Why Un Mumsnet hugs???

[Clarabell78]

Aren't you supposed to give hugs on here?? I don't understand!

[RafaellaNhaKyria]

Because mumsnet is a mean, nasty pit of vipers and to suggest otherwise is blasphemy!

Despite the fact that I've found the vast majority to be kind, lovely people. And the amount of un-mumsnetty hugs kind of makes them...mumsnetty

[OneWellAndTrulyCrackeredMummy]

Hahahahaa

Hugs are classed in the same ways as using lol, sparkly tickers & 'like' buttons, very unmumsnetty & usually attributed to another parenting site.

Here we do not see the need for these, & post more simply & to the point :)

[Fairylea]

Because netmums is FULL of hugs ...

So I've gathered mumsnet are too UN netmums to hug :)

[DeafLeopard]

We are hard and can't be seen to show weakness by hugging and kissing and sparkly tickering, but sometimes, just sometimes, if someone is feeling really sad then the odd hug may slip out - just to show we are not total vipers.

[SusieSausages]

Ah, first it's a hug, then before you know it you're addressing everyone as 'hun', talking about 'bubs' and 'hubby' and campaigning for sparkly tickers at the bottom of your posts.

We're all dead 'ard on 'ere, you see.

Seriously though, hugs don't bother me a bit.

((hugs OP))

[Clarabell78]

Och what a lot of nonsense! :-)

HUGS HUGS HUGS HUGS!!!

[TheFallenMadonna]

There is hugging all over the shop now. It makes me laugh when people say un MN hug, as hugging is completely MN, and has been for a while.

[tittytittyhanghang]

yay i loves hugs ((hugs))

[Chottie]

I'm a huggy person :) it's genetic

[CuttedUpPear]

I couldn't agree more - I don't know why people feel the need to distance themselves from the site before offering a hug.
How silly.

I for one would gladly accept the MN brand of hugs with grace!

[SusieSausages]

I just asked my three year old for a hug but he licked my nose and farted on my leg.

[TheFallenMadonna]

There used to be fewer for sure.

Hence unMN like.

Back when it was all fields round here...

[Fakebook]

I hate hugs, not just on here, but in real life too. I'm not a huggy person, unless I'm hugging my children or DH. I don't even hug my brothers and sister. I used to work with a girl who used to "paw" at my arm like a cat when talking to me sometimes. She used to also stroke my hair or give me shoulder rubs and hugs out of the blue. It's all very unnecessary and annoying.

[Clarabell78]

Wee shame for you Fakebook :-(

Susiesausages that's hilarious!

[Iamsparklyknickers]

I've always pictured a mn hug happening as someone tells you exactly why your UR, kind of like that one good friend who tells you your arse looks enormous in jeans.

Kind of 'ah pet, it's a shame you're a hormonal mess, but no, you can't fling tins of tomatoes at people in asda because they sneezed over the apples. Pack it in'

[MrsTerrysChocolateOrange]

FakeBook she would be buried under a patio if she worked with me. Along with the women I used to work with who used to sing, badly, in the office.

[KeemaNaanAndCurryOn]

Mumsnet's more about giving a caring punch on the arm, but the odd hug doesn't go amiss if you really need one.

[Viviennemary]

I think on some forums this luv ya Hun, Hugs, and frilly stuff is overdone. So that's why. (Thank goodness)

[FrazzleRock]

Fakebook - I'm also very unhuggy in real life. I try to be more buggy but it feels so uncomfortable and false.
Twas the way I was raised so it's weird.

I hug my DS's all the time so hopefully they won't be quite so icy

[OverlyYappyAlways]

I'm not a huggable person, I don't know where to put my arms and get all twitchy tbh, I do give do sympathy lines, I haven't moved onto hugging as yet.

[FrazzleRock]

Huggy. Not buggy. I don't want bugs.

[OverlyYappyAlways]

I'm fine with Dc just people!

[ShowOfHands]

People never used to hug on here. It's all over the place now.

I don't hug. I prefer not to be touched tbh. If a colleague started pawing at me or rubbing parts of me, I'd do Unspeakable Things to them.

On MN you don't get a hug, you get a jab in the eye and an order to get a grip. This is as much a kindness as all that stroking, fawning crap people do. Well it used to be like that. The hugs are taking over.

[ShowOfHands]

I married into a family of huggers. And kissers. And declarers. They say I love you all the blooming time. I can't say it back at all. I manage a fond "well done" and then back the fuck away.