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That was a really interesting question though and Id like to talk more a bout if you like.

I'm up for that. Here or on IM? I am on Y! AIM and MSN - just let me know which, and I'll post the ID.

Ben

Here's fine.

but I have an to get to the quacks now.

Okie dokie - whenever you like!

B

At an early age 'round my way and probably yours too, children are given a carefully measured dose of a virus. It hurts they normally cry.

Round my way when I was young boys were taught to be "men" their is a gulf between me being ignored for whingeing and being violently inducted into an irregular army in some civil war zone. Im not going to draw the line between whats proportinate and whats not what's conditioning and whats abuse. I dont feel I was abused but I do see where you were coming from.

I work with charities that campaign for zero tolerance on smacking, its not something that I 100% agree with but if it ever happened that would be miles better than right now.

Enough preamble...

Me, me, me!

I gues the one thing I got from that and subsequent emotinally callousing treatment is that people arent that interested in my emotional reactions to situations. This has been an advantage at times when a cool head is called for and at others put a barrier between me and people want to see my emotions and hear me talk about them all the time.

Im told that I work well with peolpe and I can tell from what people say to me about me that my joy when donig this is overwhelmingly evident when Im coaching, play working etc...So I dont think I caount as emotionaly illiterate I can read people's emotions to some extent. I can tell when a player is happy or friustrated, needs physically to come off the pitch or has just lost heart.

There are some things I refuse to take in though, which I guess is harsh. Harsh certainly on those who say I feel insecure and I say never mind get on with it and you'll feel better. It is normally true, but it may be that Im being cruel to be kind rather than just quashing their emotins the same way I had mine quashed

I really dont know if a girlfriend cries because she feels that way about me going out with the tyopes of guys where it tends to be we are delivered home hours/days later in a taxi/ambulance. Or she's just some clingy woman trying to manipulate me. Both are valid positions I just dont feel I should be responding to the latter emotionl impulse that informs exactly the same outward signs in some people.

So one here I get a lot of "you're a bully" or "you dont know how that's made me feel"

Well Im not a bully I dont want to make anyone think or do anything. I am in your face about my points but there is no conceivable way I can chinnese burn someone into accepting my point of view. Peolpes feelings are something I can see no way of gauging here.

Just lurking, little bro.

*waves to Ben*


az

*waves back to Az*

I'm rather hectic right now, and I want to re-read what you've read Blicky, before I get back to you.

Kick the thread again if I haven't got back to you by the end of Monday.



Ben

Last monday, this monday or next monday

waves back to az

*waves back*

blicky honey, the middle spot light in the living room won't come out to be changed! It's stuck! Can you please come back and do this for me?

Ben, I'm over it, okay?


az

Sorry Im gonig up moutains in wales with the under 16 section of the mud appreciation society this weekend for their summer trip, but if I wasnt....


Disconnect the power. Step ladder. Put a cloth on ceiling. Smash bulb through the cloth with a hammer. Carefully take down cloth. Hold a plastic bag right under light fitting and break out remaing glass with pliers then bend in the metal sleeve and twist out of the holder with the pliers. Put a little oil or vasseline on sleeve of new bulb and bob's your uncle.

I know HOW to do it, blicky. . .

I'd just rather you did it.


az

I'm now here lurking too.

*waves to blicky, Ben, and az*

*waves to Az* *waves to Kea* *waves to Blicky*

This thread is on my list of Threads to Think about, (as opposed to my list of threads to dip into, or my list of threads to ignore!)

I'm very aware that it might have looked as if I flounced off, possibly in some sort of a huff, but that was just crap timing. My journal says what I'm up to.

Just call me Arnie - I will be back....

B