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The Purge: MN

130 replies

SchoolTie · 05/08/2022 20:50

All normal and unwritten MN rules are suspended for 24 hours.

You can troll-hunt.
You can start threads about threads about threads about threads.
You can call your spouse “hubby”.

What’s the first rule you break?

OP posts:
RollerPolarBear · 06/08/2022 00:26

Ban threads referring to Kate Middleton as “Catherine” as there’s something creepily sycophantic about it.

Crispynoodle · 06/08/2022 00:28

wallpoppy · 05/08/2022 22:03

Post houses from Rightmove with the TV above the mantelpiece so you have to crane your neck, with all the sofas shoved against the walls with acres of space in the middle of the room, with rugs that are too small and coffee tables that are too big, houses with short curtains and plastic houseplants and glossy black fitted kitchens where all the small appliances are red, houses where everything is a shade of grey, houses with candles that have never been burnt and no books anywhere and patterned wallpaper just on one sodding wall as an "accent" and rooms barely big enough for a small double bed but still inexplicably fitted with wardrobes completely covering the longest wall. I will gleefully express my horror at such bad taste and express my doubts that people who live like that can even have a soul and when someone shows up to say "but that's MY house how can you be so cruel!" I'll just cackle like the evil witch that I am.

Harsh but true especially the houses that are so grey you think each photo has been taken in black and white Angry

mycatisannoying · 06/08/2022 00:31

I would ban LTB. At least for nonsensical, stupidly trivial reasons!

ErrolTheDragon · 06/08/2022 00:32

I might do some sockpuppeting so I can play devil's avocet against myself.

mycatisannoying · 06/08/2022 00:34

There was a poster the other day, who was feeling really let down by the expensive holiday she'd booked. She wanted to know if she was unreasonable for feeling disappointed in her accommodation. A reasonable question!
But what did she get? Smartarses commenting on how she'd spent too much, and how they'd got a perfect holiday for a fraction of the price.
I would ban you all to fuck!

Sheepreallylikerichteabiscuits · 06/08/2022 00:38

Get the real life names and employment details for all the posters who every year who smugly tell people without children they just not worthy enough to get Christmas leave, then making sure their Christmas leave gets cancelled (sure its a totally fantasy, but I've got insomnia and it amused me)

Breconhelen · 06/08/2022 00:40

Find a way to bring back all the funny mners, especially those who used to write the funny poems. I miss those days

AuntTwacky · 06/08/2022 00:42

Me and the hubster just shared a really big salad Grin

thenewduchessoflapland · 06/08/2022 00:47

People being full after a "huge salad" can be told I hope they choke on them.

Also those who bully the SAHM's who have kids in school and tell them their existence is futile unless they have a joke can be told to off.

thenewduchessoflapland · 06/08/2022 00:48

AuntTwacky · 06/08/2022 00:42

Me and the hubster just shared a really big salad Grin

We've just cross posted there;a kindred spirit I see.

AuntTwacky · 06/08/2022 00:52
Wink
Changechangychange · 06/08/2022 00:58

mycatisannoying · 06/08/2022 00:34

There was a poster the other day, who was feeling really let down by the expensive holiday she'd booked. She wanted to know if she was unreasonable for feeling disappointed in her accommodation. A reasonable question!
But what did she get? Smartarses commenting on how she'd spent too much, and how they'd got a perfect holiday for a fraction of the price.
I would ban you all to fuck!

Can we also ban the “I got married dressed in a bin bag, carrying a bouquet I stole off a grave, our reception was a packet of crisps we passed around for our guests to share. It cost £1.20 and everyone agreed it was the best wedding they’d ever been to” brigade?

Changechangychange · 06/08/2022 01:00

TooBigForMyBoots · 05/08/2022 23:06

I would allow 5 Trans related threads per day. With no mention of the subject outside of those threads.

Can we also ban “at least Boris Johnson knows what a woman is” on every. single. political thread? Nobody cares, we’re discussing interest rates.

LondonQueen · 06/08/2022 01:15

Resurrection of all the 2005 threads!

ErrolTheDragon · 06/08/2022 01:24

I don't think banning people on the day when all rules are suspended would work...or is the rule being broken the one that says there are no rules?

That's a bit hard to swallow.

IncessantNameChanger · 06/08/2022 01:28

I think my first ever post on MN was about bpa in baby bottles. One reply was "why such banal shit on MN? I want to tax my brain cells not read this shit"

I'd like to had the balls to ask what life changing philosophy some posters expect on thread titled like " I dont know if I should wean at five months or six"

Yet guaranteed there will ALWAYS be a poster a few replies in who declares the thread banal first world tripe.

I would hunt those posters down and beat them around the head with copies of the new scientist and national geographic asking if that educationally taxing for them.

No one. Nobody. Ever, who wants to be mentally challenged or is capable of being mentally challenged or hoping to be educated by something new opens a thread entitled "what's this in my childs nappy?" Yet you can bet your life fifth comment in, there its is.

I think they get confused with MN and the OU.

Easy really if you watch a Brian Cox documentary or David Attenborough doc, they do say at the end if you want to know more about the origins of our solar system / microplastics in our ocean / rainforest destruction- Google " is this a boil or ingrown hair?" Thread on MN where your mind will be blown by high brow scientific debate

Changechangychange · 06/08/2022 01:32

ErrolTheDragon · 06/08/2022 01:24

I don't think banning people on the day when all rules are suspended would work...or is the rule being broken the one that says there are no rules?

That's a bit hard to swallow.

No rules about who I can ban, basically Wink

HoneyyBadger · 06/08/2022 01:36

Ban the bloody question on pretty much all the step parenting threads "OP, were you the OW?" 🤬🤬🤬🤬

MrsTerryPratchett · 06/08/2022 01:45

FREE HUGS for everyone.

Only joking, don't touch me.

WinterMusings · 06/08/2022 07:17

ErrolTheDragon · 06/08/2022 01:24

I don't think banning people on the day when all rules are suspended would work...or is the rule being broken the one that says there are no rules?

That's a bit hard to swallow.

If everyone on this thread had their way, everyone would be banned before lunch!!
🤣🤣🤣

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 06/08/2022 07:42

daintydaisies · 05/08/2022 22:34

Wait, why can’t you call your husband “hubby”?

You can call him anything you like, but bear in mind that many of those reading will find it very twee.

I might have a go at constructing a very long and involved OP about my DS being rude to my DS, my BF criticising my BF and my DF and my DF not getting on. Just for good measure I'd throw in DD5 and DD6 and not make it clear whether those are their ages or their birth order. Most of the 1000 posts would be people endlessly asking for clarification. Ha!

ThreeRingCircus · 06/08/2022 07:56

Even better a gogglebox snapshot into your home, lets see you covered in cheese and onion crisps as you preach about your perfect life.

Being covered in cheese and onion crisps is perfect. #blessed #livingmybestlife 😉

ThreeRingCircus · 06/08/2022 08:01

RockingMyFiftiesNot · 05/08/2022 22:38

Not a rule break, just something I'd love to be possible:

Anyone who comments 'FFS it's only February' (or any other month) on a thread about Christmas IN THE CHRISTMAS TOPIC should a) have their 'hide' function disabled and b) should be notified anytime anyone adds a comment to any thread in the Christmas topic.

Go on MNHQ, you know you want to.....

I'm 100% on board with this. Do those posters dropping onto the Christmas topic to inform us of the date think we haven't realised?

I just want to say "Yes Janet, I know it's March but I just like Christmas and planning ahead. Now bore off."

TimBoothseyes · 06/08/2022 08:04

Ban for life anybody who pipes up "why are you even on MN", to any OP who declares themselves childfree by choice.

DrDetriment · 06/08/2022 08:09

I'd use all the correct medical terms for what trans people sometimes do to their bodies and I wouldn't have them deleted. Wouldn't it be great if that were allowed now?