Gransnet. Should I Be On It?

I find your comment rather offensive Labaik as if those of us who want to leave have been hiding away until now. What a sad old world we live in.

It's never worth flouncing chaffinch, certainly not a whole thread of flounce. If you want a break, take one, if not don't.

I’m with you chaffinch! Don’t go, you’re not alone.

Well; at least it drew all of the leavers out of the paintwork ...

a. I voted Leave, and still want to Leave.

b. I like having a monarchy and (most) of the Royal Family.

This is why. It never was a "chat" thread. I appreciate your average Daily Mail reader/Leaver thinks that they have a right to expect everyone to agree with them but it's simply not true. Perhaps it would be worth not listening to people who lie to you.

I was a contentious, goading OP.

No! Why? For goodness sake.

Do they have ever actually read the threads?

Hadn’t realised this Chat post had been transferred over to News and Politics.?‍♀️

I don't think anyone has ever quoted one of my posts in that way previously so I have never had any need to comment. You had certainly quoted only one part of the post and, in this instance lost the context.

Whether you believe that I find it very amusing just how much the statistical analysis of the whole leave group sets us up for the standard screaming from leavers that "my friend has a doctorate in ..." and therefore indulged in a little leg-pulling bothers me not one jot. Why on earth would it?

Strange that when called out on posts so many claim it was "tongue in cheek" or "out of context". Anyone reading your previous posts GGK3 will see that you use insults quite a lot.

Labaik they should have been arrested. Just to cheer you up I was talking to my well educated, leave voting friend who now thinks we may as well stay in. All she ever wanted was a proper system that told you who was coming into the country and who was leaving. As we could always have done this she doesn't think it's worth us being poorer in order to make the point.

If you read the whole post, and have a modicum of intelligence, you will know that was tongue in cheek. It was said because so many leavers take offence first, read the statistics last and also assume, which you wouldn't if you have ever had to use statistics in a piece of academic work, that it means each and every one of them. But, true to form, WadesNan has taken it out of context and made those very assumptions. As I said, the post was tongue in cheek because so many leavers don't like the statistics that have been found overall for that group. I leave the readers of this thread to decide why WadesNan took umbrage.

The operative word was 'generally'. I agree with both GGM3's statements. The other Saturday, some of the leave supporters in London were singing 'we've got a lamp post with your name on it'. Nice people.

According to GGM3 leavers are "rude and abusive"

GGM3 post yesterday at 10:50:20

"I put it down to leaver voters generally lower level of education"

I must ask my (leave voting) neighbour how he managed to get his two degrees and what he was doing when working with NASA.

Really GGM3 ? There are 6 threads under News and Politics - 4 of them are anti-Brexit

Chaffinch please stay, there are a leave voters and Royalists on here, they just keep their heads down.

Do they heck as like keep their heads down. They are rude, abusive and don't care about the facts at all. They plagiarise other people's work and don't acknowledge where they get their information from. They are some of the loudest voices on GN and I am not talking about Royalists.

Thanks; I hadn't realised that.

That’s a shame Lab it was a bit more than that. Here’s a small extract

“The controversy surrounding Mother Teresa, who died in 1997, is far from new. Her saintly reputation was gained for aiding Kolkata's poorest of the poor, yet it was undercut by persistent allegations of misuse of funds, poor medical treatments and religious evangelism in the institutions she founded.”

Yes, there’s plenty of disagreements

Don’t shop at Waitrose.
Not interested in the Royal family.
Scarves are instruments of torture.
Some dogs are nice , some aren’t.
I voted to remain and I still think we should but that would be undemocratic.
The whole education system needs a massive overhaul. I know nobody has said anything about that but I think it is failing too many children.

I enjoy GN because I learn, I laugh, I agree and disagree.

Ha, love it Chaffinch!
From a dog loving Waitrose shopper who hates cats, voted leave and thinks our Queen is a remarkable woman.

It won't let me read it suzie but I'm pretty sure I know what it says. Catholicism = no birth control = overpopulation = starving children.

Delighted to see a few people here who don't like dogs. Apparently there are more dogs than people in this country. Why? I don't get it.... they slobber over everything, sniff each other's rear ends and then people kiss them! No doubt this will open a can of worms but sorry I just don't want them anywhere near me. DH feels the same.

www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/25/why-to-many-critics-mother-teresa-is-still-no-saint/

Mother Theresa - I’m afraid Bradford if you think she’s a non- contentious figure, you’ve definitely got another think coming. You see that’s the problem in a nutshell isn’t it - is there such a thing as a topic that is non-contentious? And if you’re so keen on the peace and harmony bit, why the comment about ‘feeling sorry for them’ ?Not very nice comment really - a bit passive aggressive in my book. It’s a public forum - come or go, post or don’t , the world will still turn. Just stay in the guidelines