AIBU to prefer rollercoaster to mumsnet

[Poodleplops]

Hi im really sorry but i find i prefer rollercoaster. The people on there seem a bit more normal you crowd are off the wall sorry!

I won't name anybody else I promise.

ps Gabbylogon! The Eagle has landed ey

Maybe you should illuminate the RCers then cloudydays... with your own fresh and interesting views... Can't bloody wait. Don't see too many newbie or casual posters expressing any interesting views either.

MN is much bigger, obviously. You're not comparing like with like.

But the trouble with RC and Magicmum is that you cannot disagree with the seasoned posters without getting run off the board. So sadly, no illumination possible.

Rollercoaster is crap, weddings online is mental, the scariest bridezillas ever!
Magicmum is good craic.

My friend was rumbled on weddingsonline. She might have been one of those bridezillas. She was merrilly beeeotching about her husband to be's first wife. she used the same user name that she used on amazon and she had ordered some very course specific books and reviewed them, and anyway.... there was no doubt she'd been trashing the first wife. Merry Hell.

Sorry, I think Merrily only has one L. I can't turn on my spellchecker. GOd, you'd know I was an RC-er with my shit spelling.

I admit to far too much time on rollercoaster, but when the rows are dull I move to mumsnet. If I laugh, dh knows it is mumsnet. Apart from the classics (the shopping lists, the misdelivered pouffe) which need a critical mass of posters to keep them going, threads like Peter's transplant have been amazing here. I am now considering defecting to the wedding site, it sounds excellent entertainment.

haha, yeah I'd love to get married just so that I can waste time on that forum as well. I laugh lots reading rollercoaster!

Only when I am posting I hope...

WOL is similar. Recently, a poster has very much bucked the trend and posted about breastfeeding in a straight-forward "I think it's best for babies and much better than formula" way and was nearly bloody lynched. Although I don't necessarily agree with her thinking, I admire her gumption for staying on the board after an extremely hysterical reaction to an alternative viewpoint.

There's a lot of treading on eggshells with the Irish boards. And everyone has to namechange so frequently if they are going to discuss anything personal/controversial etc because of the nature of the country. There's this barely-restrained rage that is wrapped up in sickly sweet (but highly patronising) comments that explodes now and again. Followed by cries of "why can't we just get along?" etc and head shaking and tut-tutting.

Great entertainment when it kicks off because everyone feels it so much more than on a larger site like this one, but the rest of the time it's a handy resource for discussing products and services and not much more, usually.

Oh true, you are one of the funniest posters on RC! but is it ok to mention people in a love in sort of way? The poster who loves constantin as much as you do, the poster whose name begins with L who is an expert on all matters to do with SW and patiently shares this info time and time again, I could go on and mention loads more actually, but it's precisely the parochial feel of rc that makes me feel like my sistas have been dissed when I read that everybody on rc is thick ok, just a tiny bit angry and a tiny bit [shrug]

Valium, it happened on the M and K boards too. The person was rumbled bitching about inlaws and had to grovel and post apologies with the family calling her all sorts of names online. She disappeared, came back again to post on normal non-family related stuff yet the family kept reappearing to vent their spleen. It was pretty horrible!

Unlike here, if you do get rumbled you can't actually get deleted.. you have to go back through each individual post and edit out whatever caused offence, apparently. As some of the posters have thousands to their name, that's a lot of editing.. and not likely to be fast enough to cover your tracks if you are sniffed out!

Yeah, I've got in to a few rows on rc, because of my pro-choice views. But now I stay off any thread to do with abortion, breastfeeding, private schools, em,,,,, any thread with dennis on it, any thread with [cough] oops on it...

Maybe I should also check out WOL. My dc might get married one day. I can research lilac napkins or something.

I know working9while5, and I've probably been more careless on mumsnet than I have been on RC. I shudder to think of all the Irish people on mumsnet reading what I mistakenly believe to be anonymous. As though no other Irish person stumbled on to mumsnet! On rc I am careful never to share an anecdote because that means I can't use it in real life! I try not to say "my cousin...." for example. or my boss. If I ever repeated anything I'd say 'an acquaintance...'. But I'm kidding myself I bet. Probably all my acquaintances know who I am and my various screen names. morto

I think things have become harsher over the past few years, though. People seems snappier in general, maybe? But as Eamon Holmes and Ruthie are on the Late Late tonight, I am too busy for the Friday row.

Are you still in Ireland? I think if you're not, it's harder to believe that you could be caught. I was terribly public on WOL in terms of my location/profession etc because it feels like Ireland is far enough away from me for me to be anonymous. I've been away for my entire adult life though and don't have a lot of family/friends in Ireland any more but, y'know.

Here, I don't give details about my location and namechange a good bit, also change key details etc. It is sobering when you realise the implications of having a record of personal stuff about you online, though.. ((shudders))

ha ha eamonn pudding holmes! enjoy....

AmAlwaysRight it's like chipmonkey says, my whole point is that in my experience many of the regulars on cc&t can't seem to have a lively debate without behaving like a primary schoolyard clique and closing ranks if a casual poster dares to disagree with one of them. Which is why you seldom see new posters bothering to stick around with their fresh and interesting views, which is what makes the discussions on rc dull as dishwater a lot of the time.

I do occasionally post on rc if a topic comes up that interests me, but I much prefer mn because for the most part, debates here are less personality-driven and more about people's views on the actual subject being discussed.

I do often like your posts, stledger and have wondered whether you were the same person here as there. Other rc regulars I've always liked are dipduk and krispycrem. I'm not saying it's all bad, and I think my first post makes that pretty clear. I'm saying there's a certain small group that, IMO, makes me (and apparently others) not want to bother with cc&t and soap box.

I think I treat it like telly - RTE for Irish news, but BBC for proper news. Eamonn is piling on the beef isn't he?

yeah! snap.

Oh he is a total lardy! it's shocking. There was a beautiful pattisserie near where I used to live in England and apparently they knew him very well in there. It was driving distance from Teddington and he would be in a car in the vicinity a couple of times a week and he'd go in for a big bag of cakes!

Living the dream

I like RC. Have been on it for a few years now. I like Boyz too. Haven't seen much of her lately is she still around?

There's disagreeing and there's em, disagreeing... lot of grudge holding around on RC now. Just feels like all the debates have been had and it's 'tired' now. Again it's all to do with scale.

It's like a nasty manky auld pair of slippers that you can't quite bring yourself to throw out because they are still comfy, even if you'd die to be seen in them.