My Turn?

Don't do it

Choose your battles. So it's not fair?
Nobody ever promised life would be.

Oh dear - got out on the wrong side of the bed?

MawBroon is right choose your battles, some things are a bit irritating but not worth a drama. GN is a good place to let off steam ☺

Choose your battles, but have fun doing it, leave the empty roll on the holder but hide a full one behind the pedestal for your own use.

brilliant idea. thank you.
i have noticed that tongue-in-cheek comments are taken wrongly. I don't have much of a sense of humour, but I do recognise a jokey post when I see one...

Oh dear - got out on the wrong side of the bed ?
I could ask the same?

Try the same whinge moan with those members who are widowed, have partners with terminal disease, with dementia, or who cheat on them or who beat them up.

"Turns" don't come into it in real life.

That's just plain nasty Mawbroon.

Eloethan I disagree- Maw is merely stating that there are more important things for many others in life to think about and who changes the loo rolls is not one of them. I would never describe Maw as nasty, the opposite actually.

I always look out for posts from Maw. She's the voice of moderation and good sense!

Mawbroom - you have no idea what is going on in my own life. It is a bit presumptuous of you to assume I live in a gilded cage...
What is wrong with a little levity, some jokes and fun. Surely it makes a difficult life a little easier?

grandMattie may I say that you have no idea what is going on in Maw's at present. Life is certainly not easy for her and will become increasingly difficult as the months go by. She is possibly beyond the stage of having any fun at present.

Not meant to nasty eloethan just stating a fact, namely that life ain't fair (and nobody ever promised us it would be)
So don't anybody accuse ME of getting out of the wrong side of bed because I dare to suggest there are bigger issues to stress over.
You could equally ask any of the thousands who have lost their homes,their possessions even their families recently in the US, in Mexico, in Bihar and think again about the relative importance of loo rolls, clean towels, or saucepans and other First World problems.

Thank you charlie but I think I shall lurk for the moment.

I am sorry for maws problems, but they really aren't my fault and it isn't very kind of her to take it out on me.

Thank you charleygirl and others (there is still fun to be had!) but my response was not to Grandmattie's "whinge - to which she is entitled - just don't expect everybody to nod in sympathy. A contrary opinion or just because I do not pepper my response with s and s does not mean I have got out of the wrong side of bed.

Oh ad in the nicest possible way, grandmattie, save your sympathy, I was not taking anything out on anybody.

I really don't like this attitude that criticises posters for not knowing what's going on in someone's life - not everyone wants to share personal details and moreover, all sorts of threads wouldn't be started but if we had to always think about how it might upset someone else. Could you post about your holiday and what went wrong when others can't afford even a meal out? This is 'chat' not an unkind post on the relationships forum ( of which actually I see plenty). Cherry got it right I think

I think we've reached an all time low in conversation when people are discussing who's turn it is to change the toilet roll, I have no words.
Has anyone seen the price of eggs in Tescos

And HOW MANY you get in a box of six these days?
Only half a dozen

If you don't find a post interesting then 'move on'. I never understand why some gransnetters feel the need to respond to a post by being rude to someone who's just trying to be witty.
Of course there are bigger issues in the world and they are covered in other threads.
Thankfully some threads are lighthearted ,like this one.

I'm widowed and I always have to change the toilet roll -or not, mostly I just leave it on the cistern. I didn't mind your post Grandmattie ?

Or indeed izzywizzy being rude to someone just because they do not share your opinion

To be fair to grandmattie it wasn't a whinge, just a light hearted remark about typical male/female jobs around the home.
Mr L likes to stack the dishwasher ( his way) and yes, It's me that changes the loo rolls.
Jobs that men usually quite like to do: Hoovering ( it's a gadget) putting the wheelie bins out, cooking on a barbecue,
Changing lightbulbs, fiddling with the boiler controls.
Everything else, down to moi! ?

Rude in what way MawBoon ??