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skybluepink Fri 18-Jan-13 10:28:17

As a single person [I do have a grandniece who is a cutey pie ]I don't like the word Gransnet as feel it is not all encompassing & we should be respected for our individauality as people not to focus on our age often causing the most concern. I suppose this is nit picking but I still feel mentally I am in my 30s ??!! Silver surfer is more fun.

Ariadne Sun 20-Jan-13 09:41:05

"the quick" is the living, sensitive central part of something. As in "the quick and the dead" which, if I remember, is in some liturgy or other. I know someone will tell me!

Marelli Sun 20-Jan-13 09:27:29

Bags - I shall investigate and if there are any I shall bring them to *Elegran's for you on Burns' Day grin!

whenim64 Sun 20-Jan-13 09:22:03

Yes, Butty rows = bad, arguments = good. A healthy debate and friendly negotiation takes effort and thought. We're all able to do that if we choose to smile

Butty Sun 20-Jan-13 09:13:26

Well, I've learnt something this Sunday morning, which I enjoyed because it got my brain ticking over. I realised - thanks absent and bags - that I didn't really know the difference between logical and rational thinking.
A quick buzz around google - and now I do. smile

Bags Sun 20-Jan-13 09:09:41

Good thing you didn't then, eh Kali?

Kali Sun 20-Jan-13 09:05:20

Is it worthwhile commenting on the last few posts? No.

Bags Sun 20-Jan-13 08:57:19

Get me some horseburgers, would you, please?

Marelli Sun 20-Jan-13 08:45:29

A snipe, of course wink and best ignored, Bags. I almost rose to the bait there! However, I must gird my loins and head for Aldi's, instead. smile

Bags Sun 20-Jan-13 08:43:45

I find your arguments rational, absent, even when I don't agree with them. Rational is probably better than logical, really.

absent Sun 20-Jan-13 08:40:45

What logic Bags? Btw I have just looked up cut to the quick in Brewer which says, "the reference here is to the sensitive flesh below the nails or skin, hence the seat of feeling". I like your definition better. grin I suppose the opposite wouldn't be delighted to the quick but to the nails or epidermis. Doesn't work, does it?

Bags Sun 20-Jan-13 08:35:43

Probably better not to ask, marelli. Just a snipe. Best ignored.

Bags Sun 20-Jan-13 08:34:48

Tut tut! absent, no wonder people have difficulty understanding your logic! wink

My definition of "the quick" (until someone comes up with a better one) is That Part of One that Gets Upset. It's that because one never hears of someone being delighted or pleased to the quick, does one?

Marelli Sun 20-Jan-13 08:32:37

Sel, what do you mean by your last post (00.40.03)? confused

absent Sun 20-Jan-13 08:28:43

Where is the quick Bags and does everyone have one? Actually, you, or rather your viewpoint, were not strictly speaking the appropriate choice for comparison as I was using 60* as my starting point for old and you're not there yet.

* Not a disparagement just an observation of how society, the media, young people, etc. think.

Bags Sun 20-Jan-13 08:22:11

As if I didn't bear comparing to, Faye!! shock wink smile grin Hurt to the quick, I am.

[tease emoticon] [donottakethisseriously emoticon] [I'mwindingyouup emoticon]

Look what we're reduced to! confused

Kali Sun 20-Jan-13 08:17:13

People inevitably change as they get older, some for the better, others sadly do become crabby and old before their time. There are those who grow older gracefully, those who grow older disgracefully, those who grow older bitterly and those who just give in.

absent Sun 20-Jan-13 07:44:48

Faye I was not comparing you to Bags but comparing what I understood (apparently wrongly) to be your viewpoint of yourself as an old woman with hers of herself because they seemed to represent opposite ends of a spectrum. I was interested in exploring attitudes to being old, especially as society is so unforgiving of women d'un certain âge. Now you are doing some misrepresenting yourself as I never once suggested that you were immature etc.

Sel that is quite uncalled for and a nasty slur on longer-standing members of Grasnsnet.

Sel Sun 20-Jan-13 00:40:03

Message deleted by Gransnetfor breaking our Talk Guidelines. Replies may also be deleted.

Faye Sun 20-Jan-13 00:28:35

Yes it is tickety boo as you say absent but I am still left wondering why you were comparing me to baggy. We're you trying to point out that I am immature, want to act younger than my age and hadn't progressed mentally in the last forty three years. confused

absent Sat 19-Jan-13 18:29:02

Okey dokey and tickety boo Faye. smile

Faye Sat 19-Jan-13 14:48:50

absent I appreciate that you understand how I feel. Thanks for the apology.

absent Sat 19-Jan-13 14:01:02

Faye I do appreciate how frustrating and irritating it is when someone misrepresents what you have said – especially if you have repeated and augmented it more than once. A poster on another forum did that to me once suggesting that I had made a completely ridiculous and puerile suggestion about Christians and pain and continued to repeat it and repeat it in spite of all my attempts to clarify my comments with increasingly simple words and sentences. It makes you feel like banging your head against a brick wall. Consequently, I repeat my apology and reiterate that any misrepresentation was never wilful.

Rosannie Sat 19-Jan-13 13:56:21

Pleased to hear that annodomini!
I will stay awhile Grannyeggs but maybe not here!

annodomini Sat 19-Jan-13 13:44:40

Welcome back, Rosannie. You will find friendly chat and banter in the Bolthole thread. Not all threads are acrimonious.

soop Sat 19-Jan-13 13:30:38

Welcome back, Rosannie. "Pernickety comments" sums up why I'm logging off for now. I've better things to do than trawl through the current argie-bargie.