Bluestocking lock in!

I think so lighthouse

Though to be honest most of those thread weres like whack a mole

So ive kinda lost track of where they were

Is this in the feminist board?

I thought that too. It was if they had turned into different people . Hope not to experience that again.

waddle

Exactly!!

lighthouse Ive not posted for a while, the threads seem to get very angry very quickly

Might just be me...i am a sensitive flower

Erm, has anyone been hacked? Or v similar usernames been started?

I lost the plot on the Posie threads way back.

Oh god Rufus yes people you felt like you 'knew' on here behaving differently than erm expected

Plenty of weird!

I am feeling confused! I have a reply from my MSP about something that is exactly opposite to what he (rather smugly!) assured me it would be. I will pass on to badger who was compiling responses but I feel like i need a good chat about it & all my feminists are you lot!

Anyway... anyone here know about police procedures? Scottish - from arrest to court.

erish

Yeah, and i dipped into a few posy threads

Everyone seemed to be having a go!!

And people that you thought were 'normal' saying weird things

i am not going into any details!!

I'm recording it too and will watch it when I can give it my full attention. There's a great one on YouTube too which I'm working my way through.

Re weirdness: Lots of new visitors!

Is it getting weird?

I'm well, but I did some quite challenging yoga this evening so I'm wondering what the effect will be tomorrow!!

Already too tired to concentrate on the suffragette show on BBC so recording it.

Its all getting a bit weird on many of the recent threads...

How is everyone on here?

At that age I dont thing it's bad parenting (although on a long flight it would be pretty rotten i think) so much as bad passenger-ing (yes I will make up words) other passengers & staff shouldnt have to deal with any issues regarding their children.

lighthouse i love penguins too although it was actually because I had just been tiring out my children with a game of hop like a bunny etc etc

Errol ha! Love the Campbell article

Errol "Kids of that age are perfectly capable of civilised behaviour. "

of course. But we're all at risk of feeling unwell etc so that seems poor parenting to me.

My feeling is that once they're about secondary age - by which time travelling solo on public transport to get to school is normal - it'd probably be fine for 2 sibs together. Kids of that age are perfectly capable of civilised behaviour.

The Times had an article I found more entertaining today though

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/alastair-campbell-gets-on-air-lesson-in-feminism-from-his-daughter-r2whgdpns?shareToken=c1ab9f374b75ce16838e0ce8829e2fba

Waddle - I always smile when I see your username but I love penguins!

no nanny
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44353321

the main thing for me is that it's so unfair on other passengers - you couldn't possibly not help if someone else's child was upset or ill or something, so much as she says "cabin crew will get us" it's just causing disruption to others. As well as potential upset to the DC but okay, I take her point everyone's going to parent differently....but this does seem weird. It also smacks of "I can't bear to sit with my DC for the journey" in my view.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kirstie-allsopp-i-fly-club-class-while-sons-go-economy-wd0dd2k93?shareToken=5dd7acbdf9b852e60e7f32961c784c2d

Allsopps kids are 10/12 - tbh they're probably fine

Light really?! Are the kids sitting with a nanny or something?
How odd to begin a family holiday separately.

hi Melamin

always so quiet here at half term.

Just saw that Gordon Ramsay and Kirstie Allsop really do fly business and put their DC in economy. I don't think airlines should allow parents to sit so far away from their DC. We don't travel but it must be a nightmare for everyone else.
then again everything I hear about air travel sounds crazy.

Just popping in for a swift half (and a packet of crisps, or two )

Is this a real ale pub? The head of CAMRA has quit - the one who was trying to get them to take on craft ales and lager.
www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/camra-chief-quits-after-leaving-a-bitter-taste-with-real-ale-devotees-wlgbsqpgw

Thank goodness I don't go out much anymore, the unisex toilet thing is so prevalent now.

Completely lost re the Posie thread going on, does anyone here know what happened?

Yes I agree. I think people got side tracked by the mechanics of blow drying a skirt

Yes. There are ways of doing this in places where one might not be comfortable stripping a child down to their knickers, but why should we? I recall when I blobbed blood all over the skirt of a dress when I was 16. I tried to wash it out (keeping the dress on) and then skulked home, the dress ruined and my day destroyed. It would have been worse if I'd had to try and wash it out in front of men.

Yes I agree. I think people got side tracked by the mechanics of blow drying a skirt.

But it seemed that the OP simply wanted a single-sex facility (as would I).

I see both sides of that one. You expect to be able to find a private place to sort out such problems. But as other posters say, there are all sorts of reasons you'd be disappointed, nut just the unisex facilities.

I feel for this OP. No one else does though!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3263157-to-wonder-how-I-was-supposed-to-use-this-toilet?watched=1&msgid=78253715#78253715