IRONIC HUMOUR ..........BUT so true

What is cancel culture and what fog?.............

I think it’s all about extremes, and never being able to find that middle ground.
I remember being ridiculed by teachers at school, and they should never have been allowed to punish physically, caning, slippering etc.
However, now we’re too far the other way. The teachers are ridiculed by the pupils, and quite often physically hurt too.
This just seems to apply to everything now. We don’t like something, so we go straight to the other end, and that doesn’t work either.
‘ common sense’, unfortunately, is not common at all. We all have different ideas on everything, what’s right and wrong. The major thing I’ve felt over the years...is that we have to be so careful what we say all the time, lest we offend.
Just this one thread already shows how different we all are.

GillT57

What is cancel culture and what fog?.............

Fog?

The problem with the idea of "common sense" is it is not something everyone ever held in "common". As it's based on individual human experience and people's perceptions it will vary from individual to individual and I can see quite a few areas in that FB share that do not seem at all "sensible" to me.

I find it one of the most annoying phrases simply because it really means that people think others should think in the way that they think. It's often more divisive than "in common" and divisive is not the same as irony.

At the age of 91 and having lived through 9 decades which takes in being cruelly treated by so called Sisters -of -Mercy and being bombed out twice, plus being machine gunned in the hopfields and evacuee train I think I should KNOW a bit about life and its comebacks and how SO much has altered over the years .

If those of you who wants to criticise what I put on here I suggest you DONT read it.

I put the above up because it was sent to me and just wondered what others thought of it, NOT to be told that I more or less copy stuff of Facebook.

I dont have to because I write all my own poems plus books that have been published.

Keep safe everyone.

May we are allowed to criticise.

You say 'I wanted to know what others thought of it'.

Well, do you or don't you?

It's not all 'likes' and crying with laughter emojis on here!

Aww, I’m sure no one meant to put you down. I certainly didn’t and apologise if that’s how I came across.
We have to read it though...before we can say what we think, and you will appreciate then, that you’re never going to please everyone.
My initial gut reaction to it was...I laughed. It has a kind of truth to it, but as you say, you’ve lived long enough to see so many changes. Not sure whether some of them are worse...or better, just different.

May you sound more than capable of standing up for yourself!

Gransnet is all about the slings and arrows; rough and tumble; brickbats and bouquets!

FannyCornforth

GillT57

What is cancel culture and what fog?.............

Fog?

People are slowly coming out of fog they have been in and shouting no more

I see no fog !

Sorry Gill, I wasn't paying enough attention!

I am well aware that folks have different opinions Fanny because it would be a dull world if we were all the same BUT I object to being accused of taking stuff off Facebook.

I have been on the net for well over 18 years with my own WW2 website even before Facebook came on the scene so I dont need to copy anything off there and yes I can speak up for myself.

YES I am on Facebook because many groups come to me asking if I would tell them of years gone by because they say its living history BUT as I said I DO NOT COPY.
My tales and poems are all true tales with my name underneath and my original post on here does state that the reading was SENT to me. Keep Safe Everyone.

FannyCornforth

Sorry Gill, I wasn't paying enough attention!

That's ok! I have read this Ode to Common Sense before, or ones like it, usually bemoaning health and safety.

May please can I be clear.
I am definitelynot accusing you of plagiarism.

You make it very obvious that your own poems are indeed your own by putting your copyright note at the foot of them.
I must say that I do enjoy many of your original poems.

Now, regarding things that are 'SENT' to you.
GN is of especial interest to me, and also a source of enjoyment and enlightenment, due to us sharing our own authentic thoughts and opinions rather than those of others.

Obviously, you can post exactly what you want to!
I am simply clarifying my previous post.
Best wishes to you

FannyCornforth thanks for the comment about Facebook and I do agree. If we want shared comments from there, then Facebook is the place to see them, not GN.

I am correcting my use of ellipses at once, thank you for the timely reminder...

Grammaretto

Galaxy too true
Thanks to Maywalk for starting the conversation but I am quite old now and can truly say that common sense is still alive and well.
I have just watched a short film about climate change made by some 6th formers. It was intelligent, serious and left me with faith in our young people.

Common sense works both ways; you have to have some yourself before you recognise it in others.

Are you sure you're attributing common sense to this group of people, because they are saying what you want to hear?

Common sense is an easy term to applauded or deride, as it means something different to each and everyone of us.

Not trying to provoke you Grammaretto, just using your post to make a point!

FannyCornforth

May please can I be clear.
I am definitelynot accusing you of plagiarism.

You make it very obvious that your own poems are indeed your own by putting your copyright note at the foot of them.
I must say that I do enjoy many of your original poems.

Now, regarding things that are 'SENT' to you.
GN is of especial interest to me, and also a source of enjoyment and enlightenment, due to us sharing our own authentic thoughts and opinions rather than those of others.

Obviously, you can post exactly what you want to!
I am simply clarifying my previous post.
Best wishes to you

To be fair Fanny none of our thoughts and posts are authentic they are all conceived on the back of others.

You're very philosophical today Nams!
(I was trying to politely say that I'd prefer not to see FB fodder all over GN ?)

FannyCornforth

You're very philosophical today Nams!
(I was trying to politely say that I'd prefer not to see FB fodder all over GN ?)

...........and you wont have any FB fodder from me Fanny as I stated earlier.

FB is a separate issue to GN and I belong to both as well as many forums from long ago which are ALL different.
Just for the record I have been a member of Gransnet for some years usually with a joke or something to help folks remember things from the past.

I wont bother putting anything else up here again, its not worth getting my blood pressure up about to start off any more seizures.

Keep safe and best wishes to all for the future.

Yes I get it Fanny, as I'm not on any other medium let alone Fb I didn't take offence,?
But we all absorb and regurgitate the ideas around us dont we?

Honestly? I find a lot of this stuff really cringy. Absolutely ghastly and often mawkish. The kind of thing that gives grans a bad name!

FannyCornforth

I'm being petty, pedantic and off-topic.
But, please, can we use ellipses properly on Gransnet.
You only need three...
Thank you

Fanny I am obviously not as educated as many of the posters on this thread and for that I make no apology but I have no idea what you are talking about

Maywalk thank you so much for posting that I did enjoy reading it,found it very interesting and also some of the arguments against it

DiscoDancer1975

I think it’s all about extremes, and never being able to find that middle ground.
I remember being ridiculed by teachers at school, and they should never have been allowed to punish physically, caning, slippering etc.
However, now we’re too far the other way. The teachers are ridiculed by the pupils, and quite often physically hurt too.
This just seems to apply to everything now. We don’t like something, so we go straight to the other end, and that doesn’t work either.
‘ common sense’, unfortunately, is not common at all. We all have different ideas on everything, what’s right and wrong. The major thing I’ve felt over the years...is that we have to be so careful what we say all the time, lest we offend.
Just this one thread already shows how different we all are.

Thank you for posting that Maywalk and please don't leave because some people put your down. I found your post interesting and you have a lot of interesting things to share I'm sure.

I agree with DiscoDancer that the key is to find the middle ground but it seems that is not easy. Of course we don't want to go back to the days of cruel teachers but nor do we want teachers being abused by pupils. We have gone too far over in every walk of life, and gone from one extreme to the other and we now need to take a few steps back.

FannyCornforth

Parsley it seems that May likes to post stuff on here that she has seen on her Facebook feed.

It seems that a lot of people like this sort of thing.

I'm not one of them; I prefer to read the authentic thoughts and opinions of people, regardless of whether or not I agree with them, or indeed 'like' them.

Actually, Maywalk does post her own original stuff and, as a nonogenarian, may have a different view in life than some of the much younger Gransnetters.

She is entitled to her views - if you don't like her threads just ignore them instead of posting spiteful comments.