The way things can be taken PLEASE READ THIS!

Maybe a line could be drawn under this thread as well. Not disputing what has been said, but we could concentrate more on what is worth saying and give some of the navel gazing that has been going on a rest.
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Night, jeni Sleep well.

Goodnight jeni, hope tomorrow is stress-free for you.

too complicated for my tiny brain! I think I've overworked it today reading all those files and the washing machine breaking down!
I'm going to show myself I CAN keep away from GN!
One , then to bed.
Night all

Happy to be confused with basnet or jingle in any of her guises, and several others. Nae worries. Not bothered. I know who I am even if no-one else does and that's what counts. I think.

That's like me with book, nfk – I remember the story I'm reading but often haven,t clue who wrote it or what it's called!

like this?. Thanks Bags - I just noticed the list next to the emoticons! How dim is that! Tunnel vision, advertisers nightmare, I can never remember the product, just the tune.

Stansgran I hope the cullen skink appears at some stage this evening and is delicious. It doesn't really matter if you confuse Bags and me – I am sure we can cope with that. While I admit that we often see things with the same perspective – but by no means invariably – I am slightly puzzled about the ab in our names. Same letters but a different order.

I have three email addresses one because I did a college course and we had to converse with the tutor by email, one my dead brother invited metro gmail(before he died) and yahoo. All of which I look at only occasionally. I have to spend a disproportionate chunk of my life sorting my DH,s email as he Is a technophobe of the first water and can crash a computer at 30 paces and attracts viruses like dolly mixture. I don't confuse bags and absent out of rudeness or assume they are the same person for any other reason than that they seem to have a similar mindset and both have ab in their names. If I were reading posts this would probably be too long and I would just scan. I am escaping DH making Cullen skink. His is evidently the proper version

Sorr-ee didn't mean to demean anything anybody said and I agree entirely with the prnciple of the OP. It is indeed the "quite" which makes all ths difference - a bit like rather. Think of Terry- Thomas's "Raa-therr" which is positive and "an upper-class English "rather cool today, isn't it"
Oh what the heck. I'll just shut up. I think we all have a pretty good idea of how to be tactful/considerate/friendly and how to do the other thing.
Just wouldn't want to do the other thing to friends and don't like having it done to me.

NFK, to underline, press the .?123 key, then press the #+=. Above that is the underline key which you need to type at the start and the end of something you want underlined.

Tell me if that,s clear and works and then we can do the others

Of course we could substitute warm, cold, chilly, near or whatever you fancy, I think it's the "quite" that is the hinge on which this particular door swings. (Bloody hell, where did that come from?!)

Time for another glass of chablis I think!

I've given up one or two forums -cookery ones seem particularly bad- because I kept finding a thread on a particular recipe or ingredient that I was interested in and within a couple of posts it would have degenerated into a chat between two friends, deciding when they would meet up and discussing their husbands' Man Flu. Riveting for them no doubt ,but mind numbing for the rest of us!

phoenix Of course you post was clear. There's just a typical pedants' deviation about use of the word nice – happens all the time. This isn't Just a Minute. Don't worry.

Can I just ask in passing, in order to add appropriate expression, is there a way to use underline, bold or italic on an iPad?

It's just it would save Geraldine from popping in and out. Welcome though she is, of course.

Have they got rid of the "message deleted at poster's request" thing?

I understood your point phoenix.

OK, so "nice" wasn't the best example of what I meant, I was really just trying to show how inflection which is used in speech is often lost in this type of communication.

Stans if you tend to prefer to read mainly the shorter opening posts, then some (most?) of mine must send you running for the hills !!

gracesmum I was taught that and implemented it in my own lessons too!

Yes Jane!

When I was at school we were absolutely forbidden on pain of something very nasty to use the word "nice" except in its meaning of fine or subtle e.g. a nice distinction. The other usage of "nice" i.e. pleasant , was banned as being to weak, woolly, vague, non-committal and anodyne and we had to find and use synonyms!!

Thank you Stansgran

Actually I dont and wouldn't say 'its quite nice' I think that sounds a bit condescending and very English. If someone shows me an outfit say, that she is going to buy and I think she'll look like a total idiot in, I would diplomatically tell her so. Why do I have to say 'its quite nice' to something that I don't think is nice. One doesn't have to be nasty or rude about it - but honesty is better - to me it is telling the truth. It's like sitting in a resturant eating substandard food, the Head Waiter asks you if you were enjoying your food. Do you say 'its quite nice' or, and remember you are paying for this plate of garbage,' no I'm not enjoying it, its not good at all' Guess which one I say - and again not loudly and rudely, just honestly. No wonder we get poor service in this country if we uses phrases like'its quite nice'