I'd just like to announce that I am feeling a little groggy - just to be on the safe side. I will have a medicinal 
to see if that helps - oh no! Cari said it wouldn't!
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Don't want to completely hi-jack the 'Christmas in four words' thread so I've started this one. Feel free to shoot me down. I don't do flouncing. 
Some time ago, the 'What does Gransnet mean to you?'thread developed into a 'Bring back jingl' campaign. Despite this, it has become clear that we are not entitled to an explanation as to why she is still shackled to the naughty step
We inhabit a goldfish bowl which must be respectable to the outside world looking in on an ageing cyber community. Old people are only expected to be curmudgeonly in books and TV nonsense. Manufactured threads about growing old disgracefully are perfectly acceptable so long as they fit the approved template which has been set by people who are NOT as old as we are.
All well and good until a situation causes a ding-dong. We must be ever mindful that Gransnet is a business relying on advertising revenue. Swearing is tolerated on Mumsnet because it's acceptable in the young and feisty whereas the 'one foot in the grave' club have to leave all that behind and remember our opinions don't really count any more.
The political threads are argumentative because that's politics. You can't put a straight jacket on a well informed if opiniated point of view which is as it should be. Folk who hide behind the sofa when all hell breaks loose should know better than to get caught in the cross-fire.
So....We're allowed to moan about Brexit, complain about our aches and pains and chat about telly dramas/adverts/music. We willingly offer support to complete strangers even though it often comes back to bite us. I'm not the only one who can spot a set-up. Above all, we must remain bland!
There were two members who railed against this. One is sadly no longer with us and the other has been kicked into touch for being too outspoken. Unsurprisingly, they rarely saw eye to eye but that's LIFE!
I'm off to put the joint in the oven. I might even start a thread about it. 
Only joking!
Cfran
I sympathise GK ...... in fact I'm so much in sympathy with you that I going to join you now in a medicinal
Havve they said jingl's ban is permanent, merlot? How mad is that? And sad...
anya neither of those ... I just don't want to know. They've been here for 2 months doing a 2 week job. I've got on the bedside table. A little medicinal sherry.
That's got my imagination running wild GK
No wanting to supply endless cups of builders 
?
Hoping they'll go away without payment?
I've been out all day so only just caught up with all the posts.
Thank you for your response, Cari
trisher's post just about summed up my feelings and although I accept jingl's ban is permanent (I did hope HQ might relent) I have to say it must have been something awfully serious other than her usual over-use of the wooden spoon.....arson? fraud? espionage? murder??
Did somebody really complain about ?
Maybe I'm not so wide of the mark.
What time do the carol singers arrive?
Even if I have just split an infinitive 
That's a kind way of putting things GK - sometimes when posting in a hurry we don't always find the right phrase and I'm happy to apologise and be given the chance to better explain myself. 
Anya thanks for the support or did you mean candlefran - joke.
Dear anya,
The phrase "because of our life experiences" makes more sense to me by way of explanation than "I had an important job". I therefore thank you kindly for the further explanation, for I now understand what you mean.
I remain,
Yours truly.
Oh, missed that 
again
Are you we getting confused beetween Christinefrance and Candlefran?
None are 'favoured' on this site and I see no reason why CF should be banned Jalima
No, nor me
JOKE alert ??? To CF in fact?
I never said that anyone was favoured so perhaps it's not me who's
on here we are all equal
But at least this thread isn't bland
We said we aren't all equal?
My point is that some of us, because of our life experiences are less inclined to take orders and be fobbed off with the offer of a or [cupcakes] or even
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