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There goes the neighbourhood

Red, hope your former neighbour feels safe from the world where he is - life can be alarming enough without contradictory voices in the head.

Xanthea, as you say, it is perspective. Sorry you lost your virtual coffee shop and hope CS can replace it for a while longer

Luke, I know, how annoying was that pic? I think it would have been bigger in the main body of the blog. Anyway, several of the blogs have been deleted or dropped away since.

Viking, hello stranger, and yes, nowadays what we get is newsbites, some of doubtful origin, and I guess very little of interest to international members in, say, Norway. Still - you too could post press releases, it would remind some that there is a entire world out there?

Vier, good advice, but you've sent a few zingers out in your time .... was that before or after deep thought? In fairness the examples in the blog were taken, most of them, from hot arguments and things can be said in the heat of the moment which may be regretted afterwards. Some of course were prepared carefully for several hours, with who knows how many crumpled pieces of virtual paper lying on the floor by the time they were posted...

RE: Sunscreens - are they safe ????

Mic, I hadn't forgotten your fish oils research, but I do seem to remember one needed to drain a lot of fish of their oils?

There goes the neighbourhood

Hey Red looking forward to your gym pics but think I am more likely to be impressed than laugh

Babe, I am not friendly with sociopaths! nobody is. They don't want friends, and don't need them. The book I am working on has nothing to do with CS, or even with singles, for once I was looking up the clinical difference between psychopaths and sociopaths, the lines can be a little blurred and you know I like to have my facts straight. (One thing I learned, your hug could help a sociopath, as the condition is triggered by nurture not nature, but not a psychopath, as that is physical in cause and, at this point in medicine, incurable) (but still probably safer to keep a distance )

Your group sounds a good mix, almost a kind of real-life CS

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Hey Kal look at Blue's blog, he's feeling very special

Yes I too avoid toxic neighbours. However if everyone tippy-toes past the obnoxious they don't always realize they are obnoxious. Sometimes it is worth being a little obnoxious in turn, to make a point. Certainly everyone notices and disapproves when I do it, but hey, could have a knock-on effect.

There goes the neighbourhood

Xanthea, thanks for going into such patient and gentle detail. I never used my Google + account much so wasn't too distressed when it closed. FB is certainly losing members but not so much boredom, at least among the people I know. They're more fed up with the loss of personal content - because people are now afraid to post personal stuff - and the replacement flood of repackaged reposted nonsense.

Some other social media, yikes, I have 3 writer pages and a house page to maintain on FB, an active RL blog, two writer profiles on Goodreads, 3 writing groups, Quora and Twitter, I don't think I can take on any more. This, as I said earlier, is my off-duty cyber cafe where I bring my coffee to relax, or it used to be, and if I ruled the world CS would be cheerful and whacky for ever

As it is, all I can do is point out how bloody awful some comments look removed from the heat of the moment and hope people who actually read the blog might draw in their horns, just a little. That was all.

There goes the neighbourhood

Daears, sorry sorry I was rushing earlier to log in for school and didn't see your comment and yes I completely agree, putting people into boxes for being different is dividing the world into me+and+people+like+me versus the Scarily Alien. We're all individuals - even within a family there can be completely different people.

There goes the neighbourhood

Took me a moment there, the who what?

Oh aye but if his special warning was about that particular interaction half the mailboxes on CS will be flashing red

Considering the topic of the blog, I really do hope he wasn't the only one to get told off, but he is definitely the only one who would ever admit it in a million years, the rest will be astonished and indignant. I was looking at the definition of a sociopath - for a book, not for here, but couldn't help but notice a similarity

Sociopaths will never admit to having made a mistake. They are incapable of seeing any view of the world bar their own. Things have to be their way or it's the highway.

Those who point fingers inevitably have exactly the flaws they are accusing others of, so I am not pointing fingers

RE: Halo

Exactly the same, just different, then? Got it!

RE: Halo

How beautiful - a winter halo around the moon in Scotland inevitably meant snow on its way but I've never seen a sun halo

Wot's thet?

(Don't tell anyone else, but he sounds South African to me)

Wot's thet?

So you are definitely going with the Australian accent at number 1

There goes the neighbourhood

Merc, I played a very, very old race card and reversed it as soon as I played it by saying that being a yob has nothing to do with colour.

Not so much living in the past as trying to push for a future.

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Oh, okay, that's barely legible. Well, not worth looking at anyway. There were two actual blogs. There were five 'fists up' blogs cruising for a bruising, three about Trump, the two actual blogs, and one announcement for those who missed that there's another royal baby.

There goes the neighbourhood

This screenprint from when I logged in this morning to enjoy the blogs.



"Ignore the ones you don't want to read."

Wot's thet?

Robby, did he even have an accent, he only ever seemed to talk through clenched jaws (and a cheroot)

Didn't matter, mind, he was GORGEOUS. Fell for him like a ton of bricks in Where Eagles Dare and even watched some Westerns, for the first time, just to get an occasional fix

How the devil are you, we haven't seen you round these parts in a while

RE: British Sitcoms

If you like To The Manor Born and Yes Minister you might hate Only Fools And Horses, I personally can't watch it. But you could look out for Waiting For God.

Diana has a very cynical take on life, and this was the only short clip I could find. MOST inappropriate for a singles website

RE: Nose in the phones

Fay, brilliant!

And don't listen to Mimi, a bunch of us spent an evening together and she didn't look at her phone once even when we all had them out to take photos

Wot's thet?

Merc (and Chat) yeah, the men who spend their entire lives sculpting their-body-their-temple to perfection don't have a lot to say for themselves but I would have thought someone on the same page, a sound mind in a healthy body (I know there's a Latin tag but can't remember it) are surely the most ideal matches of all for those interested in physical fitness?

RE: Nine Things That Are Now More Popular than Pitiful CNN

RE: Trump Economy Scores Lowest Unemployment Numbers Since America Landed First Men On The Moon !!!

So how many women have you attracted since joining CS?

RE: Barack Milhous Hussein Benito Obama

RE: British Sitcoms

Yes Minister was not only inspired, it seems more relevant now than ever

Wot's thet?

Z, absolutely. Help yourself to any gift of your choice from the pile of those you have never awarded anyone for hitting the 100th and on occasion 200th and once I seem to recall even 300th comments on your blogs

Okay, once you awarded me a Mr Whippy van. Icecream?

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Harb ....

HARBAL THAT WAS AMAZING

I even understood bits of it. WOW. Tha dances, tha recites poetry, tha'rt a reet star, did I say that right? Ee, lad.

Loved it.

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Molly, that is quite incredibly beautiful

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Bogart - fanTAStic!

I'd forgotten all about that option, yay, wish everyone would do one for this blog!

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Harb, I don't understand it myself. How could Yorkshire no' be on t'list?

I wish you would make a vlog, btw.

RE: The Park

Maybe you aren't the only one who hasn't been there for a while - places like parks and libraries do seem to be casualties in the modern world and if fewer people are going, it is very hard for them to justify their budgets. Vicious circle, of course, because the less appealing they become, the fewer people go ...

Thanks ...

1to1, you always have a positive attitude on blogs, should have known you'd be one who knew this already! And oh yeah, not only health, when life kicks your feet out from under you financially or emotionally it can take a couple of years for those great friends to cautiously check back with you. After all it wouldn't be fair to invite you to parties or keep in touch when you've got to concentrate 100% on getting back on track.



Saying that, I'm staying aware of what was said earlier by D. I could have lost track of people because they went quiet with their own problems. It isn't always deliberate.

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Eish, listen, I'm sorry hey but this is sommer quite funny. Trevor does a good Nelson Mandela anyway and this is the topic of the blog, after all.

Seems the world does read CS blogs, hey?