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Well no Dermot, I don't know. That's why I asked.

My thoughts are with those without keyboards :-( Poor souls.

Island - God herself only knows!

Have you been breaking out the christmas crackers Dermot? :-0

Sir John Cheke (16 June 1514 – 13 September 1557) was an English classical scholar who wrote:

‘I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges; wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt‘.

I'll have no spilt beans on my thread - it's slippy enough with all the verbal do doos :-0

Spill the beans, Dermot, this has got to be good. :-D

A chirpy politician said something unexpectedly intelligent on the radio yesterday which got me to wonder if there might be some hope for humanity after all.

Wrong track Emma :-(

There's nothing this woman doesn't know about or have an opinion on LOL

Thanks anyway.

Sorry I couldn't help Island but if you all feel the same
surely someone could steer the conversation onto
something that she knows nothing about and that is
news known only to that person, allowing all to join in
with the subject.

She obviously enjoys your company


Or am I on the wrong track :-)

There you go Sylvia, you did have something to say LOL

I'm not really asking for advice, more caring and sharing - I thought that was what chat was all about :-S Obviously, I got that wrong!

Thank you for posting.

Island ......

I'm probably one of the 90 viewers but not posters ...................

not posting because I haven't known what to say or what advice to offer!

We're finding our afternoon coffee break is getting spoiled because one of the women has become a chronic complainer ..........

Yes, she lives alone, never been married, no kids

Yes, moving from coffee shop to coffee shop during the day is one of her enjoyments

but why does she have to complain so darned much!!

This afternoon's examples .............

snow's coming? "Oh, I don't want it. I'll have to find out my snow boots, then I'll have to sort the soft packing for my feet. And I can't wear my orthotics in them"

"It's not easy for me to walk on snow."

"You're going away, and you won't be back until when? How am I going to manage. It's going to be so lonely."

"Those people are making so much noise in here."


OH sits there, dozes off, and puts pressure on me to leave sooner than we would normally do


Neither situation, yours or mine, is easy to handle!

Walking away wouldn't be rude at all Emma but it would mean walking away from something I enjoy. It's not just me that feels this way, :-\ :-(

I'm assuming that this must be unique - unless all those c90 lurkers also bore for the planet?

Funny what captures the imagination here. Ironing anyone? :-S

You have to speak louder than her Island.

Tell her when your lips are moving you are talking
and if she shuts up she will hear you.

If that doesn't work walk away from her, rude I know
but the alternative :-0

That only works if you can get a word in Prickolls :-(

Then there's the habit of trying to butt in by making repeated 'but but but' noises until the speaker gives up :-|

I do the Judge Rinder thing Dottie..............


"TALKING"............

The guy drones on about bin collections while at a Christmas party.

The ads are several and short, starring Ruth Jones and Ben Miller as other halves/spouses and I think the drone guy is in the second ad in 2016's range.

I have to say that Jones and Miller have the expressions down to a T, at least in the first two advertisements that I've seen.

I haven't seen the Tesco ad Joy but this woman could out yap him I'm sure :-0

I think I'd notice if the other people were giving each other 'looks' and I would wonder why no-one else was speaking.

This person never asks how anyone else is, what they've been doing, how was their holiday etc. Being a friendly and polite person I always show an interest in others but affording this woman the same courtesy just sets her off for the duration! :-S

I'm gonna have to tell her. Shame the devil and all that :-(

But are they as bad as the guy in the Tesco ad? ;-) :-0 :-)

That is so true Kay.

We had a woman used to tag on to us who just kept on with me, me, me, me, and, eventually I could not even look at her. Luckily, she went and sat with other people after that until the time she had been ill and her friends were not in the club.

I am not as horrible as I try to be and couldn't see her left on her own so I invited her back with us. It was lesser me, me, me after that.