What do we want to argue about next?

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Thank you. Screwdriver is a character, an alter ego I play up to but there is a human being here too.

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Screwdriver wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 11:14 pm Thank you. Screwdriver is a character, an alter ego I play up to but there is a human being here too.
This is the only reason you're not banned. I don't think you're a bad person and deliberately fucking up this place.
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Taipan wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 8:13 pm The Queen used to say Scone with an own and it was her English! :obscene-birdiedoublered:

Yeah but she was posh.
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JackyJoll wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 8:45 am
Taipan wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 8:13 pm The Queen used to say Scone with an own and it was her English! :obscene-birdiedoublered:

Yeah but she was posh.
At yet weirdly incapable of public speaking, given that was basically her job :D She just had the same plummy monotone all the time.

The King is way better :lol:
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How strong do you like your tea, personally the spoon should be just short of standing up in it. I cannot stand tea that has been made with minimal brewing or “Lesser Lancashire” Tea and as for Earl Grey……….
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MingtheMerciless wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 9:54 am How strong do you like your tea, personally the spoon should be just short of standing up in it. I cannot stand tea that has been made with minimal brewing or “Lesser Lancashire” Tea and as for Earl Grey……….
Tea????? :sick:
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MingtheMerciless wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 9:54 am How strong do you like your tea, personally the spoon should be just short of standing up in it. I cannot stand tea that has been made with minimal brewing or “Lesser Lancashire” Tea and as for Earl Grey……….
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A proper brew for me. 2 all day long. My mil knew this and would deliver up a 7 every time, cause she loved me, not!
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Between 2 and 3 for me.

Or very weak lapsang.
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weeksy wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 8:09 am
Screwdriver wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 11:14 pm Thank you. Screwdriver is a character, an alter ego I play up to but there is a human being here too.
This is the only reason you're not banned. I don't think you're a bad person and deliberately fucking up this place.
That's an interesting comment reference 'alter ego '.

For me, I'm no different when posting or commenting on rttl than I am in person. Possibly even more reserved as I've never been a keyboard warrior.

I wonder what others on the forum think? Are they 'themselves' or an 'alter ego?'
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I used to be a far more mouthy wanker, I thought I was funny, others may disagree.
But I changed as I had the boy and became an actual adult, mellowed and what you see now is the person I am.

At times I do say things in my head I wouldn't put on here, or say out loud though
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I don't think the difference between online self and real self remained that relevant post about 2010 :lol:

This forum is massively skewed in demographic (no not you demo). Who here isnt a >50 straight white man? It's not everyone I know, but it's most.

In fact you could probably replace 50 with 60 ;)
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If you go around saying/writing stuff on forums that you wouldn't say face to face to the same person, you need to have a word with yourself.
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mangocrazy wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 10:46 am, you need to have a word with yourself.
Online or in real life?
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JackyJoll wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 8:45 am
Taipan wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 8:13 pm The Queen used to say Scone with an own and it was her English! :obscene-birdiedoublered:

Yeah but she was posh.
But she got less posh as she got older. I reckon if she'd lived another 20 years or so she'd have been a Cockney. :)
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MingtheMerciless wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 9:54 am How strong do you like your tea, personally the spoon should be just short of standing up in it. I cannot stand tea that has been made with minimal brewing or “Lesser Lancashire” Tea and as for Earl Grey……….
Tea: a 5 or 6 for me. Strong enough to taste the tea but not so strong that all you can taste is tannin.

As for Earl Grey, whoever thought it would be a good idea to put aftershave in tea should be shot. :angry-cussingblack:
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Saga Lout wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 10:48 am
JackyJoll wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 8:45 am
Taipan wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 8:13 pm The Queen used to say Scone with an own and it was her English! :obscene-birdiedoublered:

Yeah but she was posh.
But she got less posh as she got older. I reckon if she'd lived another 20 years or so she'd have been a Cockney. :)

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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 10:47 am
mangocrazy wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 10:46 am, you need to have a word with yourself.
Online or in real life?
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mangocrazy wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 10:46 am If you go around saying/writing stuff on forums that you wouldn't say face to face to the same person, you need to have a word with yourself.
Not many people in real life will stand still long, listening to me talk about piston ring gaps.