Where are all the Statesmen/Great leaders?

janeainsworth Thank you for channelling your inner Susie Dent and for (in the context of today's conversation involving me on this thread) accurately describing my word choice. Fussy older women with irritating habits about sums it up I think. Who's turn is it next in Dictionary Corner?

Nell At no point did I say I wanted independence. I was commenting on your rather unpleasant posts. Given your later statements you clearly have an issue with Scottish women. Everything you have ranted about today says more about you. I'll leave it there as you have been insulting and offensive and obviously either don't realise it or don't care. It's a shame that you detailed an interesting thread.

Oh, I'm sorry Grandmabatty, I didn't realise that "unpleasant" posts were solely the province of other posters. I think you may be clutching at straws here, Scottish women are no different to any other women and all of us are capable of being ridiculous at times.

I do apologise for derailing the thread though, but I had help, including yours.

Maybe refer to the other post ‘there’s always one’.
Maybe we need a few strops in government rather than some of the weak ones we have ?

NellG

janeainsworth Thank you for channelling your inner Susie Dent and for (in the context of today's conversation involving me on this thread) accurately describing my word choice. Fussy older women with irritating habits about sums it up I think. Who's turn is it next in Dictionary Corner?

Here’s a few Susie Dent words that I saw and thought of you

ultracrepidarian
mumpsimus
bloviator
smellfungus
ipsedixitism

HTH

Frobly-mobly

? ? ? Here are a few for you :

Pot
Kettle
Black

Talking of age, which most of us weren’t, how old was Trump? How old is Biden? That’s half the problem, too old, should be sitting next to the fire with slippers on other trying to run a country like the USA. Running and ducking for cover ......

Goodnight huff- snuffs, and thank you for a most entertaining day.

nanna8 My sincere apologies for my part in derailing your thread. I shall leave it well alone now and hope your discussion can get back on track.

Likewise thanks for the entertainment. Don't worry come the end of lockdown I'll be out-a-here & normality can reign once more

I'll be perusing my career as a lap ?

Maybe being a great leader is just being the right leader at the right time. Perish the thought but, had the U.K. been booming in every way possible Johnson might have been the perfect leader and would have been thought of as great. As it is, he’s a total disaster. Bidens speeches, both in the run up to the election and afterwards, had me in tears: I can’t recall the last time that has happened recently. Robin Cook’s resignation speech perhaps. James Callaghan’s speech at a Labour Party Conference many years ago. We saw Michael Heseltine at a people’s vote meeting the other year and he was unbelievably ministerial. I felt I should have curtsied in his presence. Did it all start to go wrong when the criteria fir choosing a party leader was that they were funny on HIGNFY?

I never thought of biddy as a demeaning term, not that it’s something I hear every day. I once heard a Scottish boy of about 15 referring to someone’s ‘wee biddy wife’ - which I took at the time as affectionate, if a wee bitty patronising!

Witzend

I never thought of biddy as a demeaning term, not that it’s something I hear every day. I once heard a Scottish boy of about 15 referring to someone’s ‘wee biddy wife’ - which I took at the time as affectionate, if a wee bitty patronising!

But you have to admit that the way it was used on here by Nell was both demeaning and insulting and intentionally so.

That is also my understanding of why AM is affectionately called Mutti . She has served Germany well for many years and will be missed.

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