Stay where you are, please. ALL of you. As Jax says, 'the most delightful company of true friends'. All that just shines through your posts. I was thoroughly shocked to see such a 'sour note' introduced when the complaint was truly both unnecessary and irrelevant. How a jokey throwaway line in conversation about a deliberately-staged and well-known photograph of strangers in aprons can be compared with 'celebrities' who go completely off the rails and insult, degrade, disrespect, tell obscene jokes to and about women on t.v. programmes and over many years, just because they can, I can't fathom. The real joke, of course, is that your Jeeves, I feel sure, would be more of a Mrs Overall 'Two Soups' employee.....a bit frayed around the edges and getting the hot chocolate orders confused - and going AWOL when most needed.
I left Gransnet and only make the occasional comment for the reason that there is always someone ready with a put down or snarky comment and often once they see people having fun. Confront those people and they flounce off into the sunset 'forever', (only to reappear a few days later). I know many others who stopped posting because they dislike being told what and how much to say or when to say it. Grans who dislike being spoken to as if they're 12 years old! There's always an excuse later for these complainers: not feeling so good, feeling sad, having a bad day, it was a misunderstanding, etc., Why can't people just stop their miserable and combative moods from washing over everyone else, and stay away until feeling more sociable? They'd get so much more sympathy and understanding that way.
I wrote that post today because I genuinely think you're all smashing and I get so much out of following the Lobstars' adventures. I know I'm not alone in that view and wanted you all to know that. It was a special distraction today from worries about my DH who was undergoing surgery at that moment.
You never said anything/did anything wrong. Try trawling back through old GN threads and see the sort of comments one should be complaining about. People are always entitled to their opinions, of course, but just to bring down a thread in this way is really wrong....and for what? And apologising because you know it's going to cause upset? That's just spiteful.
Sometimes you make me cry, with all the sadness that comes around to plague you. Sometimes you make me cry with laughter - please don't take that away. Like sunshine, we all need laughter and good-natured banter. Come on, Lobstars, we're all relying on you. 🦀❤️
