Gransnet. Should I Be On It?

Never a truer word BradfordLass!

Well, dear chaffinch, I did try to warn you but forgot to add that there are also one or two who persist in preferring always to bring in contention where everyone else can see lightheartedness.

I swear if Mother Teresa had posted here, someone would have shot to poor woman down in flames.....

Feel sorry for them, and just keep posting - it's the only way.

Republican
Remain
Independance minded
scared of dogs

Very much out of step with a lot of Grans on here ,its interesting to see different/strange opinions though.
I haven't come across many I could be friends with in real lifesome seem to belong in a different world/century .Hang around and see for yourself .

Well it would be a boring life if we all thought and dressed the same. There is a great big life out there and everyone is different.
I voted remain and wouldn't have it any other way.

I shop in Waitrose and Lidl because they are the nearest shops. Would love to shop at a greengrocers but we don't have one.

Don't mind some of the royal family.

Would love a dog but my lifestyle doesn't suit one and I wear a scarf when its cold.

Love my children and gc but they are not my life.

While I have been on GN I have been longing, no I could kill, for a piece of chocolate and Mr B has just come up trumps with some from his secret stash. So I need to go.

Oh I remembered that MM breathing thread suziewoozie it made me giggle and I ‘got it’ early on and joined in!
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I voted to leave the EU and would vote the same again.

I feel sorry for Boris

I like the Queen

I’m frightened of dogs

I approve of Grammar schools.

The point I was trying to make lemon was that some people feel very strongly about the topics chosen and so it wasn’t surprising that some didn’t see it as half hearted. I’ve fallen foul of thinking I was being funny/ lighthearted only for it to fail miserably. ? <remembers MM breathing thread >

Very, very few found it contentious suzie

Apologies if we have ruined your lighthearted thread.

It can only ever have appeared to be light-hearted to those who agree with the OP Bridgeit I can see the flutterings of the agreement now. That, apparently, is exactly what she wanted, agreement with her views which she set out from the beginning to be contentious.

The OP chose two contentious examples out three - should have stuck to scarves and Waitrose.

Well, one poster took it seriously alright and delivered a lecture on it.
In any case this thread is not about Brexit.
Some people don’t recognise a light hearted thread and lay a leaden hand on it.

Me thinks you have misread or misunderstood me GG. I am suggesting Leavers May be more inclined to go for the unknown & taking chances.

I didn't misunderstand Bridgeit, I disagreed.

There is no way you can equate sex with Brexit. How do they think up this junk?

By that I mean Chaffinch would have!

GracesGranMK3

And finally

If I had been ‘loudly declaring’ I WOULD HAVE WRITTEN IT IN CAPITALS!!!

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CityA.M did a poll pre the referendum with Gransnet members. 52% intended to vote leave. 38% intended to vote remain. The others didn't know.

Beckett

Totally agree

Yes Chaffinch, you definitely should be on Gn,
Apologies if we have ruined your lighthearted thread
But if we all turn on our TVs & listen to Boris we should all be crying with laughter....... but then the reality of him will be enough to make us really cry. ?

Me thinks you have misread or mis understood me GG
I am suggesting Leavers May be more inclined to go for the unknown & taking chances
Whereas Remain Voters, May be happy with what they have & do not wish to take chances or rock the boat.
I guess it all depends on what sort of life each one of us currently live, for sure there will be a mixture of both. What the percentage will be ,remains(? ) to be seen!
My main concerns are for the elderly & our young people

Does everything have to be about Brexit. Chaffinch has said she intended this to be a light hearted thread and she did not intend to upset anyone and that was the way the majority of posters interpreted and responded to the thread. I 'm fed up of the way almost every thread, or so it seems, degenerates into back biting.

Beckett unfortunately some members of GN do little else ??

Oh good grief! This thread is in the Chat section, not News and Politics - why does everything have to end in an argument.

I don’t see how just affixing a ?to a post in which three stereotypes are itemised, then saying “I don’t fit any of these, should I be on GN? “ constitutes a “lighthearted” thread or even humour. <sigh> ?‍♂️

Surely One would have expected leave voters to be more adventurous in their sex lives ,ie taking a chance.

I'm not sure that going back to the 1950s or the rubbish I see about "we managed during the war", gives an impression of liking change Bridgeit. I have yet to see a decent argument that we will do anything other than going back to a time people believe existed but didn't. I rarely if ever see anything about forward change - such as we have had over the last 40 years - and never anything underpinned by academic reasoning. Generally, it's just wishful thinking and guesswork.

sunseeker Thu 12-Sep-19 10:57:46
Oh dear, why is it necessary to turn what I assumed was a fairly lighthearted thread into yet another thread where remainers and leavers have to fight each other.

A lighthearted thread? One where someone loudly declares they don't think they fit in because they "... voted Leave, and still want to Leave." Please tell me what you expect from something like that?

Leavers proclaiming they are hard done by is not going to feel lighthearted to anyone other than other leavers who feel they are hard done by - and they are not! They just don't want people on here who disagree with them. I go on lots of lighthearted internet chats but in not one of them does anyone ever mentions politics. Really sunseeker, I ask once more, what do you expect?