End of Scuttlebutt for me

[Silkie]

original deleted. as out of context

Hard to believe that such a thing could be possible really.

[ParaHandy]

Fanny's Bay - what a lovely place to reside....

its the shoe-shine as you go in that gets you every time ... (ugh, that's awful ...) harrumph, am looking forward to seeing it later this year

[claymore]

DearHeart attended a convent during her formative educative years - shiney shoes were banned.
Silkie, yer papalship - wid ye care tae comment

[Silkie]

My own beloved attended what was doubtless a similar seminary and I never did understand the shiny shoe rule in an all-female establishment. OTOH, I could see where the hairbrush regulations were coming from.

[ljs]

harrumph, am looking forward to seeing it later this year

Indeed you shall, Cinders.
The Guinness are lovely, the women is cheap and the mackerel throw themselves on board holding a frying pan.
Hopefully we'll get out a bit more this time. If it blows a hooley again for five days like last time and we're holed up on the mooring we'll be sick of the sight of Fanny...

[Magna Carter]

Come to join you in exile for a few days Jimi....

Frankly, had enough of it.....

Today it stooped as low as some pretty extreme racism...

pretty saddened by it all really.

[Telo]

The link to a nazi website and the lack of moderator response is hardly encouraging.

[Magna Carter]

Yeah.... I was utterly disgusted by that....

[Olivepage]

Its a bit like a small exiled community watching, from a distance, the home country going to the dogs.

I've given up on TOP as well

Today was a disgrace - I can't understand how the parent company can let their media be used to publish such trash.

[Silkie]

Sadder and wiser is probably the best most of us can hope for.

[Silkie]

aye, made a bit o' an erse o' masel. Or at least made tae feel that way.

Dinna fash yersel' laddie.

[Olivepage]

No I don't think so.

The problem in TOP is that there is an element that posts regularly on there who actively pursue a BNP agenda. I have objected to this in the past but the powers that be seem content to accept it.

So what happens of course is that as soon as anyone mentions immigant then immediately the prefix "illegal" appears. Similarly when Muslim appears it somehow gains the suffix " terrorist" or fundamentalist"

Then of course those of us who do not have that political slant rise to the bait, I try not to, but sometimes the (non politically) red mist comes down.

Must say its more peaceful up here, I'm sure I'll pick up a few words of the local language over a period of time.

[little boy blue]

Sadder and wiser is probably the best most of us can hope for .....

you`re asking a lot.

judge - " i`m none the wiser ".

counsel - " indeed, but my lord, is bound to be better informed ".

[Silkie]

Don't beat yourself up Dave. With the obvious exception of Claymore, I'm sure most of us have suffered from "post in haste, repent at leisure" syndrome and yes, I have seen a couple of yours that I thought were ill-judged.

We don't seem to suffer so much from it here and I'm sure it's at least in part due to the more measured pace. Thread life in another place is measured in minutes and hours while here it's days and months - years even! Over there if you don't post immediately someone else will make your point or the thread will take a completely new direction; here, you can pick up a thread a week later if you've been pondering on some point or you've been away on the boat.

Or maybe it's because we're all such well-balanced individuals.

[Silkie]

You mean I'm the only one on here that's set the thing up to e.mail me when there's a reply..

So that's how you do it.