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Blow that Julie, I wouldn't stand for that.

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Me neither a few years ago but it's a job and brings in money, generally I am happy there as the people whose offices I clean are lovely people really friendly and funny.

It's better than the awful bullying that went on a couple of years ago since the supervisor was moved due to her very nasty bullying it's been a nice atmosphere which makes it easy place to work.

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Look on Facebook there's hundreds and they'll make you welcome, especially the British Steampunk Community they love to discuss how to make things! Lots of members are also Re-enactors or even actors or just eccentrics, like me x

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I'm going to continue with the original topic at great peril.

The one thing I do find amusing is that the people who constantly tell you to lighten up, get a life, or have a laugh at everything, are actually laying down their law to you about how you should behave when apparently you are not allowed to lay your law down to them to be more serious. Isn't that a slight contradiction?

I'm perfectly happy not to "lighten up" and not to "get a life". I actually prefer to be serious. That's my choice - and I'm not a freak of nature!

However, I have been on various forums since PCs were invented due to my job and have sufficiently thick skin to keep on posting anyway. Perhaps it's worth remembering that we all come from different types of backgrounds and upbringing and that makes us all DIFFERENT. Not better or worse just different.

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You've got it all back to front, jaywalker. When someone tells another to lighten up it's because in reply to a comment by the 'serious' person. Why is it that serious people always have to find reasons to complain about something they don't like about others instead of just ignoring them?

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Because they are 'seriarse'

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Well I would suggest there are some subjects too important to be silly about, humour is great and can diffuse situations but laughing when people are talking about loved ones deaths really shouldn't be seen as appropriate. Or am I just out of step with the society that seems to be laughing at everything these days ?

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Julie - but we were not talking about the subject at that time - we were talking about well, you know what - yes I tried to lighten that situation otherwise you go to bed with the bloomin 'ump and no one here is gonna manage to do that with me !
If the subject is serious then I and others will respond the correct way, but some serious subjects are ruined by nit picking on detail and on and on it goes - not with me it wont .....

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That's what I was sort of trying to say Patsy, sometimes humour diffuses situations nicely and that's great. What I don't like is very serious subjects being led off topic either trolled off topic or with humour.

It seemed wanting a serious topic to stay serious was being suggested meant the participants lacked a sense of humour. Which I felt was unfair to everyone who participates in those threads.

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Understand that and agree ....