If you (still) feel the need to discuss Moldies, please do it here so folks can hide this if they want to.

i cant have crabs, they would need something to cling onto

aside from the fact i am not that slack with my sexual health of course ....

my mind os on overdrive after desis remark

Oooh, a seafood thread. How refreshing.

If you have crabs, Lou, then I have lobsters.

Well, I didn't know about it, so it's entirely conceivable that I don't know about a number of other boards. But I'm not going to get my knickers in a twist about it. As long as I'm happy with what MN has to offer, it doesn't really matter does it?

arf at lou.

bleurgghh that reads like the drunken rambling it is, but seriously isn't it highly unlikely that someone would a) read the article in the first place b) think ohh I wonder if so and so posts there c) do an extensove search to try and find out if yoyu are actually on here...it isn't easy and would take too much time and energy

Quad I am fascinating.

I think there are a few people who need to think carefully, I have been in that situation. Now as a teacher in a very straightlaced school I am not sure if I am.

i wouldnt mind a private forum right now to discuss why i suddenly have that itchy regrowth factor after shaving, when i never normally do

or maybe i just have crabs?

or could it be connected to my red wine trauma?

right lets all stop

take stock for a minute

why would anyone come on MN and try and decipher who you are etc it has happened on only a couple of occasions and in cods case by someone who posted incredibly extensively and was idetifiable by much more than her name.
Are we all that interesting that people would spend lots of time trying to find out who we are? Honestly guys please don't worry too much unless you alreradfy post here the chances are folks are not as addicted to the www as we are.

oh the private SN board has been around for ages.

I think it was set up at around the same time that you had to select to see SN Thread titles in Active Convo's, rather than select to not have it (if that makes sense?)

Wellie, some may have already taken their chat elsewhere. How do we know that there aren't any number of discussion boards already? We know about Moldies, but only by mistake it would appear. We've no way of knowing if there are any other ones. There is, I discovered recently, a private SN board. Who's to say if other boards have been created for a variety of reasons.

oh no Lou you will just have to keep trying with the rose...honestly a few bottles and you will be fine
that is pants though

My honest opinion: unless you are in a very difficult RL situation or are famous or would be VERY professionally embarrassed (ie are in govt) then I think its pretty hard to find you. I just did it on someone whom I already know, and came up with bu'er all.

(Anyone who read their mother's early 20th century novels will recognize this lovely term. It confused me for my entire ninth year. )

Wasn't there something on Alphamummy about them using bits of posts or something? Can't remember what exactly - anyone?

quad, i cant have red

Nah. You're Columbo. I can tell by your outfit. Never knew he was keen on root vegetables though ...

Bumper, it wasn't meant as a should have known better post. More a please be careful about what you disclose post.

I'm actually Benny from Abba. But you all knew that.

Stockholm is in Tokyo? You daft bat

Nothing like being kicked when your down. I always love a "well you should have known better post".

Night all.

Thank goodness for another voice of reason. Mumsnet is totally public. Why publishing what one might or might not have said in another public organ engenders such angst and paranoia is puzzling. If someone wants to do some sleuthing and work out who a poster is, they can do it quite well without the Indie giving them a nudge.

And to me, the only wonder about posters taking their chats to a private board is that it didn't happen years ago.

a brief google confirms that Stockholm is indeed a city of Swedes>

I'm going to do what Onebat said about nicknames too. Right, I really am off to bed. I already waste enough of my life on here and look what happens. That'll learn me.