How judgmental are you?

Hic!

Sings: 'for tonight we'll merry merry be
repeat
repeat
Tomorrow we'll be sober.

I like being merry,especially after a few

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!'

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

Either way, absent!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 confess to being 'slightly eccentric'

soope read it again, and change the 'little'

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

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

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

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

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

Oky Doky !

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!

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