What a lot of miserable old buggers some of you are!

I am not always a GOW , but having an emojit might just offer a warning to others that someone is, for the time being, in GOW mode.

They used to put this down to PMT but many of us will be past that now. So GOW fits the bill .

You can stand down, it was me. I got told off yesterday because I suggested a 70 year old might not want to be reminded of the austerity.

You're not one Harri!

I don't think we should have an emoji - I would be happy to call myself a GOW but I'd get really upset if anyone else called me one!

On the other hand......think of the fun we could have lobbing them about when someone upsets us!! I vote for a GOW emoji!!

And we'll need one of these to fire them off!

I sometimes wonder if the age group is much much older than me...some have attitudes that are quite frankly stuck in the victorian era.Times change ..we cant stop the years rolling past and to live with the attitudes you had 50 or 60 or more years ago is counter productive.I also dont understand the constant criticism of the young...were you never young? Did you never make mistakes? The walk away from your family ones irritate me beyond belief.Maybe because my kids took a lot of years and miscarriages and tears before I managed two....and I'll be their mother until I or they die .I could NEVER walk away from family because of some of the trifling issues other folk here do .Some of you are real hard hearted Hannahs..or think you should be the top of priorities when they have lives of their own ...the same as we had .We are on the edge of their lives not the centre and thats how its meant to be .Of course ...I'm perfect ...lol

Some of you are real hard hearted Hannahs
But not the ones on this thread paddyann !!

and the ones who need a GOW emoji are the least likely to realise it.

This is in danger of getting philosophical!

is that the shit aiming at the fan merlotgran?

I recognise myself as a GW (notice I took out the O).

I hate being a misery guts and I really didn't used to be. I think perhaps I am just a victim of my very hard paper round.

Call it 'letting off steam' gillybob

Knowing my aim, Jalima, I'd miss.

Grumpy Old Woman sounds so drab and old fashioned. Much rather be a POW - pissed-off woman.
Probably a bit sweary for some.

I’d love a POW emoji!

This is how I picture some of the grumpies

? POW.

#foundone

So now I have posted on the thread does that mean I am let off as being seen as a GOW por favor.

I don't mean out of Merlots cannon!

I'd vote for a POW emoji! Of course everyone knows I am practically perfect with no faults but just very occasionally I do feel like a POW!

"No doubt the men on GN will soon be here to defend themselves and tell us that they are always positive, optimistic and helpful in a non-partisan way."

Very well put, Jalima. I couldn't have expressed it better myself. My Gransnet name is of course entirely ironical.

I spent the 60s studying then working as a House doctor on 72 hour days, then as a GP. Oh! And I got married and bought a house sometime during them. I’m still working PT and when I’m not, I’ll feel grumpy if I want to!
It’s a habit by now!

Here is grumpy. I am related to one of them!
(I could not resist the likeness. )

nellie try googling the llama song!

I thought I would share this photograph of me taken recently. It was taken when I was in a particularly good mood.

I spent the 60s in terror that something exciting was going to happen and Id have to join in!

I spent the 60s in terror that something exciting was going to happen and Id have to join in!

I remember a party in the 60s in London. It was a very groovy affair in a huge mansion of a place in St James's Square. The colleague who'd invited me was a friend of the girl whose parents were housekeeper and butler there - I think she'd nicked the key when she knew the house would be empty . Anyway, there we all were, sitting on the floor in a dark room, lit only by candlelight (the power was switched off) and spliffs were being passed around. I am embarrassed to admit (and I was embarrassed then too) that I passed the spliff on without trying it, thanking God for the dark room so no-one noticed what a coward goody two shoes I was

In the 60s I was in a bit of a tight clinch with some chap and I was worried he would try and run his fingers through my hair, as I was wearing a rather fetching wig. ?