is there a moldies part three?

have you all moved onto vibrators now?

I would love a heat pad that stayed warm for 10hours!

Our rabbit would love one!

And it stays warm for 10 hours!

Sinking - it's called a Snugglesafe Microwave Heatpad.

That's a great idea blu

Well, I'm pleased they obliged.

I'm always around - but I have to go now - my poor rabbits must be shivering in these sub-zero temps and I have to put their (£23.50) microwavable heat mat in thier shed!

lol blu

Rev- did you write under your RL name - or did you sign the letter 'revjustabout'? It must have been a terrible risk using your RL name...and presumably newspapers are wary of responding to peolpe who use madeup names in correspondence - after all, they could be anyone!

Anyway - you got your retraction, and it all stayed in the papers another week

May I say a big welcome to all the lovely newbie lurkers / posters who love the spectacle of women fightin? Someone's knickers will get ripped to shreds in a mo', and a big pile of naked girls will fall writhing to the floor, scratching and kicking each other. And the 'History' on your PC won't even have your DW starting a 'DH Looking at Porn' thread. Enjoy yourslves, and welcome to MN

so revjustaboutwipestheslateclean asks for a retraction and the Mumnet bosses and a national newspaper jump? Interesting. You must feel very special. Didn't I read that other people were misquoted, don.t they get a retraction too?

That was Carrie?

Okay, I was obviously severely bladdered that night and consequently all bets are off as regards Gerry's gender...

Frog, to reiterate, I searched because I am a pedant, and was unduly concerned about misuse of a word. Pathetic I know.
i saw the other post by chance (as it contains said word also) and copied it to here as it seemed a starkly ironic reminder of what used to be.

I don't calss it as character assassination myself, indeed that's not something I would wish to partake in about Twig or any of the others.

Is that a bit clearer?

Froginmythroat....I think there is one of such posts....and the person who posted it has already explained why....

TBH and without caring much either way I think it is common practice to find examples where a poster has contradicted him or herslf in previous posts and flag it up - nothing necessarily twisted about it - I've seen it loads of times and no-one has protested before.

Hmm... I saw carrie doing well with cards (and hassled her for a while). Who am I thinking of then who had cards but less luck??

Thanks for your replies. I get it now.

puffling, this is only my take on the situation but...

1. Who were they? Several "old" posters, many not entirely happy with mumsnet (newbies, topics, being an open forum etc)

1. What caused the schism? The site was originally set up with the whole Gina Ford saga should mumsnet shut down, and supposedly died a death until Cod was hounded off. So then the site was used more regulalry then.

1. Do they access their group via mumsnet? No, my understanding is that it is not in relation to mumsnet, and not in relation to the site

1. Is it invite only? Yes, members were suggested and people could say yes / no about them, if they were agreed, then an invite would have been sent ask ask people to check out a new site.

1. Why did they let anyone know? I understand that it happened when there was a MNHQ blog which mentioned how some old posters had left and new posters had joined, which resulted in a thread from a Moldie to express their annoyance about the comment. There was a reply from Justine who in passing mentioned something about Moldies, which the Moldie went mental at and it all kicked off from there.

1. They were/are MN posters. Some are happy to be known as such (eg Aitch, hunkermunker) but most remain anonymous.
2. I don't know if there was one 'cause'. Many Moldies have pointed to a wish to return to the 'old' days of MN when the community was much smaller, or a wish to post personal information without fear of aggressive responses or RL stalking.
3. Their site is entirely separate from MN.
4. Yes it is invite-only.
5. It is known about because Justine Mumsnet let it slip on a thread. Previously there had been a couple of threads on here alluding to it, but most MNers hadn't picked up on them.

I've scanned this thread, read some others and now know whta a moldie. Still don't much else, for example:

1. Who were they?
2. What caused the schism?
3. Do they access their group via mumsnet?
4. Is it invite only?
5. Why did they let anyone know?

Hope my posts weren't construed as dissing.

That Carrie. She got me with the cards too. And then I didn't want to send them to anyone as I want MN to be my secret!