I was just tired of writing a well thought out essay,

If you chose to spend your time typing out a full essay on a subject which imo (judged after reading every one of your posts) a few choice lines & a couple of similes would have sufficed, then that is your business but why do you then think that other posters need to waste their time posting paragraph after paragraph of irrelevant prose just to satisfy your need & to make you happy? Do you really believe yourself to be that important?

Have you ever watched a politician on that BBC show called Hard Talk? The commentators asks a question and the guest does not make even a slight attempt to answer the question.

In internet forums not only do some of the respondents not make an attempt to answer the question but they post answers that have nothing whatever to do with the question.

If I were to answer your post with something silly and untrue like, “I’ve read your posts before and they are always wrong.” Wouldn’t you think that was inappropriate?

One or two word pejorative expletives like the C word although fairly common in British Pubs I hardly feel are appropriate when responding in a forum like this one.

As you took the time to try and correct the error of my thinking I also do you the courtesy of trying to point out my reasons for behaving in the manner I do.

So far I have been bashed about the “smiley thread” in a thread about cats and obscene phone calls in addition to this one.

I feel it is only proper that I respond at some length about such foolishness.

If you are using smileys to lesson the blow of an insult then maybe you should research that behavior because it probably bothers many more people than you know.

Perhaps you should research the terms 'banter' and 'sense of humour' mark.

As I said earlier in this thread, you take yourself way too seriously and so I suspect things such as banter will be lost on you.

I was reading the general sub forum about a person who was complaining about threatening phone calls and asking what to do about them.

You accused me of making the threatening calls.

Out of the blue! I had not ever seen the thread before today. Nor do I make threatening phone calls. Nor do I know the poster.

Is that your idea of banter?

It is my idea of adolescent rude behavior and I think it is it is in very bad taste.

If you had even a bit of honor you would apologize.

If your idea of banter and humor is to search out threads and post scurrilous remarks about me behind my back then I think I don’t like banter.

I rest my case.

You accuse me of making obscene phone calls in another sub forum. This is banter?

What do you think an appropriate response on my part should be?

that's up to you Mark, but again my question was: Do you think you are that important that other posters should spend their time typing out replies that meet your standards.

IMO they, like in real life, respond in the way they see fit & not to pander to your needs for acknowledgment.

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No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationary.

Anon

Get a pair and tell me what you mean.

It's called a picture and can be used to express a thousand words (or so I'm given to believe).

Oh, and before I forget, I acquired my pair quite some considerable time ago.

Happy Days....

"Hey Nurse is it medication time yet ?"

that's up to you Mark, but again my question was: Do you think you are that important that other posters should spend their time typing out replies that meet your standards.

IMO they, like in real life, respond in the way they see fit & not to pander to your needs for acknowledgment.

Up to you. When I walk down the street and say Hi I expect a return greeting.

I don’t expect people to say, “go to H a hole.”

If they do say, “go to H a hole.” I would inquire as to why they felt that way.

That would let me know if I erred on some social point or if they were mentally unbalanced.

You really can’t think after reading my threads that anyone panders to my need for acknowledgment can you?

In the post directly above LeugKen posted a picture of an envelope with the words “

No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationary.” I don’t know what that means.

Does it mean that I push the envelope to no avail? Does it have a reference to another post that someone else has written? Does it have a specific reference to something I posted?

I don’t have a clue. Should I ask for clarification and if I do will I be overbearing, since I have asked once already?

Is it only me who thinks young Mark is a clever fellow, who worked out a topic to pull the chain of the dear Bedderites and has quite successfully achieved his goal ?

Green skin, warts, lives under a bridge..............................

I think the majority have sussed that out S', a few are still being ridden by it, I think, possibly even our aging Lothario has picked up the bait, however I just wonder who:

I have forgotten most of the legendary Trolls, but my guess is the London Croc, I reckon I'll go over and give him a nudge, see if he will tell me.

None of you get it.

Smileys help you read between the lines.

I thought that the discussion would have been centred on the differences in thought process and communication skills of people with various forms of retardation as against 'normal' people (who could also use smilies, from the title).

Im better than normal, Im abnormal

Is it only me who thinks young Mark is a clever fellow, who worked out a topic to pull the chain of the dear Bedderites and has quite successfully achieved his goal ?

Green skin, warts, lives under a bridge..............................

I think the majority have sussed that out S', a few are still being ridden by it, I think, possibly even our aging Lothario has picked up the bait, however I just wonder who:

I have forgotten most of the legendary Trolls, but my guess is the London Croc, I reckon I'll go over and give him a nudge, see if he will tell me.

The troll factor has crossed my mind but I am not convinced, the guy just seems to be genuinely creepy.

Ha ha ha.

Can't seem to use the smiles. I spilt a sticky drink on my keyboard.

If you had even a bit of honor you would apologize.

Ha ha ha.

Can't seem to use the smiles. I spilt a sticky drink on my keyboard.

You should speak to my friend moonie (aka moonrakers). A little birdy told me he often spills little dribbles of sticky stuff on his keyboard whilst surfing porn _{^{web pages}}

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(a picture says a thousand words)

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(a picture says a thousand words)

OMG, Shes gone global

If they'd been invented would Will Shakespeare have used smilies? It might have saved time at the printers.

If be the of on.

Maybe this one is more appropriate : Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

I can't think of the smilies to do that, or maybe,

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

After that a row of smilies makes perfect sense.

Ha ha ha.

Can't seem to use the smiles. I spilt a sticky drink on my keyboard.

You should speak to my friend moonie (aka moonrakers). A little birdy told me he often spills little dribbles of sticky stuff on his keyboard whilst surfing porn _{^{web pages}}

I contest that remark.

I'll have you know that it is the mouse that gets sticky, not the keyboard (Some of us learn to aim and hit the target). I also have a joystick that slips perfectly into the USB.

Joysticks are cool

Ha ha ha.

Can't seem to use the smiles. I spilt a sticky drink on my keyboard.

You should speak to my friend moonie (aka moonrakers). A little birdy told me he often spills little dribbles of sticky stuff on his keyboard whilst surfing porn _{^{web pages}}

I contest that remark.

I'll have you know that it is the mouse that gets sticky, not the keyboard (Some of us learn to aim and hit the target). I also have a joystick that slips perfectly into the USB.

Joysticks are cool

That is waaaay more information than I wanted.

If be the of on.

That was pretty good!

Good work all - if any thread needed Bedlamising, it was this one...

I spilt coke and vodka on the keyboard, doing my wonderful sitting down dancing, and it glued my backspace button which i pryed apart with a screwdriver and cleaned out with nail varnish remover. Jeez, that sounds painful.....

See, us females can do DIY.

Amazing how often you use that button, but dont realise until it sticks.

Working now. But i still have no smilies. So shoudnt really be writing on this thread.

I shall go on Tuesday to get a new keyboard. This one is one of those so called anti drip ones. I have been through three of the dam_n things in a year. Don't work, but are cheap to buy. I even turned it on its side when the accident happened, to no avail. The table is sticky too. I believe all the keyboards were subject to alcoholic drinks late in the evening, or once or twice morning coffee not just by me but there have been other people here. Or cat vomit or something similar. If you want i shall take a picture with my webcam which is also a bit sticky and you can give me your opinion. I could start a new thread on the bestest keyboards to buy. and we can have a twenty page argument about it.

Other keys are stuck too.

Amazing the things you find when you pry up a key - cat hair, crumbs etc. no money or lost smilies, unfortunately.

Is this thread long enough to send you all to la la land? Good!!!!!!!!!!

Sarcastic smily. smily smily. kiss smily. silly patsy smily.

I spilt coke and vodka on the keyboard, doing my wonderful sitting down dancing, and it glued my backspace button which i pryed apart with a screwdriver and cleaned out with nail varnish remover. Jeez, that sounds painful.....

I'm perturbed by your sitting down dancing. It sounds even worse than having a glued backspace button. I think I may be having an attack of the vapours

The old spill-the-drink-on-the-keyboard trick - the oldest trick in the book. But I've only ever done it once (many years ago). It happened a few hours after I had introduced Jim Beam to Coca Cola and then introduced the two of them to the keyboard through the agency of a misguided reach for the ashtray. I wasn't in much of a mood after that - hated smiley's and all...

Sitting down dancing is great fun.

You go on you tube and choose your choice in music, myself at the moment is Buble. and just sit and dance on your seat . You may of course stand up and do a little wiggle as well as it helps the heavy leg syndrome. It also helps you on your way to the kitchen to concoct another sticky drink.

See, life in swissland is just as exciting as you imagined.... Silly smily

Doing the twist is very good for the vapours. I knew them well until i discovered Chubby Checkers.

ACDC also good.

I'd like one of those chairs that spins.

then i could really expand on my repetoire.

Sorry Patsy, that's an urban myth.

No matter how fast you spin you'll never expand, it just looks that way in the movies.

I know, but i am sure that you dance in your seat

Chair dancing is awesome!

I'm actually in my seat now. I've tried it and I must admit it was pretty good ( while it lasted )

Chair dancing is awesome!

I love it

Chair dancing is awesome!

I love it

lap dancing is better.

Patsy, why don't you just point and click on the smilies provided on the left hand menu when you reply in TV?