[Eric]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

Lee, let me give you a personal example of this "hysteria", the other year I was home, we'd been out shopping & at the checkout I was piling stuff into bags, being a bloke it's a matter of just cram it in it'll be fine, the step-mum said jokingly to me, "Not like that you mong !"

The peep of the checkout swipe stopped, the young girl (18-20) on the till then told step-mum "you can't say that !" to which we replied "in our house it's practically a term of endearment", she said no more but her attitude had changed entirely.

So you tell me, are we really that far from the "contrived facetious" examples Gordon & I have given. You're the Lad with the Canadian girlfriend I notice, when you visited Canada did you see the same level of intolerant control there ? I'd think not, from what I recall of the Canadians they seem mentally well balanced, more than can be said of some of our progeny.

"Mentally well balanced" Are you dealing from a full deck?