What irritates you about other Gransnetters?

One learns to skip merrily over them, chew! ?

Hands up all of you who have been googling Schrodinger's cat this afternoon?

!

And I still don’t bloody understand it!!

Me neither.

I made a comment about hijacked threads and came back to see that there were lots of comments about printers and apologies about changing the subject. Just in case something thinks I meant that minor diversion, I didn’t. Just a case of coincidence. Just in case anyone thought...

A bit like:
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Of course, the tree could fall on Schrodinger's cat and kill it anyway.

it was my printer
but not my cat

But it might be...

What died first, the printer or the cat?

I googled it to, merlotgran, and I’m no wiser either!?

I think it means that you would not know if the cat was dead or alive until you opened the box, so that until the box was opened, the cat was (in a sense) both "dead and alive".
I think
My head hurts! ?

I didn't google it, but I always have to stop and think about it, very slowly and very carefully, before I remember what it's all about. And then I'm still even though I kind of understand it

Sounds like a conversation with my grandson.

Well done, Merlot.
Do you think other Gransnetters find us irritating???

A cat is either dead or alive,not both, a moment occurs when it passes from one state to the other.
We cannot know ,in isolation, when that moment occurs.
Therefore quantum physics is an unknown quantity, or I am totally thick, I think I know the answer to the conundrum.

A poster states their problem situation and asks for advice. They may get some advice but they may also get a number of posts from (annoying) Gransnetters who just ramble on about their own lives in a completely unhelpful way.

Cave woman. I too enjoyed reading Imperfects posts. If I remember she started full time work. Hope she returns one day.

Where do you find lists of competition winners, by the way?

I've just won a Scottish Feast hamper and a copy of Death of an Honest Man.
Looking forward to them arriving.
(maybe it's annoying of me to be boasting about that?)

FarNorth - enjoy your Scottish Feast! Sounds good to me, not annoyed at all. My attitude to competitions is if you don't enter you certainly won't win! I've had a couple of lovely books for GC.

I'm still smiling at a comment a page or two back about Schrödinger's cat being 'put out'. I'm imagining a discomfited cat outside the back door! ?

Far North
www.gransnet.com/forums/competitions/1228268-Won-anything

A poster states their problem situation and asks for advice
FarNorth or they then disappear completely never to be heard of again!

maybe it's annoying of me to be boasting about that?
No, it's good to hear of someone we 'know' who has won something

The thing that annoys me most on GN (and other fora) is when someone (sometimes me) posts about an intractable problem, only to be presented with a whole host of instant fixes of the 'you should just' variety.

This implies that either:

a) the OP is so thick that they have not thought of this obvious, easy solution
b) that they have not already tried it unsuccessfully
or c) the OP is being deliberately awkward or obtuse.

The reality is that some problems have no good solution, let alone an easy, off the shelf one. Also what worked for one person may not be possible for another due to factors such as illness, mental health issues, distances, poverty, other family commitments.

I do understand that many people cannot bear to hear someone in distress and feel driven to respond with something they think might be helpful. However the OP may only be seeking some understanding of their predicament and support to come to terms with it.

be presented with a whole host of instant fixes of the 'you should just' variety.

I think it's unreasonable to complain about being presented with fixes for a problem. People present fixes in an attempt to be helpful. Their fixes might be useless but that isn't the point; their good intentions are the point and the fact that they've responded at all.

The point of writing the problem down on Gransnet is, I suppose, to get it off your chest (problem shared and all that), not to ask for fixes.

So there is an unintended clash of intentions. Shrug. Or, as Minibaggs and her pals would say: deal with it.

Which brings me to what irritates me on GN, which I've only just realised: people getting irritated at other people's posts in situations like the above.

I get irritated on AIBU threads where the person asks and lots of people reply and the OP says 'sorry I can see I was wrong and I shall go and put it right' - several people then say 'well done OP' - all really good BUT then we get to the irritating part and someone pops up quite nastily to tell OP that she was being massively unreasonable having obviously not read the thread!
Not only have they failed to see the update but they have said what has already been said several times!