to ask people to stick to the topic on a thread?

[jumpingcastles]

Am I?

I have seen loads of threads where OP makes a case but somewhere in the discussion, the whole issue collapses and other people take over and start talking about other stuff!

It's annoying especially if you have made an effort to say your views!!!C'mon nos, start your own thread.

ok, rant over, let's change the subject! LOL

C'mon now not nos

Awful weather here today..............

Yabu

The best threads always start as something else.

Sorry.

meh

tis the nature of fora innit

It's one of the things I love most about MN - the way a thread can start off asking if MN is a Christian site and end up in a discussion of which biscuits are most favoured by which denomination......

Anyone doing anything nice at the weekend

Sorry YANBU

Does anyone know how to get watermarks out of boots?

Have you tried polishing over them?

a thread is a conversation. conversations evolve.

On the subject of boots, do you think IABU to wear Dunlop wellies?

Do you find conversation difficult in general?

Yes.

That's not how conversations go. They move from subject to subject.

Threads on here are not so much single issue debates as chats that start somewhere and move on. and on and on and on

I love that on mumsnet you can start a thread about, oh I dunno, governmental efforts to ensure equality and within 30 posts you are talking about neo-nazi hamsters.

I mean, come on, where else are you going to get that?

I bloody love it.

unfitmother does that work on soft boots though?

Whats everyone had for tea?

No I love conversations and i know they evolve but i am still annoyed by it.

Do you get equally annpyed in RL if things go off topic?

Not sure about soft boots, sorry.
I'm having haggis for tea of course! [bgrin]

Generally, I find that very irritating, YANBU.

Which reminds me, we are going to Scotland this year on holiday, does anyone know any good B&Bs up the West coast?

Haggis is a most effective cleaning agent on soft felt slippers.

yes, YABU.

I made a great spag bol this evening!

I'm having haggis too, anyone else? [bsmile]

I made a funny dinner that dd has just commented is "a bit too red."

No haggis in Switzerland.

Thank goodness.

What was red about it?

Whereabouts on the West Coast?

Don't know. Where should we go?

Furthest north we have been is Oban/Fort William.

Maybe Skye?

Just me and DH

All of it really