Fancy some Retirement cash?

To all you lovely oldies out there, ever fancied a bit on the side?

How does she know we are lovely? I agree it sounds sickly patronising. Poor old dears like us should lap it up being in our second childhood and no doubt a bit simple with it. Yuk.

'Grannies' are people too!

But why is it fine!

Because they have decided it's fine?

Because it is the weekend?

Why haven't GNHQ told us why it is still here?

She mentioned exam marking too Janeainsworth. I did wonder if she is thinking ahead to her retirement rather than planning mine

Don't live anywhere near Bath unfortunately. :-(

Gracesgran I saw an advert for invigilator vacancies with OCR on Cambridge railway station yesterday. It would have appealed to me but I am away too much to make a regular commitment to anything. There were also vacancies for exam marking.
www.ocr.org.uk/about-us/jobs/

I find it really interesting to know what work is available, not really for those who are also grannying but for those who are over pension age. My daughter suggested I look at invigilating exams the other day and it made me wonder what was around that you could do for just part of the year.

I have always thought of disingenuous as meaning deliberately naive - an oxymoron I know but it made sense to me.

So did I, granjura I thought the word meant naive, with a touch of intentional naivety in it. Either some "I don't wish to know that" in with the "but I thought . . ." or a bit of misdirection.

They are not posting about work and volunteering, they are placing an advert for a job. That should be in the non-member requests and paid for - any other advert gets the chop PDQ.

I thought that disingenuous meant naive.

Oh for heaven's sake, you haven't been accused of murder.

Sigh...I will ask again

Please explain how any of the statements I've made on this thread have been 'less than candid or sincere'.

I repeat, the OP is not attempting to sell us anything and I stand by that. GNHQ obviously hasn't found any reason to delete it.

I honestly don't understand why I'm being accused of pretending that I know less about something than I really do!

Sorry - by River

Hhhmm- if I lied on an application form saying I had a degree and I didn't this would be dishonest but not disingenuous surely? I looked up some other examples of synonyms - hot and warm, funny and silly - I don't accept these mean the same. English is a very subtle, complex language and I agree with janea - disingenuous has a very specific meaning and was correctly used by her.

disingenuous synonyms:

'dishonest, deceitful, underhand, underhanded, duplicitous, double-dealing, two-faced, dissembling, insincere, false, lying, untruthful, mendacious - and more'

I would have thought the above is rather a nasty slur on someone just because they disagree with your definition of something.

Yes, I agree, we could have got some free samples first on the grounds that we couldn't possibly sell stuff unless we had tried it for ourselves.

I wanted some of that stuff that keeps mozzies away, but I don't need the facial serum as I am lovely already

Now you'll tell me that anti-mozzie-lotion is unethical and you would rather I got bitten to bits.

TBH, I'm sorry I brought it up!

Ana the OP was trying to recruit agents to sell things.
That is selling things by proxy.
It seems obvious to me, which is why I think it's odd that you don't see it that way too.
I'll rephrase the last sentence of my previous post.
In the context that Riverwalk used it, I think the word was appropriate.
I'm amazed that GNHQ haven't either deleted the thread or come on to explain that Avon have actually paid for this advert.
It's obviously Friday and they have wagged off early

Oh, really janeainsworth? If you read the synonyms, 'dishonest' is certainly there. Please explain how any of the statements I've made on this thread have been less than candid or sincere.

I repeat, the OP is not attempting to sell us anything and I stand by that. GNHQ obviously hasn't found any reason to delete it.

I honestly don't understand why I'm being accused of pretending that I know less about something than I really do!

Ana Disingenuous doesn't mean dishonest.
The Oxford Dictionary defines it as
"Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does"
I think Riverwalk used it quite appropriately!

Like the housemaid being interviewed who assured her new employer that, yes, she had fallen from grace and was an unmarried mother, but it was "only a very little baby, ma'am"

A bit OT, but I wonder what the OP means by the statement 'I have a few full time Grannies on my team'.

Is it possible to be a part time Granny, I ask myself, or is that like being 'a little bit pregnant'?

If the organiser gets paid for the sellers they recruit, then it is spam, just as much as it is spam if someone posts to send you to their commercial website where they hope to sell you something - or is getting money from firms advertising on that website and paying them per viewer who clicks or visits. There is more than one way of making money from the net, and getting lots of visitors is one of them.