If Radio 1 do play that wretched song.....

Perhaos I didn't make myself quite clear - would youo be so kind as to explain the relevance of your comment Get Real.
Mightly?? Mightily?

I did also ask why I was singled out in your ciriticism "I do not think it behoves you.....etc" but you haven't seen fit to answer. and your response: "The opinions some times concur , sometimes they don"T
fails to enlighten me.

OR!!! Perhaps you are all just bonkers.

Gracemum , Google ? a tool that is mightly useful

I wonder if you all watch too much telly during the day and see too much news too often. So that it's foremost in your minds all the time.

Just trying to account for it.

Elegran , and counting , sad to say .

Explain "Get real" please.

What on earth do you mean Grace , why on Gods sweet earth would anyone need MY blessing .

People as far as I can see , go their own sweet way .

The opinions some times concur , sometimes they don"T

Get real.

gracesmum I did say little group. . However, I still have steam coming out of my ears about some of the things that have been said about me on this thread.

Really can't type today that was clearly meant to be vicious - and I note that Greatnan among others made the same suggestion. But it's not OK for Gracesmum - ah well.

Why not? I thought it a more than reasonable suggestion - does anybody else have your blessing to suggest it then? I think the attack on Absent was much more vivious and unjustified, but I leave that up to you, Absent. NOMB

Good Lord , this is turning into an almighty behemoth , I do not think it behoves you gracemum , to tell jo to apologise .

very

Does 2 people constitute a group Absent?? I think the consensus was that it was ill-timed and ill-judged.

Suggesting that you might blow up someone, i.e. kill or injure them, is not funny at any time; it is especially crass when people have been killed or injured by bombs the day before. I suppose it is possible for someone to comment about blowing up someone else without making the connection with what had just happened in Boston even though it was all over the media all the time. That's not the way my mind compartmentalises, I'm glad to say. To attack me for pointing out that this was a distasteful and unfunny thing to say is a ludicrous and puerile response. For your little group of followers to chime in with their pennyworth of abuse was predictable but extremely sad.

I agree.

Jingle, I accept that you were not thinking of the Boston explosions, but it would probably have been better if you had just said 'Oh, sorry, I wasn't thinking about that'.
And I also often have the feeling that I am talking (or not) to somebody I have spoken to before under a different forum name. Confusing, isn't it?

Is this a record? But maybe not the most felicitous turn of phrase given the thread title!!

Fourteen pages.

This is just beyond me.

Unbelievable.

I think I'd better ask gransnet to ban me once and for all. I just can't think like you do.

Granted, you weren't thinking - that is obvious, nobody would be so crass as to say it deliberately, but it doesn't preclude the inappropriateness of the "joke" - these things happen. Say sorry for the bad timing and move on. Your defensive aggressive reaction says to me you definitely were in a hole.

I think this says more about you lot than it does me.

When I posted that post I wasn't thinking about Boston at all. It's hardly likely to be in my mind all the time.

I did n' t know I was in a hole gracesmum!

#smallmindedpeople

And Sel - [spoon] emoticon - why go there?

But it wasn't funny - esier to admit it, apologise if necessary as clearly unintentional and retreat gracefully instead of trying to justify it. When in a hole........

Not all gransnetters, of course. Most are lovely.

Just a few.......

I'm about to start reading the book of the month. I really hope it is as absorbing as others have said it is. I so need to get away from the nastiness that is Gransnet.