Prince Harry’s engagement

I see now it was in response to yet another goody comment from you - hence yawn

chewbacca I think you’ll find my comment was made in the context of a thread that I had been contributing to - quite a different scenario - but hey, don’t let the facts get in the way of a good criticism.

I get the very personal comments as you well know - I never call people nasty pieces of work or mean or joyless but I’m getting sorely tempted . If you can’t see the difference between my style of posting and those of some others to me then I don’t think you are being fair.

27/11/2017 18.30
maryeliza54

Yawn yawn yawn No ripostes made to this comment.

soop 17.36

Sigh................Yawn...........Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

maryeliza54
Well soop you can just go back to the kitchen and leave us to it.

Says it all really. And you wonder why you "get a kicking"?

You’re right maryeliza you can criticise what you like AS can I !

I’ve seen some of your posts and there is a similarity between them all that is inarguable.

It’s funny how when you speak harshly of others it’s ok but if anyone does the same to you you’re getting ‘ a kicking’ .

I thought that was called lively debate

And I use it on Gransnet to make it obvious that I'm talking to anyone and everyone so that individuals don't feel got at.

Yep, yous'll. Yous is plural of you, often used where I live.

Supposedly 3 years and we have been assured that there will be no shortcuts for her and she’ll be treated like everyone else?

HM's voice has changed too - if you listen to her speech to the nation when she was Princess Elizabeth she sounds much less 'posh' now than she was then.

Kate/Catherine/Dutchess of cambridges' accent has changed beyond recognition in only a few years though, not over a period of 20 years or more ( which perhaps you could expect) Apparently ( well according to Mr Google) she didn't speak posh enough so her step mother in law organised for her to have some lessons . now her accent is so false and so much plummier than her husband and granny in law. Hope they've got a good teacher ready for MM.
they'll have their work cut out .
I wonder how long it takes to become a British citizen ? A year, a month, a week, overnight ?

You's'll ?

So you are speaking for soop now Jal if that’s what she wanted to say she could have said it rather than post as she did which was capable of other interpretations? But anyway I love your defence for the way I’m treated- that I deserve it so it’s fine for other people to behave badly because I’m a ‘nasty piece of work’ ? Can’t you see the utter illogicality in that? Sounds like ‘she started it Miss’. Very adult. I do notice that some of the nastiest comments come from those who have least to contribute to the subject of a thread.

...of being a devil's advocate...

phew.

Yes, I am married to one

Oh god! I'm in a right befuzzle about that apostrophe! Ahoy there, grammarians!

Controversy is healthy. Speaking against the trend is good brain exercise. Yous'll heard of devil's advocating.

Yes, but why?
Why do you think you attract what you call 'a kicking'?
I don't think it would be for sport, Gransnetters are on the whole better than that, it must be because some of your posts may upset people, like the one telling soop to just go back to the kitchen and leave us to it after a post that was probably meant to be amusing - probably expressing her view very succinctly on the over-kill in the media which many of us are fed up with.

Jal stop being so disingenuous. As my mother would have said, you’re better than that

Thanks dj I was a bit surprised and thought I must have misunderstood. Which I had. I guess the general position is that those who can argue their point and those who can’t just dish out a kicking and personal insults.

Just wondering about the reason why you feel you are being 'got at' and, if so, why

Jal so you are saying that I deserve all I get on here and everyone who kicks me is justified in so doing - ooohhhh nice people. I don’t accuse individual posters of being mean, nasty, joyless , a misery and yesterdays pearl of course ‘a nasty piece of work’.

I meant there is no need for them to be nasty. I realise that could be misunderstood.

Of course it was, Maryeliza. Why should you be told you vent your spleen on here?
Saying what you think is what Gransnet is all about.
Just because they don't agree with you there is no need to be nasty.
Don't we both just try and persuade others to change their minds?

Perhaps someone can explain why it’s fine to come on a thread to say in effect that it’s boring and sending you to sleep? If I said that I’d be in for another good kicking. FWIW I think there are some incredibly boring threads on here - or to be more accurate- ones that don’t interest me at all but I don’t go on them and say that.

And FYI I post about a whole range of other things as well but you don’t want to admit that do you because kicking me is a GN sport amongst some of you.

'As ye sow, so shall ye reap'