Clarkson green (well for today, anyway).

[MrGongGong]

Oh now you've thoroughly confused me. I have enough trouble with negatives starting aucune and personne. I'll make it simpler: I have rarely heard a child's opinion worth listening to. There, that's how I started, and that's what I meant.

Try listening ...

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[P. G. Tipps]

I thought Today's attempt at an April Fool, "seriously" considering the idea of enlarging goal posts to overcome the problem of hitting the crossbar, pretty feeble. I'm sure it's been used before.

My thoughts too.
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Some of the April Fool features in the past were maybe just about credible to the more gullible among us, but this one would have fooled nobody at all and sounded more like a poor comedy sketch that fell distinctly flat right from the off.

Or maybe I'm simply losing my sense of humour ...

[Alain Maréchal]

try listening.

On occasion I am forced to, for the sake of politeness, but I shudder inwardly and hope that they be taken away.
On reflection, I rarely meet children, for which I am grateful, and the ones I do meet have parents who know how their children should behave.

[MrGongGong]

On occasion I am forced to, for the sake of politeness, but I shudder inwardly and hope that they be taken away.

I'm sure the feeling is mutual
How can you be so sure of the value of your experience?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Then again - at the time I was a rather unsophisticated 11 year old who thought that the ultimate prank was telling people that their shoe laces were undone.

April fools apart, I've often wondered why people warn people that they will trip up over their untied shoe laces. To do so is almost impossible. It would require enormously long laces (or tiny paces).

[Alain Maréchal]

I'm sure the feeling is mutual

Mme. M's grandchildren would never be so impolite as to have such a feeling.

How can you be so sure of the value of your experience?

By the number of posts I have held in order that I might pass it on to others.

[P. G. Tipps]

Mme .. .

[Alain Maréchal]

Don't follow the implication there. Madame M. has grandchildren, I do not.

[Petrushka]

April fools apart, I've often wondered why people warn people that they will trip up over their untied shoe laces. To do so is almost impossible. It would require enormously long laces (or tiny paces).

You don't trip over them as such. You stand on one lace and totter as you vainly try to lift the other foot. Being serious for a second, wasn't this how Fritz Wunderlich met his end when he did precisely this when coming down stairs one night only to fall to his death?

[MrGongGong]

By the number of posts I have held in order that I might pass it on to others.

Holding onto a stick is no indication of anything
Nor is spouting b*llocks on the internet (so that's me done for )

[gurnemanz]

You don't trip over them as such. You stand on one lace and totter as you vainly try to lift the other foot. Being serious for a second, wasn't this how Fritz Wunderlich met his end when he did precisely this when coming down stairs one night only to fall to his death?

Full story here - scroll down.

[Petrushka]

Full story here - scroll down.

Thanks for that. I thought I'd got the story more or less correct.

[Alain Maréchal]

Holding onto a stick is no indication of anything
Nor is spouting b*llocks on the internet (so that's me done for )

I was sought out, the sticks were offered to me and I was paid for holding them at public cost, so I judge there must have been some value to others.
The offensive words of which you speak are only such in your opinion, and I assume you are not a child so I wil give you credit for holding that opinion sincerely. I wouldn't spout them if I didn't believe them. Its past midnight here, I must sleep.

[P. G. Tipps]

Don't follow the implication there. Madame M. has grandchildren, I do not.

Sorry, I thought the 'Mme' referred to the forum member to whom you were responding.

I clearly got that wrong ...

[Nick Armstrong]

Madame M. has grandchildren, I do not.

I've been trying to think of the right adjectival phrase for that remark, which is very memorable and made me smile a lot!

I think "magnificently disdainful" is close to the mark