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to think that Off The Beaten Track was a mistake

414 replies

rolandweary · 28/01/2011 19:48

this isn't a thread about a thread, it's a thread about a topic, and some of the threads in it

so hopefully not bad form

I think it was amistake - it seems to be used for all the wrong reasons. For example the shiney crew feeling they ought to post on there because people were complaining about them being a clique - that seems wrong to me, MN is public and nobody should feel they have to retire to a private area. And the BoM thread which is full of personal attacks and insults - people seem to retire onto that thread to make the sort of remarks they wouldn't make on the main boards

I think it should be got rid of. What does everyone else think?

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LadyTremaine · 28/01/2011 22:26

I didnt threaten, I said I am leaving. And leaving I am. I don't expect anyone to give a shit soits hardly a threat.

thatsnotmymonkey · 28/01/2011 22:26

WTF is BOM????????????????

RealityIsKnockedUp · 28/01/2011 22:26

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Jajas · 28/01/2011 22:27

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TrollyMcTrollPants · 28/01/2011 22:27

I'M DA BOMMMM!!!

usualsuspect · 28/01/2011 22:28

LT ...don't leave ...just namechange Wink

Jajas · 28/01/2011 22:28

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MummieHunnie · 28/01/2011 22:28

I am wondering if it is the lone Parent who was posting on the Steps thread and lone parents threads personally, I pm'd them and they did not care about it, which seemed odd as they were fuming earlier today!

Jajas · 28/01/2011 22:28

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LadyTremaine · 28/01/2011 22:28

No idea. SOmething about bonus mums... although I never understood the 'O'

thatsnotmymonkey · 28/01/2011 22:29

Keerrrrrrrrrrrrrrist MN is up is own a hole something chronic these days.

Public forum. Yeah right

GypsyMoth · 28/01/2011 22:29

we're going round in circles....i'm dizzy!!

DirtyMartini · 28/01/2011 22:29

Think so Trolly -- or at least that has been heavily implied by the displaced BoM laydeez.

GypsyMoth · 28/01/2011 22:29

wonder why it was all deleted so swiftly too,......

DirtyMartini · 28/01/2011 22:30

So is nobody going to bitch-slap me back?

bibbitybobbityhat · 28/01/2011 22:30

Yes, they got it all swept under the carpet pretty quickly. How funny.

ShirleyKnot · 28/01/2011 22:31

I'm scared of your eyebrows DM.

LadyTremaine · 28/01/2011 22:31

I think ive only actually psted on BOM twice... I only even heard of it yesterday

MummieHunnie · 28/01/2011 22:31

They were all begging Catherine to delete the thread!

GypsyMoth · 28/01/2011 22:34

i didnt read anything on that thread about this thread.....

MummieHunnie · 28/01/2011 22:35

LadyT and in that short 24 hours you spent a lot of time making lots of very nasty abusive personal attacks on other posters!

bibbitybobbityhat · 28/01/2011 22:35

Honestly, people who are upset: why would you worry about being slagged off by posters who are so deeply ignorant that they thought their little thread in otbt was somehow private?

They really do not deserve a second thought.

LadyTremaine · 28/01/2011 22:35

Oooh and then waht will my new name be? Don'y people recognise you from the way you write/your opinions etc?

DirtyMartini · 28/01/2011 22:35

I don't know what you mean, Shirley

penelopestitsdropped · 28/01/2011 22:36

I think that the deletion of the thread was wise to be honest.

most of what was said i didn't really get. but there was one particular poster that was very openly insulted. they even namechanged to take the piss.
bang out of order actually.

LadyT - if you have only posted on the thread twice then you have not been involved in slagging off other Mners and so there is no need for you to be getting so het up.

This thread is not about step parents. it is about the shittyness of slagging off other mners on the very same forum that they use.