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10/10 threads (les leeks c'est chic etc) - would you like your own topic in health?

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JustineMumsnet · 25/03/2009 10:08

Because it's funny innit? Or are you content in general health?

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BBBee · 26/03/2009 06:39

it would make it easier for me to find the threads. selfishly i demand it happens.

but i am being naive and it is obviously a conspiracy to make 10/10ers easier to identify for the mass banning.

Boco · 25/03/2009 22:46

Yessss. That's me, Bee, ahundred because she agrees with bee because of the letter, and SB.

SuperBunny · 25/03/2009 22:41

I should have put a in there, pointy. And old shite is quite a good description.

I'm voting yes. I think that means I have voted 'no', 'maybe' and 'yes' now.

CKelpie · 25/03/2009 22:16

I love the titles of the 10/10 threads and once I actually dipped in and had a read - I do the exercise easily but have no idea how I could squeeze in 10 portions of fruit/veg a day.

I don't think other regular threads should or would feel snubbed - I reckon most are happy doing what they do, where they do.
But I may be misguided...

pointydog · 25/03/2009 22:06

I mean that in teh nicest way, bunny. It's one of its charms.

(Although I apologise if anyone is offended by that as I have picked up on a few more serious posts and not trying to belittle them)

Lummy, I'm writing disclaimers now

SuperBunny · 25/03/2009 22:01

Talking any old shite? Pointydog

pointydog · 25/03/2009 21:49

I am still pondering over jsutine's comment that 'folk start finding common interests' and reconciling that with the fact people on these threads just talk about fruits and any old shite. That constitutes common interests, does it?

I think expectations are very low on this site

SlightlyMadScotland · 25/03/2009 21:40

Sorry I didn't mean it like that.

As I say don't mind about the fact that it might get it's own topic. I do mind that some other longer running threads (D'ya started April 05; albeit prettty slowly at first - and it is not the only thread series) are being "forgtten about" in the discussions about this.

Guadalupe · 25/03/2009 21:35

Oh yes, I know the multiples one, sorry.

Guadalupe · 25/03/2009 21:34

See what all this sticky giving does, it causes bad feelings that what it does.

Boco and Bbbee are wrong. Ha.

Boco · 25/03/2009 21:34

Yes it's been around years. I've been on it over 2 years and it'd been going ages then.

SlightlyMadScotland · 25/03/2009 21:34

D'ya is a twins and multiples commune.

Guadalupe · 25/03/2009 21:32

I think you missed something, but then I cannot say exactly how much you missed because I have no idea really.

It's not about longevity though is it? Or getting something at the expense of other threads. Then we would be in the realm of aspirational topics. What is D'ya btw?

SlightlyMadScotland · 25/03/2009 21:30

what is much older?

I cerainly wasn't aware of the 10/10 threads when I started posting mid 2006. BUT I can't discount the fact that they had boring and "unoticable names back then.

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SlightlyMadScotland · 25/03/2009 21:15

Firstly I want to state that I have no objection whatsoever to haing a subtopic of their own.

BUT this is not the only "thread series" for want of another phrase - so I would object to this one being singled out.

Off the top of my head - and I don't claim to be fully inclusive - there are the FLY ladies (whihc Justine does mention); The D'ya threads on multiples, the "in memory" threads; the bar; the coffee room; the staff room....

I realise that many of these are already in topics which are not as broad as health so kind of have more of a niche anyway. BUT they shouldn't be forgotten. And I don't think they are the longest thread running. Unless I have missed something I reckon they are less than 12m old (which they may have been without such obvious titles). I am pretty certain that D'ya, FLYladies and certainly teh bar an tea shop are older.

As I say I hae no problem with it having a topic of it's own -- Maybe something a little more broad such as "healthy lifestyles" would be better - and please don't dismiss the other "long running" threads just because the titles aren't quite as witty (even though I think that D'ya could give them a run for their money.

Guadalupe · 25/03/2009 20:56

I once totted up a few hundred pounds on a friend's mother's taxi account before I was found out. Got me out of many a fix and a dark street but of course into lots of trouble in the end.

Is there fizz in your taxi, 100? Blackened windows?

Guadalupe · 25/03/2009 20:54

Coconuts are mega ww points. They don't count in my book.

I am saying no, for now, I think, but then am a little odd today with my ear. I feel weighted towards the left and I keep moving my head towards the right to counteract it.

ahundredtimes · 25/03/2009 20:53

Oh dear. I was MUCKING ABOUT. I didn't really think there was a conspiracy. Sorry, was just trying to make the whole discussion more interesting that's all.

I'm retiring. I don't care. i want a taxi account. I'll vote with whatever BBee said because she's written me a letter

Boco · 25/03/2009 20:49

Hmm yes, it is improved with that 'there' changed to 'their'.

Did we ever decide if coconuts counted?

I still say YES! But am in minority I think.

JustineMumsnet · 25/03/2009 20:47

Franny I shall repeat (with some minor though probably not enough grammar improvements) my post on your other secret thread. Then perhaps you'll trust our motives?

Look you coconuts there is no conspiracy here. This is precisely how Mumsnet has evolved over the centuries - folks start finding common interests, come up with a silly names for them, about four years later we notice, have not a clue who their Leader is but nevertheless invite them to enjoy a topic of their own. It's precisely (more or less, well not really that precisely I suppose but a bit like) what happened with Big/Slim/Whatever weight loss, AIBU, ChickenKeepers, Good Housekeeping, The Fly Threads (oops we haven't done that one yet). In other words you are all the Leaders and we, MNHQ, are your humble followers.

But naturally if you'd like your leeks and mangos to be strewn around the cold sores, warts and impetigo of the general health boards, we would not dream of disentangling them.

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hunkermunker · 25/03/2009 20:45

You know me, Boco, always looking for an angle [takes commission in form of blueberries]

Am v sorry to hear the girls have been ill - hope they are much improved tomorrow.

Guadalupe · 25/03/2009 20:45

I am wavering. I am waiting to see what's offered.

Boco · 25/03/2009 20:43

Bee! Another yes vote!