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I have joined Gransnet for one reason only...

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tee2072 Thu 21-Feb-13 14:11:00

If any of you are MN users, you may recognize my name.

I have come over to Gransnet to drum up support for my inspired campaign. It ties neatly into Let Girls Be Girls and Let Boys and Girls Have Toys (or whatever that one is) and Let Boys Have Clothes (not sure on that name either).

It is: Let Grans Be....something! Yeah, it needs work. grin

Last week I went to Eason, a major retailer, to buy a birthday card for my mother from my 3.9 year old. All of the Grandma, Nanny, Nan etc cards had tea pots or knitting or a combination thereof!

I don't know about the Grans here on Gransnet, but my son's Grandma spent 2 weeks on African safari recently and the year before that went to the Galapagos Islands to see the turtles. She doesn't knit, I am not even sure she likes tea all that much!

So who is with me?

First we need a slogan...

Stansgran Sat 23-Feb-13 15:30:55

Sorry I mean JO8 . A fine figure of a woman is much better and more realistic than fat.

Ana Sat 23-Feb-13 15:16:49

I use the same password for nearly everything.
And I'm not fat.

Stansgran Sat 23-Feb-13 15:12:19

I've run out of passwords significant enough to me for me to remember.

Stansgran Sat 23-Feb-13 15:10:51

So what is the description JO7? And do you include yourself? Why should anyone log on get a password and fathom the intricacies of a website for one post? Baffled.

absent Sat 23-Feb-13 15:07:40

j08 What could be better than discussing how utterly glorious we all are?

j08 Sat 23-Feb-13 14:12:01

I think I could find a more fitting description for some of the posters this site seems to attract.

The OP is long gone. Can't you find anything better to talk about?

j08 Sat 23-Feb-13 14:08:55

"Think she needed her legs slapping"

OMG

Galen Sat 23-Feb-13 14:06:39

Or how about FABULOUS FEMMES?

Galen Sat 23-Feb-13 14:06:01

Fabulous fat feisty females?

soop Sat 23-Feb-13 13:44:58

Mr soop thinks that I'm fabulous...yay! grin

Galen Sat 23-Feb-13 12:09:43

Fat, feisty females?

absent Sat 23-Feb-13 12:06:15

Ditto Galen grin I'll wine to that.

Galen Sat 23-Feb-13 11:55:37

absent I'll admit to the old but not the little or ladyangry

Elegran Sat 23-Feb-13 11:41:38

Just responding appropriately to being stereotypicalised.

Butty Sat 23-Feb-13 09:47:00

I am amused at some of the stereotypical responses to the OP.

absent Sat 23-Feb-13 08:21:43

I am amused not only by the contradictory assumption that we need a younger woman to help us understand that we are sometimes stereotyped as "little old ladies" and might want to campaign against this, but that the first thing we need is a slogan. Not a consensus, not a specific aim, not a specific target, not a plan of action – a slogan.

JessM Sat 23-Feb-13 08:00:19

Yes there is a nice irony isn't there - comes in , tells us we are stereotyped, patronises us and flounces off. Very funny. grin

Smoluski Fri 22-Feb-13 22:06:45

Think she needed her legs slapping ..grin

glassortwo Fri 22-Feb-13 21:30:34

Oh I am too late again grin

NfkDumpling Fri 22-Feb-13 21:08:46

Point of Order?

P****d Off?

annodomini Fri 22-Feb-13 14:09:35

The cards with no greeting are usually the nicest anyway. I like to write my own message and appreciate it if I receive cards like this.

JessM Fri 22-Feb-13 13:52:54

Or are all the postings about cards actually wind ups? Seem to have succeeded.

Madrigal Fri 22-Feb-13 13:46:51

My solution - buy blank cards with images you like and personalise them with your inside greeting. I don't even buy cards with ages on the front let alone Mum, Gran, my darling husband...(actually don't have one of those but the principle applies).

JessM Fri 22-Feb-13 13:11:43

i still dont know if she was on about cards or stereotyping. Can't get the cheeky, incoherent madams these days can you? grin

soop Fri 22-Feb-13 13:01:55

Anyone for a nice cuppa?
#slurpsanddripsdownfrontofcardi