It might be a first world problem, which is a thoroughly up to date phrase (as opposed to giddy limit!!), but it could be a very real problem at that moment to that person.
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Don't want to completely hi-jack the 'Christmas in four words' thread so I've started this one. Feel free to shoot me down. I don't do flouncing. 
Some time ago, the 'What does Gransnet mean to you?'thread developed into a 'Bring back jingl' campaign. Despite this, it has become clear that we are not entitled to an explanation as to why she is still shackled to the naughty step
We inhabit a goldfish bowl which must be respectable to the outside world looking in on an ageing cyber community. Old people are only expected to be curmudgeonly in books and TV nonsense. Manufactured threads about growing old disgracefully are perfectly acceptable so long as they fit the approved template which has been set by people who are NOT as old as we are.
All well and good until a situation causes a ding-dong. We must be ever mindful that Gransnet is a business relying on advertising revenue. Swearing is tolerated on Mumsnet because it's acceptable in the young and feisty whereas the 'one foot in the grave' club have to leave all that behind and remember our opinions don't really count any more.
The political threads are argumentative because that's politics. You can't put a straight jacket on a well informed if opiniated point of view which is as it should be. Folk who hide behind the sofa when all hell breaks loose should know better than to get caught in the cross-fire.
So....We're allowed to moan about Brexit, complain about our aches and pains and chat about telly dramas/adverts/music. We willingly offer support to complete strangers even though it often comes back to bite us. I'm not the only one who can spot a set-up. Above all, we must remain bland!
There were two members who railed against this. One is sadly no longer with us and the other has been kicked into touch for being too outspoken. Unsurprisingly, they rarely saw eye to eye but that's LIFE!
I'm off to put the joint in the oven. I might even start a thread about it. 
Only joking!
Anyway catch up with this later (as it's actually getting quite interesting) I'm off out to the Curry House. 
It must be years and years since I heard that phrase 'the giddy limit' kitty Thanks for that!
I think that someone who starts a thread about something Eg husbands watching football, is maybe, in that minute, needing an outlet so GN serves a purpose. They could have loads of other issues and that was the giddy limit.
I have excuse for asking about tvs! 
Tricia when I feel well again, I just might do that!
NanKate judging by the theme of some of the threads they've already done that!
I do hope we get Jing back one day. Most of what she said I didn't agree with, but we need Gransnetters to hot things up from time to time or we will become bland and uninteresting.
If we say things that HQ or other GN members don't like, I wonder if they will put a sedative in our Horlicks to shut us up - snore, snore
Er, for those who are posting on this thread about topics that have been "done to death" - so has this one! 
So, anyone who's not happy with GN any more should just bog off then?
Oh dear Anya - you've mentioned all the threads that I've posted on today.
Why don't you start a controversial thread?
NanaandGrandpy asks 'Isn't there room for everything?' Well, maybe there is.... And everyone? Clearly not.
Edginess can be irresistible to some and unacceptable to others. Whatever crime jingl has committed would not have been dealt with so severely by the old guard.
kitty - do not apologise! You can ask about TVs and Anya can ignore it 
Surely it takes all sorts.
Shanma, you can't expect GN to be run on your guidelines - it has to work for everyone. We get the perpetual moaning about acronyms - why?
If the threads aren't to a particular person's taste, that person should start some that are, but do you/we all only have deep and meaningful conversations with y/our friends in RL!
I apologise for asking about the number of tvs, Anya, but I was slightly shocked to discover we have four, although I do actually know that we have 4.
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