Can I join in, even if though I'm not a 'Gran'?

gagagran It's a Parliament of Owls - collective noun.

I am an owl, up probably until about 2 or 3 am. I did try and have an early night last night at half one but had to get up again as I was tossing and turning. I like the quite at that time, no road noise, no teenage noise, all peaceful and relaxed. It gets me through, especially with the teen being on long holidays!

I've come over from the other place also. I'm not a gran either but find some interesting discussions here.

I'd like to know how to you get an email for watched threads though as I've not seen anywhere to request that, perhaps someone could enlighten me by pm?

Thanks

soontobe When were you appointed form captain, telling new members of Gransnet how many threads are on which subject, detailing how many new members join each week (apparently completely inaccurately according to GNHQ) and describing how other Gransnetters lead their lives (also apparently massively inaccurately) – and why? It is hugely irritating – not just to me but clearly to a number of other Gransnetters too – not just because you make absurd assumptions, but also because these sorts of comments are massively irrelevant and very silly.

I sit up late and get up early because I can't lie in bed for more than about 6 hrs withough my back complaining. I am known to nod off watching television though.

I am most certainly not form captain.

But as for the rest of the stuff, I am tempted to write tough!

People always irritate other people from time to time.

As regards numbers of members.
I was massively under. But I was a lot nearer than many it seems.

What some posters find interesting, and what some dont varies widely.

This site is tiny.
I welcome many more posters with many more views and opinions.
It would be great if the site is a lot bigger.
And hey! There would be a whole lot more opinions, comments, and chat that you would find irritating.

I realise I dont meet the gransnet standards of some posters, but I dont care.

People should not allow themselves to be cowed by other people.

And that includes being cowed on the internet.

Posters should be allowed to get spellings wrong, use the wrong words, have bad english, etc etc.

One poster is not more important than another poster on the internet.

I dont mean just you absent. I am talking in general.

Some posters try to "box" other people in.

But the internet is a much freer place than that. The rules that moderators of sites put in place, are freer than some people seem to realise.

So be freer I say.

Also the space to write seems enormous.
I have no idea of the capacity of this site, but presumably it could take as many threads as mumsnet takes.

If that did happen, presumably posters then just open a thread, and close it again if it is not to their taste.

Just had a thought! You need more posters like me[tongue in cheek].
If the site gets a whole lot bigger, it wil be easier for some to not read my posts if they wanted to.

My head abounds with assumptions by the way. 100s of them. About rl people and people on here.
Occasionally they happen to spill out of my mouth or internet. For people who dont like them, they are fortunate a whole lot more dont see the light of day. That is just who I am.

Absent. Just what I wanted to say but couldn't put it politely.
It's very sad in it's way, to live your life through the internet.

As if I live my life through the internet!

soontobe you have just written six posts about not very much, you are apparently answering questions nobody is asking, in a disingenuous, but quite self obsessed way.
Have you never thought about what you want to say in advance or indeed why?
It does come across as bossy, "know it all " and in your own way you seem to be attempting to set an agenda for the thread.
You feel people should be free to write/spell etc in whatever form they please. Fine. But by referring to that as "getting spellings wrong, using the wrong words or having bad Enflish, you are yourself being judgemental.
I found your imagined theories of why people post early or late in the evening and extrapolation about bedtime habits frankly ludicrous
1) how can you possibly know?
2) why could you possibly care?
3) what does it matter anyway?
Much of your post of 8.26 is quite surreal and could have been written in the wee small hours when people's fancies tend to run riot.
Fortunately most of us have better things to do than fret about being "cowed".

I like "Enflish"!! how ironic, I assume we understood it was meant to be English!!

I think you overestimate how long it takes me to analyse things. My brain does it all day every day. And night too. I dream throughout the night. My brain doesnt seem to stop.

I think it explains why I am not creative. Or sporty etc.
I am into some things, and not into others.

I don't think brains actually stop and most people dream !!

Sorry, did you mean underestimate?

Post of 8.26am.

There are many rules in the world.
And many people in the world attempt to rule and boss others.

But on the internet, apart from miminal site rules, that is it.

People are free to write what they want..

Does it matter if someothers dont like what someone writes?
Not really. It really doesnt.

So I am encouraging other people to write what they want, but bear in mind that it is an open forum that is public.

Other than that. Go for it.
Even if only one other poster likes your thought and opinions, so what?

The post is also about not being cowed. Anywhere. Which I think is a very important point to make in general.

No, I mean overestimate.
It doesnt take me long at all.

There are a lot of irritating posts. I'm sure the posts of most of us irritate someone or other a good deal of the time. As soon says, so what? Ignore it. Respond to it. Whatever. So long as someone isn't being abusive, it doesn't matter.

And she's also right about not being cowed. Stop picking on her, folks!

Thanks thatbags

I am all right about what people write about me though.
Gransnet HQ told me a long time ago to talk to them if it got too much. Which I bear in mind.

Back to the original subject - yes you are welcome on Gransnet even though you have no grandchildren - and Gransnet embraces Grandads as well as Grannies.

As for "rules" - There are guidelines and anyone ignoring them gets a message from HQ rapping their knuckles, and/or their post deleted, followed by a ban if they are very bad.

There are posters who will annoy you. Either argue with them, report them to HQ (who will take appropriate action), or ignore them. It is up to you.

Thanks Elegran.

I just want to add to my above post that I can handle things, but I appreciate posts like thatbags.

Yeah. Wot Bags said.

I prefer soon's posts to some of the long-winded, cleverer-than-you, go-on-forever, love-the-sound-of-my-own-voice, posts you get on here.

Loads of people take their device to bed with them.

And that's not as rude as it might sound.