I've often wondered - how crazy is bat shit, exactly? In comparison, are other varieties of shit considered quite sane?

Depends if it is from bats in the belfry or out of Hell.

I strongly suspect that most of you are probably axe murderers anyway, so I'm glad not to have met you.

In the context of 'meeting up' - I suppose I'm halfway there, since I have a bunch of BE mates on arsebook and I have emailed one or two members off-site because sometimes it's easier than PMs and that.

My mate on BE wants to know if your mate on BE wants to meet up sometime?

Yer askin?

Am askin'

I went to a Houston meet-up ages ago and have met 3 other BE'ers separately and someone from the city-data Houston forum.

Sally, is that cat "tworking?". I'm not sure what tworking is, being too shy to ask my kids!

Would it mean going outdoors?

There would have to be an incentive. Cakes or something.

I know quite a number of expats, and not one is on BE.

Now, I say I've never met a BE member but I do now have a vague recollection that I was going to a job interview last summer and the bloke on the security desk did turn out to be a poster in a thread I was in.

Not sure that counts though.

Mrs N. says I shouldn't be allowed to speak to people.

Or be out in public really.

It's Brits meeting up, it clearly involves alcohol, but may also include salt and vinegar crisps or pork scratchings