Isn’t it quiet? ?

You should try MN for competitive dieting, its quite scary sometimes. Oh and competitive food budgeting, from one extreme to another.

Gagajo I’m with you on the memory thing! I’d have to take notes . I know I’m more sensitive to criticism sometimes, and tend to keep away from forums then.

*competitiveness

LOL MOnica. There was sausage competitive on here once. Everyone claiming their 'good butcher's sausages' were higher in meat content than each others.

I did snigger about it. Bl**dy sausages.

I do feel sometimes there is an element of competition in some threads. The recent one of deep cleaning seemed to degenerate into a competitive cleaning thread.

Sort of, 'I do not need deep cleaning I wash every wall and ceiling in my house every week and scrub the floors every day.'

There is definitely a pack mentality on here and there are posters they don't like and try to drive away. God knows why. The POINT of online forums is that it's a free for all.

I'm not bothered about getting picked on, although it's been aimed at me in the past. My exceptionally poor memory comes in handy at times. I can't remember who said what, when.

I don’t understand all these arcane references to ‘shooting down in flames’. I feel like there is a whole secret Gransnet underground from which I am excluded. Though to be honest I don’t want to be included in anything like that! Whispering in the back of the classroom never ends well.

annodomini could well be.
I felt like that about the subject too.
I wonder if attitudes have changed since then? About 7 years ago.

GagaJo

It was VERY quiet and boring on here a few months ago. It seemed to have livened up a few weeks ago but I agree, we're flagging again.

I think the problem is, after a while, we've all said our piece on the things important to us, and anything after that is just repetition. I can't be bothered to argue with the same people about the same things.

It does this, Gagajo, it goes along in peaks and troughs.

Just when we might think it's all very boring, off it goes again just like a rollercoaster and we all have to hang on to our hats!

Tena Lady, anyone?

Now I need to watch King Gary so I can find out what that means

It was VERY quiet and boring on here a few months ago. It seemed to have livened up a few weeks ago but I agree, we're flagging again.

I think the problem is, after a while, we've all said our piece on the things important to us, and anything after that is just repetition. I can't be bothered to argue with the same people about the same things.

No probs Gill - I would not dream of venturing such a comment in a political discussion or on a News and Politics thread!

mawbe sorry for the 'rude' comment. I just get irritated when people (not necessarily yourself) come onto a political discussion and make sneery remarks about the same old people talking about the same subject.

I'm really pleased to hear that Calendagirl; thanks for letting me know.

I just think everybody sounds jaded, perhaps afraid to be shot down in flames by those who regard themselves as more knowledgeable or better-educated than others. Why bother?

Not much discussion, too much preaching from the soap box.

Sometimes I'm looking for lighthearted subjects and other times I hope to learn from others contributions.
Being berated? Not so much.

Fennel, I wonder if that was the thread in which I wrote a spoof account of my hygienic precautions with teatowels etc. It got no responses, so perhaps some thought I was being serious.

JaneJudge ????

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The first thread I read on Gransnet that really got people going was about how often you wash your teatowels and dishcloths. And why.
And does your husband leave them scrunched up on the work top instead of hanging them to dry.
It got quite heated.

I sometimes think I'm in an internet version of an episode of King Gary

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This forum is so passive aggressive. If anyone has any problem with me or my posts, please tell me. I'm a big girl, I can take it.

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