An awful lot of nastiness these days, don’t you think?

You may suck all the acid drops yourself furret ....I certainly have to think of my teeth these days, so no sweets for me.

Have brought my own pint glass from the Argy....fill it up with eye of newt gin please! Hic ?

À chacun son goût!

Back to the debate, sorry!!

Perhaps at anxious times, people use an internet forum to vent their wrath, their anger on those who may have a different (but equally valid) viewpoint because they feel helpless, out of control, and they forget that there is another person who is on the receiving end of their unpleasant remarks.
Some may go away and be very upset, brood about it and have no-one in RL with whom they can share their feelings.

Oh my brain is really fuddled now?
I thought you were asking what I had done with your portrait!
New glasses or bed methinks.
Off to brew a sleeping draught. ???

See in maths class tomorrow, Callistemon.
Night all!

Furret, most impressed, we don't see a circumflex here very often. ?

I did ask about my portrait, it was in your post Marydoll
Somehow I look a bit younger, photo-shopped, probably.

I like an accent now and again, especially a French one.
Très romantique
But that's another story.

Could the portait be a bit like the one that Dorian Grey had do you think??

Now you're just showing off Lemon!

Not only a circumflex also a grave AND correctly quoted.

Oh I never noticed the grave, oooh I'm doubly impressed.

How about this?
Il n’y a pas plus sourd que celui qui ne veut pas entendre

Very appropriate for this thread.

No one is as deaf as the one who does not want to listen

Sorry Furret

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose......
Could be applied to the odd thread !

I find the patches of nastiness really difficult. It should be possible to debate topics of current interest without resorting to personal attack because someone takes a different view to your own. Those who are prone making incorrect assumptions about others would do well sometimes to take a deep breath and think about what they write. I have learned to skim over posts by some that I know are likely to be irrelevant to me. We are all living through difficult times, for all sorts of reasons.

Coven, yes can I join you I have the hairstyle, a long bush of white hair plus a few more wrinkles

Please, enter our cave Barmey ....although ?strictly speaking you should have warts.Still, we mustn’t be sticklers.?

lemongrove, no problem with warts, I can easily stick a dried up raisin on my face.

Goodness Barmey do you actually mean 'a long bush of white hair'??
I'd probably qualify for the coven with no modifications. Its the eyebrows..........