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Dear certain new posters, please STOP using 'lil', 'hugz', 'hon' / 'hun', 'bless', or any form of text speak. It is not welcome here. Thank you.

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Rhinestone · 07/06/2011 13:22

I am getting seriously fed up.

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NoelEdmondshair · 07/06/2011 13:23

I dislike pmsl, personally.

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SkipToTheEnd · 07/06/2011 13:23

are we allowed to use WTF?

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ooohyouareawfulbutilikeyou · 07/06/2011 13:24

aww bless, lol

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Rhinestone · 07/06/2011 13:24

I don't like lol either.

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squeakytoy · 07/06/2011 13:24

((((((hugz you lil hunny))))))





Wink

Grin

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Eglu · 07/06/2011 13:25

I wish I could click like to the op Grin

Must agree with the whole thing

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Rhinestone · 07/06/2011 13:25

Fucking fuck off squeaky and when you get there fuck off some more.

Wink Grin

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bupcakesandcunting · 07/06/2011 13:25

Please don't banhammer WTF or STFU.

They are brilliant. :(

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DaisyLovesMetronidazole · 07/06/2011 13:25

I dislike it too.

I think about 50% of it may be intended to be in good humour, but it has stopped being funny.

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NellieForbush · 07/06/2011 13:25

What are you Mumsnet police?

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MadamDeathstare · 07/06/2011 13:26

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CoffeeIsMyFriend · 07/06/2011 13:26

how rude!

get over yourself.

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cannydoit · 07/06/2011 13:27

no

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Rhinestone · 07/06/2011 13:27

I think WTF is fine as it contains 'fuck' which is an excellent Anglo-Saxon word.

It's the new, ignorant text speak that I object to and the posters who insist on using it.

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worraliberty · 07/06/2011 13:28

See I'd take your point OP if the majority of posters didn't use 'Dh, DD, DS, BF, FF' and all that jazz.

To me, it's just as lazy as text talk Grin

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thursday · 07/06/2011 13:28

didn't we do this thread this morning? i must see this is an awfully friendly,welcoming place!

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coccyx · 07/06/2011 13:28

Yabu. mumsnet is not a select group. let them write how they like.

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HolyFail · 07/06/2011 13:30

agree with worra

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HowlingBitch · 07/06/2011 13:30

These kinds of threads are getting old now. Yawn.

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strandedbear · 07/06/2011 13:32

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heleninahandcart · 07/06/2011 13:32

YANBU Thank you OP. I would like to add 'lol' and 'pmsl'

STFU is going to become an essential methinks

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ShushBaby · 07/06/2011 13:35

There are around 2 million Mumsnet users if I remember correctly.
It's not a super exclusive club for clever snarky people only you know.

YABU, obviously.

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WriterofDreams · 07/06/2011 13:35

Rhinestone, that kind of talk annoys me too but I accept that there are different people on here and they might want to use it. Why should everyone talk the way you want them to?

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HolyFail · 07/06/2011 13:36

this is my point

OP It's threads like yours that create a platform for the very thing you are trying to avoid OP....with your obvious disgust you may have inadvertently created a monster....

The very fact that this kind of text speak annoys you means that the "eejits" will continue to get a rise out of you/us....

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LieInsAreRarerThanTigers · 07/06/2011 13:36

I would like to ask for snobbery to be banned. Thank you.

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