To wish people who I hardly know would stop arriving from elsewhere

[Ormirian]

Telling us we are all bitches and unsupportive because they have seen a few heated threads!

That is like a bunch of aliens beaming down in an abattoir and assuming that the earth Is nothing but a bloody violent hellhole full of gore-splattered monsters with big hatchets!

I don't do 'bitch'. I try but it always ends up a slightly peeved.

I think we could make a case for being BULLIED!

My! How lovely they are.

Oh thank god - I thought I was being particularly dense.

yanbu.

it is boring and baad manners

How big are they?

I am over endowed in the foot department.

we were on the news yet again this morning so prepare for an influx of bored housewives who have nothing better to do than stir trouble or make ridiculous posts whinging about nothing.

Thankfully our regulars may be housewives but they are far from bored and always post fascinating things of interest to all

I have a headache and am grumpy today.

They. Are. Not. Big.

Tis just the spiteful Gibbon.

I am not a housewife, never bored (or rarely) and I am a fund of fascinating stories. For a start let me tell you all about blowing up balloons and making a birthday cake.....

Wait! Noooo....come back. I haven't got to the bit about the candles yet.....

1. Ooh hell(o), I'm not that new.
2. My pfb is pretty average, if a little bit daft

sometimes. But she's only 1, so she's allowed.

1. As long as you're funny/talk sense you're ok with me. I can take it. Be howwid.
2. Mine's a quiche lorraine*
3. Does Hully really have gigantasaurus feet? Can I see a photo?

*Not really, but can't think of any others

Yanbu, if I visit a website and think it's crap I just don't post there, I don't start posts saying 'this is crap, you must all change to make me like it '

Ah. Then neither are mine.

There is something terribly sweet about No. 4.

Please see re feet above.

Orm - there can't be ANOTHER birthday in your house - you've only hjust had yours and DS's.

Tell us all about it

I doubt they are housewives..househairytruckers maybe

PS I do know about the Mumsnet/quiche thing. Have stalked researched.

Who is she and why does she get a quiche.

OK hully

Tis DS2's this time. Only 4 more to go and then I get a whole month off before DH's...

Me? I'm the cat's mother, obv.

No silly, Lorraine.

yanbu, i havent been on mn much lately because it seems really... odd. ive been waiting for it to calm down, but it seems to be taking longer than usual

YANBU - but this thread has more than made up for all the "whiny cake stall expecting" threads of late!

4??

I'm relatively new (first started posting a year ago) so I have no idea whether this mythical "Mumsnet of Yore" exists or not. I mean, has it always been a nest of vipers with PMT or was it ever a supportive, virtual coffee morning with hugs and naice biccies?

I like a cross between both, personally. I like the sniping (if it doesn't go too far), it piques my interest. If I wanted to read a load of yes women agreeing on everything, I'd be, well, you know where...

MN goes through this cycle every now and again. It'll settle down, it always does. People will get absorbed into the general hive mind or they'll just bugger off. I've become very zen to it over the years.

Ah, sorry. Lorraine