How judgmental are you?

We've brought up the subject of diverging threads before and I don't think anyone thought it mattered very much. It's always possible to bring a thread back to the OP if you want to pursue it. However, going off thread can be a sign the there's not much more to be said on the topic.

Hello lotusflower and welcome - lovely name.

I say again, as the person who started it all, I love the path this thread has taken.

Do other people who start posts feel as though they are their baby (or is that just me)

thank you absent

No , I just put a subject into the open forum and let it meander as it may

In fact I didn"t even realise that people regard threads as theirs . Live and learn every day in every way .

Nonu, as I said, maybe they don't and it's just me . I'd like to claim any sort of credit there might be for starting this one though!

Oky Doky !

You certainly put the cat among the pigeons (or chickens), kitty, but that's no bad thing, is it? What next?

I quite like the notion of lobbing in a grenade cuckoo's egg every now and then and seeing what happens . Ownership?

Many of the threads I've started have wandered off topic, or not spawned much interest at all. That's just the way of forum conversations. It's not a sign of anything, except perhaps that we're normal.

Welcome to gransnet, lotusflower

I like to think that we're all a teensy bit barmy.

You speak for yourself soop I'm not a 'lttle bit' barmy!

...meant to add, with the exception of Alison

soope read it again, and change the 'little'

I confess to being 'slightly eccentric'

What's with all the 'slightly' and 'little' you are just not trying! DS2 proudly told his friends at school that his mother was completely mad. Please try harder

I once told my sister I proposed to be eccentric once I'd retired. She just looked at me and told me I was already eccentric.

Yes, I do feel a slight sense of ownership when I start a thread, but I am very happy to send it on its merry way and wander wither it will!
Now, how does it decline? I am eccentric, you are weird, he is bonkers.
I think I am perfectly normal, but the rest of the world is a bit strange.

My mother had an egg-timer on which was written:

All the World's a little queer
Save me, and thee
And even thee's a little queer.

Of course this was before the meaning of queer changed.

Which is a shame as it was quite a pleasant word . heyho

Enid Blyton , of who we have at least 500 books of hers used it an awful lot, till it was ambushed

AlisonMA The meaning of queer hasn't changed; it just acquired a new meaning which, because it is pejorative, prevents us from using the word with its old meaning (as a general rule). Gay, of course, did a similar thing (without being pejorative) but then I doubt if we grannies would have talked about being gay in the old sense of the word – though, perhaps, we are a bunch of jolly old birds.

That's jolly old birds, not jolly old birds. Shut up absent, again.

I'm jolly old and I look it now I have lost weight. I am usually jolly as well though. Merry is a nice word.

Either way, absent!

Why wouldn"t we have talked about being gay ? You know something I don"t ????????????? x

In Isle of Wight vernacular the word queer means angry or cross. I remember a school friend of mine who was staying for a week bursting into a fit of giggles as we were heading for the beach. An upstairs window was suddenly thrown open and a girl yelled across the road to her mates, ' I'm not coming out...Me dad's queer!'