My Cardiff pension.

I don't think everybody who threatens to leave gets begged to stay!

Sad, isn't it, Diva. Gransnet was a very nice place at the very beginning. And it still is a good place to be if you choose the right threads. Unfortunately, there are some posters who have the knack of turning a well-intentioned, humorous thread into something unpleasant and threatening.

This thread exemplifies the reasons why I rarely post on Gransnet, having been there at the very start and watched the site grow.

You are quite wrong, Movedalot. Galen was very upset and it took a lot of persuading by her friends to get her to stay.

I rather think Galen was joking when she said she would leave! Maybe we should all say it and then we can all be begged to stay?

Love 'wooden spoonology', never heard it before.

I miss loads by logging off early evening. What a lot you guys get up to!

Good morning, Galen. I hope you are ok today and look forward to seeing you chatting on the threads later

Just read the last evening's "goings-on" and it is sad to see the usual suspects being their usual unpleasant selves. What a shame. Let's hope this morning those responsible can zip it, leave Galen alone and start being a little more grown up!

soop's kitchen looks like the best place to be at times like this

This thread went a bit OTTdid it not? I hope tempers have cooled and that some people have recovered their sense of humour not to mention proportion. It never warranted all the heat which was generated did it?

lol LOL... lol

Yay! Adjournment is declared.
Refreshments aplenty over at soops.

She's just come down in her curlers, taken one look and gone back to bed!

do you think soop will still be up? I'm sure she wouldnt' mind if we crept in quietly, and for all you drinkers others, I think the banter bar may still be open

That's very welcome, bikergran. We should all congregate in soop's kitchen and relax

slurrrrrrrrrp

Ooh, yes please, Biker! Make mine a nice, CHILLED Sauvignon Blanc, please!

Thanks, biker, don't mind if I do...

from me.

glass of anyone?

I don't believe I ever said, or insinuated, "compelled".

Yes absent. As I have said, I remember that ocassion very well. Was surprised at the time that you seemed to think it was all your fault tbh. But it's old ground now. Since then I have left several times without saying anything.

Come to think of it, I may have suggested it would be best for me to leave. It was about five months after GN started and it was the result of being thoroughly and nastily bullied on what is now a zombie thread. I remember I was actually in tears at the time. (Never again!)

grannylin , right back at you

gracemum , I did not say I would like Galen to leave , get your facts right , don"t want you going off on one !!

j08 I'm pretty sure that you announced your first departure because I was shocked to read about it in the morning having switched off my computer early the previous evening and you made it clear that it was a comment I had made that "compelled" you to resign. Obviously, I didn't know at that stage that you were going to resign and rejoin quite so many times.

STOP

Everyone log out, close down their PCs and laptops, make a cuppa and GO TO BED

If this thread continues to get nastier and nastier, we could be seeing mass deletions and bans, there will be no need for anyone to leave Gransnet, there will be no-one left to leave.

If you ask me, it would be a good thing if the whole thread were deleted, not for the posts that started it but for the sheer spitefulness that has been shown. A stranger would be forgiven for thinking that the main aim of some of it is to drive out many of the posters and destroy the forum altogether.

Well, you could be nearer to that goal than you think. Why would anyone go to the trouble of posting anything interesting, funny, supportive, thoughtful, when all this bile and venom is being thrown about?

I don't think I want to!

I don't think I am in a hole. (although I will be very shortly in my bed)