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Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by Walkabout
(Post 7672583)
Thanks Sally, I know that I am going to get my bottom kicked here, but it is spelt " occasionally ".
Man, I know that I am going to regret this :( Just trying to make my mouth curl upward at the edges. The tone is still to remain witty? :) Sorry, English teacher background. ...........TAXI !!!!!! :teeth_smile: Actually, can't abide poor spelling myself but it happens when I am typing occasionally!:D You may now rejoin all the other pedants in the blue corner!;) |
Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by sallyclaire
(Post 7675774)
Sometimes, I wonder why I bother!:ohmy:
Actually, can't abide poor spelling myself but it happens when I am typing occasionally!:D You may now rejoin all the other pedants in the blue corner!;) Oh Sally, I did not mean to offend you and I am SO sorry, just trying to distract my thoughts - life falling apart, wife telling me that she hates me now, etc. Please don't give up bothering. |
Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by Walkabout
(Post 7676334)
Oh Sally, I did not mean to offend you and I am SO sorry, just trying to distract my thoughts - life falling apart, wife telling me that she hates me now, etc.
Please don't give up bothering. |
Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by Officer Dibble
(Post 7676646)
If youre so hung up on grammar and spelling then Im not surprised.
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Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by quoll
(Post 7669139)
BTW nothing magical about a childhood in Australia IMHO - childhood isnt about the beaches and the sunshine so much as the people in it, the ones you play with, the ones you fight with and the ones who look after you when the going gets tough. I think many of us would look back on our childhoods as being magical places regardless of where they were spent.
Agree though that beaches don't exclusively make a life- but can contribute to a [very good]childhood nonetheless! |
Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack
(Post 7676803)
Of course, if the kids you fought with, were the ones on the beaches in the sunshine then it *would* be just like anywhere(!) and as you say would be magical..
Agree though that beaches don't exclusively make a life- but can contribute to a [very good]childhood nonetheless! |
Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by Officer Dibble
(Post 7676811)
Brighton and Southend were always a giggle. S'pose like all things in the modern world, its deemed no good unless you paid top dollar for it!
You know, people commented in the UK on how happy our kids were. We said "but they are always like this!" The implication is that the UK people were acustomed to seeing miserable kids. Surely not! Another sinister retort of course, which a MTBUKer might run past me, as a bit of a gas, is that they were happy to be *in the Uk* (geddit) - but see second paragraph...:p |
Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack
(Post 7676843)
I'm happy that my kids are at the age where they love their little friends. My daughter is a natural born leader, always up for a giggle.
You know, people commented in the UK on how happy our kids were. We said "but they are always like this!" The implication is that the UK people were acustomed to seeing miserable kids. Surely not! Another sinister retort of course, which a MTBUKer might run past me, as a bit of a gas, is that they were happy to be *in the Uk* (geddit) - but see second paragraph...:p |
Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by Officer Dibble
(Post 7676877)
Badge, sometimes you talk in riddles. I dont wanna be lumped in with the other expats, because I actually enjoyed UK and didnt come here hoping for a new identity.
Read the post slowly and it will make sense.. 1. I was saying that my kids are happy. 2. That people thought my kids were happy in the UK. (Clearly, UK doesn't make kids unhappy - like they implied). 3. I then took the piss out of the situation and said that a more sinister person might say my kids were happy because they were in the UK. Boom Boom! 4.BUT no - they are always happy... Clearer? 'Bout the same amount of words....???? Or am I just a member of MENSA or something?:p |
Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by Officer Dibble
(Post 7676877)
Badge, sometimes you talk in riddles. I dont wanna be lumped in with the other expats, because I actually enjoyed UK and didnt come here hoping for a new identity.
Time to hit the sack, eh? |
Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack
(Post 7676904)
Sorry Officer - wasn't even talking about any of your motives - or lumping you in, and probably shouldn't have quoted you then. You were talking about hijinks in Southend - quoll was talking about happy kids...so I mentioned mine...
Read the post slowly and it will make sense.. 1. I was saying that my kids are happy. 2. That people thought my kids were happy in the UK. (Clearly, UK doesn't make kids unhappy - like they implied). 3. I then took the piss out of the situation and said that a more sinister person might say my kids were happy because they were in the UK. Boom Boom! 4.BUT no - they are always happy... Clearer? 'Bout the same amount of words....???? Or am I just a member of MENSA or something?:p |
Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by Officer Dibble
(Post 7676933)
Release the hounds. OK, I may have jumped ahead but my point was that adults may love the sandy beaches but kids are just as happy playing at the rubbish tip.
But I didn't pick up on that from what you said so maybe I am stuffed - or we are both talking in tongues.. Catch you later.. |
Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack
(Post 7676946)
Sure! Agreed...I guess Quoll was saying the experience was important. (BTW I've always maintained that I did not come here for beaches. I am not a beach person. Anyhow..)
But I didn't pick up on that from what you said so maybe I am stuffed - or we are both talking in tongues.. Catch you later.. Are you off to bed or is there basket full of shitty knickers to wash? Nighty night! |
Re: Lonely as a cloud
Originally Posted by Officer Dibble
(Post 7676959)
Are you off to bed or is there basket full of shitty knickers to wash?
Originally Posted by Officer Dibble
(Post 7676959)
Nighty night!
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Re: Lonely as a cloud
Oh Sally, I did not mean to offend you and I am SO sorry, just trying to distract my thoughts - life falling apart, wife telling me that she hates me now, etc.
Please don't give up bothering.
Originally Posted by Officer Dibble
(Post 7676646)
If youre so hung up on grammar and spelling then Im not surprised.
Talk about kicking a guy when he is down! |
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