Anyone still around from the olden days ??

[TheOriginalNutty]

i think I joined when Ds was around 9 months old, so 2003, and then stopped posting around 2013/14 ish maybe, not too sure.

Seems like a life time ago and was just sat here wondering if anyone from then was still around, or if we all buggered off.

I still use that steam iron!

Me too I think it’s brilli. It spits out gunk once in a while though 😒

SGB is now reanimated SGB. I see her around now and then.

It was hurtful, wasn't it, @SalitaeDiscesa? At least at the time! With the benefit of distance/years, it seems very silly but it was a massive thing when it happened.

Doesn't seem silly to me. I still think it was a horrible way to behave.

Do the moldies still exist then? I mean still post etc? You’d think they’d get bored eventually without any new blood!

I have been on MN since my first child was born in 1999. In those days we had a very slow iMac, how times have changed...

mouldies was awful. they really hurt a lot of people and behaved badly.
I remember after a local meet up they targetted peoples facebook with a lot of made up stuff (even people who had not been at the meet up)

I used to love the shopping list threads. Wouldn't work these days. I also loved "if your name is Linda you are an admin person in an office" etc - hilarious and no "light hearted" disclaimer needed.

Bertie oh me too! I loved those "match the name to the career" threads! And exactly, no disclaimers necsssary

Hi tante Rose, nice to see you are still here, you have one of the names that sticks with me!
I never really got the whole moldies nonsense, it seemed like one of those groups at school who thought they were really popular but no one else could be bothered with

I must admit, I still hate the shite, sorry....

You knew someone would do that...

creepy wee brackets! Now who called them that?
Also 'twigs and shite'
Lentil Weavers
Quiches

I name change regularly for no good reason really but got spooked after the big hack or whatever it was.

Re the mouldies, forums and RL groups are probably all the better if there is a periodic exodus of the 'popular girls' clique.

Errol absolutely.
I had run ins with some of the popular girls early on in my MN career and it was quite brutal the way they carried on. Bouncing around laughing at and pulling to shreds anyone who was not in their clique like big bullies in a playground.

Creepy wee brackets was scottishmummy as well as "words on a screen*

Wasn't it scottishmummy who coined 'creepy wee brackets'.?

And wasn't it 'twigs and pebbly shit/e'?!

Didn't scottishmummy coin the phrase 'precious moments mamma's' too?

Ah yes forgot the pebbles

Oh, and I remember in the early days of shopping lists - prior to being able to post photos here - you had to describe the list in detail : what the paper was like, what the handwriting was like, if there were any doodles and then list every single item (including original spelling mistakes and foreign words) and then we had to try to make guesses about the shopper and their lives.

I once started a thread about a list I'd found and said that the handwriting looked as though it might be a woman's. A male MNer (I forget who) jumped in accusing me of being sexist and that I'd implied no man was capable of writing a list, let alone being capable of doing the shop. I mildly reminded him that all I had said was that it looked like a woman's handwriting - nothing more - but he was welcome to come round to ChezFru, where he'd see that it was actually MrFru who writes the lists and does the shopping most of the time

And wasn't scottishmummy the originator of the phrase' trust nae fucker'?

Sm was a true legend here, I miss her snappy posts, I know she sometimes posts under a new name but it's not the same....