On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 11:05:59 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
> wrote:

>On Friday, August 3, 2018 at 7:44:58 PM UTC-5, Cheri wrote:
>> "John Kuthe" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > On Friday, August 3, 2018 at 2:11:22 PM UTC-5, Cheri wrote:
>> > ...
>> >> Once a thread is started nobody can control where it goes. Period.
>> >>
>> >> Cheri
>> >
>> > Actually, each person who replies (as I am now!) controls where the
>> > CONVERSATION goes!
>> >
>> > See?
>> >
>> > John Kuthe...
>>
>>
>> No, you can only control yourself, I might want to take it to somewhere
>> completely different which YOU have no control over. I would say this
>> CONVERSATION is over, but if you carry it on, there's nothing I can do about
>> it. See how that works?
>>
>> Cheri
>
>Precisely! Yeah, in Usenet you cannot say "this conversation is over" but HOW MANY TIMES IRL do you SAY that? I'll bet hardly ever.

Cheri quite often says that to me. She has trouble handling
disagreement. Which is when I say to her: "To each their own!"

Bring up Trump -who she admires- and see how quickly she'll end the
conversation.