I think this man should be chrged with extreme child abuse

Whaaaat?!!!!

I can't believe you said that, Jess!

(BTW, this thread was started yesterday morning...)

Yes jess seriously confrontational. Possibly the fault of the ipad again!
I've more important stuff to deal with so I'll leave you to it.

Well, I certainly don't always understand some of you,probably cuz I must be FIk,
How many members of Gransnet are there?
How many are commenting on this thread.

I do NOT like it when the word 'racism' is bandied around.

And I hate pomposity.

Well, I certainly don't always understand some of you,probably cuz I must be FIk
How many members of Gransnet are there
How many are commenting on this thread

Well I for one am not contributing because I do not see the point of a ding dong of this type.
Doesn't mean any more than that.

Good point though. I'm surprised there weren't more posters on the thread than there were.

(Please note I said "were". Past tense) Let it go.

No, you think you can insult people then call a halt , I spoke of racism because of the support for Trump by one poster , not everything is about you

Trump is racist, sexist and a bully which says much for those who support him

This is all going nowhere and it's getting very nasty and personal.

Trump is racist, sexist and a bully which says much for those who support him
is this the Trump thread?

This is all going nowhere and it's getting very nasty and personal.

Very.

And my last post was not meant to be personal annie, it is just that I have been out all day (thank goodness!) and there is another thread on Trump

"Do you want all Muslims in Europe deported from the country they were born in? Or perhaps like Trump you think they should wear a symbol so you would know they were Muslims ? Same as the Jews were forced to wear the star ?"

That was an unbelievably diabolical post, to say to anyone. You were comparing me with a Nazi!

You may not mean to be Rose but some people do mean to be personal and nasty. How ridiculous in mature women.

So it is hardly surprising when people react angrily.

Sticks and stones,Anniebach,
Don't be so nasty.

? Jess

There you are jayh. We can see it now.

(they are down there, under the posting box)

Of course there are not that many posters on here. While there is this awful furious bullying confrontational attitude to people who hold different views other than the prescribed far left you are simply driving other contributors away, so that in the end the few who are left (excuse the pun!!)will just agree with each other as they are preaching to the converted. Hardly a balanced conversation. I for one like to hear and be able to discuss in an interested and convivial way, other people's points of view, however much I might disagree; I would like to be able to ask someone, in a reasonable way, how and why they feel the way they do, not lay into them and accuse them of heaven knows what. I would like them to ask me the same, not just scornfully ridicule any opinion I might have because it's not a left wing one. All this rubbish about spelling and grammar is particularly tiresome. Isn't this extremely rude and taking a superior attitude to those of us who perhaps haven't had the benefit of a University Education and maybe not held down a professional job during their working years, which somehow makes you a subordinate being. Can we not have a proper conversation that everyone who wants to can join in whatever their political beliefs and educational credentials are without resorting to a shouting match?!

It was only a little shout.

Oh I know!! I wasn't referring to you Jingle! A bit of a rant is fair enough, but surely not to the extent that other people feel they can't join in because of their suspect (me!!) political views which seem to be greeted with howls of rage, or their grammatical errors! so, all in all, you don't bother, which in turn makes for a rather one sided conversation! It's just a bit of a pity that's all!

There are a couple of the political threads which the same two posters seem to have all to themselves. Probably for the reasons you mention, nigglynellie.

And from the right wing, some in the right wing ridicule and taunt and some on the left are forced to defend , so let's not have the right wing posters are victims please . Who can forget the thread where the leadership contest was being discussed , how the right went on and on about Corbyn wearing a vest , stopped serious discussions though

I'm sure you're right ab, that was irrelevant and silly, and equally off putting, but I think the far left do hold centre stage in the majority of discussions, and get the gold star for intolerance. But there you go, at the end of the day I doubt that what we think will make a jot of difference in the great scheme of things!

niggly said the same thing myself many times. Then out from the woodwork pop the 'if you don't stand the heat' hangers on.

There are those on here who hold left wing views who can expres then sensibly and powerfully without resorting to personal insults, name calling and, as recently happened to me, lies and false accusations.

It's the low level of debate (if you can even call it that) that makes many of us give up in disgust. We could stand 'the heat' of a good old political ding dong, but this reminds me of the kind of garbage you hear from the likes of Trump only with a different political slant.

For ehich a full apology was given Anya, that you refuse to accept it is your choice