Times change – faster than you think

I love the idea of the fairy tale thread Mary. Do you fancy starting it for us as you know the rules? I quite fancy being Cinderella as long as it doesn’t include housework ?

Kate, someone started something similar recently, but it didn't go anywhere.
Let me put my thinking cap on.?
It may have been Chewy or Lemongrove, who started the original one, I can't remember. ☹️

I remember the opening of the Argy, Marydoll. I joined in with the fun and was encouraged to write a smutty limerick.

The wrath of a certain posted descended and I was accused of being coarse.

Not the fault of the Argy and all who sail in her and I did pop in a few times but it put me off to think that a bit of risqué humour is only allowed for some.

I can’t remember much past last month Marydoll

Merlot that’s awful! ( it wasn’t me I hope?)?

Come in and write whatever you like.

No, it definitely wasn't you, lemon

Children do an awful lot of growing in nine and a half(ish) years. They come into the world completely innocent. By the time they nine years old some are still quite innocent but many are no longer very innocent at all. Why is that? Is it nature or nurture, a debate rages to this day. A similar debate has raged whether killers are born evil or whether they are they made.

One thing is certain. The human race, Homo Sapiens, as a species are mammals. Mammals are predators. Homo Sapiens are top of the food chain. The top predators.

We all know this. We are not innocent of it. We all know mammals can rip other mammals apart for food. Cannibalism still exists.

I can't say what Gransnet was like in 2011 or any other year except 2020. What I can say though is human nature hasn't changed. So why do long-standing members of this site think and feel the site and the tone in threads has changed? I'm not saying it has or hasn't but the membership will have grown from nothing. It has gotten bigger. Perhaps there's not enough food to go around to keep people happy? What do humans do when there appears not to be plenty to share and more to spare?

I have been a member of Gransnet just over eight months. As a measure of time this site has been running I am a child. I am not an innocent. I do not pretend to be something I am not. I do not fabricate or exaggerate. I know who I am. You do not know who I am. There are judgements made. Judgements made about me and maybe I am making judgements about you. Can I share your food? Are you willing to share? I will share mine but if you steal it am I likely to share again? Would you share again if I stole your food?

Blimey!

I still don’t remember when I joined but I am old enough to remember Lil’s bar followed by Pete’s sports bar , the forerunners of the Argy, we had some very good times.

Perhaps there's not enough food to go around to keep people happy?

There is no limit on the number of threads that can be started and there are any number of topics with wide-ranging headings, so there should be no problem.

I agree Callistemon there shouldn't be a problem but obviously a lot of people are not happy with what is written and the twists and turns on GN threads.

Oh, the Gransnet Olympics, now you’re talking. I did very well there till someone contaminated the pool with toxic axle grease and the resulting webbed feet led to me being disqualified from the 10 metre doggy- paddle-with-armbands event.

There was talk of the GN team reforming for Tokyo. Curse you, Covid 19!

NanKate, I await the call for 2021.

In debate it does not matter if you have 'friends' or not. If you hold a pricipled belief or opinion you stick to it unless someone presents evidence to make you reconsider. You don't change your view because it is the minority.
I cannot be upset by people I don't know. I can be annoyed by people's opinions and attitudes and offer my opinion on the same issue. I can be empathetic to situations and offer advice.
I have done both and people, who do not know me, tell me I am wrong, unkind, thoughtless etc. Never usually the OP though!

I have been to a few meet ups in the past and met some lovely women. We were able to share a happy couple of hours over coffee , cakes or wine..that does not make us clones in our opinions

When I joined I remember there was one poster who clearly liked more than one tipple of an evening and would get VERY angry ! I found it mildly amusing. I Like the variety of characters on GN even though some infuriate me sometimes ! I do object to over zealous policing though and obvious windups.

A limerick in the Argy by Merlot
Unsolicited criticism has brought her low
So because of some nut
We cannot write smut
What else can we do here from furlough

It was not an original rhyme,
You can find them online all the time,
Someone said I was coarse
From atop a high horse,
Plagiarism was really my crime!

I joined donkeys years ago under the guise of Nellydeane,and was instrumental in creating Lils bar originally,great fun.

I left for a year or so due to work commitments, and rejoined about 6 years ago.

I read a lot of the threads,but only occasionally post

The event I offered to take part in for the Gransnet Olympics was the "Whipping Off An Umcomfortable Bra Race".
One kindly male Gransnetter offered to help me train for it - I politely declined!!

I suggested horizontal jogging might be considered...

‘Nothing stays the same’. Very true.

Really, DanniRae and downtoearth, lowering the tone of the noble Olympics!!

Though there was definitely a pole dancing event, where I seem to remember a gran gamely competed against Melania Trump, wearing surgical stockings and a g-string emblazoned with the GN logo (the gran that is, not Melania).

Do you also remember the panto we did one Christmas .
A now missing poster and I did “Nobody loves a fairy when she’s forty” suitably attired in pink tutus, wings and wands.

annsixty

Do you also remember the panto we did one Christmas .
A now missing poster and I did “Nobody loves a fairy when she’s forty” suitably attired in pink tutus, wings and wands.

Ooh, I’d like to see the video of that

What a strange post, CherryCezzy. It’s only a chat forum for the over 50s.........

Actually so would I Lisagran
What a good job it is that all our events are virtual.

Oh my word! The Olympics sound amazing!!
Can I search for them?
The level of wit on here is fabulous.
I came here for some female company, and got it in spades.
Women are bloody great, aren't we?