Ok Cari

I'm not well-informed or even sensible (apparently) but everyone is entitled to have their say on political threads Wobblybits!

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I think my previous post more or less says what you have just said to me, db. I have never claimed that the Soop Kitchen was divisive.

I can still understand what merlot's point was, and what wot referred to on both this thread and the kitchen one.

THhatbags, what did I refer to; do you mean today? My memory is shocking?

I bet ive put my size 5's in it again???

Dinnae fash yoursel', wot. It's no big deal, just explanatory, which some people seemed to need.

Oops! Forgot the

Does anyone remember the song from Chas and Dave which goes:
I don't care
I don't care
Ive got me beer
in the sideboard ere
Let muvver sort im art'
If he comes round ere.

Yes, I know what merlot meant too. It's nothing to do with soop herself at all, just one or two regulars in the Kitchen.

wot, I think you just jumped to the wrong conclusion.

I am sorry if I gave the impression that I thought you had repeated what merlot said, I was clear that it was her opinion, but clearly was wrong in interpreting your comments "Well,said" and " it's written carefully so deserves careful reading " to indicate agreement.
It should be clear that my comments relate to merlot's post of 9.36 and from which I quoted.

I am daft. And get things wrong. No, but really, I do apologise for any bad feeling I've caused.

Not so much a premature judgement, Daphne just a bit of forward thinking.

If you're saying there were no vitriolic posts, deletions or flouncing, which I think is why Soop's Kitchen was created in the first place, then my memory is at fault.

I could see a Gransnet slinter group emerging. Folk didn't used to channel their 'chat' on to one thread as they do now.

This is NOT a criticism. Just an observation.

I am not aware of vitriol ever featuring among posters to in Soop's Kindly Kitchen.
The clue is in the name (Kindly) which is why I found it particularly hurtful to have my presence there called into question by an infrequent visitor.

I'm certainly staying out of Soop's kitchen now. If you can't stand the heat- maybe that isn't appropriate-sorry!

Oh FGS. I didn't mean IN the kitchen.

I said THAT's WHY the kitchen was created - so that people could avoid conflict.

Anyway, I have animals to feed and a grandson to collect from the bus stop.

Laters.

It's not as if anyone would spray vitriol on others threads and then run for cover shouting 'sanctury I'm being picked upon' ...no one would do that

One of the benefits of the kitchen is that there are a limited number of posters on the thread so you do get to ' know' people perhaps more so on threads which just come and go .

I find that very appealing . It enables you to move from a virtual relationship to one based more in the real world .based on what you know about people .

I think there's only 2 threads that have that element . So there's plenty of room for lots of more speculative threads where it's about the content perhaps and less about people.

Oops that should read perhaps more so than on other threads ! Damn mini phone screen !!

I've managed to do lots of boring stuff. By George, a second gift of flowers has been delivered and in the carton was a box of Thornton's chocs. Now then, I do understand that to you, the chocs are virtual. If I could, I would share them with all choc lovers right this minute. I've asked MacSporran to squirrel them away (until I get the next craving)...countdown begins right now.

Shall we call a truce? Go on...even jings was prepared to make up and bury the hatchet. Between us, over the course of Gransnet, we buried a whole tool box of hatchets.

I 'get' Merlot's argument.

Posters are free to start any thread they like with the aim of establishing a certain train of thought e.g. the low-carb thread. However, I've seen examples of posters getting into a scrap on a thread then heading off to the kitchen to make comment and claiming sanctuary from the scrap, with much patting on the head by the residents, and no-one dare argue the toss as the kitchen is sacrosanct.

In the memorable words of jings

it's not a real kitchen!"

Except me, anya. Have the courage to name those who have offended you, please!?

From what I remember, I ran to the kitchen because someone commented, quite rightly btw, that I was trying to fill the thread up. I don't think I "sprayed vitriol" on anyone, did I??

I might have sprayed a bit of weed killer on an undeserving flower.

Of course it isn't a real kitchen...jings was right. Okay...can we now accept that we each have a point of view and that to get hot and bothered is futile. I have apologised for being fragile/^thin skinned^ I shall do better in future.

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