Re: Confused Newbie
Originally Posted by
Morticia
->
....It's the old ancestral
criminal genes coming out.
Only two possibilities here.
Either some lying malicious claim about
my family
or
an ill-informed reference to
Britain's barbaric treatment of
British desperates and dissidents 200 years ago (when
my forebears were still comfortably ensconced in the UK).
.
Kindly soul that I am, I assumed she meant
the latter and responded accordingly.
Originally Posted by
Pumicestone
->
Yep, them
British convicts
- 7 years for swiping a loaf of bread to feed one's starving kids.
Or an Irishman seeking freedom from oppression by
the British.
Which somehow elicited this -
Originally Posted by
Morticia
->
I just knew you wouldn't be able to resist venting your spleen.
Poor Predictable Pummy.
I feel sure that any "
confused newbie" will easily separate the wheat from the chaff.
Any "
spleen venting" was clearly the deliberately provocative "
criminal genes" nonsense.