Why do people keep saying this

JaneJudge

Crossstich, to add insult to injury, your post featured in the Gransnet daily email so has carried on running for longer than it would have done with people posting random comments 😂 please don’t take it personal!

JaneJudge, Just my luck! Thanks for your support and I won’t take it personally. (Thanks for the flowers, too! 😘)
I try not to offend people but sometimes someone picks up on an innocent comment I have made and it turns into a row!

I don’t care 😂😂😂

Crossstich, to add insult to injury, your post featured in the Gransnet daily email so has carried on running for longer than it would have done with people posting random comments 😂 please don’t take it personal!

Babs03

When I said I really like the phrase ‘read the room’ I wasn’t implying anything, I just like the phrase.

Thanks for explaining.

Crossstitchfan

For those with flaky, brittle, problem nails, the products described here will almost certainly help. For years my daughter had that problem and no so-called remedy ever worked for more than a day.
Then she found a product called ‘Nailtiques formula’. It’s a nail protein and comes in three strengths.. Nail formula 1 is for heathy nails, to keep them that way. Nail formula 2 is for soft, bitten, peeling, and brittle nails., and Formula 3 for hard, brittle nails. My daughter started with 1, then when her nails strengthened, she moved onto Formula 2.then 3. It’s recommended that you carry on with Formula 3 even once your nails are better .The formulas really worked but you need to keep at it, or you’ll be back to square 1. If you have been using acrylics, gels, wraps etc.the company makes a special ‘After Artificial Treatment’ too.
Hope this will help. They aren’t the cheapest, but you do get what you pay for.

Thank you so much for this tip Crossstitchfan. No polish, gels or acrylics for me, just awful nails. I had some great suggestions on my ‘nail’ post, and bought three products so far, but the one that’s having a great affect so far is nail oil, rubbed in as many times a day as I can manage. Still in a poor state so I’ll look into getting some of the one you mention above 👍

Gosh I’m so sorry to hear that Crossstitchfan, I’m sorry if you mentioned this in previous posts, I don’t recall (much these days!). I’m only too aware of hormone injections in the bum every 28 days. DM me if you want to talk more…. And absolutely no offence if you don’t, I promise!

For those with flaky, brittle, problem nails, the products described here will almost certainly help. For years my daughter had that problem and no so-called remedy ever worked for more than a day.
Then she found a product called ‘Nailtiques formula’. It’s a nail protein and comes in three strengths.. Nail formula 1 is for heathy nails, to keep them that way. Nail formula 2 is for soft, bitten, peeling, and brittle nails., and Formula 3 for hard, brittle nails. My daughter started with 1, then when her nails strengthened, she moved onto Formula 2.then 3. It’s recommended that you carry on with Formula 3 even once your nails are better .The formulas really worked but you need to keep at it, or you’ll be back to square 1. If you have been using acrylics, gels, wraps etc.the company makes a special ‘After Artificial Treatment’ too.
Hope this will help. They aren’t the cheapest, but you do get what you pay for.

Sasta

Please don’t take it personally Crossstitchfan. It’s a bit of lightheaded banter. A welcome distraction to the pain of the news just now. I asked for advice on my crummy flakey nails recently. Who cares? People can take it or leave it. Every single person has some kind of worry, pain, anxiety or fear in their lives. I regret responding to mabon1’s post, and I apologise for that mabon1. Barely a family is untouched by cancer, my own very much so, it touched a raw nerve.
I think some of the replies to this innocent post shows people are dealing with difficult things, in their own way.
I look forward so seeing your next post ‘Crossstitchfan’.

Thanks for that Sasta! You are becoming quite a mate! Here’s another post for you 😃
I try hard to be fair, kind and inoffensive but with the best will in the world, that doesn’t always work that way as there is nearly always someone who doesn’t like what I say.
I suppose what some people will find amusing will hit a nerve with someone in some kind of pain. Personally, I love being on here, partly because it takes my mind off the fact I have a terminal illness. That said, it is being controlled (hopefully for a good while yet) by hormone injections into the muscle in my bum. Although a little painful, that would be ok, except for the fact that the lovely nurse who comes to give me the injection is a handsome 32 year old male and I am not terribly far off being three times his age and female. Good job I don’t get embarrassed easily!
Oh well, onwards and upwards! Maybe we’ll speak again soon!

Buffy

This is SO petty. There are so many serious things to worry about in this day and age.

I can see your point up to a point but your comment implies that everything on here should be deadly serious. There is always room for a bit of lighthearted chatter.
I am not being rude but if it offends you, please go and read the Times or something more serious instead.

Please don’t take it personally Crossstitchfan. It’s a bit of lightheaded banter. A welcome distraction to the pain of the news just now. I asked for advice on my crummy flakey nails recently. Who cares? People can take it or leave it. Every single person has some kind of worry, pain, anxiety or fear in their lives. I regret responding to mabon1’s post, and I apologise for that mabon1. Barely a family is untouched by cancer, my own very much so, it touched a raw nerve.
I think some of the replies to this innocent post shows people are dealing with difficult things, in their own way.
I look forward so seeing your next post ‘Crossstitchfan’.

Oh heck, does it really matter I ask myself.

This is SO petty. There are so many serious things to worry about in this day and age.

I like the way language changes to suit the platform, so if it's a forum, you can write "this" with an arrow pointing upwards. It's like seconding something someone has said, so supporting them, which is a good thing to have in discussions. It says you are part of the conversation, without repeating what other people have said, so you could also say "what she or he said" - I love how it all changes depending on the person responding or writing as well. There are new expressions and words entering the dictionary every year, not sure how/where you would enter "this" though lol - sorry, just wanted to get my tuppence worth in lol

Crossstitchfan

...now you have reminded me about ‘end of’ which I also hate!
Whose side are you on ? 😀

Well, there is - in addition to end of:

"Simples" (which it frequently isn't);

A one-liner judgment that the poster is "deluded" because he /she has an opposing world-view;

"Wake up sheeples" which, I assume, means the poster has a 'pipe-line' to THE TRUTH which has escaped everyone else's notice;

"Get a life;"

... and the thoughtful "Loser" from those who are either running short of time or find it difficult to articulate an argument.

And these all irritate the hell out of me, mostly because in order to respond appropriately, I'd have to sink to the same level of immaturity.

So - I can see why you are irritated by this - it's a bit... terse?

However, analysis-is-paralysis, so I think we just have to accept the different styles of posts and their responses as being typical of the differences between - erm, different people.

However - don't get me started on those posts where the only response by an individual is multiple emojis, usually the very juvenile 'smiling-poop-face' emoji. That's where I usually give-up and go to do something more constructive.

Eil4

Oh Crossstitch fan, thank you! I popped into a lovely little haberdashery shop near me this morning and was advised to iron the linen and purchase a ring which I have. I shall keep at it as I’m finding it quite therapeutic.

That’s lovely to hear. I hope you love it as much as I do.
I did answer as soon as I read your post, but I think it’s disappeared! Story of my life on here.
What I said in the ‘lost’ post was that you need to remove your fabric from the ring once you have stopped stitching for the day. If you don’t, you risk a permanent ring indentation on it. Then flatten the fabric and leave it on a flat surface if possible until you are ready to stitch again. Failing that, just roll it up lightly, not tightly before putting it away.
I hope I am not insulting you by telling you this. If so, tell me to go away! But equally, if I can help with anything else, please do ask.
Hope you enjoy your new hobby.

I love it! I hope (am sure) you’ll love it. If I can help with anything to do with this great hobby, please ask. One little tip, when you stop stitching for the day, take the fabric out of the ring and lay it flat.
Enjoy it. I have been stitching since 1995 and still love it.

Do you block it like crochet or knitting pieces?
So many ends to sew in on my latest project, the worst bit.

I’m on Mumsnet as well and this reply was meant for there. Sorry for the upset. I’m fine really, just a bit stressed

Thst's enough to stress you out if you let it!
On the other hand, I've just discovered it can e great fun and enlightening.

Hope you feel calmer soon.
Zen 😴

Crossstitchfan

Oh Lordy, now I’ve put the reply to someone else on your thread and don’t know how to get it off! Sorry!
To answer you, you may be right, I feel a bit tetchy, not least because I am stretching myself a little thin at the moment. I am more ancient than you might think and sometimes I overdo it by trying to be all things to all people. I’m on Mumsnet as well and this reply was meant for there. Sorry for the upset. I’m fine really, just a bit stressed. Thanks for your concern

We all have those days! No worries. Look after yourself.

I’m sure we all hear words or phrases that make us grind our teeth, I hadn’t noticed ‘ this’ much , my bugbear is the fashion to start sentences with So……..ggggrrrrrrr

GrammaH

I'm sorry and must be having an extremely dense day as I don't know what you mean! Please give me an example. Is it just the word 'this' on its own?? I'm not familiar with the use of the word

Sometimes when a person reads a post and finds that they agree with what has been said, they write ‘this’ instead of saying ‘I agree’.
It just annoyed me and I mentioned it. Then it grew wings and became a big issue! I am trying to forget it.if they want to write ‘this’, it’s up to them!

Oh Lordy, now I’ve put the reply to someone else on your thread and don’t know how to get it off! Sorry!
To answer you, you may be right, I feel a bit tetchy, not least because I am stretching myself a little thin at the moment. I am more ancient than you might think and sometimes I overdo it by trying to be all things to all people. I’m on Mumsnet as well and this reply was meant for there. Sorry for the upset. I’m fine really, just a bit stressed. Thanks for your concern

I'm sorry and must be having an extremely dense day as I don't know what you mean! Please give me an example. Is it just the word 'this' on its own?? I'm not familiar with the use of the word

LucyAnna2

Crossstitchfan

LucyAnna2

Dickens

The response this to a post annoys and irritates the OP.

There's a heck of a lot of types of comment, style of comment, etc, on social media that irritate the heck out of me, too - "end of" being one of those comments - but there isn't anything we can do about it because social media has evolved to include all sorts and types of posting styles, jargon, abbreviations, etc, etc, and it will continue to evolve and more pert little response methods will be employed. Which will continue to annoy and irritate.

So we'll just have to be annoyed and accept it.

What worries me far more on social media is all the false 'information', all the lies perpetrated by those with an agenda, and those who can't be bothered to filter fact from fiction who spread it further either naively or deliberately; the speculation, the conspiracy theories; the stupid influencers who manage to persuade young people to do stupid stunts that can result in injury or even death to themselves or others; the misogynists like Andrew Tate who spew their poison into the minds of young teens and men; the deluded young women who though medically obese have been persuaded by a politically-correct culture to 'flaunt' their curves because they are "hot babes" and challenge "Karens" and "Kevins" to deny it because, it's alleged, they are simply jealous. - young women who will suffer God-knows what-all health problems in the near future have been persuaded on social media to expose themselves to both ridicule and praise from the equally deluded. And the social media sites that encourage young people with mental health problems to self-harm, where young girls and boys turn to because there is little real, authentic, legitimate help available to them, courtesy of austerity cuts to mental health services.

And that's not even mentioning the social media site owners on whose 'premises' these atrocities are encouraged.

I could go on, but realise I'm ranting away to an audience who may well have become bored with this thread and long gone. However the above worries me far more than the irritating little cryptic this, end of and all the other abbreviated sentiments of approval - or disapproval.

I know where you’re coming from, Crossstitchfan, but do read Dickens’ post, regarding people (mostly very young) who are affected, sometimes badly, by comments, etc online. Not just annoyed, but badly affected.

That’s a little extreme! I have read Dickens’ post and I think that in the light of the horrendous issues he quotes, my disliking ‘this’ hardly qualifies as something that could drive someone to suicide. I think you have got carried away.
Please read Dickens’ post yourself and see if my objection to ‘this’ could cause any of the dreadful things on here. I think not.

I (obviously!) didn’t mean that your objection could cause distress - I meant, as Dickens said, there are far worse things to be concerned about. I did start by saying that I knew what you meant - you seem quite tetchy? I hope you are not unwell, or unhappy.

I love it! I hope (am sure) you’ll love it. If I can help with anything to do with this great hobby, please ask. One little tip, when you stop stitching for the day, take the fabric out of the ring and lay it flat.
Enjoy it. I have been stitching since 1995 and still love it.

I am guilty of saying ‘hard agree’, which is probably even more annoying,

grandtanteJE65

I have not noticed a single post that began with the word "this".

I don't know if we are reading the same posts, or if I am unobeservant.

Sometimes, if a poster agrees with a previous post, they quote it and type ‘this’ - meaning “hear, hear, I agree”. (It’s not a post beginning with ‘this’)