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

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..........

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

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

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

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.

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

Sorry Furret

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

Not only a circumflex also a grave AND correctly quoted.

Now you're just showing off Lemon!

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

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.

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

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!

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.

À chacun son goût!

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 ?

Yum yum, sounds delicious.

It's full of gin, I have scooped out the frogs' legs and newts' eyes. There may be some bits of snake left in, just aim them into the spittoon.

Only lime drops, Furret we dont want no acid drops in the gin.

So that's where my portrait got to, Marydoll!

I saw the post about the coven yesterday. It was a horrid post, but thumbs up to you girls for making a joke out of it. It’s the best way to deal with it.

Perish the thought!

I wouldn’t dream of posting, as an example, that someone has ‘run out of rational debating skills’.

Furret, I didn't read the previous posts and my fuddled brain thought you were being nasty by posting acid drops.?
Sorry!?
See how easy it can be to misinterpret posts. I shall join Callistemon in the coven.?‍♀️

Acid drops

Haha Callistemon the ( supposed) insult of being in a coven is levelled by posters at anyone they simply don’t like.
Usually when they have run out of rational debating skills.
Got any spare newts? Have just thought up a really good spell.?
Being in a coven could be a nice social outing at the moment,
Does the cauldron have any gin in it?