Newbie (well, obviously!)

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I'm think I'm going to ignore that one, Griff.

I am mostly polite and nice I like to think - am jut having some fun chatting to the pro-gun lobby on Topix - and being nice seems to drive them potty!
I like lots of random silliness and some seriou stuff mixed in - sounds like here will be just lovely!
I will tell you about me here as it's easier!
I am 35, married to a gorgeous, but not so chatty pastafarian, 2 boys aged 7 and 5, 2 cats aged 7 months and 6 months.
I work as a urology nurse (mostly willies)- that tends to scare people a lot
Anything else you'd like to know?

I'm fairly sure LOGIC would drive them batty, much less niceness.

The med threads will be right up your alley. And I dunno how you feel about politics or such, but we have some fairly active threads on that.

[Griffin NoName]

Sorry if I have offended Scriblerus the Philosophe.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Hardly. Just not something I'm willing to comment on. 

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Heh! Why am I thinking on the 'weak' gender? (just as a note, back home it was in common use the term 'weak gender' [sexo debil] in reference to women, which never made sense to me. All the women around me looked everything but weak, and I was the one that felt weak in their presence. It is obvious now that the 'weak gender' is the male  )

[Sibling Chatty]

Heh! Why am I thinking on the 'weak' gender? (just as a note, back home it was in common use the term 'weak gender' [sexo debil] in reference to women, which never made sense to me. All the women around me looked everything but weak, and I was the one that felt weak in their presence. It is obvious now that the 'weak gender' is the male  )

My sister-in-law once said: When a man can give birth to a 12 pound baby and still be willing to say "Next pregnancy", I will consider the possibility that a woman MIGHT be "the weaker sex".

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Indeed!

[Griffin NoName]

I did consider "big" and "strong" might raise a debate. I should explain. They have a particular imprinted meaning inside my brain.

The teacher in my class, 4 year olds, every morning break, asked for a "big strong boy" to attend to the milk crate. Even at this young age, it was obvious to me that the majority of lads that answered the requests were neither bigger nor stronger than many of the girls. I was highly attuned to adults telling whoppers as my mother always insisted everything was nice and lovely even when things were actually horrific and unbearable. Translating mis-representation of facts had thereby already become a survival technique. Hence "big" and "strong" became "masculine, but with an awareness that females may also have this masculine trait*. Further, even very small men, frail, and shaky, are big and strong.

*early dawning of feminism.... I doubt my parents realised what was happening to their small girl

Apologies to Booty for hi-jacking this thread. The Mods and Admins allow us to be so undisciplined

[beagle]

Sibling Chatty !!  I adore big strong authoratitive (usually)-men who know what's best for me

Didn't have you down as a Mills and Boon reader.

The teacher in my class, 4 year olds, every morning break, asked for a "big strong boy" to attend to the milk crate.

Ah, the dilemma of the modern woman.  Settle for equality, or use psychology to bend men to your will?

[Alchemist]

Just going off on a tangent - thanks to whoever said that TOP meant That Other Place - thought someone meant TOPIX earlier.

Sorry - normal service resumes 

[Bluenose]

You will also see this place called TFM (ToadFish Monastery) and perhaps less obviously HOT (Honourable Order of the Toadfish)

I'll shut up now.   

[Griffin NoName]

Sibling Chatty !!  I adore big strong authoratitive (usually)-men who know what's best for me

Didn't have you down as a Mills and Boon reader.

Mills and Boon - Pure reading pleasure it says on their website

I think I am more of the Jayne Eyre or Emma type. Or even Bridget Jones

Ah, the dilemma of the modern woman.  Settle for equality, or use psychology to bend men to your will?

Talking of modern, I just heard about the man who was abducted to Mars by aliens and got sent back to earth where the CIA interrogated him, asking was Mars a more advance society than ours, to which he replied, yes much more, ... and they asked by how much.... and he said about six weeks.

Oh well, I guess it's all in the timing !!

(joke courtesy of a comedian I couldn't put a name to on Dawn French's interviewing male comedians show).

Hey, Alchi !!!  We all got our own pet names for TOP

[goat starer]

hello newbies!  how nice to see you. Migrants are welcomed with open arms here wherever they come from (unless Beagle gets hold of them and slaps them repeatedly with a copy of the daily mail whilst shouting about people coming over here and stealing our bandwidth).

Please be aware that this site is protected by a semi-official anti-troll goat (or SAGo for short)  

so far it seems to be working

[Alchemist]

and hello to you too goat starer.
You sound interesting! In a dark cloak and false fangs kinda way j/k - hi

[Darlica]

Goat doesn't need false fangs he have real horns...

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

And hooves that would get caught up in a cape.