The influence of Gransnet Daily

I’m a lurker and shouldn’t watch. But you’re making me feel quite ill. Your posts disturb me.

Karen1959 Your post disturbs me and makes me feel quite ill for a whole host of reasons; the main one being your astounding rudeness and bad manners.

Karen that’s dammed rude

Please stop Elderly Person. I’m a lurker and shouldn’t watch. But you’re making me feel quite ill. Your posts disturb me.

Oops wrong place

I do that just to get on the site, it would be great if gn had a app like mn

MerylStreep

ElderPerson
I pointed out to you that we didn’t need educating as to who Delia Smith is and her influence.
Now you’ve done it again with your link to autism and Aspergers.
Could you give some thought, for your own sake ? that most posters will be very aware, even have members of their family with these conditions so therefore don’t need you to educate them. Just think about your links ie, would most people know this. Chances are: most posters on GN do ?

The way that I look at it is that it is better to mention something and include a link on the basis that some readers might not know of something, even though many may.

Better twice than not at all.

I went to an exhibition about network computing in around 1990 knowing hardly anything about it and wanting to learn.

People seemed very reticent to tell me anything.

So I said to the man on one stand "I don't know much about this. I'm here to try to learn, I'm not the sort of person who gets annoyed if you tell me something I already know".

That unlocked the problem. The man then told me lots for quite a while and we had a good conversation, and if I already knew some bit I was diplomatic about it.

I tried that at other stands and it worked wonders.

Some people, lots apparently, get annoyed if someone explains something and they already know it. But it is very difficult for someone there to advise where to pitch if the advisor does not know the enquirer's existing level of knowledge. It varies greatly.

So, if someone reading this thread already knows of the Delia effect, fine.

If someone already knows about Asperger's syndrome, fine.

Them seeing the link is not patronising, telling grannies about sucking eggs and so on, it is just being thorough in making a post. Because some readers might not know.

BlueBelle

I actually don’t like your post merylstreep why can’t the guy post links everyone else does, you don’t have to read them after all I chose which ones to read and which ones not

Exactly BlueBelle

Thanks Chewbacca I didnt know about Antony Hopkins.

I actually don’t like your post merylstreep why can’t the guy post links everyone else does, you don’t have to read them after all I chose which ones to read and which ones not

Some of the best minds in the world have Aspergers EP nothing at all to think twice about
Look at the admiration for Chris Packham

True BlueBelle and Sir Anthony Hopkins, Courtney Love, Susan Boyle, Dan Ackroyd, Andy Warhol and Darryl Hannah.
I wonder what the medical term is for those people who, when seeing that someone is clearly struggling to explain themselves, just can't resist putting the boot in by making snarky, unkind remarks to make someone feel even more awkward?

ElderPerson
I pointed out to you that we didn’t need educating as to who Delia Smith is and her influence.
Now you’ve done it again with your link to autism and Aspergers.
Could you give some thought, for your own sake ? that most posters will be very aware, even have members of their family with these conditions so therefore don’t need you to educate them. Just think about your links ie, would most people know this. Chances are: most posters on GN do ?

Some of the best minds in the world have Aspergers EP nothing at all to think twice about
Look at the admiration for Chris Packham

By the way

www.gransnet.com/forums/sponsored_discussions/1301119-What-sponsored-discussion-would-you-like-Gransnet-to-have

has been deleted. I self-reported as upthread somewhere it became apparent to me that it was in the wrong section.

Thank you.

Actually one of mine was the one which I quoted at 13:16 today. When I posted it I had in mind that today was Sunday and discussion of the book would start tomorrow. If someone reading the original knew it was Monday today the post would look quite stroppy.

One that was deleted was the kindly post to me by Bluebelle but I quoted it at 13:33, so perhaps the fact that I took it on board and added a link might have prevented my reply being deleted.

There are supposedly thousands of people with Asperger's syndrome living entirely lawful lives in the community, not harming anybody, so some people are going to be one of (us/them as the case may be).

Deleted not belated day ?

I see one of mine has be belated as well EP no idea what I said that was viewed badly

EP sometimes posts are deleted for what seems little reason sometimes HQ reads more into it that there is, and sometimes they are nasty comments, sometimes they sound more nasty than they would in real life
It’s much easier to talk in real life because there’s all sorts of little clues in someone’s face, a raised eyebrow, a smile…. even a smile can tell a thousand stories it could be a sarcastic smile, a genuine smile, a cheeky smile, a shy smile etc etc these can’t be seen in the written word, again the voice can give clues…. questioning, harsh, gentle, comical none of this happens with writing
Don’t worry too much about it whatever they said they are gone now

It's an interesting fact that you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Chewbacca

There's some unkindness on this thread.

There is. It's unnecessary and a bit depressing. And that's without knowing what was said in the deleted posts I missed.

I had been thinking, following the kind comments by Bluebelle, that maybe I was misunderstanding a comment meant to be lighthearted and humourous, even friendly, as if it were rude and insulting.

So I looked back through the thread to check it out and critically assess it from that perspective and I found that quite a number of posts have been deleted by Gransnet, with reference to the talk guidelines, including at least one of mine.

So I am wondering what I posted that was deemed wrong.

Do you know the story of Columbus and the egg?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Breaking_the_Egg

Is that widely known about?

either way the shell has to be broken, maybe the soldiers can do it? I just use a knife
lots of love
Delia

Don’t you have to smash the egg shell so that a witch can’t go to sea in it? ?‍♀️
(It is an old superstition - I’m not going mad, well, I might be, but that’s by the by…)

BlueBelle put the empty shell upside down into the egg cup after drawing a face, then bash it with a teaspoon!

I sure you haven’t misremembered EP I used to have a boiled egg and soldiers either for breakfast or tea and at Easter time
I d draw a face on it