This will please many of you

Have a big G&T Wobblybits

For all those who are feeling left out and

It's gone beyond funny now. If anyone apologised to me I would have the Grace to at least think about accepting it. No wonder the world is full of wars.

Did I get a mention? or am I tooooooooo boring ?

And I can't imagine why anyone would want to make a big issue of leaving and flounce off - answers on a postcard please addressed to pompa

Fed up, now.?

Oh God .

Not scratchy Rigby but it's hard to add tone in a written post .

Threads are like PR - done for the best intentions but uncontrollable ( and never more than here at GN) .

I agree with your post Elegran , you reap what you sow I believe .

how rude!!!

PS that was by way of explanation to jollyg because I've never, and I would never, call anyone's post pathetic.

To reiterate, that wasn't my post saying her comment was pathetic it was Shanma's post originally, as requested by her.

I think I'll go back to saying nothing except Q,E.D.

*Shanma Wed 30-Nov-16 20:07:25
Pathetic comment Nelliemoser. Been digging deep to scrape the barrel.*

Sorry Shanma I've been away. You asked us to show you a post you'd written, and that was it.

I omitted Nellie's name to save her embarrassment.

and still none of you have been able to show me a post where I have been nasty. I rest my case.
Well, I will refrain from cutting and pasting from the other thread in case this turns into a thread about a thread but perhaps revisiting your posts on there and trying to read them objectively may give you a different view. In the main it was a thread full of what I would call repartee so I wondered why some of your posts were less than kind and appeared to be personal attacks.
The OP on here is not kind either. I'm surprised GN have allowed it to stay.

I'm sorry if you are having a tough time and perhaps having a sense of humour failure as a result, but I don't think that an OP such as the above will help you if you're feeling stressed, in fact it could make you feel worse.

Peace and goodwill.

Er......I think the opening post of this thread might meet the criteria Shanma. Talking of opening posts I believe the phrase was "GN is no more for me." If that is the case then I am puzzled as to why you are still posting??

Its the stress of the season! Pathetic from adults who should know better.

There seems to be a lot of very Angry Grans on here today. Peace and Love anyone?

Well yes, it didn't start of as a discussion of local dialects!

And Anya, I've just realised who used that phrase about 'a pathetic post' first!

Ana I thought that thread was all about Scotticisms!
Such as "dinnae fash yersel" and "awa an bile yer heid " ]

I see I would have to look back further to find the source of the perceived omissions.m

Which pathetic comment are you referring to Anya?. and still none of you have been able to show me a post where I have been nasty. I rest my case.

Oh and BYE to you too Jane10, you going somewhere?

I suspect that Daphne was pointing out how supportive that thread was and that there was no need for the berating we got.

If she wasn't, I would like to!

(that gave rise to this one, I mean)

I don't think it was that one DaphneB. I think it was the 'Gransnet today....Just my opinion' thread.

I once flounced for ten minutes. I had been upset because I went into the "kitchen" and said someone was horrible to me! I soon realised that I didn't want to leave. Why should I when 98 per cent of G N Dr's are lovely!!

What a Day - remember this thread?
Find me one post out of the 32 replies to your OP shanma which has given rise to your criticism of GN members, or "coven" if you prefer or which has prompted you to sound off against individual members such as elegran, kittylester, anya

Shanma Pathetic comment ..... Been digging deep to scrape the barrel.

Each thread is a separate conversation. There are so many threads that to have read all of each of them would take all day, and even if you managed that marathon, remembering who said what where would take an excellent memory. Speaking about their problems on one thread (and receiving supportive replies) doesn't inform a different set of people in a different conversation in advance that if someone seems to be often posting aggressively, they should be excused because of their circumstances. As I've said before, EVERYONE has problems.

I read several of Shanma's posts on the lines that she could say whatever she wanted to, and she went on to do so. Then she started this thread which carries that theory on. It is not in the least surprising that she got some negative comments (other posters than her wanted to say whatever they wanted to). I've not been reading the latest exchanges, but it would have died down after the first day without further stoking by Rigby46.

To create a thread, based on personal comments about other members of a forum, is asking for strong ripostes!

It appears to me, that despite any difficult personal circumstances, Shanma is perfectly robust enough to hold his/her own and does not need defending. As I said before the OP appeared to be deliberate stirring.

I understand that some posters 'feel' got at and some even interpret that as bullying. I have not seen what I consider bullying on GN recently. I do see people not able to debate a point and opinions and who resort to personal sniping and 'playground' tit for tat as a mattr of course. I notice some people who always make a negative/aggressive response to certain posters which is fine as long as it is the facts they are challenging and not the individual and their right to state them as part of an adult debate.