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[EternalOptimist]

It's something thats never happened to me. I think I suffer from some sort of compulsive repetitive typing disorder.Or something. Once I get my teeth into a subject I can't seem to let go, the missus thinks I am barking mad but how is it possible to change you mind so often and for so little reason ?
Maybe yous people are intellectual butterflies that like to flit from one subject to another, dipping your curly little proboscises into the nectar before flapping onto another thread.
When you were kids did you follow the fashions, conkers one week, skates the next, hoola hoops the next ? did you carry this into adulthood ? are you a faddist ?


anyways, gotta go, ta ta

[Stan.goodvibes]

Indeed - or introduce additional crap that wasn't mentioned in the first place, like moaning on about Tony Blair in a thread on the US elections.

like posting about people changing the subject in threads instead of posting about not finishing posts?

[Stan.goodvibes]

No. Never.

Everything I write is so important and relevent that it would be criminal to not post it

[beaker]

ever get halfway through typing out a reply to a thread, then realise you can't be bothered finishing it or that you have no point to make or just don't want to get into that conversation so just hit cancle/back?

For some reason I've had several of those moments today

For the record i expect at most 1.5 replies to this thread

Funny, Wilmslow never seems to have that problem...

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Then there's the occasions when one starts typing out a reply and realises that one is replying to CyberTory. As he will deliberately misrepresent and distort the content of the reply and just reiterate his original flawed argument over and over again, one realises that there is no point making the point in the first place

Indeed - or introduce additional crap that wasn't mentioned in the first place, like moaning on about Tony Blair in a thread on the US elections.

[BrianSnail]

Yaw

[Bagpuss]

Then there's the occasions when one starts typing out a reply and realises that one is replying to Cyberman. As he will deliberately misrepresent and distort the content of the reply and just reiterate his original flawed argument over and over again, one realises that there is no point making the point in the first place

A tried and tested CUK ploy along with

I won (C) SASguru

[NickFitz]

ever get halfway through typing out a reply to a thread, then realise you can't be bothered finishing it or that you have no point to make or just don't want to get into that conversation so just hit cancle/back?

Then there's the occasions when one starts typing out a reply and realises that one is replying to Cyberman. As he will deliberately misrepresent and distort the content of the reply and just reiterate his original flawed argument over and over again, one realises that there is no point making the point in the first place

[TykeMerc]

Now you menti

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Regularly - and the Symbian browser on my phone adds a random nature to it as it occasionally crashes mid-post (I guess many people would regard that as blessed relief)

[El_Diablo]

ever get halfway through typing out a reply to a thread, then realise you can't be bothered finishing it or that you have no point to make or just don't want to get into that conversation so just hit cancle/back?

For some reason I've had several of those moments today

For the record i expect at most 1.5 replies to this thread

Yes, ne

[Spacecadet]

All the time!!!

Except I hit 'Cancel' I find it works better than 'cancle'

couldn't be arsed speel checking

[Bear]

ever get halfway through typing out a reply to a thread, then realise you can't be bothered finishing it or that you have no point to make or just don't want to get into that conversation so just hit cancle/back?

For some reason I've had several of those moments today

For the record i expect at most 1.5 replies to this thread

All the time!!!

Except I hit 'Cancel' I find it works better than 'cancle'

[Bob Dalek]

"ever get halfway through typing out a reply to a thread, then realise you can't be bothered finishing it or that you have no point to make or just don't want to get into that conversation so just hit cancel/back?"

I have never found myself in that situat

[Bagpuss]

oh forget it