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The MN Mail Column - what we think, and what we plan to do next... part 3

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carriemumsnet · 25/08/2009 23:27

Part 1 and Part 2 have reached capacity but at least one poster - you know who you are bibbitybobbityhat - was wanting to continue chatting so we thought we'd start another thread so you can continue to tell us your thoughts on the matter.

It may be tomorrow though before we respond -some of us at MN towers a tad worn out after a hectic, but very enjoyable eve, watching Angelina Ballerina ballet in Holland Park with a few of the MNHQ dds - highly recommended (the ballet, that is, not the dds.... though actually they weren't too bad either).

Night all

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beanieb · 27/08/2009 10:36

hi ClaireDeLoon

I wonder if it's because she actually wrote a few of the columns weeks ago and gave them all to the DM as an idea and they are just running them now? Maybe...

ZephirineDrouhin · 27/08/2009 10:35

Where is the one in discussions of the day?

beanieb · 27/08/2009 10:34

didn't last week's column temporarily disappear? perhaps it's a blip.

ClaireDeLoon · 27/08/2009 10:34

It's very odd because the thread that was bumped is very similar to the one in Discussions of the Day surely? Why did she not use the current thread?

Cluckadoodledoo · 27/08/2009 10:30

Hopefully good riddance but somehow I doubt it!

fishflange · 27/08/2009 10:28

does that mean we won?
Although obviously it wasn't a competition and all those naughty comments last week were very childish. Cough.

Jimmychasesducks · 27/08/2009 10:26

must have been really crap

SoupDragon · 27/08/2009 10:26

why do you think they've deleted this week#s column? Was there something controversial in it?

Cluckadoodledoo · 27/08/2009 10:23

It has deffo gone!

Doesn't show up in the searches either!

It was dull.

Feeling embarrassed to be associated

ZephirineDrouhin · 27/08/2009 10:21

I mean week's

ZephirineDrouhin · 27/08/2009 10:17

Stripeysuit, what are you on about? It was just the one thread from April, bumped rather randomly last week by BadgersArse with a comment about importing cheddar into France. Which then appeared with various other banalities from the thread in this weeks column of yawns.

beanieb · 27/08/2009 10:14

Not just bumped once but twice. Weird.
Is someone trying to make Mumsnetters have conversations?

IOnlyReadtheDailyMailinCafes · 27/08/2009 10:06

It was taken down a few minutes ago when I looked for it.

I had just posted a comment asking why this dull drivel was being printed.

vbusymum1 · 27/08/2009 09:50

Has it been taken down from the DM website, I can't find it and the link above is broken.

StripeySuit · 27/08/2009 09:45

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

ZephirineDrouhin · 27/08/2009 09:35

Yes, quite, swedes about fair use (hello by the way)

And agree with BIWI - that is what I find particularly annoying too.

And yes, beanieb, that April thread being bumped in time for the column struck me as a bit fishy too.

I agree with everyone today.

pooka · 27/08/2009 09:03

NOt sure why was bumped in August?

Badgersarse obviously not LH - perhaps a friend?

SwedesandTurnips · 27/08/2009 08:53

And Mumsnet appear on the same DailyMail webpage as "The courts took my children away from me because I'm a working Mother" Gah.

beanieb · 27/08/2009 08:51

oh - which funnily enough was bumped in August so I guess that makes it 'this week on mumsnet'?

beanieb · 27/08/2009 08:50

oh hang on - there's part of it here in this thread from April.

beanieb · 27/08/2009 08:48

when exactly was that thread about holidays? I can't find it.

BecauseImWorthIt · 27/08/2009 08:47

The thing that bothers me (apart from personal dislike of the DM!) is that the columms - at least so far - fail totally to encapsulate what MN is all about. (Apologies to those whose posts were used).

Where is the humour and intelligence (not to say the sharp retorts and bite backs!) that make this the place that it is?

Does Leah Hardy even get what we're about here?

SwedesandTurnips · 27/08/2009 08:38

Fair Use/Fair Dealing is use of copyright material in a wider context. This isn't Fair Use as the Mumsnet copyrighted text is the piece. There is no wider context.

The Daily Mail aren't above the law, no matter how much money and power they have.

I see this week's column sits on the website next to this headline from Fay Weldon: 'Women would find life easier if they picked up men's socks and cleaned the loo'

I really resent this Daily Mail intrusion. MNHQ's failure to act has resulted in what appears to the outside world to be a happy association.

Katisha · 27/08/2009 08:37

Another dynamic read...

RustyBear · 27/08/2009 07:54

This week's column

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