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Mumsnet is brill, but I'm very suspicious... my reasons are,.......
I have noticed that any question from nipple advice to foster caring to mother in law advice is answered within approximately 10 mins. Surely the chances of someone who can offer advice being online at exactly the right time is minimal?
Also, the posts are all written in a very similar style and the advice given always covers all angles. What are the chances of all these people being on line at the same time?
I am a mum myself and manage to get online approx once a week. How does any mum or dad find time to be on for hours a day? I'm certain that some of, but not all of mums net, is set up.
If you are so short on time how have you managed to work out that all the threads are answered within that time frame and also deduced what the answers are like?
Actually there are only 5 of us, each with about 20 different personas. We use google a lot. Sometimes I get confused and start being shouty, hard-nosed poster under the name of reasonable, helpful poster. It's draining, I tell you.
<< PG it was a veritable triumph. In mid-swoosh and everything. Lots of ooohs and aahs. Edible glitter worked its way into DS3's poo, but you probably didn't need to know that >>
pelvicfloor - due to too much wine I read your post as whiffy rooms!!! OP - yes there are 5 posters all with 20+ personas. except Cod (one of a kind) and me (I just leave my kids to get on with it while I MN - They have a sausage roll, fruitshoot and the remote control - what's the problem?)
I imagine an office in an industrial estate somewhere in the world where you shout out 'Anyone know about piles/VBAC\husbands having affairs etc etc......'
Can you imagine the poor folks though in the engine room typing away furiously from the manuals - or do you think the answers are selected from a preprogrammed list?
Sheila, we've got another feeding baby rice to a 2 week old fuckwit here - press k425445!
Hashim - and the staff would have to know about constipation/bumsex/message in a bottle/legal stuff/poledancing techniques/gardening/insert here ad infinitum.
It's friday night... you on double time? How can there be so many replies in last 20 mins? Do you not have lives? Are you not watching Jonathan Ross or asleep or in the pub? or spending quality time with husband?
Hasim - we multitask. I am posting under 20 different personas, watching JR on the sofa and spending quality time with DH, all from the remote MN warehouse. It can be done!
Ah well you know all the best call centres are in Scotland - they did a lot of research before deciding that a Scottish accent was the most acceptable to most callers
Yes, there are indeed only a handful of actual posters (down by 25% now Dave's in Ibiza), they are employed by mnhq on a reasonable salary and spend their days responding with an average of 56 usernames. Their duties are numerous from advertising mooncups, educating the General Public in matters of grammer and typing accuracy, to subtley guiding a nation of parents towards Alfie Kohn.
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I also read that as Wiffy bedrooms in the Coventry Care home... I suspect there is Wi-fi and it is in Wiffy bedrooms...
What I was wondering ad trust me here, i'm not fishing at all, but, If I started a thread on a friday eve' would anyone think I were new too? As in, I'm wondering if I post enough to be at least vaguely recognised??? I feel like I'm never not sitting in front of my flashing screen, hitting refresh, or active convos. Im slightly concerned I may in fact develop a pressure ulcer if I'm not careful.
While I"m at it, I ought to don anti embolic stockings, and jab a bit of Heparin every day- just to be safe.
Anyone want some? I've a large stock here, under the desk...
Set up? How odd. I'm a mum of 3 and I manage to get online every day never mind once a week, then again I don't do housework every second of every day either.
Well yes Pete Boys after all I know where you live. DO try to differ your styles a little more in future. And don't think I didn't notice 'Custardo' and'Cod' agreeing with each other earlier.
buda, good stuff. I'm sill sticking by it. Advertising must make it a well paid job. I'm off to bed, because I am a real mum and have to be up at 7 for football practise and feeds and shit like that. I'm from West Yorkshire btw.
BALD Dark Side of the Moon? Crikey, evil entries at the beginning. We played it in our regionals earlier this year and our guest conductor / mentor experty type had adjudicated it in other regions. Said no-one got it right there either. And neither did we. So don't worry, VERY difficult, you won't be alone. Enjoy it though.
<sigh> so many arguments over who will take the late night looney shift.
Come on I really do need someone for the graveyard 4-6pm shift this week. I know Fran is goingonapaintballing family weekend and yes Cod is hungoveragain recovering. But seriously, who's up? Hunker is always roleplayingdungeonsanddragons so who's left, Cali? She's put in a lot of overtime already.
None of you know the truth. I was employed by MNHQ to assist in developing intelligent software. There are numerous robotic 'personas' which are programmed to seek specific key words in threads and generate an automated response. We have had a few hitches, such as 'model1328 - cod' who malfunctioned from the very start but has taken on a life of her own and is now unstoppable. Artificial intelligence indeed.
