Are you seriously claiming, in a highly juvenile manner, that words do not or cannot cause harm? If so, you’re either being willfully ignorant to the point of dishonesty, or... Actually, there isn’t a second option. Yes, children were taught that in school decades ago, it being easier than teaching and insisting on emp…

Dude! Some of us are eating here!

I’ve tried to explain the whole “pear-shaped thing to innumerable people. I thought the concept was simple, that even an idiot wouldn’t think he meant it’s *literally* shaped like a pear anymore than we mean a woman is *literally* shaped like an apple or a pear - that he was just saying the southern hemisphere is a…

Random aside: My geekiness does not include videogames, so I may be missing a game reference in your comment. But every time I see it, it makes me snicke as it sounds like you’re offering a sanitary napkin (stayfree) - lol.

[Obligatory political comment. Apologies.]

Any suggestions for my father who was unfortunate enough to get “herpes sin zostra” (shingles without the rash) and is now suffering horrible post-herpetic neuralgia. (The virus attacking his nerves incessantly, long after it should have buggered off back into dormancy. ie It’s been eight months now!)

Dude, some of us were eating!

*Exactly* my thought!

He’s already a bloody effing *idiot*. Do you really want to risk killing off whatever functioning brain cells he might still possess?

The scary part, given his mental state?

...or should I say, beat me to the punch!

Beat me to it - lol!