To ask people to read posts before replying to them

Eligran just love your analogies, just borrowed one on another thread...or was it this one, they're all starting to sound the same! Where was I? Oh yes, 'is it nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or...?' something like that. Should I stand and fight or retreat?

Elegran Ironing done in double-quick time. Thanks for putting a smile on my grumpy face. I'm sure that I shall feel a lot more like my upbeat self when I return tomorrow.
Alison there is something theraputic about standing over a mountain of laundry and dashing away with the smoothin' iron.

Eligran just re-read my post. I did not mean to say your analogies are starting to sound the same, they don't, I meant some of the thread are starting to cover the same ground again. soop I don't iron.

Nana

nanadogsbody If I start repeating myself, do tell me!

Ditto Eligran

Lilygran - flippancy is fine on many threads, but I feel it is inappropriate and insensitive to chat about what you are having for your dinner on a thread about a terrible tragedy.

I agree.

Who did that?

Someone who didn't take kindly to having it pointed out to them.

Read the thread about the Annecy tragedy.

Was it necessary to point it out to them? Could that be taken as being insensitive in itself?

No, it was necessary to return the thread to the proper subject. You had the grace to admit you were wrong to post inappropriate banter about it, Jingle , but other people did not.

No, soop of course not.
No, vampire of course not.
A newspaper once recorded me as being "uncharacteristically robust" bags so perhaps I should do something about that.

gracesmum I was referring specifically to replies directed at me. I knew they were directed at me because they began absent or absentgrana. I appreciate that, if it is a long thread, people don't always want to trawl through the whole thing.

Yes, kittylester, it is a shame. Thank you for a a vote of confidence.

Whatever Alison MA

I have to post now because if I move to the next page, I lose what I have written (for what it's worth) [tee hee emoticon]

Wasn't the Annecy thread deleted by G.N?.

JO 4 did have comments deleted but to be fair she did also apologise. It was a few other comments made by some other G.N.'s on the thread that tipped the balance of so-called Forum Etiquette. I think the thread became silly and quite personal that's why it was deleted.

No, POGS, it was the thread started by AngieBaby which was deleted. The Annecy thread is still there, if you search.

Anagram.

Thank you, you are quite right.

It just goes to show how many threads turn nasty, they are all moulding into one.

All too silly.

Am I going mad or has this thread morphed into:-

Other Subjects. I for one don't know where this website would be without.

See my reply on Other Thread, POGS!

Anagram.

That's why I thought I had gone bonkers.

I genuinely thought I had posted on the wrong thread, then I realised the same point had been raised on both threads. Made me feel better.

Glad you can see it too.

I admit to saying what I was having for tea on the Annecy thread and I apologise if anyone thought it was insensitive. I was goaded into it, entirely unlike me, but sometimes enough is enough! I think I was probably among the least offensive posters on that thread.

kitty

It was not you, don't worry. The thread was shifted by a few G.N.'s. I saw what you wrote and I agree with you, you were simply responding to the way the thread had been trivialised by others.

Kitty, I am glad to see you have apologised, like JO4. I am not sure what you mean by saying you were goaded into your comment- by whom?

Shall we knock all this apologising on the head right now?!

And the commenting on whether people should or should not post what they do on which threads.

IYSWIM



Look to your own posts, never mind all the criticising.