To love coming on here because in rl i am just antisocial and cant be arsed with most folk.

[bigun1]

Miserable bitch that i am but folk get on my pigging nerves most of the time.

Its got worse as ive got older too.
I make no bones of the fact that its not a healthy or an advantageous trait of mine, but there you go.

On here i can slag folk off...get my arse kicked, i can tell you funny stuff that has happened, and you will laugh with me, i can tlel you how things REALLY have made me feel, from yesterday to 20 years ago, and you will say, its ok, i know what you mean. Some will say "actually, i disagree and this is why" this makes me think in a whole new direction that i would never ever consider.

I spend too much time on here i know, but i like it, and i like you all (mostly) and i like thae fact that there is always some one here.
So ta very much

Oh no izzy, I can't make it I'm afraid, I'm lighting farts with Michael Sheen scraping limescale off the bog that night

Sorry, when did you say it was...?

Ive lived in this god forsaken place for 7 years, I know no one other than the people I have worked with for the last three months. Thus I have no one in real life to even talk to.

I only have one friend on here whose number I have and we mail each other. Other than that I have no one, not even one family member.

My BF lives a plane ride away.

This site keeps me sane, be nice to have more friends here but such is the way I post even though I'm lovely really, and not as big an arsehole as I come across as! I'm just vocal.

Fabby I think talking on here is just as valid as talking in RL. After all we're all real people (well most of us are). I don't understand why people say it's just words on a screen.

Ps you're not an arsehole either, although the picture of a vocal arsehole did make me

OP Ha ha

I like it here, makes me feel part of a community!

I don't feel as alone when I post here even though my interaction with others is minimal.

I hate the concept of face book, but I totally love mumsnet. I only joined because I broke my leg and was googling for people with similar breaks. Being anonymous is good when you only like to communicate when you feel like it. Unlike the phone which will ring whether you're in the mood or not...

I like you Fabby - you make me laugh

Aaaah Karma do you laugh at me or with me? That is the question!

I'm a bit blunt!

op, you are so NBU

I've had some great advice on here lately and all from folks I've never met

If I told some of my rl pals about it they'd think I'd lost the plot

and all whilst wearing pj's and hair a mess!

priceless

With, Fabby

Thats neat then Karma

ssd Im sitting here with greasy hair in my pjs wearing a pair of socks!

Gotta love MN.

Not blunt fabby, you're reassuringly direct

I, on the other hand, ssd am wearing a sex&thecity style ludicrous ultra trendy outfit and manolos and smoking black russian cigs through my onyx ciggy holder while tinkling on my keyboard.

C'mon now, I can't believe that no-one's mentioned the most advantageous aspect of our virtual reality intercourse .... we're free to call others twunts, cunts, arseholes etc, and tell them to fuck off ttfsof, without any danger of receiving a RL punch in the chops.

That's why I lurrrve mumsnet

Hey I am actually as direct in real life, I;m no different here, just here there are more confrontations than I'd ever see in a whole decade! Plus I'd never come across AIBU in real life as I do here.

I have opinions they might be warped but they are mine! Oh and the one about not taking money from your kids when they live at home is not just mine, my lovely work colleague refuses to take money from her daughter just home from her degree who works and is 23!

Oh ffs, will you just cock off izzy!

FabbyChic - you're on good form today btw!

I'm a fairly recent MN convert. I love it. Seriously, I do. Everyone's so brutally honest in a way that people just aren't in RL (including me).

I recently posted on the "Can we talk about loneliness?" thread, and almost instantly regretted it: I'm not lonely, I'm a loner. There's a world of difference. Part of being an only-child, I suppose. And I wouldn't want to be any other way.

DP and I socialise in a group of about ten - all his friends. Whilst I can handle the group setup as I can shrink into the background and merely observe, I find the women in the group really hard work if I'm on my own with them. They're all very nice (much nicer than me), and in a way I envy their enthusiasm for what to me are dull things (trips to B&Q, photos of their cooking on Facebook - I mean what's that all about?!?!), but I find striking up conversation with them very difficult unless I come armed with enough standard questions to keep them talking long enough to avoid uncomfortable silences (i.e. because when they stop talking, I have little to add because I don't assume everyone to be fascinated by the banal details of my life.)

And Gay, I thought I was the only one who gave out fake phone numbers to keep sales callers and market researchers off my case... :)

I feel a bit sorry for whoever has the number I keep giving them.

YADNBU - most people suck big time and both of the others that don't I see sometimes! Small talk is shit, getting pissed and talking shit is shit, knowing a million people and not liking most of them is shit. Thank you for this thread - I thought I was pathologically antisocial but now I see I am far from alone.

Sorry to hijack, but fabby I'm sure you are lovely, a little floopy, but lovely

:)

Fortunately our phone is kaput - don't know why, have no intention of finding out - and we're getting a lot of grief from family/friends because they can't reach us on it.

A tad green about my satorial splendour, are we Agent?

How's your arse today? I fired the barbie up for you yesterday but I might not be so considerate again. Thanks to my trusty tapers, you could find yourself on the receiving end of my flame thrower