A Petition - to the lovely bods at MN towers

exactly Ghosty!

But this thread isn't about the foocs, I only mentioned it because I thought there was a link to the comps - but now I think there is not - so I will leave you mners to chat comps - bye!

Teafortwo, I think you are in danger of being fooc obsessed luv. It is good and lots of people post/read so be happy with that. You don't have to promote it all the time. I really don't think there is a MNHQ conspiracy against it.

Well done everyone on the fine result of the comps campaign. Thanks MNHQ.

LOL ... if it helps, I am a very old timer Mner . I am a prolific poster and I have never been mentioned in 'quote of the week' or weekly round up or anything ... and I am not that bothered. I have pretty thick skin ... so don't worry about it - the FOOC's thread is another part of the Rich Tapestry Of Mumsnet and I will bet you anything that MNHQ adore it ...

Hi Ghosty!!!!

Yeah - I didn't understand half my posts either and it was me who was posting them!!!!

Ha ha ha!!!!

First I thought that perhaps there was a link between no comps and the fact the foocs have never been a hot topic thread, quote of the week... etc...etc - ie we don't make £££ sense so we are left alone cold and sad - No comps and we don't have our threads mentioned. - But I thought this when I was feeling a bit grumpy and downbeat!

Then I felt quite upbeat and jolly - and decided MN is really so busy being nice and supportive to women and children that they just don't have time to read the foocs!!!

I really like mn so I prefer my second theory!!!

Hope you are feeling less confused now!!!

Thanks for all support everyone ... jolly good show, any more sign ups to the petition gratefully accepted.

PSSST ... Teafortwo ... you've lost me .
We all love the FOOCs ... everyone knows about them ... I'm not sure what you are getting at [thick]

Sputnik... I just read the thread about the miscarriage article in the times. Why don't foocs get mentioned? - Simple answer - mn has bigger fish to fry. I much prefer to think of mn being too busy seriously campaigning for womans rights than ignoring us for commercial reasons - and tbh - I bet that is the truth!

T42 calls goodbye to all and goes off to enter a few competitions!!!! He he he!!!!

Thanks MNHQ

oh - ok! Well that explains it then - I remembered someone doing something to tell mn about our thread... was it the red button they pressed or somethingelse....???

I will look back through not this thread, but the last one as it was done quite early on and see what she (I think it was a she) did! I can't even remember who it was

Yeah - I love the foocs too and I suppose I was looking for a logical reason why such fantastic writing has never been for example quote of the week or in the roundup or as one fooc suggested on a few occasions given a little slot the e-mail everyone gets.

But mn is like life. Never simple and not always logical and I suppose we love it for that. I would find great comfort in the reason being commercial (in times like these everyone has to be careful about the cash coming in) that is why I thought 'ahhh haaa!'that is why - hurray - now I see the light! But maybe I haven't

DD has woken up so teafortwo exists mn life and returns to real life - quick lets get to the metro dd - bookshops and coffee shops are calling us!!!!

Ahhh. Well the little red button doesn't mean "this is interesting"
It means you're reporting that thread for breaking MN rules, see here, under netiquette.

Which is maybe where you went wrong

I like the FOOC threads btw

Mmmm... interesting Sputnik!

• sorry I haven't been around on mn very long and I think I might have put 2 and 2 together and got 5.

You are right - I noticed an anti-nestle thread a few days ago... and I am sure that is the norm not the exception!

SORRY - I suppose I got carried away.

You see given what has been said here and that the foocs are mainly expats - it kinda made sense to me why when someone pressed the red button to report "this is interesting" and I invited a few MNHQ workers to join the foocs it was ignored...

But maybe, come to think of it, it is more likely to be because I really do write a lot of twaddle on the foocs thread!!!! Ha ha ha!!!! And it must be ever so hard to spot everyone-elses super posts because there are so many of my "lar-di-da lar-di-dar" post!!!!

What I'd hate to think is it is because the foocs posts (not my lar-di-dar ones of course I mean the really good posts) aren't considered good enough to mention in reports back - because some of them are really so so very touching! Honestly I find some of them completly breath-taking!

With that Teafortwo catches the metro! And SERIOUSLY promises not to mention the foocs anywhere but on the foocs thread ever ever again!!!!

1. Eidsvold
2. SuperBunny
3. ClaudiaSchiffer
4. MouseMate
5. Egypt (in Singapore !)
6. LadyPenelope
7. Flamesparrow - UK but wants them to have the same opportunities as the rest of us :
8. hammouhouseofhorror (same as flamesparrow)
9. poltergeist

1. Eidsvold
2. SuperBunny
3. ClaudiaSchiffer
4. MouseMate
5. Egypt (in Singapore !)
6. LadyPenelope
7. Flamesparrow - UK but wants them to have the same opportunities as the rest of us :
8. hammouhouseofhorror (same as flamesparrow)
9. poltergeist

I don't agree teafortwo.
Firstly MNHQ does not "acknowledge" one particular thread any more than others, why should they (unless it has been reported)?

Those interested in the fooc thread can read it, or not, as they like.

You'll find plenty of posts on here criticising multinationals such as J&J or Nestle.

Sorry I had drafted my post so many times it no longer made sense - I am daft!!! Let me try again!!!!!

Hey fellow foocs....

OH MY GOODNESS - It has just clicked in my mush of brain cells mummy head why the foocs have never been acknowledged by MNHQ!!!

Here is my theory - We have these amazingly human posts about such things as life in China during the baby milk crisis, ex-Yugoslavian Mothers living in the same village to people who have killed their families and African PTA revolt. These posts are completely overwhelming stories explaining what it is like to be alive in this world and therefore; I thought, surely of interest to the people who make life happen in this world - parents and therefore as a consequence MNers?

However, I feel after reading this thread it is to do with this balance between ?head? and ?heart?. Like offering us comps, you see... giving the foocs a little push perhaps would not be good commercially. For example a cute joke about a johnson and johnson product is going to get you more nods from big money companies than someone panicking about getting safe milk for her baby.

Ok? Fine? we all have to make our crust! I just feel a bit daft for waving the foocs flag all over mn thinking somehow if everyone liked us we would get a deserved quote of the week, a spot on the weekly letters or mentioned in the talk roundup!!! At the end of the day our foocs thread is probably a bit like the ones where everyone starts swearing ? one MNHQ would rather forget about!!!

This has been an education for me ? I shall from now on quietly get on with foocing and try not to embarrass MNHQ by mentioning it too much on other threads - like this one... whoops!!!! Ha ha ha - ok that resolution starts from after I post send!!!

teafortwo wonders if anyone-else had worked this out and also resolves to NEVER post with her toddler bouncing on lap again!!!

I have absolutely no idea why we are still adding ourselves to this list, but in true lemming fashion I am following my compadres

MNHQ, can I go to Costa Rica now?

1. Eidsvold
2. SuperBunny
3. ClaudiaSchiffer
4. MouseMate
5. Egypt (in Singapore !)
6. LadyPenelope
7. Flamesparrow - UK but wants them to have the same opportunities as the rest of us :
8. hammouhouseofhorror (same as flamesparrow)
9. poltergeist

Silly me, I forgot the idiotic punctuation. Of course I meant J'ai-K'ai-Shanewa'rne

Can I just add (having been unplugged by DD) that the dominant Australian parenting site is full of babydancers giving each other approval to call their offspring Jai-Kai-Shanewarne Lastname, so the field is wide open for a site for those of us who like our language salty, our debates robust and our baby names sensible.

1. Eidsvold
2. SuperBunny
3. ClaudiaSchiffer
4. MouseMate
5. Egypt (in Singapore !)
6. LadyPenelope
7. Flamesparrow - UK but wants them to have the same opportunities as the rest of us :
8. hammouhouseofhorror (same as flamesparrow)
9. poltergeist

Hey fellow foocs....

OH MY GOODNESS - It has just clicked in my mush of brain cells mummy head why the foocs have never been acknowledged by MNHQ!!! Here is my theory - Why have these amazingly human posts about life in China during the baby milk crisis, ex-Yugoslavian Mothers living next-door to people who killed their families and African PTA revolt - completely overwhelming stories explaining what it is like to be alive in this world and therefore surely of interest to the people who make life happen in this world - parents and therefore MNers?

However, I feel after reading this thread it is to do with this balance between ?head? and ?heart?. Giving the foocs a little push perhaps would not be good commercially. For example a cute joke about a johnson and johnson product is going to get you more nods from big money companies than someone panicking about getting safe milk for her baby.

Ok? Fine? we all have to make our crust! I just feel a bit daft for waving the foocs flag all over mn thinking somehow if everyone liked us we would get a deserved quote of the week, a spot on the weekly letters or mentioned in the talk roundup!!! At the end of the day our foocs thread is probably a bit like the ones where everyone starts swearing ? one MNHQ would rather forget about!!!

This has been an education for me ? I shall from now on quietly get on with foocing and try not to embarrass MNHQ by mentioning it too much on other threads - like this one... whoops!!!! Ha ha ha - ok that resolution starts from after I post send!!!

Gosh are you overseas lot STILL going on about this?

Hi Carrie,

Thanks for the comp plan. In my short time as a Mner I have come to understand that your job is one of balance. That is a balance between head (business sense) and heart (unity and understanding of and with all parents). Your response is a really good balance! I am impressed. Good work!!!

Oooh thank you littlelapin you are very kind to offer!

I have put in an order for some percy pigs in my Christmas stocking, so I should be okay.

Wilbs kindly gave me a packet a few weeks ago too which I am slowly munching my way through...

1. Eidsvold
2. SuperBunny
3. ClaudiaSchiffer
4. MouseMate
5. Egypt (in Singapore !)
6. LadyPenelope
7. Flamesparrow - UK but wants them to have the same opportunities as the rest of us :
8. hammouhouseofhorror (same as flamesparrow)
9. poltergeist

1. Eidsvold
2. SuperBunny
3. ClaudiaSchiffer
4. MouseMate
5. Egypt (in Singapore !)
6. LadyPenelope
7. Flamesparrow - UK but wants them to have the same opportunities as the rest of us :
8. hammouhouseofhorror (same as flamesparrow)
9. poltergeist