MN the old days

[Boredasshit]

What are your most remembered threads or posters ?

I know this has been done before but I'm bored shitless.

I will name change after this . I am ghostspirit. Back them I was constantly attacked. So it was extremely hard to work out the people who were genuinely trying to help and the people were not. I'm not saying advice was not valid. But you would also get people advising on things when they did not know how things really worked with the system.

I can completely relate to that, and it still happens now on mumsnet. I was having a complete nervous breakdown due to being gaslit and my ex-husband using the court system to manipulate my children. It’s literally taken 10 years to get the kids and I back onto an even keel. I don’t think my little one will ever recover. The older kids are functioning but it takes very little to tip them over. And I was being called a Cunt on here.

Hello there <waves> I am pleased to see you on here and you seem so much more at ease with yourself. I hope that is the case but regardless, please know that there were many of us who genuinely were concerned for you and wanted things to go well for you.

I have re-read my post and regret my turn of phrase when i said you didnt always listen to advice - that is not quite how i meant it, i think i meant what you said in that you didnt have to follow every bit of advice but some MNers who just enjoyed the drama were ripping you for not following their advice.

Take care x

. Ghost spirit

The stalkers from these sites don't help. Name change will be for the best.

I'm really sorry you have been through so much. It's f%#king hard. When you (know) people are being nasty on here . Don't explain yourself don't react to them. They will pick up on other stuff you say and use that to. Do not interact with them . Only respond to posts /people that are helpful and genuine.

It's OK. I didn't take it in anyway really. Definitely more at ease . I don't really give a shit what people say or think . And yes I always said no one has to follow advice and I still stick to that.

I name change so much I forget my names 😅

I was on the ‘modelling mums’ threads many years ago - our children modelled. Every so often we would get attacked, quite often by COD. Eventually we were left to it. It was a great little community, apart from one unhinged person, and lovely when we would occasionally meet one of the other parents at shoots.

This is what gets me - if you dont have any interest in a topic other than to be bitchy then just scroll on by! Leave them to it.

🙌

I’ve been on since 2006. Several name changes.

Is Tantrumsandballoons still around?

Noddyholder😪we had teens the exact same age. We used to discuss terns. I remember DH’s dad dying and him going away for 3 days. I had 10 month old Dd and 3 lazy teens on my own. Noddy told me l needed to put a rocket up the teens arses. She was right. Did she pass away from Covid or during it?

l was Fizzbuzz then🫣

@Boredasshit nice to see you.
I remember mouldies and how nasty the whole thing was, people were really hurt by it all.\loved the local meet ups, getting drunk with custy and co.

I'm not even sure what the mouldies was?

Moldies were a few of the original MNers who formed quite a nasty clique, so:

M = mumsnet
'oldies = old mumsnetters

I joined in 2008 so after all that but around the time of the fall out, i think they created their own forum elsewhere and slagged off newer MN members or something

Oh I think I joined about 10/11 years ago. There were definitely lots of pile ons back then. I think that has slowed a bit compared to what it was. Still happens though

It was SarahStratton with the crow (or was it a jackdaw?).

@BIWI - pretty sure it was TalcandTurnips with the punctuation-mark pictures. They were great. And thanks for explaining about the Sex topic. That had passed me by.

I'm afraid I don't remember the threads under your previous name, OP, but hope you are doing ok.

Oh I remember you ghostspirit but. Ot the exact details. How are you now? Was it housing/kids? I am so pleased you are in a better place.

There was s a lady who gave advice who I truly loved if I saw she was on a thread ex teacher I think. Really lovely. Possibly difficult childhood herself. But cant for the life of me remember more about her.

I did love when you recognised the names on a thread and could guess their angle.

Nickleback was the one who had a baby when I had my second baby 🥰.

I remember a bonkers thread a few years ago from someone looking for a specific book set in Tonga. So many people tried to help, but the poster just kept yelling TONGA at people if they didn't get it quite right. I do wonder if she ever tracked down the book, because I don't think it got resolved on the thread.

FabbyChic.
SolidGoldBrass.
ScottishMummy - "wee creepy brackets" 😂

I see she has been mentioned already but BupcakesandCunting and her preggerz and peng cousin threads were hilarious.

It was a big mix of stuff. Did include housing. Which has all been sorted now and I won't ever have to worry again 🙂

Definitely nice to hear how people are getting on and how things turned out

I don’t think the Moldies thing was quite as everyone remembers

Firstly, I wasn’t involved in setting it up at all, was only a member briefly, and I don’t remember any slagging of other people I think in fact rather than looking backwards it looked forwards. Dunno exactly.
I left because it wasn’t vitriolic enough and was a bit boring 😁

No idea what happened to it in the end

I'm trying to sit on my hands here.
Did mumsnet have the feminist topic back in the olden days? I can't remember, i was probably too tired to notice. But it seems now that feminism = hating men. And if you dare say there's plenty good men out there you get the smart arse not all men thing or whatever it is. There's a thread just now about a really horrific murder case. Obviously done by a psychotic bastard. But its like everyone posting must hate men even more than the last poster. As a mum of boys and having a decent dh, as well as obviously knowing lots of good men, i want to post on it but jesus the man haters would descend on me and frankly i can't be arsed.
Was it always like this on here?
I don't remember the men hate from before, posters then seemed to realise there's a difference between a murdering bastard and 99.99% of other men. Is that how younger women think now?? God help my boys

There might not have been slagging off of people on Moldies, @Cod, but there was blackballing - which caused a huge amount of hurt and anger.

Oh yes. They banged on about that a lot