Missed Opportunity

Greatnan In your dreams. What an extraordinary comment that was – "I can handle absent". Given how old you are, I assume you are not talking about a form of physical control and, frankly, although you have an very arrogant attitude towards your intellectual abilities, I doubt you can match up when push comes to shove. Be scared, be very, very scared. Just get on with your Nordic (foreign again) walking poles and bathing (ugh) in continental lakes.

Well, at least I do bathe sometimes. And you should learn to be respectful to your elders.

I don't need to take lessons from you Old Woman.

Who are you going to take them from, then? And I like being an old woman proves I have stamina

Ironic emoticon could be smoothing iron?.

I'm beginning to think its even more urgent than a crescent moon, for the sake of peace you know!

Before I read this thread, I thought I had a headache; now I know I have one. An exchange of insults is known in Scottish literary tradition as 'flyting'. Perhaps we could have a 'flyting' thread where we could insult one another with impunity.

What an excellent idea

Flyting - I like that. I think I like the Jane Austen idea best for the irony emoticon.