Grr................. Anne Atkins

Not you Anagram!

Jings...ask Geraldine to remove the if it gives you the proverbial pip. She's very amenable.

I give up.

You'll all be glad to know.

Jings I love it when you

jo4 yes, there were 3 quotes in my post. I just don't understand why people have to be so nasty. Why can't they state their opinion without having a go at someone? In this case it was you.

Why do they call you Jings?

Oh my gosh. That's a long story Alison. But I do like it better than a number, which I have now landed myself with.

Alison the people you are quoting have all (I think) been on GN from the beginning and they know each other very well - they often have this kind of banter and I don't think there is anything personal in it. It's like good friends who can 'take the piss out of each other' without offence. Sometimes it looks from the outside as though it has gone a bit far but I think they are all strong characters who enjoy bouncing off one another.

JO4 has had many reincarnations on here and her name used to be jingle or jings.

Now I have put my oar in and spoken for several people and fully expect at least one of them to tell me to mind my own business

Wouldn't dream of it nightowl. The Gransnetters who enjoy healthy debate have a great deal of affection for Jingle who is well able to stick up for herself if she feels the need

Not at all, nightowl (not from me anyhow). You're quite right, so thank you.

Thanks for that nightowl. As a relative newcomer it just sounds as if they are being nasty and as I have also been on the receiving end I feel it for the person who seems to be being attacked. It seems to me that being nice is just so easy.

I still feel a relative newcomer as well Alison but this is what I think I have worked out since I joined. I love the banter though it sometimes makes me go and run for cover!

So it"s healthy to be mean to each other , O my golly gosh , not what I was taught

Maybe we should have had a duvet day to-day (runs for cover behind the sofa)

Thank you, nightowl, you have hit the nail on the head.

nightowl I've been a member for a very long time. I still run for cover...

I agree, nightowl it took a while to pluck up the courage to raise my head above the parapet but I still watch out for snipers.

I certainly do not run

Hmm. Not totally sure I agree with that first paragraph nightowl.

And I really hate when posters pass of my true opinions as "stirring" just because I often seem to be out of step with army.

I'm under the duvet now la la la la laaaa

sorry. 'off' not 'of' there

I don't define healthy debate as being mean to each other, either nonu. No right thinking person hijacks a thread for such a purpose.

I understood the comments made about religiacs referred to the subject of this thread, not another Gransnetter.

It's frustrating to see good discussions railroaded by unfair accusations, and even more frustrating to be patronised when someone justifiably asks for a ceasefire, only to be told they want cosy group hugs. Having robust discussions and remaining friendly aren't mutually exclusive.

I don't want to be rescued or told off for having interesting conversations with people who might have a different view from mine. It's becoming so predictable, it's a bore (my turn to duck now)

nightowl May I join you, please?

Who said you're stirring Jingle? certainly not me.

And the comment from Greatnan - calling me 'woman' was totally out of order! And thank you Alison for the back-up there.