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AIBU... to want avatars on MN?

94 replies

FullaDoll · 12/12/2010 13:09

Does anyone else want them? Why can't we have them?

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AnnieLobeseder · 12/12/2010 14:43

YABU. The reason most of us love this site is the plain straightforward-ness, both of the layout and the people who post here.

If you want avatars, there are plenty of other sites that have them.

TurkeyMartini · 12/12/2010 14:45

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo to extra cluttery bits!

GordianKnot · 12/12/2010 14:46

FUCK off avatar wankers

FiveColdRingsForSolo · 12/12/2010 14:46

Imagine the punch ups! and the ((((hugs)))) Grin

GordianKnot · 12/12/2010 14:46

Andevey wanker puts that facile Eleanor Roosevelt quote up

GordianKnot · 12/12/2010 14:47

And there'd brle stupid pictures of shoes and princesses.

Fuck off

duchesse · 12/12/2010 14:48

Yes yabu. Yuck yuck yuck, nooooooooo!

DanceInTheDark · 12/12/2010 14:50

I think you need netmums

FullaDoll · 12/12/2010 15:17

Netmums... it's all locally based, they don't cover Dubai...

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catinthehat2 · 12/12/2010 15:22

OK FullaDoll, tell us:

What exactly did you have in mind for your avatar????

UnpureAsTheDrivenSHOW · 12/12/2010 15:24

People are sometimes memorable because of who they are and what they say. Posts are memorable and stand out because of what they express. I like that. Long may it continue.

An avatar is the virtual equivalent of a comedy tie. It tell me nothing except the degree to which you have feck all taste.

FullaDoll · 12/12/2010 15:32

I don't care that much, Jesus...

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PenelopeTitsDropped · 12/12/2010 15:34

I'm all for it.

My avatar will be a fecund breast feeding Mother; it will be lovely. Think The Madonna; but twins; one on each perfectly formed and rotund breast.

Or the alternative. I'm a menopausal Woman that breast fed and has tits that can be tucked into her socks.

Avatars are for people who never got further than the pictures in the Janet & John books. Words paint the picture.

SoupDragon · 12/12/2010 15:35

See, i told you. vipers

LaurieFairyonthetreeEatsCake · 12/12/2010 15:37

You've found everyone really nice Hmm

quick, someone say something cunty Grin

UnpureAsTheDrivenSHOW · 12/12/2010 15:41

There's no such thing as nice. Nice is simplistic. Nice is an avatar.

We're complex. We can't be summed up in an avatar. You'd get close to summing me up with a picture of a discarded, badly darned sock, half wedged in a sopping drain. But it wouldn't tell the full story.

LaWeaselMys · 12/12/2010 15:42

FullaDoll - it's too late, you've hit a nerve now!

TheHoneydragonsInTheIvy · 12/12/2010 15:47

I whole heartedly concur that one website forum can only hold a limited amount of Terry Wogan cocks.

UABvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvU

Unrulysun · 12/12/2010 15:47

Could we have a YABU button a YANBU button and a 'fuck off and die' button?

TottWriter · 12/12/2010 15:47

What the fuck is a ticker? I keep seeing it when people talk about Netmums, but [ashamed] I had a look over there to see what people were on about and couldn't work out what I was suppoed to be seeing.

Well, other than a load of people who seemed to have high-dosed the "be nice" pills.

It took me a little while to get used to MN's down to earth approach to forums, but now that I am it is indeed far superior. I don't now associate the opinions of real people with images of Lolcats or random male hunks or women with huge tits hanging out as other forums leave you.

Although Mumsnet clearly does nead a or smiley.

DanceInTheDark · 12/12/2010 15:48

I think that the OP of an AIBU thread needs a "fuck off you bitches you're all wrong" button.

TottWriter · 12/12/2010 15:50

Acftually, the one thing I think MN would be better with is the ability to edit the OP of an AIBU post to update when said OP agrees that yes, she/he is being unreasonable Grin

WoTmania · 12/12/2010 15:50

YAB completely and utterly U

loopylou6 · 12/12/2010 16:05

You're all witches the poor op is probably too scared to come back now. how unfortunate she chose to post in the aibu topic when she's a newbie.

TheVeryLazyLadybird · 12/12/2010 16:13

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