Changing your opinion

That was it, absent, and he wrote some very funny articles. He was a schoolmaster before he got into radio. Obviously homosexual and very gentle and sweet.

Just a Minute Greatnan?

Two members have made me more open-minded about religion - they haven't converted me, but they have made me see some of the good done by some churches and I am grateful to them.
Two other people have surprised me by apparently doing a complete volte- face on what I thought were their views. It is all part of life's rich tapestry, as the lovely Arthur Marsall used to say. (Does anybody else remember him - such a lovely giggler?)

Absent good game!

Matson! See that! Petra's wink did n' t come out cos she put a capital W where ithas (see that) to be a small one.

Pernickity things, these emoticons.

My DD has been on at me for years to think before I speak. In this instance it's, don't type it. Wink

Matson the upside down v's are supposed to make the word appear in italics, but jo8 didn't leave a space between 'in' and 'everyone' so they came out as upside down v's
If you scroll down past the message box, all is explained

No, no - don't do it absent! You'd lose that air of mystery....

Ana Lots of us are not at all predictable – but that is for us to know. I sometimes wonder whether I should reveal that I am, in fact …

Exactly, absent, no one is completely predictable.

JO8 , what are those upside down v,s infront of the word everyone? forgive me, me and the tinternet are still getting aquainted x

I wouldn't dream of "interpreting" the OP, but I do know that it is easy to fall into the lazy perspective of seeing a familiar name and thinking "left-wing crosspatch", "right-wing bigot", "gooey granny", "soppy sweetness", bad-tempered bat", "let's all be nice and and not say anything controversial" or whatever.

I have been much influenced by things I have read on GN. But at the moment I am completely so am off to get another . Which will mean I shall be even more......

Don't be silly, jane!

You mean I'm uniformly unpleasant Ana
There's paranoia for you

Oh Petra,! Let us in on it. Being deleted is painless.

It certainly won't be you, jane

sorry! [slaps bum I mean wrist]

Jo

I think that's your paranoia coming out.

Oh I do!!!!!

I'm pleased to say that, since joining GN, I've changed my mind about many things. I am very grateful to those members that have helped me to become more broadminded and less judgemental.
Time to feed the cats

Agree with you jo8
I don't think I want to know who the OP had in mind

How did you chat on line for all those years before the Internet was invented? Not that I doubt your word, Sapphyr, I'd just like to know what was the fore-runner of the net.

It's almost a thread about a poster started by someone not quite brave (or stupid) enough.

This is the kind of post that brings out the paranoia in^everyone^!