General Chat

I have it on very good authority that I'm lovely.

There are a lot of lovely people on this site - both male and female and I'll say something for the guys on here you do not see them bickering.

We can all take the proverbial sometimes but it is done in jest and we should all be able to rub along together. I went to an all girls high school here in NZ and it would have been unheard of for us to carry on like they do on here.

Life is too short to fight.

Persey

You're lovely too Uggers ... :-)





most of the time anyway!


(runs ...)

You are indeed, Mrs G:))

Well, I'm lovely - not so sure about any of the others on here though.

(runs)

It's not the letting them know that causes the problem, SRS, it's their reaction to it usually ;)

Surely there's a way of letting people know what you think without bickering :)

Very true Uggers :)

Very true Joy :)

Joy, life is too short for not letting people know what you think;)

Life is too short for bickering.

I think we are lovely on the whole Shirley too;)

Shirley - Take no notice of the spats. You will find that it's the same people all the time, waiting to pounce as soon as certain others make a comment.

It's all a performance. Problem is, though, the players are the same and the script never changes. Very boring.

Uggers LOL I do try to avoid confrontation and sometime read threads and wonder how they go so pear shape.
its such a shame cos you meet poeple in the flesh ,so to speak , & you know what a LOVELY bunch uS GENES family are !!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello Shirley:)

It's always been a pleasure to see you and you always seem to avoid getting into the bickering on here but some of us just can't help ourselves ;)

You're right, and some do take things in completely the wrong way, or imagine something that is said in all innocence is taken as a dig at them...but hey, that happens in real life too.

All I know is that there is much to be said about the community feel of these boards, in spite of the occasional 'heated debate' etc. It's that that keeps me coming back, not all the nastiness. If it was just that I'd have left long ago.

That's true Shirley.

But I feel in some cases it's not necessarily just a misinterpretation of the wording it's perhaps someone being a bit over-sensitive.

Now whether that's becuase they are the over-sensitive type or because they have a bit of a guilty conscience I don't know, but I do wonder about it occasionally.

Jill

Its so sad though to see spats arising I know I was helping someone off line by PM only to get chastised when i posted an online reply and someone took umbrage and was really off with me
We really should remember ,as my ole mum used to say, speak as you want to be spoken too.
i go back to my original remark . its sad that people can get the wrong end of the stick and sometimes misinterpret the tone of written word

I hit it just at the time it was deleted!!!!

Tonight is the first time I have ever hit that RR button but I just couldn't sit by and read the foul & abusive messages that were being posted.
Within about half an hour I was glad to see the thread removed.

im more than willing xx