My Cardiff pension.

bluebell

Ana get yourself banned and I'll PM you and you can try to reply!

I'm just wondering, Elegran, whether it's possible for a banned (if indeed that is the case) member to reply to a PM? It seems that they can be sent, but I'm not sure if a reply would be allowed.

If he had been banned surely the PM would not have gone? Perhaps he is on holiday or been suspended for a short while?

In the spirit of "always go to the source if at all possible" I have PMed the subject of this discussion to ask how he feels about it. As the PM went on its way OK, he must still be there. It will be interesting to hear what he (or his biographer, if he is not writing his own posts) has to say.

My prediction is that he either is not bothered by it, as adverse comment always seemed to run off him like the proverbial water off a ducks back, or that he is not reading either the forums or his posts from Gransnet, so will know nothing about it and not answer.

I wasn't taking the piss. I loved that style of writing; it was so soothing. I miss it.

soop (sorry)

Well soops, each to her own......

I happen to like and miss Frank...just saying.

Oh come on, a spoof on what was by any standards a very odd and distinctive style of posting on a very limited range of subjects. Bullying?

"without" duh!

A brilliant parody Galen - I found it uwithout malice- quite gentle and I do not think You-know-who would have taken umbrage. Unkinder comments have been made . Sometimes I thought he knew exactly what our opinions were re, for instance ,Bums nTums and I discerned no umbrage or offence. A welcome laugh!!

I beg to differ. Bullying can be very subtle.

This is a forum - the minute you join it and start posting, you open yourself up to a whole range of comments, some of which are mocking, unkind and thoughtless. We have, as adults, to decide if we can hack that - I avoid posting on certain personal topics as I won't run the risk of some comments I might get . If you think someone has gone too far, then report it - although I know some members regard this as telling tales. Posts would become extremely anodyne if we worried all the time about the thiness of people's skins - within reason of course. A spoof on a distinctive style is hardly bullying in any meaningful sense of the word.

Some of us are more thick-skinned than others and all I know is that I would be distraught if anyone did this to me. What some see as "teasing" I would regard as mockery or even bullying. How can anyone know how another is going to receive it especially in their absence? Tell me to lighten up if you like but all I know is that I had a horrible gut feeling of sadness when I read this thread.

J08 It was you I believe who referred to him in a thread header in terms something like a "daft old bat." You complaining about ridicule etc brings "Pots and Kettles" to mind with regard to many of your comments on other issues.

The original threads did not mention any names. That was left to imagination and supposition.

Frankly, I think he would be pleased that he's been missed and that most of us knew who the thread was taking off. It was a bit of gentle Micky taking that's all.

Galen Brilliant! Very funny and clever

And it's boring and predictable - plenty of material for a pastiche......goes away to think....(but Galen has set the bar high)

jo you are doing nothing but complain about this forum at the moment. if its not the people that run it, it's the people that are members.

Thanks for that everyone.

Anyone in the whole wide world can read everything written on these threads, Movedalot. it is not restricted to members. you have to be a member to post but not to read.

That is why we should not post anything we would not want the whole wide world to read, and why GN comes down like a ton of bricks on anyone revealing what is in a private email.

mal, you need to be logged in to post on a thread. You don't need to be logged in to read threads.

I don't think Galen's post was meant to be cruel. If he who cannot be named does read this thread I am sure he would take it in good humour (as I believe it was intended).

So, the logical conclusion is, if you don't want what you say or how you say it to be criticised or made fun of, don't put it on a public forum.