It is not. If you start a new thread, I promise to leave it alone, or to contribute.

Here is my offer:

I stop writing in this forum.

Deal?

How many of you have started a thread (one!) in the last 12 months? Instead you keep on complaining about mine. Has anyone ever complained about Shooman writing about, well, shoes? And organic nutrition?

I think the point is, the old threads are just as good to keep posting in as starting up new threads. You're right, someone had to post new threads at some point for them to exist - but now they do, so it's kind of a moot point.

That had never happened to me before but in a meeting, years ago, a colleague (male, mind you) said in front of visiting guests that my pocket square wasnt folded right, reached into my jacket pocket and re-stuffed it in. It was a bizarre moment.

Even odder, and though I think I mentioned it before but not the follow up. i walk into a bathroom at the end of the day and start re-tying my tie in the mirror before I go out. This distant colleague walks in and makes a huge to-do about the fact that i am retying my tie at the end of the day and why bother?

First, he was the sort who wore white shirts until they were grey and dingy and always chose funereal ties, second, he stood there next to me in a bathroom with several other people in it repeating out loud how odd it was that i was redoing my tie so late. True, he wasnt the sort to have a social life but, still, I was irritated. I told him it was my tie and I would do whatever I liked with it (including strangle someone) which was an answer bystanders liked.

But this isnt the odd part. About a year later, I walk into the same bathroom at the end of the day and the same man is there retying HIS tie. At first, i thought I would create the same spectacle he had about why-al- the-fuss? However, I decided to take the high road and walked over to the urinals to get on with my mission. Unbelievably, he turns around from the mirrors and asks me what I'm doing in the bathroom. I told him that Id had a good day and felt I deserved to treat myself to a piss.

From band-aids in mirrors to strangling acquaintances in bathrooms to ruminating on who's taking a piss to keeping tennis scores. Within 5 posts.
Who needs new topics in this forum?