Where are the lovely Grandpas?

Well I don't know what there is to forgive, but if there are any grown-up lovely Grandpas out there, it would be nice to hear from them!

Daman was nice, but I think he got fed up...

Daman went fishing and never came back.

Mmm yes it would be lovely to have a few grownup sensitive chaps around . They do exist. But I guess it is a bit like a man deciding to join the WI. Not easy to blend in without being overly demanding of attention in some gauche way - talking too much, making risque remarks, flirting, being provocative by making sexist remarks etc. I do find the same applies in real life to men in our age group. Lots of them are awkward around women to say the least. Possibly because they worked in male dominated work places.
And because they are a rarity we - the majority, do not always react to them as if they were just another person. Ranging from - ooh a man, must look after the poor dear and make a special fuss of him, through to, oh god another man, bound to be a creep, will ignore or avoid him if possible. I confess that I veer towards the second of these personally.

Agreed!

I also agree, but do not think that men of our age are quite comfortable getting involved with women chatting, but yes it would be so lovely to get their in put.

What I find surprising is those GNers who pander to and encourage inappropriate behaviour in certain male posters rather than just telling them to grow up.

I agree bluebell. It gets silly.

Surprisingly, I agree with Jess as well.

gramps pops in to Lil's from time to time, agree that we haven't seen much of the others lately.

Dear gramps!

I am afraid that at present there are one or two grandpas on the site where if I see there names on a thread I move on. Only one or two the rest are fine.

I think that the phrase "of our age" might be a bit tricky.

I think the age range of members might be broader then you think!

FlicketyB I do agree with you in at least one case, but that person seemed to make it obvious from the start that he wasn't here to share opinions and ideas.

FlicketyB - there are two that I am aware of, one of whom I must say no more about or I'll be deleted!!However, I really don't see why we should move from a thread rather than this particular one change his behaviour. And if anyone in Lil's Bar is reading this, that thread is not the problem - that's about choice- it's when more serious threads get hijacked and always in the same sleazy way.

I mean the age range 55 - 100 phoenix .Apologies to those under 55. But don't get the impression we have many younger chaps around.

My own family like me but there are a lot of people who do not because I would not let my father's ex lady friend have the house which he left to me.

Frank

Not sure what to make of this thread!

Don't you worry, grumppa! Nice to see you.

Me neither, grumppa

bluebell You started a thread this morning which was deleted. I had to go out so didn't read much of it but please don't keep on about sleaze.

Why not when that's exactly what it is !! Or have you got another way of describing frequent gratuitous references to sexual activity?

Frequent ? let's not exaggerate, unless I am missing an awful lot! We are all grown up girls/chaps and capable of ignoring a thread/post if we so choose or even finding the "off" button .

Whatever it is that bugs you, bluebell, try ignoring it and it might go away.
I wouldn't call anything on GNet sleazy but then I missed most of the thread that you started.

There's never anything explicit, is there? Maybe innuendo isn't to everyone's taste, but come on, as gracesum says, we are all adults....

I found it rather interesting on one particular thread when a certain male participant was trying to steer things in a certain direction, and made some very unambiguous comments, the female GN'ers just kept ignoring his remarks and sort of posting "round" them.

It reminded me of a small child misbehaving at a grown ups tea party where all the grown ups had agreed in advance to ignore him.

"More tea, Mrs Jones?"

"Oh thank you Mrs Brown, don't mind if I do, and another one of those delightful scones wouldn't go amiss!"

And all then time little Johnny is sitting there picking his nose (or worse) and getting no reaction at all!