To ask people to read posts before replying to them

Whatever!

absent If I'm a guilty party, please accept my sincere apology.

Oh dear I hope it wasn't me. Sorry if it was.

Maybe you're seen as, ahem, too robust, absent , and clearly this must be tackled robustly with random side wipes, oops, I mean swipes. Guerilla grannies, wot?

Where a thread runs to several pages it is understandable and even excusable to be moved to post at the outset without reading through all the other replies/comments - life is just too short. Has this been the case perhaps?

I don't kinow what this ones about either.

This is why I use the bookmark facility!!

I feel that people should stick to the topic and not use threads to trot out the same old, same old and then use it as a reason to get nasty, again and again.

Soop said, on another thread, that she avoids certain threads, which I do too. I tend to miss out the politics and religion threads only to be caught out on a totally innocuous looking thread that has been hijacked.

absent I think you may be robust but there are other posters equally, and in my view, even more (!!) robust. It is not necessary when exchanging views to be personal, condescending or flippant which I have never thought you are. Not being 'robust', but happy to listen to everyone (or a chameleon), I have felt patronised by other posters and it is not how GN used to be.

Isn't it a shame?

Kittylester

all too much

JO4 Why all too much, what do you mean?

You're supposed to click on blue bits.

Howwwlllll !

Sorry.

wipes sweat from brow

Thank you JO4 that has cleared that up very nicely.

I'm with you Kitty. Such a shame.

Pls stop posting pictures of me lol

kitty I'm relieved that I'm alone in feeling angst whenever the same old topics usually end in a lot of virtual pushin' and shovin' and some members thinks it's perfectly reasonable to get nasty for the umpteenth time in order to score points. I'm feeling sad. I wish that I could wipe the last session of argy bargy from my mind...but I can't. "Group hugs" and winks tend to leave me a little cold. I'm off to do something positive...tackle the ironing, for instance.

soop that is, if I may say so, an extreme reaction!

soop
Well said, I must admit that this is also playing on my mind and I need to take a break from this. Fortunately my DGD is coming for tea and then I am taking her to her ballet class. I can only feel good after that.

Why I can't we be flippant?

Sorry, Lilygran I didn't put it very well. I meant flippant about other members views if they are different from their own. I find that rude and, in a way, bullying.

soop that's what I was doing when you posted . I have just completed it all from last week when the house was full of family.

soop I agree. It is like fighting the battle of Waterloo again and again. No ground is ever won or lost, the same volleys and charges end up with the same results, the same casualties are wounded (some in the back) or retreat from the field to lick their wounds .....

(PS I am currently reading a biography of the duke of Wellington)