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to ask which MNer's influence you?

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3plus1equalsfun · 08/04/2011 20:49

I've just read a thread where a poster was influenced to buy somthing really expensive because of a poster on here.

I think BOF has influenced me by her posting style which is very funny and she deals with bad issues with OP's without being nasty and personal. I hope I have become funnier and kinder because of seeing how she is.

Also I was persuaded to go and buy a steam mop by ChippyMinton - so she's obviously imfluenced me.

And a moon-cup - but I can't remember which single OP that was.

Who has influenced you? (on here)

OP posts:
Shoesytwoesy · 08/04/2011 22:25

shiney is trouble.............

Portofino · 08/04/2011 22:26

but dittany and the others on the Feminist thread have made me think about MY attitudes on life, and more importantly how to bring up my pfb daughter in a strongly feminist way.

RumourOfAHurricane · 08/04/2011 22:26

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Shoesytwoesy · 08/04/2011 22:27

trouble is shiney I now don't know if you are the shiney I talk to on fb or another shiney..............he he

RumourOfAHurricane · 08/04/2011 22:28

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TrillianAstra · 08/04/2011 22:28

Everyone on AIBU has definitely helped me to develop my debating style...

Shoesytwoesy · 08/04/2011 22:29

ahh good the one who is trouble and enticed tried to get me back here

ShirleyKnot · 08/04/2011 22:29

mass debating Trills?

sorry

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Gooseberrybushes · 08/04/2011 22:30

One person did recently, the mum with an albino child who protested at the Comic Relief joke. I'd snorted too, at the joke, and she's the first person to make me instantly realise I was completely and comprehensively wrong about something.

Also Beachcomber, silverfrog and LeonieDelt who are incredibly knowledgable and well researched about vaccinations and the machinations of government and big industry surrounding them.

Also the tenners and their obsession with broccoli. Long ago and far away.

Gooseberrybushes · 08/04/2011 22:31

Oh and bubbley's in that list too. She's influenced me by being so patient and nice in the face of a lot of ghastliness.

Shoesytwoesy · 08/04/2011 22:31

Gooseberrybushes that person taught me a lot as well as I didn't realise(even living in the sn world) how hard it was

Gooseberrybushes · 08/04/2011 22:32

Oh. As you were. Tis not serious I realise.Grin

Still. I like those girls.

Shoesytwoesy · 08/04/2011 22:33

and seeing as this is really a fave mn in disguise.
bibbitybobbityhat as she missed me when I left

TrillianAstra · 08/04/2011 22:33

Shiney the Chanel counter is not a charity.

TrillianAstra · 08/04/2011 22:34

I prefer to debate in a more personal and intimate manner Shirely Wink

Gooseberrybushes · 08/04/2011 22:34

Shoesy I felt so stupid about that. I've never met anyone in that situation and natural sensitivity was obviously not doing its job for me there. So if it wasn't for mn I would have carried on oblivious.

BecauseImWoeufIt · 08/04/2011 22:34

caramelwaffle Did I?! Goodness me. I hope you don't regret whatever your decision was!

hairfullofsnakes · 08/04/2011 22:35

Please tell me what is a steam mop, why is it good and where can I buy one?!

Gooseberrybushes · 08/04/2011 22:35

Ooh fave mner. Well those lot.

Also hecate has never influenced me but there's something about her I really like. She seems so independent and has her own mind. She doesn't go with the flow and she doesn't "FFS!!!!!!!!"

GreenEyesandHam · 08/04/2011 22:37

Gooseberrybushes

I'm glad you said that, I was in town last week and saw a little girl who was albino, with her mum. I instantly thought back to that thread, and it hit home what that poster had said. I'd laughed at the Comic Relief joke as well, and I'm not embarrassed to say I feel ashamed of that now.

Cat98 · 08/04/2011 22:39

Not sure about influence but I always nod sagely at/laugh along with TattyDevine's posts. Also agree with Hecate and Hullygully a lot of the time!

Shoesytwoesy · 08/04/2011 22:39

i think we all learned something from that thread, I didn't ven notice the "joke"(to busy saying Malfoy went to my school)

Greythorne · 08/04/2011 22:39

Xenia - I invariably do the opposite to whatever she is advocating.

Mrz - brilliant advice on children's reading / phonics / reading schemes

Tiktok - on breastfeeding. Absolute inspiration. Made me realise you can be pro-breastfeeding and wonderfully calm. I tend to get bolshy flustered when facing weird anti breastfeeding comments. Now I just channel Tiktok.

Goblinchild - a few months ago she posted something so insightful and thoughtful about parenting with view to the longterm, not the stupid shortterm botherances, that I actually copied her post down in my diary as a sort of talisman.

Longfingernaila / claig have reminded that I am glad I have no real life rightwing friends :)

Dittany - I have always been a feminist, but Dittany has often reminded me why radical feminism makes sense.

Pagwatch - I love her commonsense posts. She often picks people up on small points and is totally right. Her experience of SEN Is insightful.

Asinine · 08/04/2011 22:39

Niceguy is scary. He has a good line in tory spin, which can bamboozle me, albeit temporarily Smile

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