I was pulling your leg a little. I found the irony of the situation amusing, and I wanted to highlight the irony so it could be shared. The irony being that we are talking in a BDSM board, and many people find that strange, and assume the people in it are strange. Many people would find you or I strange for being in the scene. So the irony was one strange person saying to another strange person that they know strange people. And I found that funny and I was just trying to share the humor of it with you.
The second comment was an amplification of that. It meant if we keep things in perspective we're in a group most people would find strange talking about strange people. It implied we should acknowledge that we are a touch quirky, and if we don't, we're in danger of being a little bit nuts.
And isabeau6(R!), Lady, I have found most people in the scene to be rather sweet, and if anything sappy, people--with a few very notable exceptions
isabeau6(R1) is hard to type! Does anyone call you Issy?
There's a saying that the old timers use to have: "That's like the kettle calling the pot black." I guess I had that in formulation in the back of my mind.