EllanVannin and Anniebach

Doodledog

Allira

Downton Abbey? 🤔

Of all threads?
Did the Dowager Countess take offence at something she said?

Downton Abbey?? Does anyone have a link, please?

The tread was about a film, I've never seen the film. However I understand some people thought it was 'historical' and others disagreed.

Hair tongs for curling?

Here www.gransnet.com/forums/chat/1338392-Downton-Abbey-electrical-curling-tongs

Norah

Here www.gransnet.com/forums/chat/1338392-Downton-Abbey-electrical-curling-tongs

Oof! What an unpleasant thread.

Doodledog
Whoever said that growstuffs posts have been erased are talking rubbish, it doesn’t happen.
A quick search shows that.

I'm not talking rubbish. Her posts on the thread I am talking about are not there, although references to them are.

A quick search did show me that .

Norah

Doodledog

Allira

Downton Abbey? 🤔

Of all threads?
Did the Dowager Countess take offence at something she said?

Downton Abbey?? Does anyone have a link, please?

The tread was about a film, I've never seen the film. However I understand some people thought it was 'historical' and others disagreed.

Hair tongs for curling?

Well, I've just looked at the first couple of pages and quite frankly, I find some of it quite funny!

A new? poster called MatildaMay takes offence at something which Germanshepherdsmum said to her which was fairly innocuous - GSM's posts get deleted but then quoted and this new poster takes offence and is extremely rude in response - but her posts do not get deleted. Why?

It looks like a storm in a bone china teacup to me and why anyone should have been banned over it is a mystery.

MatildaMay may not have been a new poster of course as she inferred that GSM was always rude. 🤔

Rather ironic!!

Yes, that’s why I can’t get a handle on the personal comments thing, at all.

Because some are ok and some are not ok and I can’t work out the vital difference.

Some actual examples with an explanation as to why would be helpful for me.

Lathyrus3

Yes, that’s why I can’t get a handle on the personal comments thing, at all.

Because some are ok and some are not ok and I can’t work out the vital difference.

Some actual examples with an explanation as to why would be helpful for me.

I can't work it out either. However if anyone has a go at me and tells me I'm wrong I do pull back into myself. MatildaMay was not one to pull back, it seems.

If someone told me I was old-fashioned for using curling tongs I'd laugh.
My 14 year old DGD uses them!

I’ve just read it, and GSM had a lot of deleted posts on that thread, not all of which were visible later because somebody else quoted them. As we don’t know what those posts said I’m not clear why MatildaMay is being blamed, given her posts weren’t deleted, and she was being treated rather condescendingly it would seem.
It comes back to whether it is the cumulative effect of a number of deletions which lead to a ban, that is my theory anyway.

Crikey that was a thread and a half. To be honest it looked to me like everyone lost their mind for a while! I was very late to Downtown Abbey so perhaps I don't understand the passion.

I missed all the Downton Abbey threads sadly.
Otherwise it is “she said, he said”
So trivial in light of all that is going on in the world.

Usedtobeblonde

I missed all the Downton Abbey threads sadly.
Otherwise it is “she said, he said”
So trivial in light of all that is going on in the world.

It wasn't exactly politics, was it!!

It was a very strange thread, but I agree that context might make a huge difference to understanding of it. If it happened soon after the Green Trouser Suit debacle, I was taking a break from GN at the time, as I found the atmosphere then very stressful. It may be, therefore, that some of the peculiarities of the thread (white socks??) refer to things going on at the time.

If that was why GSM was banned, there must have been something in the water, as whilst it was all very tetchy I have seen a lot worse on here. Or maybe, as Casdon suggests, it was a case of straws and camels' backs. I don't think Matilda May has been seen much since though 🤔

Yes that's interesting isn't it.

Galaxy

Crikey that was a thread and a half. To be honest it looked to me like everyone lost their mind for a while! I was very late to Downtown Abbey so perhaps I don't understand the passion.

😂
Having read the thread that’s what I thought too.

Oreo - I had to go back and re-read it!

I missed all that at the time, probably because I'd never seen DA and had no interest in it. But what a bizarre turn that thread took!

I must be the biggest Downton fan ever, but the Battle Of The Curling Tongs on GN somehow passed me by.

I binge watched downtown about a year ago, this is how late I was to the party

ViceVersa

I missed all that at the time, probably because I'd never seen DA and had no interest in it. But what a bizarre turn that thread took!

I've not seen DA either.

The thread surely didn't encourage me to watch the film.

Posters blatantly poked at GSM, who easily kept her comments within guidelines, that is of course what solicitors do, even if outspoken.

Norah

ViceVersa

I missed all that at the time, probably because I'd never seen DA and had no interest in it. But what a bizarre turn that thread took!

I've not seen DA either.

The thread surely didn't encourage me to watch the film.

Posters blatantly poked at GSM, who easily kept her comments within guidelines, that is of course what solicitors do, even if outspoken.

I thought so too, Norah.

There was a lot of provocation of GSM, deliberate I think.

My DGD has pinched my curling tongs 😀

If it happened soon after the Green Trouser Suit debacle

And well after Boris being called names (immoral for one, I believe), looking like a sack of potatoes in his suit and accusing him of lying about being ill with Covid, thus making the excellent staff at St Thomas's complicit in the lie.

Allira

My DGD has pinched my curling tongs 😀

I bought a hot air brush last week that you can have.

I thought it would blow hot air to dry my hair but it just gets hot.🙁

Sort of curling tongs with whiskers………