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GagaJo Tue 28-Feb-23 17:41:03

So once you've been a GN member for a whilte, been around the block a few times, you'll have witnessed some feeding frenzies on controversial topics.

Some of those I remember from yester year are:

* Baby milk shortage (being bought up and sold overseas)

* Boris Johnson (at one point praised for his intelligence, yes, really!)

* Jeremy Corbyn (a real Marmite character)

*Anything to do with trans issues.

What are some of the topics that have caused metaphorical fisticuffs that you remember?

Blossoming Tue 28-Feb-23 18:23:16

Naughty Kitty grin

downtoearth Tue 28-Feb-23 18:25:24

Riverwalk guilty of all three,and I have an strong Essex accent😂. Complete with a glottal stop.

Regional accents another I remember.

Riverwalk Tue 28-Feb-23 18:26:23

downtoearth

Riverwalk guilty of all three,and I have an strong Essex accent😂. Complete with a glottal stop.

Regional accents another I remember.

No hope for you then! grin

VioletSky Tue 28-Feb-23 18:29:46

Anything estrangement related lol

MawtheMerrier Tue 28-Feb-23 18:30:28

*Editing thread titles
*“Like”buttons
*The “B” word
*DILs/MILs
*Cream or jam first on scones

GagaJo Tue 28-Feb-23 18:32:04

Oh yes Maw. And 'milk firsters' in tea.

MawtheMerrier Tue 28-Feb-23 18:34:21

* What do you call your main/evening meal
* Toilet/lavatory/loo
* Grandchildren and thank you letters

MawtheMerrier Tue 28-Feb-23 18:35:12

Oh and at least once a month
* Going grey or not

Baggs Tue 28-Feb-23 19:02:43

GagaJo

Blossoming

I could imagine dogsh*t and artificial grass would be a match made in hell …

Absolutely. Imagine it mashed in. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

You have to pressure wash artificial grass to get dog shit out.

Apparently.

annodomini Tue 28-Feb-23 19:05:43

The shortcomings of M&S.

NotSpaghetti Tue 28-Feb-23 19:08:40

Getting animals - potentially ahead of people- out of Afghanistan

AskAlice Tue 28-Feb-23 19:14:56

GagaJo

Riverwalk

Does anyone admit to wearing leggings, having a tattoo and likes sausages? grin

Two out of three. Guess which two!

Me too, Gagajo! I'd like to have a small, tasteful tattoo somewhere not too obvious to celebrate finally getting my State Pension this summer, but my DH is not keen on them. Mind you, he probably wouldn't notice it if I did! I thought a rose on my left shoulder. wink

MaizieD Tue 28-Feb-23 19:19:01

When it comes down to it, Gagajo, anything is grist to the Gnet mill grin

Galaxy Tue 28-Feb-23 19:31:55

I like the ones that escalate really quickly, that make you go whoah what just happened, dog threads tend to go that way.

Calendargirl Tue 28-Feb-23 19:32:34

Being miffed over Christmas arrangements.

M0nica Tue 28-Feb-23 19:33:08

Around COVID: wearing masks, gloves, should post and shopping be doused in bleach or left in the garden for three days. Constant use of diinfectant, bleach and handwashing when indoors and alone

I actually left GN for six months because I found the paranoid threads on COVID so disturbing.

SueDonim Tue 28-Feb-23 19:40:24

Taking in parcels for neighbours.

Showers v baths.

Iam64 Tue 28-Feb-23 19:43:02

Hopeless husbands - the pride their wives express about ‘men’s’ inability to boil an egg, never mind cook themselves a meal when Mrs OP is away.

GagaJo Tue 28-Feb-23 19:52:37

Galaxy

I like the ones that escalate really quickly, that make you go whoah what just happened, dog threads tend to go that way.

Me too. I love watching a Barney.

GagaJo Tue 28-Feb-23 19:54:14

Reinstating a banned member. The more contentious the better. They're bl**dy saints by the time the fan club have finished their character references.

NotSpaghetti Tue 28-Feb-23 19:54:59

GagaJo and Galaxy
...surely not!
😇

GagaJo Tue 28-Feb-23 19:59:42

NotSpaghetti

GagaJo and Galaxy
...surely not!
😇

I know, I bet you're shocked!

Plantation blinds.

Monochromatic interiors.

VioletSky Tue 28-Feb-23 20:18:25

This thread is giving me life

Sago Tue 28-Feb-23 20:31:15

Virtual cruises😬

JaneJudge Tue 28-Feb-23 20:34:32

landlords/buy to let/tenants