There are gangs on OLO! :)

Reading Foxy's post makes me wonder if I have unintentionally offended anyone as well. I apologise if I have and apologise in advance if I do so in the future.

Like Vanilla, I too have been influenced by other opinions in that they make me re-think and critically examine my own view of the world. Most of us are probably set in our ways on some issues and more open to being flexible or open-minded on others.

Even posters like Col Rouge (sorry to pick on you particularly Col) who I am probably quite different from politically make me sit up and 'listen' to another point of view. The older I get the more I realise life is often shades of grey rather than black and white and sometimes I wonder if the more we learn the less we know.

Foxy I think it is good to have posts like yours from time to time to remind us that there is a real person on the other end of a post. Thanks.

Dear Pelican,

Thank YOU!

I'm so glad that we've achieved a little harmony with this thread.

It just goes to show that most of us do care about our fellow travellers

yes indeed I can see now that all those articles by lovely women at the AIFS [and Adel Horin] were simply written to help people like me to see the error in our wayward ways

but I can't do a lot for Adel as it is some 20 years since I used to don the tie and work in an office [salt mine] and I also stopped wearing shoes, hence no socks in my house so no way I can pick up my dirty socks [Adel's main claim for bipartisan equality]

but I read my latest article in Family Matters from AIFS that my toxic masculinity that caused my family to reject me is because of my long term cruelty to animals

so I just went out the door, cleaned out Allegra's cage [she is my Cockatelle] and gave her a fresh bowl of Trill and a piece of celery

now I feel all warm & cuddly and with my sins forgiven, so I can go and kick a dog in the head [that curious Catholic philosophy on life, sins and confession which I never understood before]

Dear Divorce Doctor,

Someone who takes such good care of his pet bird so beautifully has a heart as big as the great outdoors. Who cares about dirty socks anyway? I apologise to you unreservedly for my previous 'unthinking comments,' on another thread. And, I appreciate your contribution to this one.

Take care.

Look, it has been said here that maybe I need counselling

maybe I do, so here is an image to show the horrific stress scenario I am under - going forward

http://thedoctor.myjalbum.net/counselling/slides/doc1800.html

I hope that maybe at least some kind sole [I caught a lovely sole for dinner last nite] might just understand the stress a person like me is subjected to

I think that should be the stress to which a person such as me is subjected

indeed it has been my lifelong proposition never to sentence my end in a proposition

good nite