On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:55:38 +0100, Stephen wrote:

>> I'm glad you spelled "though" correctly, too - well done. ;)
>>
>>
> Thank you. I always appreciate those who recognise my disability.

;)

>>> As do the sheep, you. They send their regards. :-)
>>
>> I see we made some common friends. ;)
>>
> You forget I'm not Welsh. ;-)

I'll tell my friend Pete - who is - that you said that. ;)

>>> Can you imagine what it would be like in the winter?
>>> Find somewhere near the bridge. :-)
>>
>> Heh, no, winters here don't tend to get snow
> 
> Snow is bad but cold, wet and windy can make life miserable too.

True, I had enough of that.  Cold doesn't actually really happen here, 
either, though.

> 
>> - and when there is snow,
>> the city shuts down; the amount of rain we allegedly get here means the
>> roads are designed for drainage rather than being good for snow/ice.
>> Especially with how hilly it is.  Seattle's not very different from,
>> say,
>> Houston, when it snows here.  But it's a pretty rare thing.
>>
>>
> I've only been in Huston in the hot, humid summer. :-)

Me too.  Didn't really care for it.

>>> That would suit me, in the summer. I prefer using public transport, if
>>> I can.
>>
>> We probably would - but where we currently live is more affluent, and a
>> recent vote denied expansion of bus routes in the area. :/
>>
>>
> I understand. Sometimes it is just too inconvenient to do the green
> thing.

Or at least too inconvenient to plan to do the green thing.

>>> I have know idea what's considered offensive, any more. Except for the
>>> things I consider offensive.
>>
>> I've recently been accused (incorrectly, I might add) of being an
>> "easily offended liberal" in another community.  It's like people don't
>> know me. ;)
>>
> 
> Well I've been accused of being more left wing than Fidel Castro, in
> this newsgroup. You are in good company. :)

Heh.  I've had similar accusations leveled at me.  I moderate a closed 
political discussion group, and while I tend to be fairly "left", it's 
always interesting when a right-winger gets out of line and I put my 
moderator hat on and moderate (because we don't want "food fight" 
political discussions, we want "civil" discussions - comes from the group 
name), and I have been accused of being authoritarian and of abusing my 
moderator power by some whom I've moderated.

Except I moderate people whose politics I more closely align with just as 
much.  Because when it comes down to it, when you call someone a 
shithead, it doesn't matter what political persuasion you are, it's not a 
*civil* debating tactic, and whether I agree with your politics or not, 
when I'm moderating, I'm going to moderate.

Jim
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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