GrumpNet

No Monday's a good day. Ukulele group night, always have a laugh.

Busy practising this version of Somewhere over the Rainbow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z26BvHOD_sg

(Not that I always know what day it is anyway.)

Badenkate/Anya, no problem, there are more on our side of the barricade atm.

Perhaps we could start a permanent thread titled 'Grumpynet' just so that posters know that's where to go to vent their grumpiness? I have a feeling that it wouldn't get many posts though because the Grumpies wouldn't know it applied to them . . . .

Move over Anya and Badenk

Yes too easy to grump! We set off for our half hour walk this morning and moaned about potholes, litter etc. After the first 15 mins I said lets just say positive things on the way back. After a little silence, I said next time I will bring a bin bag and pick the litter up rather than just moan!! It is much easier to moan than find positives perhaps that s why we do it.

Some people see the doughnut and some see the hole.
The problem with flagging up which post is grumpy and which is cheerful is that the tone switches so quickly when someone throws in a curved ball.

Could we not have 'letting off steam' threads? So many people seem to say that they feel the better of a good rant/vent on here. I felt sorry for the Gran who said she'd like to go on about an NHS issue.
PS I was v grumpy yesterday as certain posts really got my goat. (Odd phrase -where does it originate?)

Careful, we're verging on being grumpy about those that are grumpy.

Ive had a bit of a think about this over coffee and what I'd really like is to be to hide threads I'm not interested in. That might work for you too Anya then those that are too depressing/grumpy for you . you could hide and not be troubled again by them?

Like on FB? You can hide posts or choose not to receive them.

But it's not the threads in general that are grumpy, rather that some people can respond in a rather nasty way to something they don't agree with. Wouldn't it be best, as others have said, to just ignore the things you don't like? That old saying springs to mind - "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all"!

I think having a permanent grumpy thread is a good idea- - - then you only go on it if you feel grumpy - - and can get it off your chest - - as my grandpa used to say! Grumpiness is then banned from all other threads - - and if anyone is grumpy you refer them to the Grumpythread

I don't think it's Grumpnet - rather Stridentnet!!

Don't read it if you don't like it!!

I got an awful shock the first time I innocently asked something and the ensuing debate grew arms legs toes and possibly cloned itself, then had knuckles sharply rapped. Am careful now !!

I've just reread my post and realised that the last bit could be misconstrued

I meant 'move over Anya and Badenk' because I'm coming to join you, not you move over to the Grumpythread!

Off to find a hole to crawl into . . . . .

I wish we could 'hide' some threads too. Even though I know certain posts are going to make my blood boil, I can't resist having a look...and then I'm Grumpy!

Could we have an Eeyore thread and a Tigger thread? I usually get very grumpy just reading the Times in the morning but there was a lovely picture of a baby elephant in Botswana smelling the flowers and made me happy .

mind you we can't go too Pollyanna [ that could be annoying too!]

Yes, it could turn us Grumpy!

I do try to lighten up some threads, but usually fall foul of being called flippant or just plain rude and get shouted down.

Yes, I have fallen foul of that as well. The trouble is that threads can develop into pages and pages very quickly and then you start skim reading them and can miss things.

grannylyn65 I know where you are coming from- where could I possibly go wrong on a thread adding the 3 main meals I liked?! I replied to a post, did not have my head bitten off there but a nasty, snide remark was added to my reply on another post about a different subject by the same person. I was really good and did not rise to the bait. soop's kitchen is full of fun and laughter. We are never nasty to each other there.

Just back after visiting the local garden centre (full of old people!) and surprised how this thread has grown, but de-light-ed that we can be grumpy and funny at the same time.

Perhaps that's what's been lacking - a sense of humour! I do know someone who's always grumbling but has me in stitches at the same time.

Have I hit on something here? It's not grumpiness but miserable grumpiness that's the killer after all that 'Grumpy Old...' TV series was funny....wasn't it?

I suspect miserable grumps are not very self aware!!!

I am just off into town to meet several other posters for a bite to eat and a natter. If the grumpier people on GN were to do more of that and less putting the world to rights and telling everyone else how wrong they are to think differently from them, it might cure some of their ill-nature.

Then again, maybe it wouldn't.

Well, I find it quite comforting to hear that others have problems too! Not schadenfruede i hope [not that I can spell it]