To expect a thread title to give some clue about the contents??

Apropos - 91 year old father thread - I got over-excited only to find that he wasn't having a great time with his new baby after all.

I know . #piss-taker extraordinaire, that's me

Nothing wrong with the odd hey ho here and there! I wasn't complaining...

Please keep hey-ho-ing Bags I like it that way.

'Spect you're right, ana. I really must moderate the severity of those hey hos

One option on the threads where someone posts a link without explaining why is to just ignore the thread. I try to stick to this. GN is growing and you could be on here all day if you tried to keep on top of every thread. Full time distraction potential.
I do try to avoid the ones that are obviously going to be "aint it awful" threads as well. Life seems to have enough hassle in it at the moment without going looking for additional reasons to be indignant. Isn't there another thread about this... oh yes the judge not one.

The vast majority of total posts are from non-moaners, though|!

Counting from grannylin's Lake District story. I know there were some non-moaners before that too.

Oh well, the smiley posts lasted for seven before someone started moaning again. Hey ho.

Agree, Ariadne. It would be amazing if the content gave some clue about the subject. And, personal private moan, I wish people would read or flick through or skim at least one or two of the previous posts. Then we wouldn't go round and round and round and round repeating the same bloody arguments. [exhausted and frustrated emoticon]

It really wouldn't make any difference if the header was explicit about the topic, because, as nellimoser says, we'd wander off course as always, wander back if someone pointed us back on course, the someone would say "Have you ever..." and we'd be off again. Lovely!

Grannylin That sounds just like the place we go to when we visit the UK.
Far from bizarre, in fact. Just a fine and calm place to spend time.

What a lovely simile!

This has absolutely nothing to do with the OP.Last week we rented a fabulous cottage in the Lake District.I rang the day before to tell the owner we were unsure what time we would be arriving.He said it didn't matter as he always left the keys in the door and lived nearby. On arrival there was tea, coffee, shortbread and a bottle of wine, plus coal and logs for the fire.We paid no deposit and there were no rules.We didn't see him and we left the keys in the door when we left.The most relaxing holiday ever.It's how I imagine Gransnet

According to Chambers, it's from Basque. So that explains it.

Same here. Bitta bizarre is good. What a strange word bizarre is!

Why on earth would it be irritating?

I like surreal too...it's bizarre

I like surreal!

Absent!!! OMG! It's really getting personal now.

Jinglenet versus Gransnet?

Where's Harry Hill when you need him?

I suspect that some people find it a bit irritating to look at the active thread and find:

This is nice

This is funny

This is silly but interesting

This is odd

Why should I

Does anybody care

GRANSNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!