Are Gransnetters just vicious online trolls?

The psychologists comments were very poor and completely conflated the personal attributes of people with ages ranging across several decades with only one thing in common -that they were female(probably). I suspect that if he is a serious scientist, he's pretty embarrassed to be as quoted out of context as we were.

Yes, I did think the comments from the psychologist were rather odd. Perhaps only some of them were quoted?

I don't see that the thread was becoming "all about jings" but it does seem to contain some personal gripes that were sorted out long ago.

No need to make a mountain out of a molehill - anyone who posts often on a public forum, whether a blog, a forum or a chat site, is very lucky if they never meet any criticism, and only get responses congratulating them on their wisdom, insight and universal empathy for the sensitivity to all their readers. Joining Twitter is a salutary experience too.

I actually think the cut and thrust of online forums is refreshing. Far better than the yucky sentimentalism of some forms of social media. At least people shoot from the hip on here, although it's generally pretty gentle compared to some sites.

I have a friend who writes the sort of stuff in the OP. She puts it all on FB, thinking she's clever and thought-provoking. She's not-she's tedious and self-deluded.

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Doesn't seem to have given him much insight into grannies and grandads though; we are not a homogeneous group.

But he gets paid for this Jane10

Looks as though he could be a grandad himself, so he ought to know not all grans think the same, Jalima.

Telling people how to deal with the media doesn't exactly imply that that he has an exhaustive research background especially related to such a homogeneous bunch as us. Ah well there's one born every minute so credulous people and unscrupulous media outlets won't worry about that.

Did you mean heterogenous, Jane? Sorry if that was too acerbic for you, but homogenous does mean all the same, and heterogenous means all different.

The Daily Mail thinks we are are all 4ft 11in with crinkly whitey-grey perms, bottle-base specs and heavy wrinkles, we are dressed in crimplene skirts, beige twinsets and Velcro slippers, and we frown as we tap our pads hesitantly with one finger.

That's me to a T Elegran!!! I jest.

As I said on another thread (the Huffington Post one) - just who do they think invented technology?

I didn't read much further about him durhamjen, so hadn't realised he is a grandad.
(not on here is he?, it could be any one of us!)

Not me, though, I am female, 4' 11" with a crinkly grey perm, bottle-base specs and heavy wrinkles, dressed in my beige crimplene outfit today.

Just going by his photo, Jalima. Mind, I never realised that all those ladies in the photos had lots of wrinkles so maybe I need bottle-base specs.
I do just use one finger at the moment on my left hand, but I'm slowly getting faster. I don't wear slippers, but I've got velcro on my sling. Does that count?

When I fell over recently (twice ) DS said 'I do hope you're not turning into one of those old ladies who keeps falling over

I reckon a velcro sling would qualify!

Thanks, Jalima, made me laugh.

We had to move into a bungalow when my husband kept falling downstairs, so I was asked if I'd gone dizzy, lost vision, lost my balance. They are very worried that I am turning into an old lady.
In hospital, the nurses ticked the box for living in a house before even asking me. My son had to tell them I fell down his stairs!

I have always been quite good at falling down stairs, tripping over even when I was young, I slid sideways off this typing chair with it on top of me not long ago (over-reaching for the bin, not because I was dizzy).

Must concentrate more.

Although I have my own double bed I sleep right on the edge and I have fallen out several times reaching over for something on the bedside chest of drawers . As I have got shorter in height and wider the other way , when I lean over momentum carries me too far. One day I shall do myself a mischief.

Sorry Elegran I did of course mean heterogeneous. Dratted predictive text plus I didn't preview before I fired it off in a strop!

Can I just warn all you "leaner overers" that it was leaning right over in bed to turn my electric blanket off, that ripped my shoulder (rotator cuff). I heard it tear, and it takes approx. a year to heal! So beware!

Thank you * Lona* or shall I call you Lena now? I hope you are settled and very happy

Oh dear, am wrinkly and a hesitant tapper

And I fall over my own feet !!!

And me! Because my skin is paper thin it tears and the resulting scene looks like a massacre