Duke of Edinburgh admitted to hospital.

Could it be a way to get any thread which criticises the duchess closed ? She does have admirers

I don't think there is anything report worthy.
I'm sure hq wouldn't delete opinions, and rightly so.
But you know the saying about opinions...

Why keep reading and writing if the thread offends? Just move on to another thread.

Why not?
I'm not offended, because I'm no royalist, nor unrealistic about a 99 year old man being in hospital.

Much better to let it stand.

Galaxy

I am laughing at your good grief alegrias, it felt very restrained and quite posh.

I'm dead posh, me.

I suspected as much.

NellG

If you don't like the posts, report them. The righteousness gets a bit grating and as there is a mechanism to deal with posts you find offensive I see no reason why some of you don't use it rather than trying to bully other posters into silence. Unless GN are paying you to police the threads?

I think you misunderstand the issue of reporting. Because someone finds a particular post ‘offensive’ (and that’s not a word I find particularly helpful) that’s not a reason per se to report it. Some people on GN are actually against reporting in general and say instead that if we have issues with some posts then we should state our position on the thread. I font think it’s accurate or fair to say it’s about trying to bully other posters in silence - that doesn’t work anyway. And I also think it’s not accurate to use the word ‘righteousness’ for those of us who think some of the comments about MM go somewhat too far.

But why join in mocking those who want to discuss the thread
title ?

Why ! rosalyn
specie4eyes post was disgusting and anyone who thinks it wasn’t needs to look hard at themselves
And I couldn’t care less about the Royals but I do care about blatant unkindness
No wonder they left the country

Rosalyn69

Why keep reading and writing if the thread offends? Just move on to another thread.

I don’t understand what you mean - are you really saying we shouldn’t stay on a thread and criticise?

Anniebach Maybe, who knows? It's not as if anything here has any influence - we're just a bunch of women faffing about on the internet at the end of the day. Just a shame we can't always do it with more good humour and dignity.

MissAdventure - it's the double standards and the dog whistling. Some set a low bar then complain when others go under it.

Suzie Yet you feel it's Ok to call others disgusting and mindless?

I call that righteous and bullish.

NellG

Suzie Yet you feel it's Ok to call others disgusting and mindless?

I call that righteous and bullish.

I haven’t called anyone mindless and disgusting but several of us on here have found one specific post in particular disgusting . What’s righteous and bullish about that?

Rather an over reaction here.
I cannot see what is so utterly, utterly utterly disgusting about the post that has so upset some posters. I am presuming it is the use of the word narcissist and the term 'she-wolf.'

Narcissist to me means someone much given to self-admiration; I know it is a term used regularly and possibly inaccurately on here as a medical diagnosis of mothers and mothers -in-law.

Helen Cantor, in her book 'She -Wolves' uses the term to describe: 'four exceptional women, who while never reigning monarchs, held great power.'

So not utterly x 3 disgusting.

Castor

Is it wrong to have a different opinion to a poster, I think not. It gets very personal sometimes and is totally unnecessary and unkind.

Heavens above. Specie4eyes post is hilariously bonkers. It’s the sort of stuff dh comes out with as a joke (as satire). Do people say that sort of stuff seriously?

Unfortunately if people can’t see what’s wrong with the post then they must be equally lacking
I m sick and tired of thread after thread of vitriol against one poor woman Shame on you

BlueBelle

Unfortunately if people can’t see what’s wrong with the post then they must be equally lacking
I m sick and tired of thread after thread of vitriol against one poor woman Shame on you

????? x a million

I am sick and tired of a woman who goes on and on about women’s rights yet not a pip in her S.A. interview, she had met
girls who were being taught boxing to fight of rapists, very poor women, what we did get ‘when pregnant no one asked if i was ok ‘.

Can someone tell me what exactly is "disgusting" about one grandmother (me) feeling sorry for another grandmother (the Queen) who has beloved family members giving her untold grief and worry in her 95th year and at a time when her 99 year old husband is in hospital?
Harry's behaviour in answering back to his grandmother is despicable, as is their plan to discuss their pathetic issues in a TV interview which will be broadcast worldwide.
I despair of some Gransnet posters nowadays. It used to be a forum for lively, intelligent, informed opinion, comment and debate. Not so now. Too many small minded net curtain twitchers....The Disgusteds of Gransnet!
I'm out, as they say. Bye bye.

Could PP have sepsis?

He has been in hospital for a week, is being treated for an infection and will remain in hospital for several more days.

Sounds more serious than a UTI.

If your 99-year-old-relative was ill in hospital, would you like random people on the internet discussing exactly what was wrong with him on a public forum?

Give the man some dignity.

Stop being so bloody bossy