Originally Posted by confuddled:
“Dreary thread, dreary, repetitive bull!
Dreary people picking over the least little thing because they don't like Jim .....
Dreary dreary dreary.... Yawn on!”
Good lord, how personal and rude. People are allowed to say negative things about Jim, as they are about any housemate, without being subjected to mere personal abuse.
I don't think Jim meant anything by it; he was just talking, and as people do, suddenly remembered a good joke he fancied using. I didn't think his advice was particularly good, but it was well meant.