Thank you... I feel the same. And even though we don't always see eye-to-eye on things, I do think you're very intelligent and can formulate a very good argument, and that's one reason why I enjoy your presence here and am thankful that we seem to have made peace.

I do become frustrated with the EF sometimes because there are times when I can feel it really spike my cortisol, and I once had a heart-attack due to an extreme cortisol spike after having a C-section, so I guess I've learned the hard way that I need to do whatever it takes to keep stress down. For that reason, I feel hesitant to remove Urs Max from my ignore list at this point. But I do wish him the best.

To be honest, I struggle sometimes with my use of the EF because I hate the way it can alter my mood or thought processes at times. It's a love-hate relationship. lol. But for that reason, I try to take long breaks from here now and then -- a detox or whatever. I do find it helps. And then when I come back to it, I often perceive it quite differently than I was before. It's just nice when people can get along and have calm, rational conversations without all the bickering and provoking and targeting, etc. So if I do put someone on my ignore list, it's done more as a means for me to be able to continue to use this place without it causing me stress, more than anything else.

Thank you for your thoughtful comment, amogles. I hope mine makes sense. I just took a warm bath and it made me feel almost drunk. lol.

Are you discussing the "word of today" thread?

Small logical failure here, there were never three ongoing threads on Trump.

The mods closed the Trump post-presidency thread so the two new threads were started because their logical home was gone. Sensibly there should only be one thread and the correct one would be the Trump post-presidency thread but Lib took it away.
Just for your information, I was not the one who created the Trump post-presidency thread.

You've now posted more on complaining about the closed thread than the actual post you've written on that thread

Well this thread is running along about as well as could be expected, never change EF!

As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted...

Welcome to the forum

Thanks! Does anyone know where I can procure some brown sugar?

Oi! Use the search function

Seeing that you have been around for a long time before, you know where to search?

Welcome back I would say.

We leave for camping in a few days, and I have a million things to do before we leave. So if you all could try to keep this thread boring for the next few days, that would be much appreciated.

Indeed, I've heard it's safe to come back now. Like Moses returning to the promised land, like Mandela being released from prison, like Napoleon arriving from exile on Elba... shall I go on?

Like Khashoggi returning to Saudi Arabia?

Lol, that's good!

Yes!

Like Chamberlain coming back from Munich?

anyway, welcome back Loz.

welcome back noob

What happened to the cute Wildschwein?

Also worth noting that the hateful, anti-women rhetoric is pervasive here, and left unchallenged by the moderation team. The severity of the issue, the unwillingness to deal with it adequately, and the increasing amounts of hostility being shown towards women, inclusive of pejorative terms once again being left unchallenged on the forum, lead to this being a pretty hostile place for women to try to be part of.


Each time the mod's do nothing about such examples, and continue to post on such threads, it conveys that treating women this way, and referring to us this way, is ok here:



https://www.englishforum.ch/permits-...rist-visa.html