Recent content by Amalthea

Vandyke, I apologise my lengthy post was not directed at you. It was at Muir who was using the 'I know what I'm talking about' card 'because I'm from that country'. I don't feel it's particularly mean spirited given the circumstances. I'm not about to lecture someone from Denmark on Vikings, I...

Seems you're stuck in a passionless love triangle between two types of security. It sounds so very pragmatic. As an INFJ if I know I have to think about these things rather than feel them something's amiss.

I am Scottish and an interest of mine is the Norse settlement in the Scottish isles. Now either what you are saying is A) Vikings, a.k.a 'Pirate Raiders' brutalised the country by pillaging, or B) Vikings, a.k.a settlers of Scandinavian descent, brutalised the country by stealing land etc. Now I...

muir, vandyke ... no... no they didn't.

If you were to describe a sensation then better not to describe one at all! It's no different than anything else noticed and it's certainly not dramatic enough to provoke much until some thought is applied to it. You're driving around and see a pedestrian. Are you hit by a pang? No. You just...

I do not take it with grace.

My family roots are all in the far North of the UK and so when asking about the the diet I know they barely had things such as wheat, no corn- that there was effort made in soaking and even fermenting oats, and that we had raw dairy perhaps lightly pasteurised rather than homogenised. They had...

In theory. It never translated well to reality.

Maybe it should be :P You're doing it all wrong. You're meant to be sending your comments to my visitor messages, not your own. How rusty you are.

It's probably about time I offend your Visitor Messages :D

Hmm I can agree with this. The character Sarah from 'Labyrinth' always reminded me of my previous fashion style. I'd wear the ridiculous and pair it with contemporary and around 75% of the time fail miserably, but there were always those days when my braces and bowler hats looked good with my...

You guys must have been so confused pre-Lovelace.

I wonder who will die first from stubbornness.

I'm not saying you are insensitive, rather the language is. It's blunt not tactful and so there's more room for it to be taken the wrong way. You're right though, I did assume it was romantic (my bad- and I'm also glad for the person it wasn't!), but even in a platonic relationship it could be...

You can put someone down gently and politely in a simple sentence without coming across as a complete ass, yes. Did you? No. You can be tactful without being insensitive. 'I am so sorry, I just don't return your feelings.' <--- pointing out you have no control over how you feel in much...