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LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Tue 18-Aug-20 22:29:37

Hello
We wanted to clear a few things up:
1) We don't allow troll hunting on the forums. If you are worried someone may not be genuine, please email us directly or report any concerning posts to us. We will deal with it. Making accusations on the forums is not helpful and could, if incorrect, lead to possibly vulnerable people feeling victimised. We will have to delete threads that accuse other users of being trolls.
2) PMs. We take a very dim view of this being abused. If you receive an unwanted or unkind PM please report it to us. We can take a look and deal with it. You are also able to block other users so that they are no longer able to PM you. Please use this. And apologies in advance if this does happen to you. It's not nice and not what Gransnet is about at all.
3) Despite what it feels like tonight hmm we do not enjoy deleting threads. We have a handful of guidelines, all there with the purpose of making the threads better, and more welcoming for users. We are doing our best and rely on you to report things to us that seem concerning, so thank you for caring so much about the site and reporting anything that looks suspicious.

Thank you
GNHQ

Elegran Mon 24-Aug-20 09:55:54

I was deleted three times in one thread for citing a parallel situation where reactions to a similarly trivial and innocently-encountered trigger were not the same as the one by the subject of the thread.

Chewbacca Mon 24-Aug-20 13:25:59

Post deletions is a rite of passage Charleygirl! A bit like the first time you walk into the Argy and stagger back out on your knees 4 hours later!

kittylester Mon 24-Aug-20 14:18:41

Does it count if your thread is deleted because another was?

I hope so because I have never had another deleted and I now want a rite of passage as well as a stiff git.

Lucca Mon 24-Aug-20 15:22:06

Impressed With a lifetime without using the f word. ??

NanKate Mon 24-Aug-20 15:39:15

Now Kitty can you tell me what a ‘stiff git’ is please ?

Charleygirl5 Mon 24-Aug-20 15:39:38

Lucca it is not a word which comes into my head although I think I am being brainwashed reading certain threads on GN!

kittylester Mon 24-Aug-20 15:51:50

NanKate

Now Kitty can you tell me what a ‘stiff git’ is please ?

It's one of those special pieces of paper that have your name and what you have won in fancy writing..................well, I think that's what it is!![blush}

Pantglas2 Mon 24-Aug-20 15:54:50

Here you go kitty and nankate......??. One each - for mounting in the bedroom, of course ?

Elegran Mon 24-Aug-20 15:59:49

Kitty, it is sometimes called a Susstifickit. A GCE is a Susstifickit given to those who have done good (generally, anyway) when examined about their ejukayshun.

Callistemon Mon 24-Aug-20 16:00:12

No-one gets a stiff git until they've gone round the Magic Square.
It's a bit like the Magic Roundabout but it's square and the Magic Roundabout is, well, it's round I fink.

phoenix Mon 24-Aug-20 16:13:11

Sorry to be voice of reason, shock, yes, I know it's a first, but feel that we ought to clear this up to avoid the Clique label!

My understanding is that a "stiff git" came about due to a typo or fat finger episode, and was meant to be a "stiff g&t", as in gin and tonic.

"And, so it came to pass that the wise people of GN took the stiff git to their bosom, (be those bosoms large or small) and embraced it, and henceforth it replaced the stiff g&t that was previously lauded and treasured by some (although not the drinkers of Chablis, Cava and other such hallowed beverages) and the members drank of it, and it was good"

Pantglas2 Mon 24-Aug-20 16:23:35

I recall that Gillybob used to call them Stiffgits (say “certificates” quickly without enunciating the syllables properly) in Miss’s Maffs Klass when we were all deliberately misspelling/misunderstanding every post (for a lark!)

I of course always mounted mine in the bedroom although some may have done theirs in the drawing room.....?

Lucca Mon 24-Aug-20 16:28:33

“ I of course always mounted mine in the bedroom although some may have done theirs in the drawing room.....”
Oh no are we back to Phoenix’s love life

kittylester Mon 24-Aug-20 16:30:12

Is the Clique label a white or red wine, phoenix?

Grannynannywanny Mon 24-Aug-20 16:31:20

Pantglas2 I remember those lessons. I had just joined Miss Marydoll’s class. I was very excited to see if we worked hard we might get a stiffgit. But my maffs wasn’t gud nuff for one.
I’m still hoping to get one sometime and I’ll happily mount it anywhere in my house?

phoenix Mon 24-Aug-20 16:38:46

kitty are you thinking of Veuve Clicquot, the champagne label?

I got 2 cases (when a case was 12 bottles!) for my 18th birthday!

phoenix Mon 24-Aug-20 16:42:43

Pantglas I have never "mounted" anything in the drawing room! We don't have one! However we do have a suiting room.

I will be mounting something on Wednesday.

Marydoll Mon 24-Aug-20 16:51:08

Dear all, today after everything that has been said on this thread, I received an upsetting PM from a regular poster after I posted about my daughter's wonderful garden wedding a few weeks ago.
It totally ruined my day to the seaside with my husband, who was trying to cheer me up, as my life is basically rubbish at the moment!

You can read it hear if you are interested.

www.gransnet.com/forums/ask_a_gran/1283637-Son-s-wedding-dilemma?watched=1&msgid=28136052#28136052

Callistemon Mon 24-Aug-20 16:51:35

But my maffs wasn’t gud nuff for one.
No, *Grannynannywanny^ and you werent never gunna get one for your English neether!

phoenix Mon 24-Aug-20 16:56:58

Marydoll that's not on. You must report it to GNHQ.

Please be aware they may delete your post of 16.51, as you may have identified another member.

flowers

Doodle Mon 24-Aug-20 17:02:52

marydoll whoever sent you that awful PM obviously has no idea how ill you’ve been and what your life has been like since the start of Lockdown. Why people feel the need to comment so unpleasantly on other people’s lives amazes me. I am so sorry you were upset and it spoilt your day.
You have always said what a lovely chap your SIL is, why someone would write that I don’t understand.

Callistemon Mon 24-Aug-20 17:03:11

I'm shocked, Marydoll.

If you report the pm to GNHQ then I hope they will take steps to ban these vicious, cowardly posters who send nasty pms.

It would be a good thing if they could be named and shamed but, of course, you would then be the one in trouble.

Grannynannywanny Mon 24-Aug-20 17:03:48

How awful Marydoll. To send a PM like that is a cowardly thing to do and completely unjustified. Unfortunately the thread will probably be deleted now and all evidence of it removed.

Doodle Mon 24-Aug-20 17:07:22

phoenix cor aren’t you posh. You have a room where you wear suits. Do you have different suits for different times of day, like morning dress and dinner suits? How grand.
When you do your mounting on Wednesday, will you be getting your leg over? Do you get a stiff git for that? ?

Callistemon Mon 24-Aug-20 17:10:40

Sorry, my post to Grannynannywanny crossed with Marydoll's, it seems rather inappropriate now