A respectful request

Well said, Elegran.

Exactly, absent a storm in a teacup and the thread soured.

Perhaps you should read the 'Tributes to Carol' thread, absent.

This has all gone over my head. I don't understand why jinglbellrocks has apologised to granjura and I can't work out what granjura wants posters to respect.

Well said, Elegran. In some ways this is a thread about a thread which is not normally allowed but it took the 'discussion' away from the tribute thread which is a good thing.

I wish I could think of a post which would send this thread into a more healthy direction, but my teeth are so set on edge that I can't.

It began as a perfectly reasonable and restrained request to keep the tribute thread as a tribute thread, but it has become an excuse for Bluebell to air her dislike of Jingle.

OK,*bluebell*, you have bared your fangs. We are under no illusions about your opinions. Now could you please butt out. Take your own advice and pause before posting. Jingle has made all right again with Granjura and there is no cause to you to be insulting. Your sour contribution was not in keeping with the thread.

Oh, and I have reported your comment. I don't report many.

Strange how one person can change the whole dynamics of a forum .

Bluebell do you really have to be quite so unpleasant?

Please, have some respect- please.

I thought you'd gone back to Mumsnet bluebell? "Funnier"...

Compromise, so I have heard, is that tiny step toward my sensible point of view that the other bone-headed b****r refuses to take, however often I explain the desirability of such a move.

Yes Elegran - good luck with that now! And jingle or whatever your name is by the time this is posted - knee jerk is always your excuse - why ffs don't you just think before you post - and you bloody well should have done on that thread!!

Yes, Elegran real ones.

A storm in a teacup. The posts on the Carol tribute thread have all been sorted out, misunderstandings clarified, all tickety-boo. Let it be and get on with posting real posts.

Sounds good to me, Aka.

Yes, you are right, Aka. It is not in my nature to carry a grievance. I shall agree to disagree, though I note the (once more) inevitable response with sadness. 'Twas ever thus. And I can't stand mince pies either.

Sadly Ariadne it has already started.

Can we all perhaps start again, let bygones by bygones, in the spirit of this season and the spirit of this thread. Peace and goodwil

Yes it would. What I said applies to the forums in general.

I'm very sorry you feel that way, bluebell. I have no argument with anyone, thankfully.

Sigh! I've already said Bluebell. It was a knee jerk reply to Granjura, in response to her sad post. I immediately PM'd Granjura to explain who I was. Granjura was fine with it.

Ffs leave off. It's not worth it! Go and make some mince pies.

I'd just like to add that if it hadn't been for someone questioning the eligibility of another member to post on the Tributes thread, none of this would have been necessary.

Well, the "good friend" designation depends on one's experience, interpretation and perception, surely? I find the all too predictable great disappearing act and subsequent inevitable resurrection and acceptance quite unbelievable.

I try, mostly, not to be aggressive, but this I had to say. I now await the vituperation and personal attacks that will also, inevitably again, follow. As they always do.

Marelli - well said!

And Marelli I dislike intensely your bracketing the loss of one good friend with the return of another as though they counterbalanced each other ffs - and the returnee is not a good friend of mine so speak for yourself

There are ways to announce your return - which of course is predicated upon certain assumptions anyway - but anyone with any sensitivity would have done it differently. But then , why would I expect anything different?