Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Site stuff

Join our Innovation Panel to try new features early and help make Mumsnet better.

Original poster

I am boycotting threads about the plight of the McCann family - anyone else?

579 replies

Blu · 21/05/2007 12:56

I have the utmost sympathy for the Mccann family, and hope for a happy ending to thier trouble. Meanwhile I am not happy about many aspects of teh many threads, and hearby resolve to completely boycott them. By not clicking, not reading, nor responding (however horrible the views), and thus not adding to the circular and predicatable route they take, no matter what quality of ontervention is made.

Clasp your right hand over your left Nork and repeat the boycott pledge after me!

OP posts:
littlelapin · 05/07/2007 19:31

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

tissy · 05/07/2007 14:25

just checked haychee has posted 122 messages on the same subject

tissy · 05/07/2007 14:22

bump

tissy · 05/07/2007 12:41

.

Kewcumber · 05/07/2007 12:29

but if you all go an post on it, it will soon enough reach 1000 and will finally die...

AbRoller · 05/07/2007 12:26

She's still there spitting bile.

elesbells · 05/07/2007 12:04

i have too since i pledged...twice i need to go to church

AbRoller · 05/07/2007 11:40

I promised myself I wouldn't get involved again but I did

Agree the only way to stop it is not to engage.

tissy · 05/07/2007 11:14

bl**dy hell!

Active convos are moving fast this morning!

elesbells · 05/07/2007 11:03
Original poster
Blu · 05/07/2007 10:59

Thank you for bumping, Tissy.

It's weird - a section of this thread from yesterday has gone missing!

But remember, the idea of the pledge is that by not engaging the argument fizzles out and the madness subsides.

passive resistance is sometimes the most powerful.

Keep it all out of active convos.

OP posts:
fanella · 05/07/2007 10:51

I take the pledge. I need to so I can stop getting wound up and swearing at ignorant people...

hippipotami · 05/07/2007 10:47

I have clasped, and will not be letting go. Those threads are madness, full of mad people spouting madness!

BBBee · 05/07/2007 10:46
elesbells · 05/07/2007 10:44

please help me take the pledge. ive been sucked in

RubySlippers · 05/07/2007 10:33

and another bump
it is madness out there, i tell ya

tissy · 05/07/2007 09:16

bump

EffiePerine · 04/07/2007 16:03

oh dear

I clicked on the thread

I won't do it again

they are all nuts

MrMaloryTowers · 04/07/2007 09:26

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

tissy · 04/07/2007 09:13

both hands clasping both norks now

lulumama · 04/07/2007 09:09

I lapsed

and argued with the Fully Qualified Paediatrician, who thought we are all selfish thoughtless bs

forgive me too , blu, for i have sinned too

EffiePerine · 04/07/2007 09:05

Was doing this anyway as I find the whole argument v tedious

consider nork clutched and trouser leg rolled

dyb dyb dyb

MarshaBrady · 04/07/2007 09:01

Yep Im boycotting
(clasps hand, looks dreamily, yet steadfastly to over yonder)

tissy · 04/07/2007 08:57

b**ger, didn't see lk's note below, wish I'd kept me mouth shut.

tissy · 04/07/2007 08:56

Forgive me, Blu, for I have sinned.

I will clutch again and try to keep the faith.