Disappeared

Perhaps c.france has never felt the urge to stick up for a pal and to rant against apparent unfairness and just doesn't understand the feeling.

It's still weird to read a thread you hate.

I personally stand on my own two feet and am not easily "offended" nana.

I defend that right too, n&g, I just think it's weird—really quite bananas—to read a thread that's on a subject that heartily sickens one.

I defend the right of people to report what they find offensive SAAK just as I support the right for people to post those comments in the first place.

It's fine to be heartily sick of anything you want, christinefrance. I, for one, don't care if you are heartily sick of anything at all that I post on GN, and I hope others feel the same. I just wonder, alongside that feeling of not giving a damn what makes you heartily sick, why you've read this thread once you realised its tenor?

I think Christine said "beatification" rather than "beautification" ... did she?

Well maybe people should have supported her more then rather than let the site be over-run by snide pearl clutchers and do nothing.

You don't have to read or post on this thread Christinefrance, if you're so 'heartily sick'...

No we haven't Trisher but there must be more posters who are heartily sick of the beatification of jbf.

I have a good idea

Except that nobody knows who the reporters are unless they fess up to their pals. And if they are real pals they won't snitch.

Why are you worried about that then trisher?

Oh saak you've got me worried- I agree with you!!!!!

People that "report" should be "reported". Unless the content is very extreme and I haven't seen any. I personally have never reported anyone. I certainly wouldn't want controversial views stopped, it makes for a more interesting site.

Lots of people on here flood topics with consecutive posts.

Like ana, I really miss jingl. I've said many times that her banishment is totally unfair but brick wall, head and bang spring to mind.

dbf - dear best friend?
I've said before J. was OK in my view, but I used to find it irritating how she tended to "flood" a topic, posting successively lots of times. Which personally made me lose interest in the subject.
But that's me - we're all different.

That should be jbf why does it keep correcting to dbf (anybody know if that means something?)

My family know and think it's hilarious, they do tend to ask if we discuss the best walking sticks and hearing aids, but I just kick them and they soon shut up!
We haven't yet had a post from someone who joined because dbf had gone!

I really, really miss her. And I'm not ashamed to say it!

BTW, I don't think my family members look me up on here or on Twitter. They've no need to because anything I'd say here I'd say to them too and often do. I think the thing is with Jings that she didn't pretend to be anything she wasn't. An admirable quality, I think.

I mention Gransnet and stuff that's being discussed on it all the time. My family know who I am on Gransnet and on Twitter. They pretty much always have. Minibags decorated an apron for me during her holiday with cousins in upstate New York last summer and my Twitter ID is beautifully calligraphed onto it in fabric paint/ink.

When a friend was getting divorced some years ago, and pretty stressed with the whole deal even though it wasn't acrimonious, she posted this, which I think is spot on, on her FB: "Be yourself. People who mind don't matter and people who matter won't mind". I like to think jings lives by that rule too. Good for her.

#not really a rule, just a guiding principle; I expect some people will misinterpret it and say it means one can be nasty. No. Like all motivational sayings, it's just a useful way of looking at some of the pissiness of life.

Likewise annsixty.
I never mention GN by name, will occasionaly comment on something "on a forum I belong to"

I'm sure I would have liked her very much!

MargaretX It's an internet forum for 'old' people

annsixty