General Chat

You'll have a long wait John. Data protection always trumps freedom on information.

" to stop tittle-tattle and bad feeling." oh that will work well then.....

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

That made me curl up with laughter John......thank you for making my day.......I never thought of that one.....Freedom of information act LOLOLOLOL




Good luck with that by the way :-D

Have asked Genes if they could issue a list of people who have made the last 50 reports. Freedom of information request, to stop tittle-tattle and bad feeling.

This should come soon on main announcemnet board, and I think it will totally clarify that Errol and myself have not reported any posts recently.

"But there are a couple (and I can name them for you in a pm) who report continually and they are the reason that people c and p jokes all the time, and c and p strong opinions.

Yes, I absolutely know who reported me 12 times last night. Simple process of elimination. "

JustJohn perhaps you would care to PM me with these names?

Susan10146857 - to be honest I am not sure what sort of responses I expected, my opening post was just really what I thought when I logged on this morning and flicked through the threads on the General Chat Board. I certainly did not expect it to be a follow up to the Posties and Liverpool thread.

Due to my health,eyesight problems, and medication routine, I log of usually around 5:00pm and in bed every evening by 7:30pm so I miss most of the fun :-(

John you have no idea what media news reports that go up that may be evoke upset to someone,,,,they just sit quite and dont cause a fuss,,,,,,,,,You are the only one whos banging the drum the loudest........,,,,,,,the other *thread* not one person said they were upset that the *news item* had been posted or that they had any connections to the tragic event,........not so long ago everything you posted was seen as *on purpose* to cause or stir up and was spit on from a great height.you proclaimed that your posts were all innocent.

***The post wasnt about Hillsboro it was about Liverpool postal workers refusing to deliver posted items,which happen to the the Sun and do they have a right to refuse delivering posted items.***

You have taken it upon yourself to be advocate for all and carrying this NO PROOF notion on.

" I can think of many other topics that would upset people a lot. They are never raised - a sort of agreement between posters, I guess."

Tosh!

I am not disputing your reasons OFITG .....but as a matter of interest......did you get the responses you expected? What sort of responses did you expect, or was your OP just a comment on what you were thinking and you expected no response at all......an honest enquiry :-)

I don't think slanging matches ever need highlighting on GR .....they are there for all to clearly see!

Only way to keep BP in check sometimes, OFITG :-D ;-)

Susan10146857 - I can assure you this thread was not put up to cause trouble, it was merely put up to highlight, that every so often the silly season seems to emerge, where individuals end up in a slanging match.

When I first started posting, I fell into the trap of retaliating to comments I considered as hostile or irrelevant, thankfully I quickly realised the best thing to do was not to respond, and if it was my thread - delete it, if the thread belonged to someone else - exit the thread.

Too true. Can't remember ever disgreeing with E..who cannot be named. :-D ;-)

where's Eldrick when we need him :-S ;-)

On Genes chat, none of us in making any money out of the news. And most people are far more intelligent than the average. So we do get some excellent debates - quite heated often.

I remember some early opinions of mine about welfare scroungers were attacked rather vehemently. Attacked by people who really knew about it. I think it does change your attitudes. I notice mine have changed slightly over last couple of years.

But I doubt that I will ever believe that Kelvin McKenzie (Sun Editor) was an honourable man who spoke to 4 unnamed police officers after the tragedy who told him that Liverpool supporters had urinated on police etc. Any unbiased rational person could see the way the Liverpool supporters reacted on that fateful day, the way that Liverpool has united over it. The Sun would normally be a very popular paper in Liverpool, good for sport etc. But only 12,000 take it daily and I expect far less wave copies about in public.

Please could you write my posts for me Gwynne......you are so much better at saying what I mean ....and with so few words too :-D

Claiming to know who is reporting threads is daft.

GR won't tell anyone, so anything else is guesswork or trouble making. It just makes people suspicious of each other.

I'm sure we all have our theories but only GR know for sure and anything else is uninformed speculation.

I am often surprised how some people fall into the media trap because, newspapers, other media sources, and politicians, of all political persuasions, have a track record of twisting the facts, especially about those issues relating to - immigration, welfare & benefits, corruption in public bodies, and Europe. The result is that they provide fodder for inflammatory headlines, targeted at those who share their views.

Personally I tend to ignore the information produced by the media and politicians, they have a tendency to be very biased and often contain misleading information.

I prefer to do some research and formulate my own opinion, I do this by using verifiable facts and figures from sources that have nothing to gain by not telling the truth, unlike the media and politicians, who take the facts and figures, put them through the mincing machine and produce something that comes out the other end which is completely unrecognisable from its original state.

What is it they say - there are lies, damn lies, and statistics ;-)

Hmmmm not sure I hold with that argument entirely Dermot......On the one hand you could be right....on the other....They may have gone out for the day

Edit:- Sometimes, Dermot, I believe that although what I have written has a very clear meaning, the other person may only see/read what they want to see and therefore my meaning is of no consequence to them.......tis a discussion worthy of a thread of its own methinks.....Debate.....the art of......I am sure there are some very clever people on here who could give us a few pointers.......One thing I do know.....slagging people off is not debate.....it is what it is!

It’s entertaining for the rest of us on the sidelines to have threads with conflicting arguments / opinions. It reminds me of our school debates.

What I worry about sometimes after I have added my own penny-halfpenny-worth, have I done so clearly & without being disrespectful. If I am subsequently asked to explain a contribution, then I realise I have failed at the first fence.

Mind you, I wonder occasionally if those who normally relish robust arguments appear muted later on by the possibility that they really are wrong sometimes.

‘Discuss‘ - as our bewildered teacher used to encourage.

There you go again John!....You cannot possibly know a persons motives for posting!.....There is no Proof!.......You and maybe others may see it that way, but I saw it as a post office blurb......I also agree with their sentiments......You may think that The Poster made a faux pas, which you are entitled to......others may not agree with you.......But you cannot possibly know the intention of a post.....unless it is blatantly obvious by its wording.....IE...I am posting this to annoy you etc


Take this thread for instance.......I could surmise by the OP and ensuing posts that it was put up to cause trouble.......or I could surmise that the Poster didn't expect the unrest it may cause......who knows.....one to ponder.....but I and no-one else ( unless they have been told by the poster ) can definitely say that this thread was deliberately posted to cause unrest......whether it does or not.....Sooooooo......can you see what I mean?