AIBU to feel sorry for the people who spend half their lives on mumsnet?

[destinationzero]

I lurk a bit at work ( prenteding to be busy, saves me making the tea ) and have started the odd thread here and there seeking advice, BuT my god I feel sorry for the posters who are on here day in day out for hours.
I know some people are socially isolated and I'm sure they get a lot from mumsnet, but it is rather sad when it becomes your main source of adult interaction, and by choice for many I imagin. I know mumsnet has one million members, but it's always the same names coming up in active conversations. These forums should be a place where you drop into now and then, not somewhere you rely on for friendship.

AIBU ?

at " I'd rather be popular in real life (which I am)..."

Empathy. Modesty. Is there no end?

I've always wanted a stalker. See OP? MN has now completed my life's ambition and you thought I was wasting my time. Tut.

if I knew people as funny in RL as people tend to be on here, I wouldn't bother with here at all

but I don't, alas

I can't remember the last time I cried laughing at something that wasn't on a screen.

hey Gilbonzo, i've got one too, you know

and the OP has been spying on me

I am really popular in RL, btw

and lots of people have just pm'd me to say they agree with everything I've just said

some of them are mn royalty, so it's a win-win for me

C'mon, there's enough of PsychoDuckCunt to go round.....

She's mine you Slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag!

I'm a big fat cunt so there's plenty to go around.

Why am I still here??? Fuck, maybe the OP's right........

"I like that there are people here who I can "talk" to who can actually form proper sentences and who aren't obsessed with coco pops. "

How odd only to meet people who talk about coco pops in RL.

Hey ho. No wonder MN seems appealing.

Destinationzero, I laughed at the nose-picking thing. I sometimes think that MN royalty is probably a load of beery blokes with beards taking the mickey out of sad women.

Oh fuck. Hands has caught me out.

Has anyone ever seen any poster assumed to be MN Royalty banging on about it? Or boasting? Or having a big fat Royalty quiche with locks on?

No. The only people I ever see going on about Royalty are on threads like these, usually with a good dollop of bitterness on top. Sneeriness is bad for the wrinkles you know.....

i haven't got a beard either

so?

Oooooh another OP demanding validation for how I spend my time

I'd tell you, but then I'd have to get Hully to kill you

Who is Mumsnet Royalty then ?
Who is the Queen of Mumsnetland ? And who is her Duke of Edinburgh ?

Hands, that gets right on my tits.

Oh yeah? I'm a breastfeeder so pop that in your pipe and chug yourself a smoke sandwich.

I'd love to be QueenPanda, but I'd settle for Duchess.

I'm with you OP!

I have just signed in to see if the thread I started yesterday about MNers making me feel queasy in AIBU had petered out - and was really to see the thread was full because it had 1000+ posts - most of them, I would imagine, consisting of MNers 'virtually' giggling their in-jokes to each other.

I do (seriously) think it's sad that if they all think they're so hilarious, they can't find some RL friends to talk to for hours on end. As a case in point, some of them were on the thread from when it started mid-morning to after ten last night

Anyway, that's all I wanted to say - toodle-oo!

Hamsterz

you do realise some people do move away from the computer and then come back to it, don't you? they aren't glued down

PMPL

That has to be one of my favourite xposts ever saycool and michelleseashell