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Somtimes this site is like a giant jacuzzi filled with pure oestrogen

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policywonk · 25/10/2007 19:50

...and tonight is an example. Can you imagine a man-centric site displaying such excitement, joy, fear and disapproval because someone reformatted its talkboard?

BTW, I'm not saying that the oestrogen-jacuzzi vibe is a bad thing.

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TheEvilDediderata · 25/10/2007 20:55

Ha ha! That's exactly what I thought, Pointy

My only conclusion was that she had wanted to justifiably flame me in the past, had sat on her hands, and it had all come out in a big, hormonal rush!

Bless! I especially liked the ... 'How dare you'

I was on the floor!!

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policywonk · 25/10/2007 20:59

I saw that thread and was confused. Something about GPs. Didn't understand what it was about.

But I know what you mean, Desi - sometimes I get the feeling that people pounce on you, thinking 'Here's my chance! How long I have waited!' I was on a thread recently on which some woman went completely bananas because I had the temerity to invoke Rosa Parks in the service of my argument. To this day, I don't understand why she suddenly became so completely enraged.

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pointydog · 25/10/2007 21:00

she was certainly very very cross with you

pointydog · 25/10/2007 21:04

"I had the temerity to invoke Rosa Parks in the service of my argument"

she probably had a thing against ponces - har!

TheEvilDediderata · 25/10/2007 21:05

Yep. That's sort of what happened to me last night.

I mean, there are times when you know you're being a bit contentious (but not necessarily in your own mind-scape), and there are other times when the only conclusion you can reach is that someone hates yer guts

I found it highly amusing, tbh. It was so illogical that I couldn't muster the ego to do anything else but laugh.

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policywonk · 25/10/2007 21:08
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TheEvilDediderata · 25/10/2007 21:09

'Oh Pointy Dog,
'Oh Pointy Pointy ....

whomovedmychocolate · 25/10/2007 21:15

I think that tech reckons we are all getting old and myopic because it's easier to read now and we are all apparently reading 'book style' (first post order). Tis very funny though, the poor guy is going to have to maintain the old version for the more luddite among us.

Like the idea of an oestrogenic jacuzzi though (DH always pretends to slip in an oestrogen slick whenever he walks in on our mums coffee mornings

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policywonk · 25/10/2007 21:20

I have visions of Tech sitting in the control room of MNHQ (the deck of the Starship Enterprise), sobbing into his hands, with steam rising off him. I hope they are paying him time-and-a-half.

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hunkermunker · 25/10/2007 21:20

I've seen sites where men get quite up in arms about change. Hoh yesh. In a nitpicky careful and precise way that only men can. Gawd bless 'em and all that malarkey.

Desi, who had a go at you? I went to bed early and missed it all!

TheEvilDediderata · 25/10/2007 21:26

AIBU to get upset when MIL ....

Read it and weep

pointydog · 25/10/2007 21:34

There were a few amusing things about that thread.

when winky parped, she didn't actually parp. She said it meant 'you are tlaking cpbblers'. Fair enough I suppose but it was funny when she kept coming back at you after parping.

And where the feck did that gnu come from?! The gnu with its adjudication and wisdpm of solomon.

hunkermunker · 25/10/2007 21:34

Found it Desi.

Loving your sticky wicket post

Agree with you though. It's getting to be a habit that

hunkermunker · 25/10/2007 21:35

I loved the

gnu
adju
dicate

post too. Haiku-esque, I thought.

WideWebWitch · 25/10/2007 21:37

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I though, ooh, this is interesting and then I got down to By TheEvilDediderata on Thu 25-Oct-07 21:05:18
and I have TO CLICK A FKING >>> if I want to read more. I haven;t GOT TIME, I WON'T DO IT
So i won't read more or get involved,
it's just like other talkboards I can't be arsed to read properly or post on

i'm really upset

hunkermunker · 25/10/2007 21:38

WWW, you can change that. Just go to customize and click on show unlimited posts.

BrownSuga · 25/10/2007 21:41

ooooo yes, i'd love a jacuzzi

pointydog · 25/10/2007 21:41

www, your rage against technological change is not becoming

TheEvilDediderata · 25/10/2007 21:44

Yes, the PARP thing was funny. I thought she was going to feck off ... but she didn't.

And the gnu-dicator I had an image of a large nosed mammal wearing robes ..

I guess she doesn't like me either

pointydog · 25/10/2007 21:47

I saw the gnu more as a football scores announcer, looking rather bored

burnley - 4 queen of the south - 2
winky - proportionaote evil - disproportionate

pointydog · 25/10/2007 21:48

They kept calling you Evil as well. Which painted you in a bad light, I must say.

TheEvilDediderata · 25/10/2007 21:52

ROFL, pointy

"It was you, EVIL, who said that ...."

It reminded me of an episode of Quincy.

pointydog · 25/10/2007 21:53

(To be honest, I feel a bit scared of her. I don't want her to find me)

TheEvilDediderata · 25/10/2007 21:55

I've taken on a few winkies in my time

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policywonk · 25/10/2007 22:00

Ah, she's given you an emoticon Desi. Group hug!

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