C'mon Poirot, I'm sure it was you that countered my Chardonnay Socialist call with a self admission of being a basket weaver once.

Unless it was pelican. I'm sure it was one of you two.

Anyway sorry to offend.

My visual image of your good self as I said once is either Noni Hazlehurst or Jessica Hecht. I think you said you pictured me of African Heritage too which amused me.

I've got a new picture now, someone in a similar vein, which is the wife of Cleaver Greene in Rake. You should watch that show it's quite amusing.

Belly whatever you say it always sounds stirring and definitive, with a touch of 'what do we want!';-)

'H never ever a union boss, all ways one of the blokes ,that was my wish and my best helper.'

When you wear a suit belly, it's a public declaration of whose side you're on! Which is why I refuse to ever wear one.

I like your challenge on another thread though. The righties seem to make it a point never to conced the barest inch of ground. I've heard many lefties on here concede 'yeah that was pretty corrupt, but...' about their own party, but SM in particular has never conceded anything. A true propagandist!

Trev,

It was your own words!

Thank you for accepting my preferred title of Mother. Only a PC bleeding heart lefty would be so sensitive to my Human Right to be recognized with whatever culture or sex I 'identify' as.

'my policy is to scale all politicians and politics between loathing and detestation'

hehe

PS: What did ever happen to Formersnag? And Boags David. Or Boaz was it? Yo uknow that weird christian Whack a Moizzie, and MIUAYG

Houellie,

I'm not offended!....I'm interested in this form of interaction where most of us are anonymous. We float in here and leave a mental picture, but it's only a partial representation of our complexities.

Yes, I remember the Noni Hazelhurst reference. I think I referenced a possible Caribbean heritage for you, but that was only because I think you mentioned a grandmother (or some such relative) with that heritage. Yes - No?

I'm pretty adept at remembering those little asides, helps me build a picture of who I'm talking to.

"It was your own words!"

What a disappointing attitude.

The next thing you know people will apply the same standard to all politicians all of the time and then where will we be?

...Uh, oh!

Poirot,

Firstly, the comment you quoted was near the end of the thread and nowhere near the outset. Secondly your reaction to my "tooting" of Thomson was more because nothing I said was incorrect.

Labor's blind, all encompassing assumption of innocence applies only to their own. Howard, and Abbott are cheerfully accused of all manner of things either without a shred of evidence, or on unsupported innuendo. Yet Craig Thomson cannot be called a crook in spite of the mountains of evidence against him, because he has not been convicted yet? This is beyond ridiculous.

And yes, my reaction to this threadbare pseudo logic is predictable.

Belly,

"I am not a leftie" who are you trying to kid?

I am centre right in that I am fiscally conservative, and socially liberal. There are plenty far more conservative than me.

Deary me, SM, that comment I posted (from you) wasn't meant to be an example of an "oblique reference". It was your own summation of how clever one can be in conveying "venom" through inference. These are often neatly couched in your posts, where you take a swipe at someone's capacities, most "obliquely", then you get all huffy when they reply in kind - not so obliquely.

Yeah, you're just like all the rest of us around here, full of little obsessions and vanities, except some of us realise it.

He is Gerard!

Can you bear it?

I'll have to start calling him Nancy.

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