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Hasn't some of Gransnet got shrill?

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janeainsworth Fri 12-Apr-13 21:39:03

Absent I'm not sure which thread(s) you are specifically referring to - I've only been on GN sporadically this week - but I have just read the MT thread, and 'shrill' isn't the word I would use.
Telling other posters to FO and calling them sh*t is not acceptable in any circumstances and I hope the moderators will take appropriate action.
angry

absent Fri 12-Apr-13 21:09:38

j08 I have too. You posted frequently and at great length about David Walliams swimming the Thames and I thought your extreme excitement a little OTT. I apologised then and since – I don't know how many times – about upsetting you. Do you really have to bring that one up again? I should have thought in the general scheme of things it was pretty small potatoes.

I didn't "drag up" your comment; I merely remarked on it as an example of the direction in which Gransnet seems to have been moving recently. I could easily have picked half a dozen others.

Bloody holy? hmm

j08 Fri 12-Apr-13 20:58:09

Oh, would you really care if you were banned bluebell? It's a load of time wasting cobblers anyway.

bluebell Fri 12-Apr-13 20:54:54

Well I'm about to be banned - see MT thread but I've had a bloody nuff

j08 Fri 12-Apr-13 20:51:09

Some people come across as natural bullies. No names!

But I have got a memory absent.

j08 Fri 12-Apr-13 20:48:54

Oh and you're so bloody holy aren't you absent?!

I notice you 've dragged up one of my comments. I explained what I meant by that at the time.

You are just trouble making with this thread.

glassortwo Fri 12-Apr-13 20:48:16

Than not that!

glassortwo Fri 12-Apr-13 20:47:55

It would take more that a spat about that woman to split us all up.

Galen Fri 12-Apr-13 20:43:06

Amazing, three similar posts within seconds!

Peace allsmile

Galen Fri 12-Apr-13 20:41:20

I really hope not, because when any of us have problems. We all rally round and help.
It would be such a shame if all the good that has been wrought disappeared down the proverbial Swanee.
I just hope that when the late lady baroness is buried all this ill will is buried with her!

annodomini Fri 12-Apr-13 20:38:04

There are, however, many threads where we are empathic and supportive of other members who are in various kinds of distress. There are spats from time to time - maybe in our off-line lives we don't encounter many people who have opinions diametrically opposed to ours and Gransnet gives us access to ways of thinking we don't relate to easily. There are many strong women with strong opinions and forceful ways of expressing them but there should be no reason why they can't tolerate and have regard for the opinions of others. A bit of humour doesn't go amiss either.

Nelliemoser Fri 12-Apr-13 20:37:47

Absent As you rightly said its "That Womans fault." #ducksforcover.

To be fair I have seen much worse spats on here. As has been said before to some its water off a ducks back, others take it very much as an insult. I doubt if that can be changed.
#peaceforgetthatcher.

absent Fri 12-Apr-13 20:26:12

I have (unfairly) been accused of all sorts of things from bullying an individual to the verbal equivalent of stalking and from terrorising the whole of the rest of Gransnet (poor weak and feeble creatures that you are) to deliberately and persistently misrepresenting what other people have posted, but I have never seen so many shrill posts as those appearing at the moment. Things seem to be becoming nasty and spiteful in a way that they have never been previously. There are quite a lot of childish na-na-nana type posts. Is it all to do with Baroness Thatcher – clearly as divisive in death as she was in life or is it something else all together? There have been comments about Gransnetters worshipping false gods and suggestions that those whose political leanings are to the left have, by definition, closed minds. What is happening? Is Gransnet going to fall apart when it is only two years old? How sad is that?