What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander?

WhatThe
WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 2,362 Championing
edited September 16 in Everyday life

Over to you Michael to explain what this means as I do remember hearing it 🙂

(see what I did there - took the Mickie out of another post so I could post my little joke which he's probably heard a million times by now 😆)

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  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 682 Trailblazing

    it means that one person or situation should be treated the same way that another persons situation is treated and as for taking the mickie i am very thick skinned and i do not take offence to anything 🤐is my dawnies responce to me haha

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 2,362 Championing

    I haven't seen much of you lately. Is the new format harder for you to keep up with?

  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 682 Trailblazing

    yes i am finding it a bit harder to be honest but it is what it is i will try to keep up

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 2,362 Championing

    😄 I didn't mean it to sound like that! You are funny and that's what I miss 😊

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 2,362 Championing
    edited September 16

    Eh?

    The aim is to learn from one another and learn about each other. That's what I thought this forum was for.

    I don't mind if my thread is closed but I'm responsible for it not the other party.

    Scope, please delete this thread!

  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,144 Online Community Team

    I think, as can often happen with communication via text, there has been some miscommunication?

    Communication via text can be difficult to interpret, so these misunderstandings can be quite common! As tone is missing it can be hard to interpret the intention of the person writing. I can, logically, see how you came to your own interpretation Vikki, but I don't think WhatThe meant it this way. Given how malleable and interpretable the English language can be we cannot moderate every single potentially ambiguous sentence. It would be even harder to communicate then!

    We reviewed this thread and determined however that there was no ill-intention from WhatThe, it seems far more meant to be a bit of a joke. They were curious about the saying that Michael had said and also wanted to have a chat with them.

  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 682 Trailblazing

    oh a question was asked i answered it took no offence from it in any way shape or form i learnt a long long time ago to listen to both sides of a debate nobody is always right and nobody is always wrong i respect other posters comments as they should do the same and i sure as hell am not going to fall out if someones point of view does not match mine

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 2,362 Championing
    edited September 16

    Yes thanks Jimm but I can also see why it has upset vikki (and I don't want to) and I can make a new chat with old farmer michael another day.

    Signing off now. Break time.

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Community member Posts: 16,556 Championing

    Oof @vikki66- what ails you? It really is a very time worn joke to say you're taking the 'mickie' out of someone, especially if their name happens to be Michael. Don't you see that several of us know each other fairly well, & that @WhatThe after asking what 'what's sauce for the goose…..' meant, asked him how he was getting on with the new format here.

    If you have a problem with a post you should report it, perhaps after pondering who you feel most likely to have got the 'Offended' post paused in the first place. The moderators will also decide whether this post needs closing; I think not, when it is completly harmless…..apart from yourself continuing to say untrue & unkind things about some of our lovely members. Perhaps try to get to know us all a little better before being so quick to judge, please.

  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 682 Trailblazing

    key board warrior bless my screen is 50in and i type with one finger being almost blind and i have to say i would not ever say anything on a forum that i would not say to there face you have a good evening

  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 682 Trailblazing

    growing up i was always called micky if i was ever call michael i knew i had to duck much the same now 🤣

  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 682 Trailblazing

    why on earth would i pay silly money for a monitor when i have the laptop connected to a large tv i have to say i cant see how or why you took the post how you did if your still here in say 2 years time and i am still alive my posts will be just the same as they are now i was lucky the brain cells and most eyesight lost due to the strokes bypassed my humour cell

  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 682 Trailblazing

    ah see there you go the real you coming out and a nice short post for me to read easier 😀

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 2,362 Championing

    vikki, I'm glad you stayed with us 🤗 I haven't digested all you've written yet!

    What sparked my curiosity was that you'd not heard the phrase or it wasn't in full and I hope we'll return to this idiom another time! I was careful to capitalise Mickie and it was just an excuse to say hi.

    (‘next-door to the autism spectrum’😮‍💨) I'd also like to return to this and a comment cantilip made about not fitting in on the forum so shall we start new threads?

    TV beckons! We Might Regret This 😁

  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 682 Trailblazing

    being an old retired cowman i used to tell all the young heifers coming into be milked for the first time i will give you the first kick free the second one a warning and the third kick i would shoot you i never had to shoot one in 50 odd years see we can all get on 😁😁

  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 682 Trailblazing

    not blowing my own trumpet but i was very good at herd management and was sort after for doing clean up jobs for farmers with herd problems it sure is a tad different this modern farming all about making as much money for as little input as possible i myself am a veggie i eat cheese no milk eggs or meat since i was 5 simple man with simple tastes apart from my dawnie she is a little angel be better tomorrow when she is out and i can get up to the things i should not be doing outside haha

  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 682 Trailblazing

    cows are like most animals treat them with respect and you will earn there respect i had a blue merle collie years ago that would go get the cows in on her own if she never came back with them i had to go see what was up she would not come back and leave one funny how i can remember things long ago but my short term memory is not good thats why i am a cheeky happy chappie and dont let things faze or get to me

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Community member Posts: 16,556 Championing

    I just think it's an idea to get to know other members of any forum first @vikki66 - & here also to read all of a post a couple of times to get the gist of it. I'm slow to type, so hadn't realised that a member of the Scope team had already replied, who realised that there never had been any ill intent. I haven't always agreed with @WhatThe as they know - but I defend my right to support them when I know they've done nothing wrong. As for @michael57 - you couldn't meet a nicer person (& yes, he does have a very gentle, but great sense of humour). WhatThe asked kindly after him knowing he has a visual impairment.

    I honestly thought that I was explaining that WhatThe had taken the michael, so micky out of a previous post referring to michael57; nothing more, nothing less, so wondered why you'd taken umbrage.

    About me mentioning my son was said by his neuropsychologist to be 'next door to the autistic spectrum,'I just say it how it is; I'm completely honest, & have mentioned this before on the forum several times. I am sorry this caused you upset, but don't know why. Of course I don't know everything about autism because of this, but it does give me an inkling about the problems it causes, as I tried to intimate to Cantilip. Also having a neighbour on the autistic spectrum caused you to say, so I had '2 next door experiences of this.' You judged me in some way because of this….you appeared to judge others as not genuine or compassionate, & I will support them too knowing that's completely incorrect.

    On the offended thread, I only replied as I was concerned about Catherine, & I wasn't trying to hush her, nor were others. I do worry about any misinformation on the community as I feel it can be harmful, & not just about political content.

    We all get along great, as I hope you're finding. I hope you get to know me a little better (I'm not as bad as you think), & I you. Perhaps a fresh start?

  • egister
    egister Posts: 463 Empowering

    Tempest in a teapot

  • michael57
    michael57 Community member Posts: 682 Trailblazing

    troy tempest sprung to my mind in stingray with his mermaid side kick marina 😁