The joys of getting old(er) – discuss

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We're all sceptical of arsenal. However, can you be "highly" sceptical? I'd have thought being sceptical is a binary condition (like pregnancy) - either you're sceptical or you're not. Although my scepticism is lifelong as I grow older I find Stoicism more helpful. In that regard Marcus Aurelius is a great model - especially in his attraction to much younger men, sadly suppressed (I've failed in that respect)

This IS disappointing. By now I'd expect Tenille to have chimed in advising that "Although my scepticism is lifelong as I grow older I find Stoicism more helpful" is better expressed as "Although my scepticism is lifelong, as I grow older I find Stoicism more helpful"

I speak perfect English ...

[bkkguy]

By now I'd expect Tenille to have chimed in advising that "blah blah blah"

an apposite recent discussion on BBC Radio 4's News Quiz:

"I am sure most people on this panel have been called a Nazi, such is the way of the Internet"

"I have been called a grammar Nazi - does that count?"

"Did you invade Grammar Poland?"

"No, perhaps for having a dangling participle before one made their point - Hitler only had one dangling participle ..."

it is good to see that British humour is still alive and well in the days of Brexit - or as another News Quiz participant called it the approaching B-day when the British are going to get hosed (bidet, get it - it is a radio program!)