Class 2

[Flosshilde]

you don't often listen to what people say to you, even when you're talking to yourself.

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh, pardon me Squire (touches forelock and adjusts dimity smock) I am everso 'umble, I do beg your permission Kind Sir, yes it's Me Neurotics what gets the bests of me, Doctor says it's acause I'm female, you know one of those do you, sort of at times random in her emotions. Doctor says soon as I buckle down under a real man and he takes me in hand these fantasies will stop. <retreats, curtsey, and other humble stuff>

Nice one, Anna!

[Beef Oven]

Oh, pardon me Squire (touches forelock and adjusts dimity smock) I am everso 'umble, I do beg your permission Kind Sir, yes it's Me Neurotics what gets the bests of me, Doctor says it's acause I'm female, you know one of those do you, sort of at times random in her emotions. Doctor says soon as I buckle down under a real man and he takes me in hand these fantasies will stop. <retreats, curtsey, and other humble stuff>

Edit: I had a Volvo. Passengers had a nasty habit of sliding off the heated leather seats.

Take the piss. Very deep analysis. If you've got nothing to say, just be quiet.

[Beef Oven]

Usual format Very Lord Of The Flies. Simon, Scotty, Mandy, Lateral et al. All get dealt with the same. can't see it can you?

[Nick Armstrong]

Take the piss. Very deep analysis. If you've got nothing to say, just be quiet.

What makes you think that humourless, patronising sarcasm like that is appropriate to any sort of discussion?

[ahinton]

Take the piss. Very deep analysis. If you've got nothing to say, just be quiet.

Talking to yourself once again, I note; if you must persist in doing so, could you please do us all a favour and do it not only quietly but also somewhere else?

Thank you.

[ahinton]

What makes you think that humourless, patronising sarcasm like that is appropriate to any sort of discussion?

Sarcasm? SARCASM?? His little noises may be both unpleasant and unwelcome, but please don't dignify such empty, meaningless stuff with the term "sarcasm", which they do not deserve!

[Beef Oven]

What makes you think that humourless, patronising sarcasm like that is appropriate to any sort of discussion?

So you can't dish out a bit, you just gotta take it? Unless of course it fits in with what the little cadre on here thinks. Hadn't had you down for one of those Cali.

Check #149, I haven't articulated it very well, but the meaning should be obvious.

[ahinton]

Thanks. I will take the piss, as and when (or without your permission) if I want to

Then please take it to a certain part of North East London and pour it over an Oven upon which it needs to be poured!

[Nick Armstrong]

Sarcasm? SARCASM?? His little noises may be both unpleasant and unwelcome, but please don't dignify such empty, meaningless stuff with the term "sarcasm", which they do not deserve!

You seem to think of sarcasm in a more positive light than I do!

[ahinton]

I haven't articulated it very well

No change there, then.

but the meaning should be obvious.

The meaning is absent; only the perpetrator is obvious.

[ahinton]

You seem to think of sarcasm in a more positive light than I do!

Not a positive light as such, no, but it does at least presume some kind of meaning and an ability to work with language, neither of which I have noted emerging from the Oven.

[Nick Armstrong]

So you can't dish out a bit, you just gotta take it? Unless of course it fits in with what the little cadre on here thinks. Hadn't had you down for one of those Cali.

You're sidestepping the issue, which is about retaining some measure of politeness / rationality, even when 'dishing it out'.

[ahinton]

You're sidestepping the issue, which is about retaining some measure of politeness / rationality, even when 'dishing it out'.

I'm not sure that he even understands or recognises that issue well enough to be able to sidestep it, frankly.