To object to inane 'banter' on serious threads?

Chickens?

I think we should all be able to cope with 'occasional' disruptions/diversions/inane banter interludes or whatever on threads without making an issue of it.

I once dared to make a jokey remark about reading 'Poultry Keeper' on a long ago thread. I was NOT trivialising a serious thread. One or two Gnetters joined in the joke and the thread meandered as normal conversations often do.

I make no apologies for having a sense of humour. It has sustained me through some difficult times. Maybe some of you should give it a try.

BTW I thought it was not the done thing to drag up old threads?

merlot I was part of the conversation re chickens, cant remeber who instigated the deviation or what the thread was about but thank you for the information it will prove to be very useful when the time comes to buy chickens, but all I can say is since when in real life does a conversation stay within the original subject.

Merlot

If you are responding to my post can I just say this.

A) I really do not, nor can I remember, nor do I care who the poster was but the 'Poultry Keeper' does not ring a bell. Unless you believe that the post I mentioned, as a throw away point, was you then I don't know why you have put your name into the ring

B) To say "I thought it was not the done thing to drag up old threads" is ridiculous. Isn't that exactly what the OP in this thread is doing by asking a question about past threads. Are you seriously saying there has never been mention of past threads before on any other thread. It happens all the time.

C) Our posts are proving a point brought up in the OP, threads do shift from the OP all the time, in a trivialising manner.

Get over yourself, POGS. I am allowed to put my name on any thread I like.

Marvellous - now it's chickens! I have always, always wanted to keep chickens until our neighbour asked me to look after their's for a week. The blighters stayed up till well past my bedtime, escaped and needed rounding up, were unloving and uncommunicative - yup completely like any teenager - and I wish I'd let the fox have them - indeed if I'd let the fox have a teenager my life would now be so much simpler!

If there was a previous thread about chickens, I missed it, I'm feckless, I apologize. Merlotgran - I have filed that lovely phrase away for an opportunity to use it and knowing life that will be sooner rather than later.

Nanban

Are chickens coming home to roost? Ah, am I trivialising a serious subject?

This may be classified as inane banter, but what I want to know is...where be our Jings? #wandersoffmuttering

I have just got off my exercise bike soop. [halo]

I posted on the St George's day thread. About the fact that that Other Lot have got a dragon and we haven't.

#nevermindtheold'uns.

Ah - they've added it now! Bit late!

Ooooh, I don't think we need to worry about lacking a dragon, there seem to be a few about the place .....

Nanban and jings thanks for making me

Back to serious 'inane' stuff...washing to hang on the line, 'tis sunny and blustery in Kintyre.

...after which, I shall ride my exercise bike and think happy thoughts

Hey, this thread is meandering - just like real conversations do! And, in real life, don't we try to bring a little humour into serious conversations?

kitty...few things beat a cheerful, meandering conversation.

soop and kitty I am a meanderer I'm afraid. jo8 here's to

Granny
Oh, go then... happy day to jings and all English GN's. Although I'm English, I've become a born-again Scot.

Pity the dragon was not there 1 March for the Welsh grandparents!! I like it though. Rose needed today for the English ones.

I'm off now to check on the chickens HAPPY ST. GEORGE'S DAY.

Perhaps it is not so much the changes in the threads but the motivation behing them?

Having a foot in two camps, I'll raise a or a to my English ancestors - and descendants. Ten years ago, I was with a Ramblers group in a non-tourist part of Spain. The patron saint of the town, Caceres, is St George and there was a big pageant that night, showing the Saint fighting the Moors and finally throwing his spear at the dragon at which was the signal for a fine fireworks display. Now that's what I call a celebration! Come on England!

St George and his dragon are venerated in Ragusa( a place where Montalbano was filmed and at the risk of total meander the new series has started on Italian tv and Luca whatsit got married this summer)
Kittylester is almost always right in all her posts.