Is anyone normal?

It sounds as though you have been bothered to do it soon (your post 17.06.15 at 08.00_)

lurkers - thinking more about them, some of them never post.
With the internet sites who post their "views" as well as " posts", the number is normally around the 1 post, 30 views ratio.

It is easy to count all the regular posters, if someone could be bothered to do it. Over say a month.
It wouldnt add up to many.

I think that this site is far smaller than it would first appear.
There dont seem to be more than about 120 regular posters.
By that, I dont count lurkers who post about once every 2 or 3 months, or the thousand or more competition entrants, who do not post on the main board at all.

So 120 or at most 150 regular posters cannot fill all the local area boards very well.
So there is no one to fill Bromley. Or 10s of other local boards.

I guess what the OP is saying is that there's no one on 'their' local site. Fair enough point as I find the same so have given up on mine.

Proud to be Not Normal. But then, I'm from Norfolk. (Where's Bromley?).

??? I can't see what this is really about either. It's a comment right out of the blue. The puzzle of the week maybe?

What is the point of your post please? What are you actually trying to say?

Define 'normal'

The special needs community don't talk about being ' normal' because who's to say what that is.
They prefer 'average'
The borough of Bromley has its shabby area same as anywhere.

LOL, I've always thought that being normal is pretty abnormal ;)

Ah, you mean Bromley oldies are married upper class...
Still dont get the op's point though

roseareread - he or she has posted in relationships. Not sure which one was the first post, or whether he or she has posted elsewhere before.

Ana- well to be fair, I have often wondered who would be classed in life as normal, ie what is normal.

absent - I still dont get it.
absent - I am going by the regular posters who often post about their relationship in one way or another.

True Ana. "His or her" is cumbersome so, even if it is ungrammatical and I am an über-pedant, I am tending towards favouring the use of "their" as an all encompassing pronoun.

Might be his opinion, absent. Let's not make assumptions!

soontobe I think the OP was voicing her opinion of oldies in Bromley, not oldies on Gransnet. I should think it is pretty much impossible to estimate the social mix of the thousands of members of Gransnet, many of whom rarely post.

And a rude thread title! Is anyone really 'normal'?

What a rude first post on here!

As for being married, as far as I can make out, 1/3 are married, 1/3 are widowed, and 1/3 single/divorced. Not sure now where I got that idea from but it is diverse.

As regards conservatives, there was a survey on here recently, and the political mix is very much along national lines.

As regards upper class. There is a mix, though I would say, that you could be a bit right in that regard.
But I have only been here 6 months myself, so am unsure on that.

I dont actually get your point.

As far as I know, there are many vacancies on many local sites.

If you want to volunteer to be the lead person or whatever it is called on the Bromley meet up site, I am sure that gransnet HQ would be very happy and greatful.

meant to say the London Borough of Bromley is a huge......