*removes curtain*

[davewitley]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "sineadsiobhan" <sinead at b...> wrote:
I'm really and truly sorry that it has 
> happened and I'm sorry that if Mafalda/Sinead tried to break up the 
> list. 
> 
>
Apology unconditionally accepted.  Was it part of the cunning plan 
that you spelt 'behaviour' the British way, and 'psychoanalyzed' the 
American way, to throw the bloodhounds off the scent?

HPFGU *is* quite a complicated place, and I think it's very easy to 
feel that the *real* life of the group is happening somewhere just 
round the corner or hidden from view.  From there it is but a step to 
speculate that leadership decisions are made in order to create and 
perpetuate that situation.

I always struggle with the feeling, IRL as well as on and off-list, 
that people are only being polite and really they only tolerate (in 
the bad sense) me.

I don't know what the answer is - extracting assurances from people 
that they like you works for a short time, but I rationalise it as 
politeness after a while.  Possibly we do need more impoliteness, 
after all, to earth it all in reality.

David, who used to be envious of all these people who seem to be so 
at home in Chat, like Sinead