Will my mum like Gransnet?

JO8 I mean

Absent You've forgotten the resident doctor Galen. And JO7 I think it's rather charming to see a daughter caring for her mum. Perhaps there are days when we would all like to be fondly patted on the head. I hope my infinitive wasn't too split

galen/bags ,I think that's what gramps uses

absent well said.

Must confess I've never heard the term "storm converter"

Bags can't some computers talk to you? (Thinking of your mum)

Better not let her see the insult generator thread.

TigerDriver You mum has the pick of all the different forums she is sure to find something that will grab her interest from older memories to being an up to the minute member of GN well done her, get her registered and posting she will love it.

Will you be vetting her posts?

Patting her on the head?

Do you control everything she does?

Point her in this direction and let her decide for herself.

I think she will enjoy Gransnet. As well as talking online we meet up too

I think it might be quite easy to not look at a thread with a reference to insults in the header if one doesn't like 'rude' words. Patronising to expect otherwise, really

None of which we innocents grans have ever heard before!

There are quite a few reall rude words on the thread bags started

TigerDriver We have fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties, long-time married, second-time-rounders, civil partners, widowed and divorced, retirees, full-time careerists and part-timers, left-wingers, right-wingers, middle-of-the-roaders and non-politicos, regular church-goers, storm converters, agnostics, atheists and don't-think-about-its, ex-teachers, translators, hairdressers, social workers, entrepreneurs, tax inspectors, administrators, nurses… We even have some granddads. Your mum is bound to like some if it.

My mum, who is 83, would love it. Unfortunately, she can't see well enough to use a computer. Make the most of it, tigerdriversmum

We are not generally given to rowing, although inevitably there is the occasional tiff, but with such a range of subjects under discussion at any one time, you can just avoid the threads that are getting a bit stroppy.

We also do not swear or use bad language on Gransnet. Generally speaking we are a happy group of friendly people always ready to welcome a new member when we see them.

So, TigerDriver welcome, in advance, to your mother.

We don't do 'sweary rows' I think the term used on GNet is 'robust debate'

Seriously, introduce your Mum to the site & let her decide whether or not its her thing.

Oh good. Any tips for her? When I see her next I want to get her on here, I think she'll love it as long as she doesn't have a sweary row with anyone straightaway

Yes.