I have started. So I'll stop

They say that goldfish have forgotten what they have seen earlier in once circuit of the goldfish bowl. Does this mean that goldfish that are in very large bowls have a longer memory? I'll leave you to work that out. I very rarely stop. But I can be very off target and even my friends have occasionally gone "Eh? Whatever are you on about". On this occasion I thought that I might unintentionally hurt someone's feelings and I would hat to do that. Intentionally fine. But not the opposite. Thank you for your very nice comments. My posts and I are mildly eccentric, which is the term I used to your sister, and she agreed bless her.

Hmmm, now you've got me confuddled........well, I live in a really big padded fish tank, so my memory's probably slightly better than that of a goldfish. :) Oh, no, if I thought I'd upset someone I liked I would stop doing it, but normally I don't realise that something will upset someone 'til I've said it unfortunately, it's due to me having a brain problem, but I won't go into that here. ;) Hmmm, well, you're only eccentric if you've got plenty of money, me and my family are just mad. :)

On the mad side of eccentric then. I'm down to my last Rolls Royce.

There are some people that have very fixed views and that cannot or will not contemplate that there might be a different perspective. But I try to catch myself from being unnecessarily unfair or intolerant. I will tease my friends sometime too. I know that they can take it and will give it back. Thank you Rozie.

I honestly do not get along well with people who do not have a sense of humor. Those type of people tend to push me away somehow. I would rather sit at home alone, than spend the day with someone who does not have a sense of humor. I like the way Roger Rabbit it, "Sometimes laughter is the only thing we have."

Thank you for your very kind comment. I am a very serious person not given to humour at all. LOL. Usually I do forge on. But today I just felt that what I was doing was inappropriate and stopped. But I did think about it, hence this discussion.

I have often had to revise my posts too. Usually I want to abut a nano second after I hit the post comment button. But it's too late then. But today my whole angle was wrong and I felt that it was unfair to Post a reply at all.

But that is exactly my point. I was about to post something that I thought the discussion starter might not understand and feel was offensive. I rarely do back away, but that felt the right thing to do today.

Thank you Jessica.

Join the quirky club Nanna. I know exactly what you mean. Even in this discussion there is someone that didn't understand what I meant! Perhaps it's because we have a "British" sense of humour (and know where to put the "Us" in our words). When you are talking you have the immediacy to correct yourself. The person that you are talking to gives their feeling away quite often so you are able to make clarifications and corrections. Say the wrong thing here though and you may get an earful, or worse, never hear from them again.

I've never seen your sense of humour to be the kind that would upset someone. Well, I haven't seen all your posts. Most of the ones I have seen have been very decent...and like I said earlier...being rude and teasing is one thing...a sense of humour that doesn't personally attack is another.

My post wasn't going to be an attack, but a joke that she might have found in poor taste or offensive. I cannot remember what the discussion was or what I was going to post now!

Thank you and maybe I am being over sensitive. But I know that my humour isn't for all and I might have genuinely upset someone when that wasn't my intention at all. Not posting seemed the better idea.

Mostly I write whatever whenever, but I had to pause on the discussion that I was replying to that day. It just felt wrong. I didn't reply at all actually. I cannot even remember the name of the poster so i can't go back and see what others may have written. Such is life. But to my friends I am far less cautious. I know that if they don't like what I have written they will tell me. But still tickle my tummy later.

If it had been one of your threads I wouldn't have stopped. I know that I can be rude to you and that you'll just be rude back But we'll still make out in the back row later. But this one was a new myLotter making a sensitive post and she nearly got a P1ke special. I couldn't do it. I didn't actually think that she would have got the joke as she was being very earnest, and I surprisingly, wasn't.

I must go back and read what you did say. LOL. My discussions are long because I am verbose. Why use one word when ten will do. LOL. But I am genuinely a happy boy when I am posting here. I get a sort of rush. Sad but true I am afraid. I never intend to upset someone, and I don't think that I do that often. But today I realised that I might be going further than was fair. So stopped. Thank you for your very kind comments too. I am blushing.

Once it is posted it is posted and yo have to take what comes. I hadn't though about typing in "local" language. Oiz reckonz tar sno loikli t'unnerstyanm ors iv oi wrgunerdo thart.

That's probably true that I will find out. My sense of humour is the only one I've got. Well I am a middle aged male aged 12. So it's pretty infantile. But I'll try to maintain the standard. I noticed something strange in your post. Your spelling of "humour" is the proper way and not in the usual US manner. Good for you.

Humour or humor is the only thing I have going for me. So never give it up. I've done so much reading in my life and in my early years I read a lot of books written and published in England. So I just absorbed some things. I also used to live near Centre Street while I was growing up.

Yes I have been in those situations too. Although myLot is the only board that I am on. Couldn't keep up with another one too. I just felt with the discussion that inspired this one that I was going to say something that I wold feel bad about later and upset someone unnecessarily.

If you were going to upset someone unnecessarily then it was probably a wise decision to stop.

Oh yes. I have often thought that I have started discussions only to remember that I have responded to one instead. Once or twice I have then gone and actually started one!

I think so too Steph. I never set out with the intention of upsetting someone.

Operating the option not to post is always available. But there have been innumerable times when I have hit the post button and gone Aaaagh!

I know what you mean... we need an edit button!

Generally I agree with you. But I am not going to post something that I believe might offend someone when they haven't called for it. But if they do - batten down the hatches.

I am not saying to just attack someone for no reason but if they deserve what you say or think then you have the right to say what you feel! these are all opinions and you have the right to freedom of speech, don'i have to offend anyone directly but there are indirect ways of putting it to someone without saying it!

I can be like that too Donna. The problem with words is that you know what you mean, but others can easily misinterpret what is said.

Thank you. I was No 1 but dfn booted me so hard that I ended up 4. But I'll climb back. LOL. Usually I don't worry too much, but there are time that we have to give a little thought to what we are saying and to whom we are addressing. Happy myLotting.

Roger that.. bourne