Elegsabiff Blog Comments (9,358)

RE: The FISA memo

Oops Is it possible to delete the last and this comment, please?

I had a momentary lapse I keep forgetting your blogs aren't debates

RE: The FISA memo

Has your man in the White House approved the release of the FISA rebuttal yet? Always interesting to hear both sides of a story - for the rest of us, I mean, I know there is only ever one side for people in the US, a nation bent on tearing itself to pieces over fake news.

RE: Chill.

Chair-dancing to Paranoid YAYYYYYYYYYYYY

RE: Ode To Emmycat

Oh Lou

Been there, will be again.

RE: Forget my other blogs

I'm puzzled, under one of your other names you had said you were leaving for a site where you could be with them all and now you are back and calling them back?

I'm sorry the other site didn't work out.

RE: A higher rate or more overtime

Hope it works out, whichever you decide. You may get called in and offered something at the higher rate, which by the way sounds a bit unfair unless there is a definite risk factor -

RE: A Bond For Life

Very few men in this life understand that what they want is very rarely what they need. They'd rather go with what they want, even when they are shocked to be wrong again and again.

Honestly if I were you I would let this go, it's oddly uncomfortable reading the blog conversations, they do neither of you any favours (both stubborn, one close to whiny and one close to pompous prat) and sound very private.



I know, you hate me. Sorry. JMO.

I do like you both very much in your other bloggings

"Ask For Angela"

Itchy, could also be good for shy younger women who don't want to make a fuss or create a scene?

There are worse things to sound than Irish, so

"Ask For Angela"

Molly, agreed, but perhaps the reason it isn't spreading much are the objections being raised in the comments - that people can't see the point.

To me it is the difference between saying to a busy member of staff 'I think I need help' in the half-minute Mr X is off in the loo, then trying to hurriedly explain, or saying one simple sentence which is instantly understood as 'I feel threatened'.

"Ask For Angela"

Hi Daniela, no idea if there is something similar in Spain? That's partly what the blog is for, if anyone knows of something similar in their own country.

Men don't usually feel that threatened by their dates, I don't think? I could be completely wrong, we heard of some scary women in my last blog! But the average guy is - usually - bigger and stronger than his date, and more likely to get up and leave without caring if there is a scene.

This does tend to be more the 'I am getting nervous, please give me a way to remove myself without a scene' situation

As for your knife-wielding guy, yikes. I'm not sure it would be the ideal time to say excuse me, open a window and ask if anyone ever heard of Angela. I'd personally be more inclined to cut straight to the chase, in view of the obvious and definite threat, and want the police

That's a story you have to tell in full someday!

"Ask For Angela"

Mimi, definitely worth getting your daughter to ask around - without starting a panic when she does

"Ask For Angela"

The problem seems to be publicising it. You don't want to ask for Angela in front of the guy if he's going to leap up and go ballistic, yikes. The story told when I first heard about it, this lassie didn't have enough money to catch a taxi home (silly girl) but was worrying that the drunker her date got, the more he seemed to be assuming about her. As soon as he went to the loo she asked the barman for Angela and he waved the bouncer over immediately. Bouncer sat at the next table, listening closely, and then went over to say there was a phone call for her in the office.

Point was that she wasn't having to say in a crowded bar to a busy barman, look I think I might be in a tricky situation could you possibly help me - just using the sentence was enough. No fuss no drama instant comprehension.

"Ask For Angela"

Hey, 1to1, I had never heard of it before but when I looked it up it has been in place for at least a year. I don't think high staff turnover should affect it if it is included in new staff briefings - there's the glass washing machine, always use a clean cloth when wiping glasses, if someone asks for Angela they could be asking for help -

Can you remember, was it the same name in Canada, or North America?

"Ask For Angela"

So simple and effective, I thought it was brilliant. Bea, this is your chance to enter politics, get yourself known on this platform!

RE: Look At My Beautiful Lawn

Two large dogs, mmm, yes, a bit much. I do like that I can hose the lawn down and scrub it if necessary

RE: Look At My Beautiful Lawn

I have fake grass on the terrace here - I put down 5 metres of it for my dog, thinking she would appreciate it since she no longer has a garden, but although she loves it to roll on or stretch out to catch rays, she daintily relieves herself on the patio rather than mess on her grass.

Define normal

Kal, normal has not yet been defined

Define normal

Cach, I have one weakness you may share, I have to consider my chosen guy a bit of a hero and as much as I know I do it, and try not to, he has to seem extraordinary. It's always a shock when he turns out to have feet of clay and I realize I've done it again, made someone into something they didn't want to be and aren't, and I feel let down because I was wrong

RE: what are women looking for in a man??

Molly, I think it would be

But it might also turn me into a monster

RE: "TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE"

I LOVE it

RE: what are women looking for in a man??

I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want

Someone who believes I'm the most important person in his life
Someone who understands I'm sometimes a bit of an idiot, sometimes OTT, sometimes down, but says 'that's my girl!' even when I'm being a loon.

No biggie. But I would offer the same in return.

Define normal

Well, blog precious is an intriguing accusation ...

but sure, no worries. Time for me to go find something to eat anyway, the dog has looked up suspiciously twice at the growling noises from my midriff.

TMI. I know.

RE: Dying wishes.

Yeah but Molly, you aren't about to blow into a million tiny pieces of exploded lung. Or trying to find a dying wish to impose as an imperative which MUST be obeyed.

Neither am I, right now, breathing fully back to 100% normal, in, out, in, out. Phew.

Define normal

Can't delete comments past a certain number, for some strange reason, so you can either run with the ball on this one or point me at the blog you meant to be on or leave yourself as the international man of mystery

Define normal

TR, er what? am I being thick?

your comment whooshed straight over my little flat head

Define normal

Cach, so define your version of abnormal? Rage, instant adoration? I heard one definition (vive la difference)

what does a crazy man take on a second date? No-one knows, it never happened
what does a crazy woman take on a second date? everything she owns.

Define normal

Molly, nope, I said he must be impossible to please and he looked a little haunted (it was a skype chat, he's still in SA) and said no, these were howlers, women so illogical between one sentence and the next that he wanted to leave instantly but, unlike Geronomo, didn't want to just get up and go. He didn't get into bed with them - not the real crazies.

And yes I can believe the cracked are probably interestingly desperate in bed. Must say I don't thnk it goes the other way, you couldn't drag me into bed with an angry self-pitying man with a chip on his shoulder!

RE: Dying wishes.

Molly, you don't count anyway, I've seen you in real life

Not like I'm going to get the benefit of the pics anyway, unless I'm peering down from some astral plane, but at least the rest of you get a good laugh and probably some surprises

Define normal

Molly, yes of course I didn't think. And oh aye, those who say they have been let down by everyone in their past, well, sooner or later you have to ask yourself what the common demoninator is ...

Define normal

TR, for sure the guy I knew way back when isn't perfect but he's not a crazy. He's been in a relationship now for about three years and when he met her he said she's real, sane, rational.

Turns out from the photographs he's been posting of them on FB, she's also gorgeous. I was quite impressed by his priorities