@trapper wrote:
no need to be sorry it wasn’t a barbed reply…no intonation in the typed word unfortunately
oh, but Mr T, that isn’t true, as a moment’s thought would reveal to you.
Intonation is very much in the typed word, but in the eyes rather than the ears of the beholder, and often the intonation says something very different to the one addressed than it does to the one addressing. Examples are galore..is the person trying to be offensive or not? Conclusions can be reached very quickly, depending on the mood at the time of reading.
I find the humour on the boards to be occasionally funny, but not usually. Others find them hilarious – maybe.
That’s what can lead to the Mackem headbutte(r) being applied after the Geordie headbutt, and from there straight to the dozy cozy lawyer.