People have accused me of talking too much. Yes, me. Imagine! I can't fathom what they are on about. I never talk except when I have something to say, and it's usually something entirely worth listening to, I think. Boys say that girls talk too much, but that is because most boys are so dead stupid and one-dimensional with all their blather about sports and such that they can't really sustain a conversation anyway! They're fools, in my opinion. When females talk, at least we have something to say and we know how to say it. I find that most boys have a working vocabulary of about 35 or so words and phrases, punctuated by pathetic efforts to impress others by using rude language and gross gestures. Rather like that wretched parrot! Well, I don't stoop so low as to do that. Not me. I restrict myself to pungent observations on the mental inadequacies of my detractors, who are mercifully few at the moment, or else I attempt to set a verbal standard that leaves them standing there stupidly with a blank look on their pimply faces. Not that I don't feel for others! I do. But I don't suffer fools gladly, that's all. I think that it's important in this life to make it absolutely clear from the start that one is not going to put up with sheer rubbish nor is one going to be patient with people who blather on and on and don't really say anything. Such people have to be reminded now and then that they are in the presence of others who have thoughts and feelings too! I wouldn't doubt that entire societies have declined and collapsed because a whole lot of people didn't know when to shut their silly mouths and just get on with it, whatever "it" was. That's probably what caused Rome to collapse. I suspect the Germans, for example, lost World War II primarily because Hitler just wouldn't SHUT UP long enough to pay attention to the real facts! It was a fatal mistake. That, and attacking Britain. We British always win in the end. Yes, we may lose a battle here and there, but we always win the last battle, don't we? Well, I must say that I sympathize with jOhn's problem, even though I've heard that he is a bit of a prat himself. Still, even utter prats deserve a moment of peace now and then, don't they?

TTFN,

* Veronica *