General Chat

im all for helping people ,i have no problem with genuine illnesses.its nice to be able to give advice and feel that you have made a difference in someones life,i little bit of advice goes a long way.but sometimes i cant help but not believe some of the things people are saying.x

I believe there are some whoopers told on here but donot tell people that because if you do you get shot down in flames :-D

oh I think it's fair to say there are a small minority of people who tell outright lies on this board :-D

Yes, fair to say that Rose!

;-) Ann !

There are probably some exaggerations on here at times, rather than out and out porkies (and I'm not singling out anyone past or present). As has been said earlier, this is a lifeline for some folk, and if it helps them to talk on an anonymous Internet page, about various problems, so be it.

But as most of us have probably heard the saying- if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. It may be old, but good advice.

As long as no harm is done to any one, read the posts, chuckle or frown, and pass on.

mayby im gullible but i believe what i see unless proven otherwise

from someone who has had it hard. :-D

I think I must be gullible - I've never read anything that I thought couldn't be true - a bit daft maybe, but that's all, lol!! (and who am I to talk ?) :-D

wend
every one has their own opinions,x

ive decided to end this thread ,it started as a general observasion,on a public forum,everyone has the right to post their opinions wether its a positive post or a negative one,didnt expect the backlash that some negative posters got,in my opinion the negative posters spoke the truth,but sometimes the truth really hurts.thanks to everyone who posted,you have opened my eyes.xx feel free to add your comments,post stops at 12.30am.xx

Not I :)
Definitely empathising with Rose, coughing now for nearly two weeks :-(

"Post stops at 12:30 a.m."

What -- that's when you decide to exercise private censorship by deleting it because you don't like what some people said?

I have no idea what any of this is about, myself.

"General observation" ....... just about nothing and no one in particular, eh?

I just think that if one doesn't want to hear what other people think, one doesn't express one's own opinion in public -- let alone invite others'.

Asking people a question and then just deleting their answers and the discussion that ensued -- pretty high-handed, in my own opinion.

didnt say i was deleting it did i?it was a debate on a public forum,if you dont like it dont post. if you have no idea about what this post is about,then why comment?,eh?
you did know what this post was about because you posted on page 2.xx

I think you have the perfect right to give your opinion Suzanne and I agree with much of what you have said..

Have to say though..can't understand how the thread will close at 12.30 without deletion...which is what i also thought you meant.

I'm waiting for my puppy to have her last wee of the evening..and being the pedantic mare I am was going to post at 12.31 if she still hasn't *been* just for the hell of it lolololol

Don't take the negative comments to heart...you'll never get 100% agreement on here...but if i were you i'd stick to your guns..you've done nowt wrong x

No, Suzanne, I have no idea what it's about.

It was apparently intended as one of those "polite" comments about someone without actually naming them, against which no one can defend themself, where some people are apparently in the know, and others, like poor Jean, are left feeling that they need to defend themselves.

I thought it was a little rude myself, just another one of those insinuations where someone seems to be talking about something but won't come out and say what. My own post was intended as a light-hearted comment on that. I still have no clue what the purpose or subject of the thread was.

thank you muffy for your positive comment.i didnt say i was deleting the post,but i think that enough has been said now,if anyone wants to comment after 12.30 then they arefree to do that,but can feel an argument starting on here,and i dont want to start it lol.xxx

No worries Suzanne.

Don't be put off from posting your views in the future on the back of this.

You pay your subs same as everyone else x

janey,
the thread is about people not telling the truth.and no it was not about the person you mentioned(why would you think that?)and why was i rude?look through the thread,ive never said anything to offend anyone.general observation on a public forum.xx and yes a know im posting after 12.30 but i really thought people were fed up with my thread by now. xx if you want to post,please feel free.

Er, why would I think that? -- that the post was about Jean?

I give up -- why would you ask me that? I didn't say I thought the post was about Jean. Wasn't what I said really quite clear?

I said:
It was apparently intended as one of those "polite" comments about someone without actually naming them, against which no one can defend themself, where some people are apparently in the know, and others, like poor Jean, are left feeling that they need to defend themselves.

Seems really quite clear to me.

I think it is very rude, rude in the extreme, to insinuate things about people in a public forum, and never come out and say what and whom one is talking about.

As I said, it leaves the person or people who are actually being talked about, if they know who they are, unable to defend themselves because they have not been named. All someone like you has to say is: Who, me? Talking about you? Why heavens to Betsy, what a thought.

And it leaves other people who feel they fit the description wondering whether they are the ones targeted and feeling that they must defend themselves.

I don't really care what or whom the subject of things like this is, or whether what's being insinuated is true or false. I've had this done to me in this place, the old "some posters ..." routine, and it stinks, no matter who it's done to.

You got some people to agree with whatever it was you were saying, and some who disagreed with you and them. Heaven knows what you expected.

I think that when one insinuates that some unnamed person or persons are lying, one should expect that not everyone within earshot will be agree or feel called upon to respond pleasantly to the insinuation.

I think that if one comes out and says what one means, one will at least be demonstrating one's own forthrightness, which it strikes me is wise if one is insinuating that someone else is lying.


"ive never said anything to offend anyone.general observation on a public forum"

Yeah, right.

And butter wouldn't melt.

wow,
just shows how a thread gets out of hand.x