An observation behaviour online

Elegran. 18.30

Do tell who!

Perhaps they are sitting back smiling to themselves at the irony of some posts.

Ana

pompa

He thinks he is decisive and thinks he is always right
She knows she is always right (and of course always is) and knows that he can be persuaded as long as he thought it was his idea in the first place

If I CouldBA to go back down these threads I would be able to see with what regularity this same old, same old, subject comes up and is worked over again and again ad nauseum.

As Elegran has said several times

It is simple! If you don't like controversial threads and lively debate don't post on them. If you do post on them be prepared to have to justify why you feel as you do. If you do explain your reasoning you might actually change the view of others, but that will never happen if all you say is well that is my opinion.

(1) Those with right wing leanings will probably have similar views and in a debate will agree with others. So by some of the logic on here they are cliques. Or as Magpie calls them "followers" and I feel she seems to consider this as being a conspiracy.

(2) Those with left wing views will probably have similar views and in a debate will agree with others. So by some of the tendency of some who to puch conspiracy theory logic on here they are always cliques. Or as Magpie calls them "followers" and I feel she seems to consider this as being a conspiracy.

Can anyone here see the difference in the behaviour of the above two groups?
This is what politics and other controversial subjects are about, it is what happens in Parliament.
"Stay out of the hot kitchen."

I have browsed through this thread and have been thinking "Yawn!", which is a précis of what nelliem, elegran and others have already said.

RoseQuarts, that's exactly what I thought I said, didn't I ? or have just been persuaded that I thought it was what I said
Pompa wanders off gibbering again.

Isn't 'Yawn' a rather rude and dismissive way to express one's opinion?
There are quite a few new members who haven't 'been there, done that' and might like to think their posts are actually being taken seriously by others.

Hello ana . You can interpret it that way if you like but since nelliem's and elegran's posts were not rude and since, as I said, mine is a précis of what they said, I obviously wasn't being rude at all.

Bags goes off thread yawning deeply.

I was actually quoting you, thatbags, it was some time ago now, but I do have a remarkably good memory! (don't need to trawl threads).

But if it suits you to think it's fine to use 'Yawn' to express your boredom with a subject now, so be it!

Were you stretching as well,bags? Pandiculating? Is that the word, Pompa?

pompa you've got it already! What an erudite and self-aware man you are!

Mrs pompa is a lucky woman indeed

Pandiculating
that's posh! (reaches for the dictionary)

and I did Latin A level again!

Perhaps Caesar never pandiculated

No, I went and did some washing-up, dj.

ana, I quote from the very beginning elegran's first comment on this thread: "Oh not the b****y clique accusation again." I interpreted that as a verbal yawn though her subsequent words and posts expressed it all much more elegantly, as is her wont.
So, again, as I said, my yawn was a précis, an interpretation of what some others have said. Not very original of me, I admit, but we can't all be brilliant (well, not all the time anyhow – stickyouttongue emoticon [etc]– because this is really silly.

Do other people have silly outbursts? Do tell!

Oh, wow! I actually got a biscuit! I'm so pleased! Especially as it's a jammy dodger. Munch munch.

It's not actually in the emoticon list, not the one I can see any road.

Never!!

I want a jammy dodger too [sulk]!

In answer to your previous post, not the jammy dodger
(how did you do that, very clever, way beyond my it skills!)

Bags, to put it simply, you told me off for 'yawning' on a thread some time ago.

Of course I know what you meant. As for silly outbursts, don't we all have them from time to time?

[dodger]

RQ, how did I do what?