your just a trouble maker!

You started it!

no I didn't................you invaded Poland!

Hurrahhh .... a fellow fan

Perhaps there are more of us?............look I'll do the silly walk.......

I am in soooo much trouble for destroying this thread!

You're just getting started.......

I can end a thread in 3 posts now........been working on it for ages.

Just dont mention anal sex.

Bad bad man!

You ARE Keith Moon reincarnated aren't you!

Dont encourage him please!

Opens window..........drops TV onto sidewalk.........grabs nearest Blonde and vanishes into hallway yelling "Geronimo"........

Nah.......just under a RAGING ONE !!!!!

I totally agree there’s nothing wrong with a bit of lightheartedness, but at the 16 post point you then get 16 posts of posters’ idle chat? I certainly don’t take offence, but I’d like honest answers/posts instead of evasion and chat. I’d have been interested in your point of view had you posted it. It’s a very good point, but I originally felt that the thread, when viewed by newcomers to BE who are looking at relocating to Spain, would have been useful to browse. I’d have thought searching would have found the questions/answers, but maybe not. If posters ‘felt the same’ they could have simply said so instead of hijacking the thread for chat.

No upset caused, just sheer frustration at seeing something I thought might be useful dissolve into chat. I can be a serious sort of person, and I can be a hilarious sort of person. The move to Spain is not something I take lightly. The results of not planning and not asking questions can easily be seen on TV and also here on BE, with some very heart-rending stories coming out. Please don’t stay clear of my postings - I need help! (in more ways than one)

That’s why I posted at #37 saying it had all fallen apart, and thanks, etc, etc. I hoped that would have been the end of it. There doesn’t seem to be a way to close a thread on BE.

Sorry rugbymatt, but a one word post is devilishly hard to interpret. I’d expect that word to be on the zap list. Presumably mickey-taking, but still hard to interpret.

I realise I probably sound like a miserable old git with the above, but I feel addressing each point is the fair way to answer people. Amusingly, I just looked up ‘git’ and the definition was ‘goods in transit’.

Thank you all for putting your points and answers here.

I have no idea whether it is possible to close a thread on BE but I have presumed that if you stop posting on it there is nothing for people to respond to and it will drop down the pages until it is lost in the sands of time.

Rosemary

Ok, I will endevour to expand my answers.

I am truly sorry you feel this way, but if you take a look around you will find that almost all of the threads evolve, the reason behind which is they are organic, made up by people talking and discussing, and as already mentioned this is part of the reason why a thread covering EVERY Q&A regarding Spain, however breif is almost impossible to do.

Not least because any useful info gleaned would be interesting to put up on the stickie at the top of the page, and jdr is already busy I suspect without trawling through post after post of chat.

Half the point of the site is the making of friends, a prime example has been illustrated recently, and since we are all of differing backgrounds and ages, situations and desires, we all have to find some common ground. That usually manifests itself as humor!

The reason for my short replies? Look at the title of the thread.