Where are the grandads on Gransnet?

I think Grandad43 was banned and Rufus (from Australia) who signed off with Oru, just stopped posting (many GNs have mentioned their concern about what's happened to him). Mick as has been mentioned, still posts every day on the Good Morning thread.

Curlywhirly, Thankyou for replying about the missing Grandads, I rather liked Grandad 1943 ,he was quite an interesting character , he seemed to have a great deal of knowledge about the shop floor politics,shame if he was banned, maybe a step too far !! and Rufus was always fun with his stories of Oz ,

Rameses This is where the grandads are!
www.gransnet.com/forums/grandads_shed/1305873-Whoever-goes-first

I had assumed that Rameses was a woman so was a bit shocked to discover otherwise. Yes I know, I shouldn’t be but I would prefer that men had obviously male usernames.

The grim reaper seems to have carried off a few of us males (is it safe to use that word?) over the last couple of years
A lot of females too,grumppa

Uh, gransnet. Not popsnet, not grandpa net. Maybe that might have something to do with it ? I don’t go to the mens’ shed, either. Just a thought.

Germanshepherdsmum

I had assumed that Rameses was a woman so was a bit shocked to discover otherwise. Yes I know, I shouldn’t be but I would prefer that men had obviously male usernames.

Isn't Rameses a male name?

You must be getting on a bit now, Rameses so perhaps you'll bring great wisdom to GN.

Our Australian poster was very elderly and had visited hospital a few times and we never found out what happened to him.

Yes Rameses is a male name but it's not immediately obvious (or not to me at least) in the way that a commonplace male name would be. You don't exactly come across it every day. I hadn't detected that he was a man from the few posts I'd read.

I think that the general consensus is that Rufus sadly died towards the middle of last year.
He was in his 90s and in poor health. There were a couple of threads about him.
I know at least one regular poster was in regular contact with him.

lemsip

Rameses This is where the grandads are!
www.gransnet.com/forums/grandads_shed/1305873-Whoever-goes-first

They are all women on there apart from op.

? anyone remember Spangler??

FannyCornforth

? anyone remember Spangler??

Was it he, who used to talk about his (vintage?) car? FannyCornforth?

And his dapper dressing…..

Germanshepherdsmum

I had assumed that Rameses was a woman so was a bit shocked to discover otherwise. Yes I know, I shouldn’t be but I would prefer that men had obviously male usernames.

Rameses is the name of a very famous line of kings and a most masculine name.
I therefore can’t imagine why anyone would be shocked to discover he was a man. My user name doesn’t indicate my sex, just my lack of imagination.
I wish there were more men posting on here, it would add a bit of balance to Gransnet.
Welcome Ramses, begotten of Ra. Hope you are Ramses the second.

Yes still missing Rufus as I’ve got family in Oz, so a sort of connection. Sadly like other social sites like fb, you get used to virtual friends and miss them like real life ones.

Polly73

And his dapper dressing…..

And his (younger) missus…
(And on one memorable occasion - his cruet set…)

I don’t mind if users names reflect their sex or not, makes no difference to what I say.
I miss Rufus we had good chats about football as well as other topics, I’ll think of him if MC win the cup.
I remember Spangler posted some lovely pictures, one in particular at the Montague Arms in the New Forest, an old haunt of mine.

and a most masculine name
Didn't he father over 100 children Esspee?

(And on one memorable occasion - his cruet set…)

Full frontal?

I remember Grandad1943, he posted a lot on the Politics thread. He was pretty definite in his views but I grew to like him. I wondered what had happened to him and had no idea he had been banned! Wonder what for as I quite missed him.

Jaberwok

I remember Grandad1943, he posted a lot on the Politics thread. He was pretty definite in his views but I grew to like him. I wondered what had happened to him and had no idea he had been banned! Wonder what for as I quite missed him.

Oh, I assumed he had left because he got fed up with our supposed misandry.

We're not at all, Rameses!
Some of us even like men ?

I just like to know if I'm talking to or reading views of a man or a woman. Doubtless IABU.

Yes Germanshepperd we could all portray to be women when we are in fact men!

Anyone else remember Frank, and his dog, way back at the beginning of GN? And his lovely stories about the bums and tums class he used to go to !

Sad that Atqui felt she had to have her harmless thread deleted. It won’t encourage contribution to the site.