PISSING NETMUMS!!!

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Please share your experiences.

I came from Bounty (debates) what does that say about me?
Anyway MN is definitely better, I only wish I'd found it sooner

I'm only signed up on Netmums to enter the competitons.

I feel crap today, so the urge to go over the nm and entertain myself has been vast. I am refraining, though I am unsure as to whether or not I will last the day!

Well I've just had a peek thanks to this thread.
The first poster I read couldn't spell for toffee and was quite ageist, but everybody seemed to agree with her.
I feel I may be way too old for netmums, there's lot's of nice oldies on Mumsnet, makes me feel at home.

The worst forum for not disagreeing with anyone is Kelly. Great for breastfeeding information pages, but the forums!!! I usually get banned within a day or two and I'm always careful to be nice, not give duff advice etc.

Were you not enough of a lentil-weaver for them?

No, too much they don't like BLW.

I had always suspected they were lipstick lentil weavers! Proof

Netmums is ok, don't know what the fuss is. Looks a little simple!

I can't even figure out how to get on the talk boards

I left NM after a big arguement about value sausages

I remember the sausage thread. Menkle

It ran and ran didnt it. I got called a snob and a benefit basher (of which I am neither) so I decided to leave.

Value sausages are evil.

Disclaimer: I am pregnant, all sausages are currently foul. This is putting a crimp in our Sunday breakfast, as we like a full English as a treat :o

Funniest thing about NMs is that you can see how many people are lurking. They list eveyones names at the bottom of the page. You can opt out of this but most people dont.

Its hilarious. There is a massive bundle to any thread with more than a few pages. You can just tell people are getting a massive thrill from watching the ruck.

It really is like a girl's school playground on there.

Just been over. I feel a bit dizzy. The txt spk, the Hunning, the grammar oh my eyes!

big sausage fan here!

I was a Netmum originally but I couldn't cope with all the racism, homophobia and opinions based on what was printed in the Sun that week. Luckily I soon discovered Mumsnet and have never looked back!

thefirstMrsDeVere - I was delighted to 'find' you over here, we share a lot of opinions and I was often in the minority with you arguing against the BNP lovers over there. In fact, one of the threads which put me off Netmums for good was started by you - it was to do with condolence cards for people whose pets had died. Some of the replies you got were awful and most upsetting. Made me realise how many selfish, insensitive people there were over there.

Oh and I was on the sausage thread too! Can't actually remember which side of the fence I was on, but it all got very heated indeed!

please please someone tell me the gist of the sausage thread - i'm sitting here wondering how a thread about sausages can get heated

Basically it was when ASDA brought out value sausages - they work out at 8p each. It started off by some of us saying that to be so cheap they would need to have very poor meat content. It then ran and ran and turned into some of us being accused of bashing those on benefits because they couldnt afford fancy sausages. Lots of name calling, lots of deleting.

I still hold the belief (and I said it on the thread) that if your budget is low, there are other alternatives than sausages which have less than 50% meat.

I do like the NetMums nearly new boards, so I do still go over there to buy and sell, but I give the coffeehouse a miss!

muminthecity yeah that one

Lots of people refusing to actually read what I had written and choosing to go on about how lovely dogs and cats are. I stayed on to the bitter end though

The really annoying ones were when people said 'FFS bereaved parents have more important things to think about you know!!!!!! [rolly eyes rolly eyes rolly eyes]. Like they knew better than me.

I have to say I did get a few apologies and some people took the time to relook at what I had said and come back to me.
The thing about NMs is that you also get lots and lots of supportive PMs from people who are too scared to post against the majority. I think that is really sad.

The main BNP culprit, who used to hide behind her religion and is the most passive agressive person I have ever come across, has now renounced her 'faith'. Still being a victim and posting bigoted bollocks mind you

Netmums is okay, but I dont post alot, Im more of a lurker. They do jump on everybodys opinion and recently alot of people have been complaining on the mods sections about how the site is going down hill. One thing that really annoys me though is the overuse of the 'rolling eyes emotion' and the 'wagging finger emotion'.

Also they do have health visitors and relate advisors and such stuff who pop on certain boards, which can be helpful for more serious stuff.

Very true that the local boards are alot better over there though, and I check the notice board on a daily basis which is very active. If you need a local plumber or wanna know why there was an ambulance down so and so road, you'll get the answer.

thefirstMrsDeVere - I am glad that you got some apologies from that thread, it is a shame they couldn't apologise publicly on the thread though, there may well have been others reading who felt upset and offended by some of the comments.

I am amazed to hear that someone who spent hours every day banging the drum for her 'religion' and the dubious racism and homophobia that apparently went with it has now renounced her faith! Though I always suspected that her views were borne of ignorance and bigotry rather than religion