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to be pissed off at Mumsnet?

210 replies

robotlollypopman · 06/09/2011 22:40

They deleted what I considered a valid thread because a few people failed to understand the point of it and chose to overreact and get offended instead. Perhaps I should try and remove any thread I disagree with? How do I go about doing that?

OP posts:
AnyFucker · 06/09/2011 23:49

we do have to go to bed now.

is that the "royal" we ?

be sure to give him his hot milk, won't you ? Grin

LineRunner · 06/09/2011 23:49

Amo
Amas
A twat
Amamus
Amatus
A cunt

Have a certificate.

AnyFucker · 06/09/2011 23:51

teth if you would like us to ask you to repost your genius then I am happy to humour you

teth what was it you said on the deleted thread ?

I have to know Grin

AryaStark · 06/09/2011 23:52

I know the answer to that last one Anyfucker, it was mothiman! More of an exchange than a conversation to be honest though.

They typed "Arya read back etc"

I responded with an oblique expression of gratitude.

That's conversation of a sort... Blush

Has the wanker of an OP gone yet?

AryaStark · 06/09/2011 23:53

LOL at all-night x-posts AF Grin

I yield!

Againagainagain · 06/09/2011 23:54

I'm confused again

AnyFucker · 07/09/2011 00:00

< waits 10 mins just to be on the safe side before replying to arya >

ah, good

have a nice sleep x

LineRunner · 07/09/2011 00:00

You're confused? I've let my Hebrew lapse something chronic lately.

AnyFucker · 07/09/2011 00:00

teth you tease

you can't disappear now

AnyFucker · 07/09/2011 00:01

what are you confused about again ?

do you need some hot milk ?

WhereYouLeftIt · 07/09/2011 00:03

LineRunner, I don't know any Greek at all, why was his Greek shit?

And can anyone at all explain what OP's point was supposed to be anyway? Upthread he said "My whole point was that certain words can only have negative connotation.". And I can only read that as a statement rather than a point.

Valpollicella · 07/09/2011 00:05

He's gone to bed for his milkies

AnyFucker · 07/09/2011 00:06

Am I the only one who will have forgotten tomorrow whose husband acted like a dickhead on MN ?

Againagainagain · 07/09/2011 00:11

I've forgotten already, think hot milk and bed is a good idea

LineRunner · 07/09/2011 00:11

WhereYouLeftIt, You do know a lot of Greek; you use it all the time. That's because so many of our words are derived from Greek words. This obviously doesn't mean that these words have the same meaning or value any more of course. Just as, say, nudity in different cultural contexts could signify either power or powerlessness.

Greece didn't really exist back in the day (5th century BC). There was the city state Athens - ARE YOU STILL AWAKE, WOMAN? - and other city states such as Corinth and the rather weird Sparta.

Anyway to cut a long saga short, what would an ancient Athenian have understood by the uttering of the word 'paedophile'? A British Victorian diplomat? A modern resident of Paulsgrove in Portsmouth?

The Athenian would be the most perplexed.

LineRunner · 07/09/2011 00:19

I have bored you into submission.

I'm off up to bed.

garlicnutter · 07/09/2011 00:33

Night! Thanks for making me laff with your 'amare' conjugation Grin

WhereYouLeftIt · 07/09/2011 00:41

No, not bored LineRunner Grin and still awake. As I read your comment about Athens and Sparta I was indulging my memory of 'Horrible Histories' Wife Swap between Athenians and Spartans.

Whatmeworry · 07/09/2011 09:37

YABU - Paedophile may once have meant someone who loves kids, just as gay once meant happy and carefree. But they don't now. Semantic shift happens.

(Having said that, I note with interest that "gay" is shifting meaning again in the teen slang )

MN also has a "leaning" so you can tell which subjects are likely to get its more sensitive denizens howling for your blood (or at least at getting your thread removed/post deleted etc).

HedleyLamarr · 07/09/2011 10:26

LineRunner Tue 06-Sep-11 23:49:52

Amo
Amas
A twat
Amamus
Amatus
A cunt

Good work there Grin

babybarrister · 07/09/2011 10:27

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ChippingIn · 07/09/2011 10:30

Shame they didn't just ban you and save the rest of us having to read more of your drivel.

BeerTricksPotter · 07/09/2011 10:36

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CalatalieSisters · 07/09/2011 10:39

Surely one of the offensive things about the thread was that its starting premise was just wrong. Granted, there are a lot of words where the "philia" suffix doesn't have a sexual conotation but equally there are a lot of words where it does -- paraphilia, necrophilia, coprophilia, etc. No one gets irate about necrophilia meaning a sexual interest in dead people. The op seemed just to be angry that the word meant what it did mean and not something else entirely (liking children). It was so very wrong and muddleheaded a complaint that it seemed reasonable to assume that the op had a weird and possibly offensive agenda behind it.

MinimallyNarkyPuffin · 07/09/2011 11:31

Last time I looked you were using it as a springboard for 'jokes' that could be construed as offensive

You nailed it BeerTricksPotter. I checked out the OP's history to see if they were a new member, and their posts are all pathetic one line 'jokes'. Really pathetic lame 'jokes'. The kind that are made by people who describe themselves as 'zany'.