Your characteristics?

[Steve H]

I was a long-haired layabout until about two hours ago, when I had it off with the electric clippers. I'm now an elderly skinhead, and there's loads of grey hair in the waste bin. I've still got a long grey beard, though.

[Robbie]

A B+ for me then Trent.

I'm not sure about Susan's eye colour, maybe hazel.

[SusanDoris]

Susan:  Smooth dark hair with grey, slim figure, average height, hazel eyes, specs.

I expect none of you are anything like what I think.

Hair permed!! Since car knock-down in 2014 I go and have it washed and set every week. It was unintentionally smooth during lockdown and got longer too. Not dark, just a bit fair still.
Eyes mostly blue - if I sent you my cosmetic contact lens, you could see the exact colour!
I wish I still needed glasses but the ones I have hardly even sharpen up my peripheral vision now, so I seldom wear them.

[Roses]

Little Roses:  Small with rounded figure, big blue eyes, glasses, short hair neither dark nor fair but fair complexion.  Healthy looking rosy cheeks.

I am short 5' 2.5", my figure isn't too rounded, I have hazel coloured eyes, spectacles, short brown hair with only a bit of grey in it, I tan very quickly having a channel island complexion.

[Robbie]

Not far off with Roses but way off the mark with Susan. However I will still 'see' all posters as I have always imagined them, even if they've put me right.

[Nearly Sane]

Not far off with Roses but way off the mark with Susan. However I will still 'see' all posters as I have always imagined them, even if they've put me right.

Given Gordon and I know one and other well because of this board, why don't you say what you say we are like and then we'll mark your idea of the other i.e. Gordon will mark your idea of me, and vice versa?

[Robbie]

I don't have a clear mind's eye picture of you, NS, except for dark hair.
Gordon I see as fair, freckly, bald or nearly bald (maybe strawberry blonde), bony, fairly tall.

[Nearly Sane]

I don't have a clear mind's eye picture of you, NS, except for dark hair.
Gordon I see as fair, freckly, bald or nearly bald (maybe strawberry blonde), bony, fairly tall.

The bald bit for Gordon is right. The rest on him is wrong, I'm afraid

[Roses]

One thing I am not is competitive, nor is my husband. I couldn't care less who wins where sports are concerned, or when I was subjected to board games as a child. One of our grandsons was very good at football, but unlike his older brother who is also very good at the  sport, he couldn't care less if his team won or not so soon dropped out.

[Steve H]

My interests: cycling, collecting clocks (mechanical ones) and books (especially hardback Everyman's Library volumes), reading (poetry, lit crit, politics, classic fiction, history, popular science, etc.), real ale and cider, pipe-smoking, annoying people on social media by correcting their grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and, every autumn, making cider from my own apples and elderberry wine from hedgerow berries.

[Roses]

My interests: cycling, collecting clocks (mechanical ones) and books (especially hardback Everyman's Library volumes), reading (poetry, lit crit, politics, classic fiction, history, popular science, etc.), real ale and cider, pipe-smoking, annoying people on social media by correcting their grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and, every autumn, making cider from my own apples and elderberry wine from hedgerow berries.

You certainly do irritate people when you do that especially as a series of your posts, a while back, had incorrect spellings.

[Steve H]

You certainly do irritate people when you do that especially as a series of your posts, a while back, had incorrect spellings.

I'm sure you can back that statement up with examples.

[Roses]

You certainly do irritate people when you do that especially as a series of your posts, a while back, had incorrect spellings.

I believe they were pointed out to you at the time, no doubt you corrected them.

[Steve H]

I believe they were pointed out to you at the time, no doubt you corrected them.

Thought not.

[Roses]

Ok, ok, I surrender. Having thought about it a lot recently, and having rejected my own argument based on anatomy as breaking Hume's law (in the bible bigotry thread, q.v., op cit, ibid, idem, ad nauseam, etc.), I find myself without a logical leg to stand on, and since the thought of agreeing with anyone as vile as Andrew Pierce is anathema, I remove my objection to gay marriage. It was never very strong, anyway: I'd never have dreamed of campaignong against it. I confess to a continuing mild revulsion to the idea of two chaps getting their end away*, but as long as such a revulsion is recognised for the instinctive, illogical gut-feeling that it is, and dismissed, it isn't homophobia. My argument that it is changing the age-old definition of marriage failed when I realised that I have always firmly believed in women's ordination, which was a radical re-definition of the priesthood, and realised how much my "radical redefinition" argument resembled the hate-fueld bilge spouted against women priests by "Backward In Bigotry".
So I now approve of gay marriage, and hope that church gay weddings will eventually take place. Perhaps Really Sanctimonious** could finally stop accunsing me of "twee homophobia" in every post in which he mentions me at all, and nobody ever asgain, and one poster in particular, could suggest that I never change my mind or am impervious to reason.
*but not two chapettes, curiously. It has been noted by others that instinctive revulsion to homosexuality is stronger towards people of the same sex as the person revolted, than towards people of the opposite sex. I don't feel any revulsion about Lesbians.
**and if RS had not been so sanctimonious for so long, I might have got here sooner.

Go through this post of yours there are a number of spelling mistakes.

[Steve H]

Ok, ok, I surrender. Having thought about it a lot recently, and having rejected my own argument based on anatomy as breaking Hume's law (in the bible bigotry thread, q.v., op cit, ibid, idem, ad nauseam, etc.), I find myself without a logical leg to stand on, and since the thought of agreeing with anyone as vile as Andrew Pierce is anathema, I remove my objection to gay marriage. It was never very strong, anyway: I'd never have dreamed of campaignong against it. I confess to a continuing mild revulsion to the idea of two chaps getting their end away*, but as long as such a revulsion is recognised for the instinctive, illogical gut-feeling that it is, and dismissed, it isn't homophobia. My argument that it is changing the age-old definition of marriage failed when I realised that I have always firmly believed in women's ordination, which was a radical re-definition of the priesthood, and realised how much my "radical redefinition" argument resembled the hate-fueld bilge spouted against women priests by "Backward In Bigotry".
So I now approve of gay marriage, and hope that church gay weddings will eventually take place. Perhaps Really Sanctimonious** could finally stop accunsing me of "twee homophobia" in every post in which he mentions me at all, and nobody ever asgain, and one poster in particular, could suggest that I never change my mind or am impervious to reason.
*but not two chapettes, curiously. It has been noted by others that instinctive revulsion to homosexuality is stronger towards people of the same sex as the person revolted, than towards people of the opposite sex. I don't feel any revulsion about Lesbians.
**and if RS had not been so sanctimonious for so long, I might have got here sooner.

Go through this post of yours there are a number of spelling mistakes.

Yes, there are a few,, but they are all obviously typos, caused by hitting the wrong key, not illiteracy. "asgain", for example: a and s are adjacent on the keyboard, as are o and i, hence "campaignong". I do usually check my posts before hitting "post", but sometimes a typo or two will get through.

[Robbie]

Quote from: Littleroses on Today at 03:19:05 PM
One thing I am not is competitive, nor is my husband. I couldn't care less who wins where sports are concerned, or when I was subjected to board games as a child. One of our grandsons was very good at football, but unlike his older brother who is also very good at the  sport, he couldn't care less if his team won or not so soon dropped out.

I'm like that, not at all competitive & can never understand why people are.

I found 'campaignong' and 'accunsing' in McCawb's post you quoted; I assume they were typos, his spelling and grammar is usually good and he would know how to spell 'campaigning' and 'accusing'. Blimey, fancy you trawling through his posts to get that!

I'm an ordinary person, nothing remarkable. I like art, literature and history, enjoy cycling, walking, swimming and riding in a leisurely manner. People, their lives and social issues (about which I am passionate), interest me; I'm fortunate to have a job which encompasses those interests. Other than that, animals, plants, children. It's easier to say what I don't like and prefer not to do if I can avoid.

[Roses]

Quote from: Littleroses on Today at 03:19:05 PM
One thing I am not is competitive, nor is my husband. I couldn't care less who wins where sports are concerned, or when I was subjected to board games as a child. One of our grandsons was very good at football, but unlike his older brother who is also very good at the  sport, he couldn't care less if his team won or not so soon dropped out.

I'm like that, not at all competitive & can never understand why people are.

I found 'campaignong' and 'accunsing' in McCawb's post you quoted; I assume they were typos, his spelling and grammar is usually good and he would know how to spell 'campaigning' and 'accusing'. Blimey, fancy you trawling through his posts to get that!

I'm an ordinary person, nothing remarkable. I like art, literature and history, enjoy cycling, walking, swimming and riding in a leisurely manner. People, their lives and social issues (about which I am passionate), interest me; I'm fortunate to have a job which encompasses those interests. Other than that, animals, plants, children. It's easier to say what I don't like and prefer not to do if I can avoid.

I didn't trawl through the posts, I have better things to do with my time. I just happened to remember that particular one, although there were a number of others too.

[Aruntraveller]

Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don't care what they're going to say
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway

Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door

Let it go (go, go, go go, go go, go go, go, go, go go)
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go

[Roses]

I often don't ask for help to do something difficult, when the sensible thing would be to do so. Yesterday my husband was moaning about a heavy white marble plinth, about 4' long x 12" wide, we had on the floor in the back of our lounge, on which we had some ornaments. He said he had never really liked it there. I suggested it was put in the garden with pots on it, he agreed it was a good idea. Instead of waiting for his assistance or that of my grandsons, I decided to do it myself a about 20 minutes ago, whilst my husband was busy in his study. I managed it, but it was very hard work indeed and probably hasn't done my back or the shoulder, which I broke very badly two years ago, any good at all!   Although my husband likes where I have put it, I got a telling off for being so very silly and will no doubt get another from our kids when they realise what the daft old bat has been up to this time!