Can I just warn any lurkers out there...........

Thanks for the cake Faye!

Ah, that's two instances of someone commenting on grammar merlot as the one I was referring to involved another poster.

Are your ears okay jO5? I hate that feeling of overheating and throbbing as the blood unfreezes. Maybe a woolly hat next time?

Well, I too have just come back from shopping, and I must say some of the posts here have left me

Her comment :
"Don't like other people being jibed at for no reason" really takes the biscuit, let alone the cake that someone suggested she needs!

She started a thread late last night, (that many of you will have missed, as it appears to have been deleted ) that was very far from being "funny" and especially removed from any definition I have known as being "kind at heart" .

Would have worn my ear muffs absent. Didn't relise how cold it is out there!

I am not going to be kind to people who upset, possibly authentic, new posters.

Gransnet is getting ridiculous with the delete button.

Yay! A first class example of bad grammar - mine. Though on reflection, it made me chuckle.

jO5 Don't forget that GNHQ has access to more information about apparent new posters than any of us have. It has been mentioned before that they have ways (unknown to us) of finding out if someone is attempting to use two screen names and it seems likely that they have ways of knowing if a new poster is, in fact, someone who has posted before under a different name and been banned from the site.

I know it's nice to believe the best of everybody, but sometimes it is completely unrealistic.

Maybe a poster resorts to using two names in desperation. If you get put down quite nastily, and then banned, under one name, it might be tempting to use another name just to try again to get a bit of sympathy and understanding.

(No! I haven't done it myself! )

The post I started last night said something like:

"What is the point, when someone who you think is not genuine, posts. And then someone answers said poster (giving them the benfit of the doubt, just in case), in putting comments like, 'trip-trap' and other troll indicating comments? (can't remember exact wording) But that's the gist of it.

And I would like to know what these super powers are that Gransnet possesses, that the rest of us certainly couldn't get our poor little heads round.

Shoot me if I'm back on here for the rest of the afternoon.

Just hand me the gun, JO5.

Joking, of course.

jO5 that was very far from the gist of it!

That is how I remember it. You put up what you think it said.

They deleted it before I got up this morning.

Which was ridiculous.

Bang

That was the sound of the shot you asked for, jings. Sorry if I missed

I know! I only came back on this flipping 'puter to look for a coat for grandson.

you didn't miss.

come and clear this mess up.

Yes'm. Right away.

Is it only me who thinks some of the s look cross and some look whimsical?

Oh J & B - Your collective last 4 posts have given me the first smile of the day. Ta!

...the posts before B's Yes'm

Still smiling though....

Butty - there are plenty of jokes to read on Just Jokes!