I am on Gransnet avoiding....

How many minutes on the naughty step annsixty, I guess it's one minute for every year of your life. An hour it is then (going by your user name)

I think there is a reason to learn from yesterday's pettiness debacle.

Gigi, come back we are mostly kind and helpful with a strange sense of humour, most of us don't want to upset people.

And quite right Annsixty !!! Do you realise you have to stay there fir a minute of every year you have lived? so is that 60 minutes for you?

It isn't only a chat line - some threads are lighthearted and fun ( or should be), others debate important political and social issues and others, a real, real strength, offer support to people who are going through some of the most heart breaking experiences that can be imagined. There's no point in revisiting yesterday's debacle and certainly not to be flippant about it - flippancy and inappropriate lightheartedness have led to two real upsets this week.

Well, that's me on the naughty step!!

Please don't be so patronising Annsixty there is a serious issue here.

Calm down ladies, it's only a chat line.

I wonder if we'll ever hear from gigi again? She says she didn't come to GN for a slanging match, but that's exactly what she got, and she felt she had caused it.
But she didn't did she?
And her parting remark was that she'd leave you all to it. You can hardly blame her if she's bee driven away.
I think certain people (note the plural) ought to ask themselves what that was all about

Flipping heck

Well done Sel - that's raised the tone. Very helpful.

And gigi not everyone is sanctimonious

I took Giginannas remarks as a slightly tongue in cheek way of saying she was just enjoying GN, but thought she ought to sound as if she was doing something useful, such as improving her mind.

Like others here desperately making excuse for not getting on with things.

Hello Giginannas Welcome to the art of time wasting.
Right now for me its going to bed.

giginanna don't be put off by thoughtless /unkind comments. Most GNers are more friendly. Welcome..hope to see you post again.

Puerile.

What the hell has happened to Gransnet? How can a new member be driven away in such a short space of time when all she did was post a FRIENDLY AND COMPLIMENTARY COMMENT on a chatty thread? What is going on? I have always resisted the references to playground behaviour when there has been disagreement on the forums but this is like something out of one of those silly teen movies. What a shame - and, indeed, how childish!

Love the sarcasm, bluebell! You'll fit in really well on here...

But Ana people didn't see mine! And JOs interesting, helpful, witty, sophisticated post is still there. Also, I was responding to the comment she made to the new- now-apparently-ex member which several
people found unacceptable. But anyway Ana thank you SO much for that invaluable contribution to the discussion - very, very helpful

Surely Ana you can see that Jo numbers made a discourteous response to a new member which was quite uncalled for and clearly provoked a riposte. I (and I imagine most others) didn't read those as they were almost immediately deleted. Although Bluebell explained later the thrust of what she had said. I dislike discourtesy of any kind, but especially on a lighthearted thread like this where it is particularly inappropriate. So, I condemn Jo numbers' comment and I feel that it was correct that it should have been challenged. I didn't read those posts but Bags has probably forensically analysed the reasons why those posts went and Jo numbers' didn't.

I don't care if the 'sick bucket' comment 'wasn't aimed at anyone in particular' I still think it was a disgusting thing to say to anyone. Bluebells comments [which I didn't see] seemed to be a reply to the rudeness of J08's comment. Am I just being stupid by feeling that the sick bucket comment was aimed at the OP or did other people [including the OP] get the same impression?

I felt compelled to question the condemnation of J08's post and the quoting of GNHQ guidelines while ignoring the fact that bluebell had obviously broken them. That's the pity, in my view.

Ana, I'm disappointed that you that make assumptions about me which have absolutely no basis in fact.

I did not read Bluebell's comments. They had gone before I logged on, so don't assume that I am biased in my condemnation of discourtesy.

But as far as I can see the nastiness was begun by Jo numbers. What a pity you feel compelled to support a discourteous member whose views you agree with.

got my ^s muddled up with my *s there. #nevermind

I did't come to gransnet for a slanging match and certainly didn't mean to cause one! Thanks to those who told me to stick around.... But I think I'll leave you to it.

Yeah. Sharpen up bluebell. #bringiton