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What do we all look like ?

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NanKate Sun 12-Oct-14 16:56:46

I often have in my mind's eye how a Gransnetter looks from the way she/he writes and of course that is an absurd and not based on anything but my imagination.

However last week the Winner of the Great British Bake Off, Nancy Birtwhistle, looked to me as if she would be a great candidate for this website. I wondered also if she was already one of us. hmm

henetha Mon 13-Oct-14 10:52:57

I possibly might put a photo on here, if I knew how to! But possibly not, as I like the idea of anonymity.
I'm 5'5and a half, size 16, mainly wear jeans and t-shirts/sweat shirts.
Definitely not Miss World material!

HollyDaze Mon 13-Oct-14 11:08:20

I was always quite happy to post photos. Then, with pming people, on one site in particular, I mentioned a holiday I was going on to several people I chatted privately with for several years. They asked when I would be back and I told them. One man, knowing what I looked like, was waiting for me at Arrivals when my flight landed back on the Island and just walked straight up to me; I will never put up photos of me again.

shysal Mon 13-Oct-14 12:26:00

Scary Hollydaze! You could have been burgled in your absence too!

rosequartz Mon 13-Oct-14 12:43:14

I am 5' 9", still a size 10-12, with glossy brown hair that behaves beautifully, cut in a stylish bob, sparkling green eyes and am always dressed very elegantly.
I also tell whoppers.

papaoscar Mon 13-Oct-14 13:11:30

Tall, dark n'ansome, with fine hairy fetlocks and a cold, wet nose, I carry the burdens of life on my broad back with grace, ease and dignity. All I ask is an occasional bag of oats and access to Gransnet from time to time. Simple pleasures, indeed!

Anya Mon 13-Oct-14 13:13:57

You sound like a cross between a cart horse and a Labrador!

HollyDaze Mon 13-Oct-14 13:17:07

Luckily shysal - I kept quiet about which part of the Island I lived on and although this chap had flirted quite a lot, I didn't expect that to happen! As you say though, it could have been much worse (he turned out to be quite harmless thankfully).

Tegan Mon 13-Oct-14 13:29:51

I don't think I'm anonymous looks wise cause I do go to meet ups and have had photos of those put up on here but I still don't feel happy about doing a profile/photo, mainly because I'd then feel uncomfortable about coming on here for a moan about family and the S.O. [and I SO need a moan sometimes...]

rosequartz Mon 13-Oct-14 14:30:34

Perhaps it would be interesting to post what we think other anonymous Gnetters look like!

Teetime - I don't see you as a Sophia Loren lookalike, I think you're medium to tall (about 5' 7"), slim, blonde and sporty (what a funny word 'sporty' is, I mean it in the nicest possible sense!).

Holly you are obviously gorgeous enough for that chap to want to come and meet you!

Tegan - striking looking with red hair - and a younger Gnetter.

hmm am I right?

Perhaps I don't want to know what you think I look like!

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 13-Oct-14 14:36:12

Well, try to imagine an old woman then Shysal cos that's what I am. Allbeit one who likes a bit of fun occasionally.

Tegan Mon 13-Oct-14 14:40:21

If only rose sad....[although I used to get called carrots when I was young; alas that was before red hair was fashionable and when it was I'd gone grey then white and then the hair was just plain gone....]

Galen Mon 13-Oct-14 14:43:00

I'm large, fat and have what resembles a white floor op on top of my head, glasses, swollen ankles and a very bad temper which combined with my extensive vocabulary of swear words in more than one language renders me quite formidable.

Galen Mon 13-Oct-14 14:43:18

Floor mop!

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 13-Oct-14 14:46:54

Actually I don't think I'm that old. Although GSs obviously think so. (Oh the consternation when I fell off the drumming stool yesterday! hmm ) (could have happened to anybody hmm)

rosequartz Mon 13-Oct-14 14:47:30

Next time I am over that way I will look for a white floor mop shouting and swearing! (Shall I shout 'hello' or run in the opposite direction? hmm)

rosequartz Mon 13-Oct-14 14:49:17

Jingls grin I didn't realise you were a drummer!

papaoscar Mon 13-Oct-14 14:51:51

Spot on Anya, right on the button! I conjure up a vision of someone tall and dark with long hair and flashing eyes. Hungarian tempestuous temperament, perhaps, but with a dash of Russian reliability and endurance. And that's only my alter ego. What a load of old cobblers. Thank goodness for the fog of anonymity Gransnet provides!

Elegran Mon 13-Oct-14 14:56:50

Is the drumming stool one of those beatboxes that you sit on and beat, like this one Jings ? DS has one and I am seriously envy

The DGC could be getting one this C*******s. (these are not DS's children)

rosequartz Mon 13-Oct-14 15:04:09

Very confused now, I thought a drum stool was wot you sat on when drumming (like wot DD's OH uses when drumming with his band).

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 13-Oct-14 15:06:43

No. He's got one of those, but tbh I Prefer the djembe I gave him a while back.That's got a better sound - I think. They are both good though.

No, this was the stool to the drum kit. I didn't realise how mobile those things are. It kept moving after I'd perched and somehow I was sprawled backwards on the floor. hmm

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 13-Oct-14 15:08:28

Rose I was only going to have a little try.

rosequartz Mon 13-Oct-14 15:14:44

Oh, hope you are OK! Are they like a computer chair, skid across the floor on wheels? I must say, didn't look at DD's OH's too closely! Or try it grin

papaoscar Mon 13-Oct-14 15:51:26

Drumming - those with tablets will know that you can download drumming and other musical things that are great fun, silent to others, and you don't have to risk slipping off the stool!

HollyDaze Mon 13-Oct-14 19:01:14

rosequartz

you are obviously gorgeous enough for that chap to want to come and meet you!

Hmm, what's that saying about in the 'eye of the beholder' wink

rosequartz Mon 13-Oct-14 20:24:39

I am sure you are, though (in my mind's eye anyway).

I am just virtually gorgeous on here, not in real life (and never have been!).