Typical Gransnetter

JBF jinglebellfrocks I believe. There were a lot of people wanting her back when she was banned. I wasn't one of them.

JBF?

FannyCornforth

It is Enobarbus that says that.

Sorry, that was to NanaDana

It is Enobarbus that says that.

Just remembered that one of my very first posts was jumped on for missing out a comma.
A hanging offence in those distant days.
Also in common with just a few I was sworn at by JBF.
Who remembers her when you crossed her?

How's this for a definition of a "typical Gransnetter"... "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies". Charmian describing Cleopatra, in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra".... I wish...

I am typical in that I am a GM.
I am not typical in that I am 85, most GNers are younger.
Am I typical in that I am a widow and was married to my H, mostly happily , for over 60 years?
Like others my family life with my AC hasn’t always been easy and both of them have broken marriages.
I have one very very close GC who lives with me but not so close to 5 others, two of whom I haven’t seen for approximately 18 months.
I did not have a good relationship with my Mother but supported all of her very long life.
I am reasonably comfortable financially but not well off.
I think a number of GNers will identify with some of my points but not others.
I can’t think any will totally identify with all.
That would not be possible.
I have lived my own life and no-one else’s.

Probably best to sneak in quietly

What really puzzles me (I’ve even thought of starting a thread about it) is the people who start threads to say ‘hello, I’m new’.

They get a lovely welcome from all and sundry, and then don’t post again on that thread, or indeed any other thread.

I don’t get it at all.

Sarah75 has a point regarding the ratio to posters v readers (not sure I like the word lurker), probably because there is a majority that realise that at some stage they might say something that will have everyone piling in to make them feel uncomfortable. Think we are a melting pot of ages and experience of the more mature variety. I might tick a few off of Fanny's list but certainly don't want or feel part of a tribe.

I have never in my life been a member of a 'tribe', no matter how defined. I have always been the 'awkward' one, although never deliberately.

Having always been on the minority side of any argument, I learnt long ago to stick to my guns and ignore people who arr rude.

It does have the big advantage, that I am an excellent complainer because I am not easily imtimidated.

I read the DM. occasionally the DT, Observer and i - and vote Lib Demand and have never ever voted any other party.

I was ripped to shreds too when I first posted Gg

So was I and retreated for some time then told myself not to be so daft.

I meant to add I think the OP is a good pondoring point, to suggest it's smug is imo a misinterpretation, I read it as Varian counting her blessings, as we all know from reading various posts there are a whole gamut of tragic/difficult situations some posters have had to deal with.

I'm another one who received a mauling at first. I made a joke about how much my family drank on Christmas Day. The drink police came out in force. I was questioned as to how much we drank, were there children present etc. When I said that I was joking, I was told that I should have included a 'wink' emoji if I was joking. I had no idea how to do that at that point.
Fortunately the support over the years has made me stay.

I don't think there is a typical gransnetter, I think like other demographics in society, there are "tribes" about 8 or so I once read somewhere, but even then there will be nuances within one's selected "tribe" enough I imagine to float between more than one. Life is rarely black and white even in later years.

GrannyGravy13

I only tick one of your criteria Fanny and that is Jo Malone 🤣😘

I've moved on from Joe Malone to l'Occitane so I must be atypical 🙂

Oh - I do like The Repair Shop

Dickens

varian

It is not about celebrating our good fortune, but more about appreciating the struggles that some of our fellow gransnetters have had to overcome misfortune

It seems like your post has been mis-construed varian - I didn't think you were being smug. Just recognising that some seem to have more than their fair share of mis-fortune.

And I don't believe there is a typical gransnetter either!

But perhaps most people wouldn't post about family misfortunes, ailments etc on the internet.

They come on here for a bit of light relief (😂😂😂)
Or to be shredded for reading the DM and voting Tory/Brexit/liking the monarchy/take your pick

I was ripped to shreds too when I first posted Gg.

I asked a fairly innocuous question about ironing tablecloths. That was soon after gn started so it wasn't all sweetness and light back then.

I have some Seasalt, read the Mail and The Times (and do the crossword) and mostly vote Tory unless there is an SDP candidate.

maddyone

I think you’ve nailed it Fanny. And as Sarah says, don’t forget the ‘votes Labour,’ or Green, or Liberal Democrat! Anything but Tory really, although I think there are one or two Tory voters on here. Well about five I think.

Ah, no, you misunderstood my post - I think there are very few posters (as opposed to lurkers) who actually, actively vote Labour…….

No one is. That is the joy of Gransnet. Its members include a wide range of women form those struggling to manage financially to those who are well off. From those who married the love of their life at 16 and the two of them remain devoted to each other 60 years later and those with much more checquered and varied romantic histories, unmarreid as well as married, those with children and grand children and those with neither.

Quite simply GN can be proud of the fact that it attracts such a diverse range of members and I have benfitted immensely from this diversity.

Oh Lucca. I know she was very ill, does anyone know how she is now?

Witzend that made me laugh, the roughing it bit. That is a typical GN response. You should have been grateful just to be on holiday!

One poster didn’t think that I should be here because I’m not a Gran (and I haven’t forgotten who it was )

You were spot on Bella!

One of my very first posts was ripped to shreds but it didn’t put me off posting again. I was having a bit of a moan about inadequate facilities at an expensive holiday cottage - only to be told sternly that ‘roughing it’ was part of the fun of going on holiday.
Not to me - especially when I’ve paid ££££! Can’t even remember who it was now, but needless to say I wrote her off as not worth a moment of my headspace.

Oh blimey GGravy! That sounds awful.
Meanwhile, I was seriously suspected as being the one with the handbag (‘A haaand baaag?!’)
It was Mary and Lucca who came to my rescue