Can I just warn any lurkers out there...........

JINGLE STOP MAKING MISCHIEF!

Dear lurkers, don't mind jO5 – sometimes she gets a bee in her bonnet and likes to talk a lot bollocks. She is harmless and can be hugely entertaining.

It is not bollocks. It's fact!

Gransnet for the middle classes. And only the middle classes.

Oh dear! I haven't got a degree...not even an OU one...

Shouldn't have posted that, should I?
I'll probably be banned now...

What Is wrong with you today? Did you get out of bed the wrong side?

She also has the knack of exposing bullsh**ers, sometimes with hilarious results.

Jane Austen could do witty irony, not sure JO5 can.

How did this episode with a coarse and unspeakably boring poster who was probably a bored adolescent or a deranged adult turn into a class war?

Are you talking to me jeni?

Hilda, JO5 certainly can. I'm not sure about Jane Austin.

Ana

Oh God. I've got a chocolate cake to make! Get me off of here!!!!

No! Jingle! She's obviously 'got one on her ' as me old gran would have said!

I knew that really, jeni!

Is this a private fight or can anyone join in?

Please feel wellcome (inviting)

Well at least we know 'coarse and unspeakably boring' posters aren't welcome!

I don't believe for a moment that certain posters, whose names cannot be mentioned, were as illiterate as they appeared to be. They were spoofing and were probably students who had lit upon G'net and decided to have a bit of fun with the grannies. Can we get over it now please?

Well put Annodomini, better than I. What I was trying to say was that, as with horrid little playground bullies, ignoring them is usually the best policy.

Agree the illiteracy was probably faked. Nevertheless, we are giving out a message to our lurkers if we comment on incorrect spelling rather than the content of the post.

COME OUT GERALDINE, Jing is just stirring as usual!

petallus Do you welcome coarse and unspeakably boring posters then? I still think jenrick is a combination of two people's names, probably slightly stupid adolescents who thought it would be fun to take the piss out of a load of old dears.

I don't understand the whole 'stirring' concept - apart from puddings of course!

Surely the comments about the spelling were part of the process of detecting a fake in this specific instancer – in the same way as in a real-life conversation a false French accent would be a give-away.