Is it really impossible to leave Gransnet offcially?

I thought a ‘flounce’ Lucca was anytime someone announced they were leaving instead of simply going ?- usually with the intent of being begged to stay !

In which case , by that definition I think it qualifies as a flounce ?

This a General comment/opinion not aimed toward any one single poster.

Posters who repeatedly join, leave, join, leave and announce they are doing so because they take issue with Gransnet and apportion blame to other posters without giving the remote thought they too are part of that pattern are understandably not taken too seriously.

Posters who repeatedly join and leave and keep their Username at least give other posters the opportunity of understanding the persona behind the Username when they return, like um or loathe them scenario as the case may be they are being totally open and not deceptful so deserve credit. .

Many posters join, leave, join bla bla for perfectly sound reasons and there are equally good reasons why they change their Username. However those who join, leave, join bla bla and change their Username to avoid being connected to their past Username are another case in question.

If a poster wishes to leave then leave, some announce they are leaving others just leave. If they return and keep their Username I have no problem with that, not that another poster needs my permission.

Where issues usually occur, happen is when a poster flounce off accusing GN or posters of being horrid but perversely they return, Why would a poster do that? If GN and posters were horrid in their opinion why come back time and again? . Why GN has become a horrid place may in fact be because of their own style of posting but of course that would not be ever a thought in their mind, it is always others.

It's not rocket science but is it virtue signalling or simply a masochistic nature, it certainly does not make sense to put yourself back into the Lions Den as they see it time and again.

Elegran has never been the kind of poster who would do what you insinuating, Gracesgran and I don't think you need to feel sorry for her in the slightest.

Elegran is always calm, sensible and never nasty.

Sorry, I am trying to keep out of the bickering but that was a post that I could not ignore.

I'm not sure I've followed the tearing to shreds bit that is mentioned here. But I don't think the opinion(s), vile or full of praise, about a person in the public eye (a celebrity if you like), by a member or by several members of GN will make one jot of difference to the 'reputation' of whichever public person it is.

Who has been 'destroyed' by a gransnetter "hammering on"?

Callistemon Yes, it is quite scary to know all your postings remain forever. I just searched my former alias on Gransnet and there they were. At least I now know, more or less, when I was here. I didn't think it was so long ago!

If you write a letter published by a newspaper, it is a matter of record. It is there for all time. It seems the same applies to postings on Gransnet. Presumably, we all ticked the box when we joined. I wonder if this realisation will make people a little more careful what they say. That would be nice.

The fact the Megan and Harry thread is being raised as a point in question is only relevant if other threads had never resulted in pure bile and nastiness. To be Frank some posters who feel other posters have been out of order on one thread may well have caused equal offence to others on a different thread.

Jacob Rees Mogg, Theresa May, Dianne Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson, The Queen, Uncle Tom Cobley and all, a purple spotty cat could give rise to posters being abusive but it is not the case at one time the same posters are at fault.

Only a narcissist believes he she is above reproach, only a narcissist believes it always ' others'.

Well said POGS ??????

I am not Frank before the quips comes in ?

Any posters moaning about the H &M thread and riding their high horses to exhaustion should now put them back in the stable for a well earned rest.

Well said POGS, oh the temptation to say ‘Frank’ ,

Who is Frank?

I thought a ‘flounce’ Lucca was anytime someone announced they were leaving instead of simply going ?- usually with the intent of being begged to stay!

In which case , by that definition I think it qualifies as a flounce

I think that is a gross exaggeration of someone asking for help and direction and then following it. This is just another case of a poster wanting to criticise and changing the facts in order to do it.

Good and fair post POGS.

You must remember Frank! ?

No! Has he got a brother called Ernest?

One should always be Frank.

Haha ? A handbag ?!

POGS
As always, succinct, to the point without being rude or insulting to other posters ???

I wonder if this would have happened if the political threads had been more active. As we know they have died a bit of a death.

Anniebach wow "Frank" would have had a field day on this topic don't you think.

?I remember youhoo ? Frank?

That is a good summing up,POGS

The "real world" includes such people as journalists on newsrags, political activists for extreme parties, proselitising members of fundamentalist sects, racist and sexist bigots, and the president of a supposedly civilised nation.

If you have never met, heard, seen or read any of these, then you must be sealed in a soundproof windowless room with no access to media.

If you have come across them, and believed them - well, I'd say you are too intelligent to be taken in, so that isn't relevant.

If you have come across them, and recognised their illogical hatreds, then why single out a minority of Gransnet posters to prove that is a unique sink of viciousness which you must ostentatiously reject before it sullies your own views?

Oh hell now I am Frank.

I knew it would be good to get in first. ?.

POGS Tue 10-Mar-20 15:23:53

I don't know why people do that POGS but as a superior being, you obviously feel you know more about them than they know about themselves.

I have left generally when other things overtook my time and come back, perhaps more full of hope than expectation, when real-life calmed down. I have found a few 'kindred spirits' and like to talk with them and learn from them. A bit prosaic perhaps for the divas on here and also they tend to leave over time as, maybe, all sensible people should.

GG MK3

' I don't know why people do that POGS but as a superior being, you obviously feel you know more about them than they know about themselves'.
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Thank you.