JINGLDARLING!

Maybe I should have said it appears to be a love/hate relationship and we've been through all this before!!

bagitha

Jeni Annobel's right. We've been through this before and no doubt will go through it again. Some of us ask for a bit of tact and diplomacy, others send out 'heartfelt pleas to return', some have felt the need to retreat for a while to take a deep breath before coming back. How would you treat it in the family? Patience? Cajoling? Ignoring? I reiterate - it's your choice as to how/if you get involved!

Me id rather get on with planning the virtual burns' ( pedants ok? ) supper.
Where are we at?

I agree with em that there are bound to be the odd ups and downs in any group, whether face to face or virtual.
It is also the case though that jingl has previously posted that she suffers from depression and is on medication for this condition. (I hope you don't mind me reminding them - not confidential as you posted it, but it is a while back)
So we can expect that she might have a few off days or ups and downs from time to time.
She also brings a lot of fun to this site.
We also have different tolerances of swear words. I have a fairly high one myself but it depends on the kind of experiences you have had in life. (I'm the Nana who has to watch her language in front of the kids.)
But as there were at one time a proportion of people on this site who really hate swear words a norm developed that we don't use them much.
And when you are not face to face you miss out on all the non verbal communication. Emoticons a poor substitute for a tone of voice or a shrug of the shoulders.

Jeni the apostrophe is fine but he needs a capital B. So it's Burns' supper!

I'm like eecummings, I don't do capitals

And talking of emoticons. geraldine give us sunshine!

Take your point. One discussion we've had is whether apostrophes should be abolished altogether. Don't think we could do it with capitals though!

Not hot on punctuation either

Or grammar

jeni...be patient.......

Not really much good at anything rally, but I will survive and enjoy life on the whole.

My father wanted to call me patience, or faith or hope or charity. Thank the lord he didn't choose one of his favourites:- chastity and charity!

That reminded me. When I was young I heard my father talking about the labour ward at our local gp maternity home. In my innocence I asked if the other ward was called conservative?

If you keep poking jingl with virtual sticks of course she is going to react.

Oh, come now, harri, that would seem to suggest that it's OK for one person to tease, but not for anyone to respond in kind. Teasing I can take any amount of, and I do take quite a lot perfectly merrily on GN from the person referred to. Plain rudeness is not the same. All it needed was a smile which she uses when she doesn't want to be ambiguous (or rude).

jess, she said herself what she takes isn't for depression.

You might not have seen the repartee between J and me, harri, about the use of jingldarling. It might put this thread in perspective.

Think it just takes a little time for newcomers to realise that some teasing and tantrums simply indicate a need for attention.

Can we have a truce between Bags and Jingl please? Every now and then one or the other of you presses the wrong button for that occasion and the same script is repeated. We love you both!!

Truce suits me.

jingle. Please I miss your company.

Jeni !

What

jeni - em is telling you to stop worrying!