Do you know how long Durian trees grow for before producing a cash return 4+ years. Do you know how little effort is required to keep them happy and healthy leaf budders- very little. A quick turn of the irrigation valve on and off every 4 days in the, 6 months here, dry season, a sprinkle of fertiliser once a quarter and maybe a insect spray as required.
Now the village has TOT "fibre2U", I have waited a number of years for it to arrive, my access to the WWW is limited only by occasional power blackouts and my wife's insistence that, "I come to bed for a cuddle". It's a tough life in the sticks!
If somebody ask a answerable question, I believe it's polite to answer it. "What goes around comes around".
In addition I get
1g of 99.6% GOLD per post, from
THE LORD.
Here I am answering yours, kerching, another
1g of 99.6% GOLD. "Every Little Helps"
'arry and I, are at war. Not Global, or nuclear, more name calling by schoolboys.
Luckily we restrict our weapons, (by UNSC Resolution 2 1946, Paragraph 3, "both parties have affirmed their readiness to seek a solution to the matter at issue by negotiation"), to "internet banter" as you see here. We scratch each other's backs, occasionally drawing blood.
I'm sure after a few beers in the pub we would remain eristic and eager to buy another round just to continue. I used to have such conversations with my dad, who is no longer around. We disagreed greatly, when I was younger, but got closer in many ways in later years. There aren't many accessible, bilingual, eccentrics in my neck of the woods.
Their aren't many here on TD, I believe, who argue their current opinion but sometimes modify their stance over time, an hour, a month or a year, with diplomacy. Many are unused to or unwilling to, modify their entrenched opinion, with grace.
It appears out of the blue one day and you realise it might in fact be helpful in ones life.