If you think GN can get a little heated.....

I don't deliberately antagonise Galen.

Are we all supposed to keep in line? With whom?

No Ana; nor has anyone ever suggested that we should. I know I have no sense of humour but I can usually recognise a joke when I see one.

crackling rosie No, but sometimes think you post without thinking?
Hey! Just seen SNOW forecast for Scotland, hope our Bags is ok?

Hmm...

(that was to absent)

Why would anyone put much thought into this?

Absent, it's not so much what you lack…

absent if you haven't got a sense of humour I will eat my hat.

Sad that threads have to be de-railed by Jingle's need to cause strife. The same old, boring pattern again and again, ad infinitum. Have you ever tried to curb it, Jingle? Do you actually GET anything out of being a Gransnet member? You don't appear to

What have I said now?! I simply complimented some posters on their sinfulness.

Saintliness!!! sodding Fire!

j08 is entertaining.

That's so unfair, when. This thread hasn't been 'de-railed' at all - it's a continuing discussion about the content of the OP.

Sash! Lara is probably waiting in the wings. I am under Special Measures.

Well, if we lose you, jingl, there's no hope for GN. Blandness will rule...

Keep telling 'em that. I should be alright then.

I can't believe what I am reading. Oh how 'holier than thou' and such hypocrisy from some!

What?

You said, when, that you 'hate personal attacks, jibes and insults'. If this is the case then your comments to Jingle are hypocritical in the extreme!

Exactly Ceesnan and I'm constantly subject to personal attacks by one particular person.

j08 I do not mind what people think of me, never have, but it is interesting now and again to know how others perceive you. It also helps if you want to put your views across in a manner that you hope will convince other people.

I will also jump to your defence. I like your waspish interventions, and that is a single sided compliment, no underside. Oysters need grit to make pearls and a good discussion needs someone prepared to lob in the odd comment aimed at stirring things up.

'I find Gransnet to be a haven of polite, kind, intelligent people, mostly women, with a scattering of some very nice men.'
Worth repeating, I think!

not quite the way I would have described it Greatnan but certainly interesting

I agree Greatnan, Iv'e been on GN for nearly a week now, and I find myself laughing along with some of the antics of members. I also think that this country should be run by you ladies, because as someone said, a lot of men are full of testosterone, and have no idea how to treat people. So lets all respect each others views, disagree sometimes, but lets not start slagging each other off.