Administrator: That could not be a double diversionary tactic could it? Is this syntheses of the Dave we know and love? Not the Dave who on April 4, 2008 said:

“I believe Gandolph has gone off somewhere, so it should be safe to pose this question. Has anyone noticed how Gandolph can turn from being quite pleasant to being or apppearing to be, to deadly serious, in one fell swoop. My grandfather is a known Seer and he said that Gandolph has the sight, he knows things that mere mortals do not, I must admit to feeling or sensing an underlying power in some of his sayings, that I am at a loss to understand, I only know I do, as does my grandfather.”

Not attempting to teach your Anorakian granddaddies how to suck eggs are you, Dave, Dave?? -agw

‘effortlessly and timelessly radiant, a constantly smiling and cheeky warden of cyberspace with closely-fitting stylish anorak.’

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Has June bewitched you ?

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Paul and our techie guy are always looking for ways to improve Anorak. Design changes to the site are currently being considered. I put up your request for an improved search function for punters. Perhaps, the next evolutionary version of Anorak will provide this. Best keep your fingers crossed though. From my experience (in my real job) IT support workers are always swamped with work and it generally takes so long to tease a new facility/report/software update etc out of them, that by the time they deliver you’ve forgotten why you request it.

I imagine her as effortlessly and timelessly radiant, a constantly smiling and cheeky warden of cyberspace with closely-fitting stylish anorak.

But God knows, I need sleep. I think beauty is irretrievably lost, but I need to hang on to what’s left of my mind, however ugly.

Sorry to upset you earlier tonight. I promise to be a bit gooder for a short while.

[whispers:] Watch out for the Thane of Cawdor!

Goodnight

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Needs her beauty sleep

DuncanR Says:

April 11th, 2008 at 5:28 am
Vlad

“Try to be more careful in your choice of words.

I am not aware that Gerry and Kate McCann have both been officially diagnosed as autistic?

If you wish to suggest this of them (or anyone else), make it clear that it is your opinion only - based on your observation that certain individuals show behavioural characteristics often found in those who have been diagnosed as autistic. O.K.?

My ‘beef’ with your earlier post was that you were presenting as ‘fact’ what in reality was your opinion. A thing is not necessarily true just because you (or I) believe it to be so!”

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OK, Duncan.. I’ll try to be even more careful in my choice of words… but I suggest that, just maybe, you’re over-reacting.

I’m taken aback by your sensitivity to my reference to ‘autistic tendencies’ / autistic spectrum. Perhaps because I live in a mostly normal but slightly ‘autistic’ world, where use of the term is really no big deal.

When I first saw your response to my - perhaps autistically - innocent reference to certain aspects of the behavioural profile of the McCanns (and in passing a certain, now unnamed, UK politician), I was really shocked.

I felt like a gay in the 50s or something.

Again, maybe it’s my own ‘autistically’ distorted perspective (which has now somehow become a much bigger deal than it should be, or usually is), but I’m, well, flabbergasted that you should object to a casual reference to a non-medial position on a standard spectrum of human behaviour, while (thankfully) allowing (to me) far more outrageous suggestions a home in yur patch of cyberspace.

So yes, OK, I’ll be hypersensitive to precise use of a highly imprecise term.

In the meantime, maybe you could do a bit of research, and relax a bit.

I’m glad you didn’t notice that there were in fact a couple (IMO, ahem) of far more sensitive points in one of my posts. I doubt the lawyers will spot them either.

My strong impression, however, is that KM’s normal personality is pretty detached emotionally.

Yes, agree, there is something odd about the Mc couple. But what is it. At the interview Kate was certainly distracted, but why. Had she to watch her step! I think so. That woman is under a certain amount of stress. What does know, what does she have to endure!! We will know soon enough.

Try to be more careful in your choice of words.

I am not aware that Gerry and Kate McCann have both been officially diagnosed as autistic?

If you wish to suggest this of them (or anyone else), make it clear that it is your opinion only - based on your observation that certain individuals show behavioural characteristics often found in those who have been diagnosed as autistic. O.K.?

My ‘beef’ with your earlier post was that you were presenting as ‘fact’ what in reality was your opinion. A thing is not necessarily true just because you (or I) believe it to be so!

I’ll have to “sleep on” what you are saying about the new black, new queer. I’ll revisit in the morning.

I should have been in bed a very long time ago (sorry for the tired typing).

Let’s forget ‘autism’, ‘Asperger’s’ and superficially precise diagnoses, and focus on the behavioural ‘bottom line’.

Humans relate to their environment, including fellow humans, both emotionally/intuitively and analytically. They ‘read’ others and themselves, so to speak, both from ‘inside’ (their heads) and ‘outside’ (automatically, reactively). Some people work more from ‘the inside out’ than the other way round. It’s a pretty smooth ‘curve’ from one extreme to the other, but genetic males (for example) tend to be on the ‘inside-out’ side, and females (overall) tend toward the intuitive/emotional side of the spectrum (this is not folklore, it’s science).

I’m amazed that allusions to this spectrum provoke such sensitivity. Maybe it is the new black, the new ‘queer’.

And yes, Gerry is ‘very good at socializing’ in some sense. But read Mrs Wilkins account of her holiday in PdL in the Observer a few months ago. He’s good at performing ‘from the inside out’ for an audience for which he really doesn’t have much intuitive feeling - so he talks too loud and too much, doesn’t know when to stop, and doesn’t recognize that the audience is seeing soenthing different in the performance to what he sees.

As for Kate - OK, she was doped-up in the Panorama film, but her emotional ‘detachment’ from Day One (and doubtless before) should be bloody obvious, even to observers with very low IQ and AQ.

Sadly, I think you will find that most autistic children are severely disabled.
Not all, but most.