An observation behaviour online

Magpie! I hope the last few pages adequately throw some light on your original query.
But guess you've given up visiting the site by now.
Some very talented people out there who can produce jammy dodgers and funny faces though not sure if you wanted to know that. Or maybe their grandkids did it for them?

Bellanonna must be Alzheimer's they say you regress, or as I have noticed on other threads when the posts are not going their way, they start acting stupid.

Charming!

QED

That was referring to Magpie's post not Ana's

That was referring to Magpie's post not Ana's

Ha ha magpie. Three posts without biscuits now. Think you are probably right tho !

I have noticed on other threads when the posts are not going their way, they start acting stupid

Who are "they"?
Anyway this is much more fun and a whole lot more meaningful than the same old, same old, cliques, blah, blah etc

Oh and let's not make jokes or be rude about Alzheimer's sufferers, there are some among our members' DHs.

alzheimers comment a bit out of order - IMO
it is nice to have a few fun comments that are not personal

Referring to "Altzheimers" has hit a nerve with some GNers, yet when I said Pheonix was losing her marbles, no one (including Pheonix) complained. Interesting why two words that effectively refer to the same thing are so differently received.

'losing marbles' or 'senior moment' are referring to foibles/forgetfulness that comes with age - as we all know
Altzeimers is a distressing (for sufferer and family) condition that is irreversible and not to be used lightly. Gnetters whose nerve have been 'hit' could well know someone who is an Altzheimers sufferer.

"Losing her marbles" when said (clearly) in jest is a very different matter. If on the other hand you had meant seriously that Phoenix was displaying symptoms of early onset dementia, I would hope you would not be so crass as to joke about it.

Time for some more biscuits. The thread has metamorphosed as usual, and improved as it did so (mostly).

While observing behaviour online I have noticed that throwing around blame and sowing dissent is a common entertainment. Discussing the world and working out how to do techy things are much more interesting to me.

The was inadvertently introduced by thatbags during an exchange with me. They've had the on MN for years, but we've never been allowed one, so we did get a bit carried away, especially when we discovered that all the old emoticons and seasonal emblems could suddenly be used again.

I can see that such apparently random symbol-posting could be interpreted as being dismissive of the OP, but it certainly wasn't in my case.

Ana I have no problem or axe to grind with you at all. My father also suffered and subsequently died from Alzheimers which was a very sad time in my life.

You can't please all of the people all of the time, but it seems on gransnet you can't please any of the people most of the time.

* magpie123 * you must be so disappointed that this thread turned into such a good fun one.

Ana that was so clever! (finding the birthday cake emoti)

Some people must live such sad unhappy little lives, that's the only explanation I can think of why they have to take their pleasure being nasty to others.

That's right. Like me here. Munching away on Victoria sponge sandwich I brought back from my holiday, when I should be planting the plants I also brought back. It's a really hard life. I feel so despondent.

#pantsonfire

Mwah.

Funny you should say that magpie

Many a true word spoken in jest.

I can do it! (It's not my birthday)

i have been reading through all the conversations and threads that I've missed, and I am sad about the vitriol and general unpleasantness that seems to be emerging in several areas. I do think I recognise the instigators and stirrers, the peacemakers and those who try to divert a thread out of nastiness.

I have been a member of GN almost from the beginning, and there is nothing surprising going on as far as I can see. There are those who can debate and discuss, and see different perspectives on an issue, those who can't and those who have to castigate others when they don't get their own way. And those who are just unpleasant. I'd say it was situation normal but the nastiness does seem to have reached a new level lately.

Nevertheless, despite all this, I also see, on other threads, the affection and support that is so freely given, with sensitivity, to those who really need it, and this is the essence of GN. I hope it will continue thus.