Now, that is just so gay

Body, mind, gay, straight, what have we got?

There's an argument being, er, argued. Goes like this:

“If you describe something that's getting on your nerves as 'gay', you're bullying the gay community”

It concludes:

“Language is the key. Language is everything. After all, what else do we have?”

A bit bullying of the mute, those unable to read, write, listen properly, isn't it? Language is all we have?. Do we not have bodies and minds whether or not we have language?

Take the language, and go do one. Every time. I'll keep my body intact and deal with being unable to communicate any day, thanks.

I reserve the right to call the router 'gay' when it stops performing, if I so wish. I'm not bully anyone by doing so.

The cricket world...

...can teach so-called property professionals some huge lessons.

David Warner described Jonathan Trott's innings as 'poor' and his dismissal as 'weak', and, although, rightly, the England camp didn't over-react, they calmly questioned whether those comments were the sort of thing a fellow professional sportsman, without knowing what may be going on behind the scenes, ought not to say.

Warner has apologised and held his hands up to going too far.

The approach is say what you like the heat of battle, and what goes on on the pitch stays there. Otherwise, watch your mouth and have some respect.

I've never worked in such a nasty, spite filled environment as the one I am now operating in. People are queuing up to waste everyone's time having a pop. Many of them don't have a City and Guilds in Decorating to their name, yet still seem to think they're experts. They could learn from sport. They could learn about respect, decency, and restraint.

Here's an example:

Mr Angry of Ignorant Crescent writes a million-page, snarling email about the holes in his wall that have 'only appeared since the scaffolders left' and are the source of all the world's ills.

Mr, Miss, Ms and Mrs Technically-Inept Limited spiral, escalate and let this all get out of control, when all the evidence needed is there in Mr Angry's photographs.

The holes? At first floor (ground floor ceiling) level. Way below scaffolder's ties. Weep holes. Regularly spaced. With vents. Replicated on the other walls, and on the other buildings. Higher, a storey higher, are clearly visible Hilti-tie drill holes.

How big, in millimetres, is standard brick?

If you can't reel that off, then perhaps, just perhaps, you should express yourself with a measure of restraint on issues in a field you know nothing about.