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Really, RH, that's silly and tedious. You posed a hypothetical situstion and asked me to respond; I gave an answer based on that hypothesis using the conditional tense. I know you have a track record of blowing up arguments out of very little and keeping it up till everyone else has gone home, but surely even you can see the distinction, not least given that it was you who dreamt up the hypothetical argument? You really are exasperating sometimes.


No doubt you'll need to say something else to have the final word as usual. Fine with me, but please do read the posts first.

Fantastic, "I'll leave you to have the final word" - oh no, hang on, I won't. The richness of the irony is surely not lost on you? Your original comment was rather silly, your attempts to justify it by accusing someone who politely differs with you of misogyny - and "passive-aggressive Socratic irony", bigod! - is sillier still. I'm sorry that your apparent belief that you should be able to say whatever you like on an internet discussion forum without being challenged is not always fulfilled. Them's the breaks.
  • 1 month later...

ruffers Wrote:

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> Any sentence which starts with "I'm the kind of

> person who..."


More annoying: 'I'm a people person.'


Meaning don't expect me to do any actual work.

Any sentence which begins with "Having ... then recounting an experience.


" The trouble with you is ...often leading to the deluded "I know you better than you know yourself " - usually delivered triumphantly by a soon to be erstwhile male companion.

oooo I'm on a roll now - one thing which has always made me gnash my teeth, impotently on many occasion, is usually, complete strangers, ie those I am meeting for the first time, take liberties with my name. Anyone else?

I have an unusual, historical, biblical name, which can be foreshortened in many ways or combinations. I have now

adopted an anglicised form of my name and happy with it.

I despaired for a long time of being introduced to people, or introducing myself, being a modern woman, and immediately hearing it repeated in a much shortened form, usually the first three letters.


I didn't invite you to call me thus, no one else does, why should you be so familiar/over familiar???


It is a grown up version, of people asking what your new baby is called, you tell them (struggling to think of an example!) and they then quote a name back to you as in a celebrity or royal or whatever.


One friend's husband twisted my name then added a match, as in FrendyWendy, I am a grown woman, why are you doing this?

It's peurile and annoying. They have moved now so I am spared this wit, despite constant objections.


Not a 'little thing' I realise now, nor irrational, but thank you for reading, always happy to vent!

ha Maxxi, as in Everdene? or the nefariously won wife of David? - no but a good guess - although this would mean I would be addressed as Bat, as in mad old bat, and not for the first time - but hopefully the last as it isn't true or funny !

Elphinstone's Army Wrote:

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> oooo I'm on a roll now - one thing which has

> always made me gnash my teeth, impotently on many

> occasion, is usually, complete strangers, ie those

> I am meeting for the first time, take liberties

> with my name. Anyone else?

> I have an unusual, historical, biblical name,

> which can be foreshortened in many ways or

> combinations. I have now

> adopted an anglicised form of my name and happy

> with it.

> I despaired for a long time of being introduced to

> people, or introducing myself, being a modern

> woman, and immediately hearing it repeated in a

> much shortened form, usually the first three

> letters.

>

> I didn't invite you to call me thus, no one else

> does, why should you be so familiar/over

> familiar???

>

> It is a grown up version, of people asking what

> your new baby is called, you tell them (struggling

> to think of an example!) and they then quote a

> name back to you as in a celebrity or royal or

> whatever.

>

> One friend's husband twisted my name then added a

> match, as in FrendyWendy, I am a grown woman, why

> are you doing this?

> It's peurile and annoying. They have moved now

> so I am spared this wit, despite constant

> objections.

>

> Not a 'little thing' I realise now, nor

> irrational, but thank you for reading, always

> happy to vent!



I really really really badly want to know what your name is, now!

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> To wander is the miller's joy!



That causes you irrational rage?


I've missed something here, haven't I?



"I'm the kinda guy who likes to roam around"!

  • 2 years later...

Ah

So if they get the right sort of publicity and or payment it's fine

But if it's the sort that doesn't pay (unless you count court cases) then it's not.


Either they don't want the press in their lives as they claimed when they left , or they do... it's fairly binary

Ah good it is back. Continual building works. Circular saws and masonry drilling into the long hours ever since lockdown #1 (and petrol driven garden tools). Those that have building work but move out so only we can enjoy the pneumatic drills.

Spartacus Wrote:

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> Ah

> So if they get the right sort of publicity and or

> payment it's fine

> But if it's the sort that doesn't pay (unless you

> count court cases) then it's not.

>

> Either they don't want the press in their lives as

> they claimed when they left , or they do... it's

> fairly binary


They're perfectly entitled to speak to whoever they want. Why it should bother you, I've no idea.

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> Spartacus Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Ah

> > So if they get the right sort of publicity and

> or

> > payment it's fine

> > But if it's the sort that doesn't pay (unless

> you

> > count court cases) then it's not.

> >

> > Either they don't want the press in their lives

> as

> > they claimed when they left , or they do...

> it's

> > fairly binary

>

> They're perfectly entitled to speak to whoever

> they want. Why it should bother you, I've no idea.


Because it's hypocritical of them


Their main reason for leaving the UK was because the media was intruding in their lives yet here we have them on Saturday night live and Oprah ... kind of weird that they didn't want media attention but now they do


Very insensitive timing, with Phillip in hospital

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