I don't know where we're going, but we know where we are? (Part whatever)

I bet @smurfjed is laughing at us Europeans and our "heatwave".

I was talking to a friend in UAE today about our heat and she said "sure that's our spring". 🤣

Watching Southpark and laughing at the boys reaction to Catcher In The Rye. Exactly the same as mine when I read it 20 odd years ago, Ie what a load of shite.

Smurfjed wouldn’t survive without air conditioning, I have 4 units in my house and it’s a no-go item for the truck. But life has to go on even with the heat. Yesterday I went to a car scrap yard and got a new door and bonnet for my truck, (due to corrosion ) Then stopped off at the water front and finally took a walk down the sea front, it was kinda quiet at noon. :):)

Happy to report that Grumpy is holding his own against Covid so far. Wish I could say the same for me. For the first time ever I am genuinely considering closing out my Boards account. Boards, in particular this thread and you fabulous Wherers, has been a life line to me while I've been a carer with much reduced social contact, but the way this site is going lately with the most blatant and vile xenophobia, racism, misogyny and class bashing that is allowed to stand, unchallenged and the amount of it being posted has really turned me off the site. This used to be a fun place, in the main, with the occasional serious debate on issues that could be interesting and informative. Now it's just...horrible. Maybe I just need to take a break from it. I'll miss you lot if I do go, though.

I know what you mean. The place is really going to the dogs lately, all just negativity, tribalism and hostility. I'm in a similar boat to you there Sardi. It's getting painful. This thread, the Cork city forum (certain threads) and ironically enough the Ukraine thread are the only reasons I still come here. Just do whatever feels right to you, your mental health is more important than anything else!

Can’t wait to see Gifted topless 😉😘😘😂😂😂😂

Is it any better or worse than Reddit ? If you want fun just put the words Saudi Arabia in any thread and watch the ignorant reaction.

Alfie is tired after his morning yoga

It's the posters on here that keep others posting imo . Other wise everyone would have left . The sense of community has dwindled since the clusterfcuk that was the move to Vanilla. All just my opinion though..

It's Thursday, it's not raining, we're here , three positive things 😌

The move to Vanilla can be blamed for many things, but the change of tone around here is not one of these things as far as I'm concerned. There's just a rising level of aggression throughout society at the moment, people using the slightest pretext to go completely nuts on each other. I honestly don't envy any of the mods or admins here, you could give me all the money in the world and I still wouldn't do it. Grem and the others, I don't know how you do it!

To switch to something more positive, it's Thursday, I got dragged along on a pub crawl/company dinner two days ago even though I was not part of that particular team/org, and it's nice and quiet here at the moment 😀

Oh, and have you guys seen the images released by the James Webb Telescope last week? They are spectacular 😮 😮 😮

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I don't notice the aggression/venom or trolling on this site.

I just click into the same ole threads that I have bookmarked and generally there's very little out of the ordinary posted.

Sorry if some of you are having bad experiences but I honestly can't say (thankfully) it's come to my notice but I echo the praise for the moderators.

Not for all the tea in China would I do it.

ETA.. I notice a bit of argumentative or provoking posts sometimes in threads by repetitive posters but I can't be sure if it's deliberate or if they just believe what they try to sway others to think. I just eye roll when I see those names come up.