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GadaboutGran Wed 15-May-13 10:47:53

... getting ready & thinking through my 3 min slot in 2 hours time telling Local Authority Chief Exec & 'partners' (I hate that word) that the Volunteers they could be using may look like old grannies but are so much more than the official 3 day course training them for this particular volunteer role (as Restorative justice facilitators).

What are you avoiding by going on Gransnet?

soop Thu 16-May-13 13:02:28

Attention all Rory fans...#needadiversion
Three new photos in my album. Numbers 7,8 & 9

j08 Thu 16-May-13 13:01:44

Oh we've got one of those! confused

j08 Thu 16-May-13 13:00:50

[spinning brain emoticon]

Tegan Thu 16-May-13 12:51:50

Now I understand how gransnet works. It's ok to be rude to someone as long as you're clever enough to do it 'within the rules'. But it's not ok to complain to that person that you feel they've upset someone.Therefore, what we should do is contact HQ, although nothing will be done because no rules have been broken. I get it now. Catch 22. confused

Aka Thu 16-May-13 11:14:31

Are you implying that we on GN are 'old' Stansgran? As opposed to mature?

Stansgran Thu 16-May-13 11:11:05

Yes he's a real peach. But balance him out with a Tutu Jess.

Faye Thu 16-May-13 11:10:43

When I was little, I thought the queen lived in Queensland. hmm

JessM Thu 16-May-13 11:02:14

grin stansgran - and now you know about Robert Mugabe the scales have fallen from your eyes. grin

Stansgran Thu 16-May-13 10:28:14

When I was little I thought all old people were lovely.

Aka Thu 16-May-13 10:16:07

That's his name 'ink'

Aka Thu 16-May-13 10:15:14

Getting heavy again with all this 'us and them'. It's not even a heavy thread title FGS. Go and argue on the Religion or Politics threads please, that's what they're there for. We're all just sitting on the naughty step stoking flower's cat [ink]

Movedalot Thu 16-May-13 10:11:20

I agree with you on this occassion j08 but they think they are very clever and don't seem to realise that we all see through them.

Ella46 Thu 16-May-13 10:10:40

I think it sounds like the naughty step is the fun place to be........wink

j08 Thu 16-May-13 10:09:23

I would have thought ginnananna (sp) could have weathered that remark.

It is a fact that some posters ars very transparent.

Aka Thu 16-May-13 10:05:02

Are you still on the naughty step?

annsixty Thu 16-May-13 09:57:40

Yes sorry about that. I stand corrected.

Movedalot Thu 16-May-13 09:54:19

I don't know what all the fuss is about! Those of you who have been around for any length of time will know that j08 has a tendency to be flippant and sometimes insensitive but no more than that surely? When I read her comment I thought it might have been directed at me and just saw it as flippant and nothing more. I certainly wasn't upset in any way about it. On the other hand HQ will have read bluebell's posts and decided they are not suitable for the thread and therefore deleted them.

I do hope this is no more than a storm in a teacup and not a way of attacking a poster who some do not agree with. I have been in that position, attacked by people for no reason and they dress it up as if it was just a difference of opinion.

Much worse imo is when posters deliberately misinterpret what one has written in order to make it appear that a poster has said something entirely different to what they intended. sad

And on a lighter note - what's all this about chat lines? I thought this was a forum? Chat lines have a totally different conotation grin

Aka Thu 16-May-13 09:33:39

Back to the OP, this is too addictive. So off to do something more productive, point the brickwork, clean the outside windows, brush the moss off the roof, write to the PM, think big. Bye.

Aka Thu 16-May-13 09:30:51

I thought she'd fallen OUT of the window!

Flowerofthewest Thu 16-May-13 09:27:17

No, Aka, luckily she slipped onto the carpet indoors grin She relaxes so efficiently that she just slides off anything she is sleeping on. She will never learn smile

annsixty Thu 16-May-13 09:20:58

Acually the sixty came from another source and I must spend nearly 76 minutes on that step but reading comments I won't be on my own, it must get rather crowded at times.

Aka Thu 16-May-13 09:17:05

Is it ok flower? Hope you don't live on the 6th floor?

Sel Thu 16-May-13 09:06:51

Oooh Flower that made me laugh, then look for a hidden meaning, then conclude that your cat did just fall off the windowsill. Deep grin

Flowerofthewest Thu 16-May-13 08:58:34

Oops, cat just fell off the windowsill confused

Flowerofthewest Thu 16-May-13 08:57:49

Ah that will teach me Aka not to overlook others comments, never mind as they say great gransnet minds think alike grin