so > very, very wrong with it really. And after all, no > one need ever know. > > But then, after the after-glow comes the > realisation that you have debased yourself for the > hydrogenated fat and massive salt intake of a > moussaka that isn't even authentic (where are the > bloody aubergines?) And you need to shower and > brush your teeth. Oh there's all kinds of ugly RosieH. The ugliness of dismissing a person purely for their political persuasion perhaps? This could possibly be a thread on its own - would you rather sleep with someone you found deeply unattractive or someone whose personal political beliefs were opposed to your own? As for labelling myself, yes I remember the times I have been viewed as a half-eaten 'Happy Shopper Lasagne' on the morning after but that really is the point isn't it? When one has a bad enough itch thenappearance and politics are brushed aside in the name of a good scratch.

*pulls down 'CLOSED' roller-blind as Nette gets to front of queue*

Bleedin' 'eck, is this still going? You're all wrong - the earth is a series of triangles and when the Tripods take over you will be for it. http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTKopftol8jnAv5kr3VcHhANHC6-B3sLW6x5iUimLoftWathtJMOQ

Patience LM - the bio powder will work but may need 2 -3 more treatments as before (and don't be put off if it smells a little - that means it's working) keep the faith! http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRcsauhpvJdeHpVqZVx8Vc_Pj6qNQB0OySVWMoFp0N6Peq0M44ww KTdigits - STOP watching Dr. Who/Torchwood/The Time Tunnel/Stargate/Quantum Leap etc., it is warping your mind.

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If food is the new sex, what are ready meals? Like sex with an ugly man/woman... something you only consider after too much to drink and then no matter how attractive drink makes it appear it always disappoints and leaves one feeling rather sordid and with a nasty taste in ones mouth.