to think that most people that say 'I left school years ago' in an argument are generally the most bitchy ones anyway!

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My friend says this. It really fucks me off. Because out of everyone I know, shes the most bitchy in an argument. Normally she'll have said something nasty, to which the person responds with something nasty, and she'll say 'Im not being funny, but I left school years ago' in order to look higher and mightier and above bitchy comments, despite just making one.

I cant believe my friend gets into enough arguments for me to have noticed a formula to it! Every time Ive heard this phrase its been in a bitchy context. I hate it!

Who does John look like?

V interested in John sex on a stick

*Hully

John looks like a tall Richard Hammond.

You can snog Matt in accounts because he is a total babe.

Richard hammond! He's got like totally odd hair. What's Matt look like?

John has odd hair as well. It looks like he has rolled out of bed and it goes with his sleepy 'come hither wench' eyes.

I want to 'come hither' and I would be partial to 'wenching'.

Matt looks like he is on the run from a boy band and accountancy is just a front.

They sound a bit young for me. Are there any older models?

I believe the correct response to "'Im not being funny, but I left school years ago" is "Maybe you should look at going back" said with a smile, of course!

Hully

You can have Ken - he is the chief scientist and looks like a bit like Alan Rickman.

He likes playing 'aeroplanes' round the car park.

I was liking Ken until you said playing aeroplanes.

I work with geeks. What can I say?

I meant that women call men childish, Hully, yes. I like the sound if Ken.

What was this thread about again? I got distracted.

I wish I had some nice men at work, but they're all not.

When I said that men don't get called childish I meant in relation to gossiping. IYKWIM?

On here for example the call invariably goes up "Oh it's like playground bullies here wah wah!" I agree with Bof when she says that accusation is rarely levelled at men.

Isn't that just because it's mainly women on here and so "playground bullying" is assumed to mean psychological torture rather than pushing and shoving? Because that is what it means to women on the whole?

Anway men don't "gossip." They "chat." Everyone knows that.

How funny. That doesn't make them clever, just old

Well of course!

Look! Gossip is reclaimed.

In the last decade, gossip has been researched in terms of its evolutionary psychology origins.[1] This has found gossip to be an important means by which people can monitor cooperative reputations and so maintain widespread indirect reciprocity.[2] Indirect reciprocity is defined here as "I help you and somebody else helps me." Gossip has also been identified by Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary biologist, as aiding social bonding in large groups.[3] With the advent of the internet gossip is now widespread on an instant basis, from one place in the world to another what used to take a long time to filter through is now instant.

Talking of gossip, get a load of the recent post on the Stand Up thread in AIBU...

I beg your pardon, it was on the Deletions thread.

No way.

Just NO WAY. It doesn't read like her either.

??

Is she trying to prove how old she is?

Anyway 'I left school a lot earlier than she did I suspect'. Because I am really old.

It DOES, Shirl. Music references, breast-beating remorse, something provocative thrown in etc etc. Come on, it REEKS of her. Not to mention making a previously interesting thread ALL ABOUT HER

That's it. I've clearly gone mad.

Has anyone had an offboard lesbo r'ship with dp?

Own up, now.

I've read it again (obsessed), I don't think dp would speak so lightly of her fervent catholic insanities beliefs

I think it was harleyd. But you'd better check with Leningrad