Amnesty in force

[wemyss]

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

My dear wemyss, it would be useless to pretend that we don't disagree on quite a lot - but I would be dreadfully sorry not to have you on my flist.

Oh, my dear.

[wemyss]

I thought it massively unlikely in yr case that you'd withdraw yr countenance from me. (And am rejoiced to have been right in that.)

Uh-oh...

[sgt_majorette]

Are you about to post something outrageous?

As opposed to something fantabulosa?

[wemyss]

Quite likely not, save insofar as there are those who consider all my views outrageous.

[lazy_neutrino]

Thought-provoking post. I suspect we'd disagree on a fair few things (and agree on a surprisingly large number of other things) but part of the fun of life is reading dissenting views.

Oh, quite.

[wemyss]

Sometimes, however, people are disconcerted when they find that what they thought an intellectual cricket match has become the wall game. They think it not quite (wait for it) cricket.

I knew I cd count on the maturity of my friends; I merely thought a (renewed) warning timely.

Hello, you

[goddessriss]

I do love it when you're masterful ;-)

I'm not around much at the moment, but I do always enjoy reading your opinions on the issues of the day/month/whatever, even on the odd occasions we disagree. When we disagree - alas, I'm generally far too idle to say so (which is also probably why I, too, am far nicer on here than in RL). Keep up the good work!

Masterful?

[wemyss]

Why couldn't you have been an available lad, damn it all....

Actually, what I know my problem to be is that I've a lordly, if not indeed ducal, arrogance - quite unjustifiably, no doubt - and a positively parliamentary genius for invective. I must borrow some of yr alleged idleness.

Thank you, truly.

Curses!

[goddessriss]

Yes, curse my incorrect plumbing, ample chest and my inconvenient possession of a husband! Maybe in our next lives...

You know, I've never once thought you arrogant. I like that you aren't afraid to voice your opinions. Also like that you are well mannered - manners seem to be in sadly short supply nowadays, tho' I am a stickler for them when it comes to my two boys.

Are husbands. I wonder, ever convenient, really?

[wemyss]

Or am I listening to too many Marie Lloyd songs?

I'm obliged that you think I've manners. I've always rather feared I combine the qualities of Wellington and Peel in having neither small talk nor manners. Yet one must try. A parliamentary approach is best: incredible, savage rudeness within formal constraints....

[17catherines]

Frankly, I value the opportunity to read intelligent opinions that are entirely different from mine. If nothing else, it requires me to test my opinions and justify them, at least to myself. There's something about intellectual honesty which I need to tease out here, but since I'm supposed to be working, now is probably not the time.

I'm not fond of arguing on points where I feel strongly - too much potential for hurt on all sides, and that's something I avoid - but I don't want to live in an echo chamber, either.

Stay well.

Catherine

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica Veritas.

[wemyss]

And All That. Quite.

Re: Amicus Plato, sed magis amica Veritas.

[17catherines]

That's the aim, certainly.

Re: Amicus Plato, sed magis amica Veritas.

[17catherines]

And speaking of the convenience of husbands, mine is quite handy for translating Latin, which I can guess at competently based on French and Italian and Caecilius est in villa, but which he actually studied all the way to Year 12...