You did - it was his inability to answer a simple question that prompted my sarcastic remark. That’s all.
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Quite rightly you are sensitive to what in your case was almost certainly harassment and prejudice. My nephew is gay and if any one ‘teased’ him about his sexuality they would have a very large family queuing up to give them a lecture or more.
However having read this post I think you are being rather over sensitive on Grahame’s behalf. But to be fair it’s really up to Grahame to tell us if he thinks we’ve overstepped the mark.
To live in my family you have to take an awful lot of teasing and I am a very sensitive soul. Also I’m an ex nurse so as Nellie says we laugh at things that other people would be appalled by. When you’ve seen birth and death and post mortems you learn to laugh at even the most grotesque of situations.
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I think the problem lies in people treating social media as if it’s a conversation - it isn’t - it lacks nearly all the forms of communication - tone, facial expression, immediate clarification/apology for using the wrong word, etc - that make conversation work.
In general, I find it’s best to stick to sharing information, experience, etc, on social media - and survivefrance is good for this - but to ‘socialise’ face-to-face, unless you already know your social media interlocutors pretty well.
No problem with SF as far as I can see - people are joining, there is a hardcore of regular folk and others are returning after an absence of years… 
Someone asks a question or offers information - and the ball starts rolling back and forth. 
On occasion, I thoroughly enjoy what is “almost” a conversation with various posters.
Sometimes I get a bit boring, when promoting The Mairie (eh @anon87147852) - I think I was born with “a duty of care” and find it hard to stand-by while someone might be on the wrong path.
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Simon, please explain why what I said was incorrect.
Pfffffffff…
Incorrect. Read the legislation again.
If in doubt - go and ask your mairie.
Simon,
your experience and knowledge is correct as is mine.
We live in different parts of France and have different experiences of living in France.
As I have said on numerous occasions, - you have to check with your mairie (hopefully spelt correctly this time) to be certain what applies in your commune.
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OK Grahame whatever you say - that’s fine with me and, actually we’re neighbours within the Occitanie Region - hell you’re just down the road! In fact…yes…I think I can see the smoke from here!! 
I wasn’t going to have a drink tonight but I’ve just poured myself a gin ! 
Bonne soirée 
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