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

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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 ?

Ha Thumbwitch, because when you get pregnant from ear-buggery then the baby explodes from your earlobes the following day.....

just continuing ramblings from a previous thread, please ignore me

I moved countries with a not quite 2 month old baby. I have no friends and no car so am completely isolated. I feel bad for me yes. But why start a thread about it? Would I rather have friends, actual humans I could interact with? Why yes, yes I would. But if this is what keeps me from going over the edge than so be it

Stops me being bored at work zzzzzzzzzzzz

Aha! I knew about the ear shagging - someone wanted to do that to Reality for some bizarre unknown reason but then I had to go to bed leave the computer so missed the follow on.

Southern, where are you? I felt exactly like that when I moved to Australia 2y ago - MN was my utter lifeline, because it provided continuity and there was always someone online when I was feeling lost, homesick and really low - it was nice to have the virtual friends to talk to. :)

I think it's here for whatever users want out of it, and I don't actually think you can get an idea of people's lives from what/how much they post. As others have said, people drop in and out, multitask and may spend no longer than 20-30mins a day on it.

Hey southern - snap! Only my baby was 13 weeks not 2 months when I moved...pm me if you want to compare notes...

LeQueen, Thanks, but I'm not really interested in discussing how well read you are, why is that of interest to me? who are you?
I'm happy to discuss in real life, because in RL your eyes meet, blood pumps, it's 'real' I can't run off and google something to impress you, I'm there in front of you, take me or leave me.
And no, I'm not particularly colourful or interesting, and I have been known to lack humour, but I'm popular, probably because all my friends are as dull as me, but That's fine, I no desire to fill voids by being one of the popular girls on Mumsnet.

thumbwith Miffster I am in Florida (where I'm from originally) but ive lived in europe since i was a teenager so i don't know anyone out here anymore. Things are strained to say the least with family as well.

Are those the choices then?
Popular girl on mn or joining the dullest of the dull social groups because it is at least real life?

Very odd way to look at the world.

All the popular girls on MN are cunts.

That's why I like them so much.

It is odd isn't it Pag?

My friends don;t come to discuss literature or my own subjects becuase ds1 spits at them and shouts cheese a lot, and ds3 hugs them constantly.

Can't say I blame them TBH.

Oh I'd love to speak to people in RL

But my breath stinks......

I am waiting for ds2 to come home, ,mning, eating a cupcake and watching Lace on true movies.
I am bloody brilliant.

Yeh, of course its very sad

But what else could I moan about to DH in the evening about anyway if it wasn't for the fact I that someone was wrong on the internet today?

In my case its doubly tragic

RL is overrated, I find it gets in the way of my mumsnetting time...

Seriously. lace on True Movies.

A woman called Pagan, an assassination attempt, camels, a bloke feeling up a woman in a wine cellar and all that hair. Woman in a trench in a war zone with loads of lippy. Fabulous

sounds like one of the ipoat threads, Pag.

I have been out to lunch with real people. it wasn't as much fun. one was terribly earnest, I had to keep saying "It was a joke". Never a good sign.

Velvet, why do you think I keep shagging your ear?

Not enough heroines called Pagan imho. Or Pilgrim.
When I write my Bills and Moon novel, my heroine will be called Canesta and my hero, Amish. He will be manly and she will be grateful.

erm...

because we're soulmates

because you fancy me

because I'm easy

oh oh oh.... I've got it....

You're DP in disguise

You can't really cry out Amish in a fit of passion can you?

There is a scene set in the desert with sheiks and princes. All the actors are very causcasian but with bad accents and big moustaches.
It is like 70s porn.
Ahem ....I would imagine..

Ooo paggy, I heart lace. And the book. the bit with the goldfish ruined sex for me!

Wrt to op, I prefer not to force myself to like someone, or them to like me which is what happened when I tried to make friends post-ds when none of my rl friends had kids. At least on mn I can be myself.

Ooo paggy, I heart lace. And the book. the bit with the goldfish ruined sex for me!

Wrt to op, I prefer not to force myself to like someone, or them to like me which is what happened when I tried to make friends post-ds when none of my rl friends had kids. At least on mn I can be myself.