is there a moldies part three?

Custardo-you are right and I agree with you completely.

Lucyjones-have you not read FA's posts explaining why she did the search? What do you not understand?

Anyway, I think it was completely in order to use a quote to display the irony of this whole sorry debacle.

It occurs to my reading this thread...apart from the few self-proclaimed moldies, we do not have a clue who they are. Perhaps the people coming onto these threads criticizing posts by mumsnetters gives us some kind of clue?

There's a weirdo bloke who posts a lot on the daily telegraph site called IIRC Ignatious Jack or something like that, he has a very similar posting style to DaddyJ. Strange line breaks just the same and a weirdly detached style of writing.

DaddyJ, are you Ignatious Jack?

Fio -iirc a lot of the Moldies were against that

Custardo- your case seems more personal though
Have you contacted the people that stayed at your house, smoked your fags etc and asked them what on earth they thought they were up to?

It just smacks of the sort of behaviour you'd expect from primary school children to me. Deeply immature and uninteresting.

I think it's quite clear that GeraldineMumsnet was posting in response to FA's seeking out of Twiglett's posts tbh
I agree with Frog, it was quite a shocking thing to do!

"as well as digging deep during the long, barbarically dull food and drink sequences."

Sorry, that undermines your whole premise here: "I think gender in this context is a red herring."

Wow DaddyJ - you really are trying to stir things up aren't you?

Daddyj what an odd idea. Why on earth would MNHQ and the moldies want to work together? It's just a spin-off site. They've gone. Nothing to do with MNHQ now and why should it be?

And the comparison with something serious like Gaza/Israel is pretty distasteful.

FWIW I read 'betrayal' as a more general thing than posting on an alternative forum.

Wll done DJ for trying to raise this discussion up a little...

I don't know what you are on about daddyJ but you are not talking about flight as in me are you.

A bit of childish footstamping going on there methinks fio.

And one last post, I promise

If this thread has really run its course then we can also add leadership
to the list of themes.
More candidly, abject failure of leadership in a conflict situation.

Ironically, there is currently a News thread putting forward the premise
that more female input could be the answer to the troubles in the Middle East.

I think gender in this context is a red herring.

The real issue is when leaders only think in terms of fight or flight.
It's FIGHT between the Israelis and Hamas and
it appears to be FLIGHT between MNHQ and the Moldies.

Neither approach is likely to lead to a lasting peace
let alone encourage both groups to collectively pursue common goals.

What is needed is bold, imaginative leadership
that prides itself on its ability to reconcile dilemmas,
to think the unthinkable and seek it against the odds.

What would be the unthinkable in our situation?
MNHQ and the Moldies working together.
Because having this separate forum for veteran Mumsnetters is actually not a bad idea at all.
If it's done right.

Victory is there to be snatched from the jaws of defeat
but, as in the Middle East, the leadership does not appear to be up to the task.

Lol

you are sounding like Scottishmummy only in English.

she's a poet you know.

lol blu
If this thing leads to more fathers joining MN,
it has all been worth it.

Incidentally, having battled my way through at least 4000 of the 7500 posts
I would feel sorry for anyone looking for a gory mummy fight.

This story is far more complex, far more adult in the true sense of the word.
There are no quick thrills, no sex nor violence.
A lot happens off-board, many posts and whole threads have been deleted
so close attention and reading between the lines is required
as well as digging deep during the long, barbarically dull food and drink sequences.
High-brow literature never gives up its secrets easily.

The narrative that emerges is steeped in classic themes of mankind.
On the one hand you have betrayal. Betrayal of individuals, betrayal of an utopian ethos (Egalite!).
This is counterbalanced by a powerful yearning for paradise lost.
Ideals, principles and egos clash, group dynamics appear irresistible.

No wonder this is such a gripping yarn!
Particularly as the characters are all perfectly likeable, caring mothers.
No phantomime villains here.

There. One for Private Eye's Pseuds Corner

LOL Custardo! Yesterday someone I know on MN replied to a poster calling her "honey" and I was a bit shocked that she did, seeing as she wasn't a "hun" type till I noticed that the poster she was talking to had "honey" in her MN name!

lol