I noticed quite a few replies to many different posts being a little disrespectful lately.

Having a differing opinion is one thing, flaming or cursing someone out because they don't agree with you is another.

We are adults here and don't need to be "touchy-feely" and "PC" all the time, but respectfully disagreeing with someone (even in a "tough-love" way) is a better approach.

There were times that someone really needed a response that would have even the filthiest mouthed person want to wash my mouth out with internet soap (probably "Lava" soap, since it has pumice in it), but I resisted. Not because they got over on me, but I decided not to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Granted, some people post as trolls and bait people, they are so good at it they are "master-baiters", but sometimes a non-aggressive response to them is better. They won't get the rise out of you and hopefully they will slither away back to underneath the bridge where they came from never to be heard from again.

No animals were hurt in the making of this post.

Edited February 14, 201610 yr by 4MRB4PHOTO

Island Girl - Elton John

Dec 1966 Tom Jones, Green green grass of Home.

They long to be close to you by the Carpenters. That was a good one!

Since Tony Bennett has been named here, I want you to know that in 1964 I was at a friend's Sweet 16. It was in an old-style, glamorous sort of nightclub in Brooklyn, an unusual venue for a party for 30 or so teenagers. The entertainer was -- tada! -- Tony Bennett himself, in the flesh, live, right before our eyes. We all knew him, of course, but our callow selves were not fully appreciative. The show seemed to go on forever and we got quite restless. The adults of the Sweet 16 girl's family, at a nearby table, had a high old time, though.

What a great story.

There is a metaphor for this topic in there somewhere.

I must have missed said post. LOL!

I must've too!

Darnit! It sounds like it was great entertainment.

She called us all fat. I was going to post but it was closed before i could. "Wrong, I WAS fat!". It wasn't her fault she was fat though.

@@CowgirlJane, welcome to the Chapel of Love birthday club. We need to have a very special party.

Edited to include @fat_free.

I thought she was a first time poster, but when I looked at her profile, she had threaded before. She did sound completely different. Maybe someone (a kid maybe) got hold of her account? She lost me with all the chat speak and thinly disguised swear words (including the N word). Oh, and we are all fat...except for her. She has reasons.

Everybody's Somebody's Fool by Connie Francis.

They long to be close to you by the Carpenters. That was a good one!

Oooo that was a good one. Love the Carpenters!

What a great story.

There is a metaphor for this topic in there somewhere.

I don't know about a metaphor, but it surely says that I'm a babe of advanced years. The French have a much nicer (?) phrase which translates as "a woman of a certain age." Me and Catherine Deneuve. Not bad.

Jan and dean - surf city

That's the coolest.

(stands up and clears throat)

It was my fault. She said she wasn't fat because of what she ate, she was fat because of genetics, so I told her to call her surgeon and cancel the surgery because it wasn't going to help her since she wasn't fat from eating, and the surgery restricts eating.

Sometimes, I'm a bad girl.

Catherine Deneuve is my fantasy alter ego.

(stands up and clears throat)

It was my fault. She said she wasn't fat because of what she ate, she was fat because of genetics, so I told her to call her surgeon and cancel the surgery because it wasn't going to help her since she wasn't fat from eating, and the surgery restricts eating.

Sometimes, I'm a bad girl.

You are our fearless leader. Now stand in the corner.

Catherine Deneuve is my fantasy alter ego.

To borrow from "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" and perk it up --

Inner Surfer Girl, you are Catherine Deneuve.

Anyone who was a model for Marianne is an excellent choice for fantasy alter ego.

Edited February 15, 201610 yr by WLSResources/ClothingExch

I love this....I looked up the song that was #1 the day I was born. Poor Little Fool by Ricky Nelson. I had no idea...and I know this song too...

You are our fearless leader. Now stand in the corner.

Do I get a spankin' too? Please?