Bitter but optimistic

Penurious peasants! Bah!

You show your usual wisdom in ignoring Moonie's crude insults od. One who displays such discernment in the pleasures provided by the fruit of the vine could never be of the bogan class. PS. Please address my complimentary case of the next vintage to The Manor at Romsey.

Il bacio della morte .

I wish Max would kiss me like that.

You're [censored] Red!!

I not sure if "complacency" is the appropriate word but we have a history of losing games that we should have won ……………….. and paying the consequences.

A very nasty post [censored] kick ! If you are not more careful, I shall bring you out to The Manor and give you a jolly good traumatising!

Thanks Deeman! I was watching him bat the other day and kept thinking ….. geez he reminds me of somebody. Had me quite perplexed.

Congratulations! I must say your cover of layabout drug user/dealer and general purveyor of misery is very convincing.

So it's Skuit. I got that.

Provided you soak them in shiraz for an hour it's a deal. PS. P m me to arrange the pickup - we'll cut the lawyer out of the arrangement.

Good point Red but since you will be working on a "no win no fee" basis, I suggest you make some sneaky enquiries.

Along with the associated visual of Homer throttling Bart - parenting 101. As an aside SWYL, I presume the Knighthood was earned for various.... err "services" in Asia.

Quite so Red! Anyway Red, since you are of the lawyerly fraternity, and I am currently a little cash strapped, have we any grounds to sue Ethan? Obviously we will claim the moral high ground but it's just the lucre we want. Maybe we could organise a class action - Ethan has no doubt offended many.

A profane and blasphemous post. I'm offended.

I wonder why they didn't complete the ensemble with matching beards.

It's a real problem when the Mrs' "little gussy" goes into hiding.

Well what did you expect dc? Who the [censored] knows where Borewood is?

Good question Neil. It used to show up at the bottom of , I think, the home page but it seems to have disappeared. The answer to the meaning of life can be found on this thread ( if you know who to ask) so I'm sure your query (love that word) will be answered in the fullness of time.

Try farting fish hooks Ethan.

Well once I would have adopted the bah humbug line. But I'm a reborn citizen. I'll have all my fellow Demonlanders know that I'm a reformed character. No more sleaze or smut. No more bannings or deleted posts. No more multiple shamings on MeToo . I'm an empathic and sensitive male, ready to embrace a new world of equality.

Bloody hell SWYL, you sleazing around in Asia ..again? You'd just about be eligible for citizenship! Have a great Christmas … and have a green curry for me …. but be sure to slosh it down with a few Singhas ...or similar.

Naturally I wish you well in your lofty aspirations Earl. However …… you must know.. there are "rumours" going around on the social circuit wherein the good name of your house is associated with certain …… err indelicacies. Oddly, according to reliable sources, "garters" seem to have played something of an and up and down role in proceedings. I, off course, am not one to deal in such slanders but social media being what it is these days ….. who knows how high such tales reach?

The gates are always open to the bearer of decent and plentiful booze picket.

A brilliant poststructuralist thread which obviously challenges the normal contract between narrator and reader. I would even risk the assertion (though contrary views are welcomed) that "readers are free to open and close the text's signifying process without respect for the signified" ( Selden summarising Barthes)