Where have all the grandads gone?

I have just been reading these posts and would like too to protest about twee and mumsy. Gransnet is for Grandparents to chat on, and as it is usually Grans that like to talk more than Grandads, it is predominantly female. We discuss everything on here, both serious and flippant and stuff in-between. If people find it dull or not to their tastes, why don't they start a forum that interests them? As I have said before there should be room for all sorts on here. I have also put my name on some of the e-petitions, including the coastguard one, and if it wasn't for Gransnet I would never have seen them.

Yeah, I got spare beds to do - half term coming up. (Not really! I love it! )

I almost made a comment about hoping the wheels don't fall off your thesaurus before you got there. You must have heard me.

Thesaurus - Lots of nice words and phrases but not much of a plot.

Heh! Heh! What she didn't say is that the thesaurus is on the 'ompinter' ( as DD used to call it) so she doesn't have to go anywhere physically. However, she now has ironing to do because the spare bed where it piles up is needed this weekend. She only iron tea-towels, hankies and table napkins, mainly so they can be folded flatter and will fit in the drawer more easily.

She's only looking up acceptable alternatives to the dreaded 'w' word.

Wow!!!!

Respect

It does indeed, but we all know pomps is a gentleman grandad (with one 'd' ). And I can now tell you on good authority that Baggy has baggied off to whinge about whinging somewhere else or, rather, she's gone to do some research in a thesaurus.

Thank you for your choice of words, Pompa! Makes all the difference.

Isn't that a nice way of putting it - "withdrawn at poster's request"!

Ahh!

Blimey! That was quick!

(do you think they are as addicted as the rest of us? )

Mind you, we did ask for it, sort of... asking where they all were. Though I thought that was called 'being friendly'.

Can't quite "get my head round" why a grandad would be posting on Mumsnet!

Though I'm sure all are welcome.

I thought that was what the shed was for Bagitha.

I will ask for my slightly extreme response to be deleted.

The more poilite response would be 'bye then.

Um.... Couldn't the grandads do grandaddy chat in the shed if they wanted to? Nothing stopping them that I can see.

Challenge: define grandaddy chat as opposed to granny chat.

Challenge: define 'mumsy'.

Also 'dadsy', or whatever the male equivalent is.

I love being a mum but I'm not mumsy. ariadne is right and PRob was just having a whinge.

Oh no! There's that offensive word again!! How did that happen?

I can't see anything in Actives that is either of those things.

"twee" and "mumsy"

also pomps

Jinglej, not sure that is going to encourage Granddads to post.

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Ah, I must have just missed it pompa.

Older people downsizing as their children leave home.

Oh missed it pompa, what was it all about?

Ugrent --- Geraldine is on BBC news right now !!!!!!!

Hi All. Yes I guess us Granddads have been quiet lately. As PoppaRob says, many of the subjects are now female orientated so difficult for us to make contributions on.