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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to warn you all of the dangers of starting threads on here?

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KateMiddIeton · 06/12/2011 17:19

Just over a week ago I started a thread. As with most threads I start I expected a few replies but being in politics I expected about three or four. It's now gone viral. There's a blog, Twitter and Facebook pages, a whole #frothers hashtag trending on Twitter, a mention from the leader of the Labour Party and a second thread that's almost full.

So, AIBU to feel it is my duty to warn you? To warn you that if you will insist on posting threads on here you may just create something you can't stop?

And if you're feeling fed up with the ConDems and the cuts then get over here...

OP posts:

QuintessentiallyFestive · 07/12/2011 10:17

I have NO idea what any of you are talking about.

Mme Lindor, can you please point me in the right direction on twitter?

MmeLindor. · 07/12/2011 10:46

here is Twitter

MmeLindor. · 07/12/2011 10:48

This explains it well, I think

QuintessentiallyFestive · 07/12/2011 11:38

Cheers.

KateFrothers · 07/12/2011 12:56

Sorry I was trying to be all cryptic and enigmatic to encourage people to click links and read stuff.

Hully's love thread is saying it better. I'll post a linky in a minute.

KateFrothers · 07/12/2011 12:58

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1358638-To-offer-you-Love-Peace-and-Hope-for-the-Future

nickelbabe · 07/12/2011 13:01

talking of going viral, how come my live not-birth thread hasn't made discussions of the day?

you'd think 2 that a non-labour lasting 1400 posts would warrant some attention?

MmeLindor. · 07/12/2011 13:28

I was lurking on your thread the other day, Nickel. Have you STILL not had that baby (in the manner of an annoying auntie)

KateFrothers · 07/12/2011 13:34

Ummm perhaps they're waiting for you to go into labour Nickel? Can you imagine the complaints if it was discussion of the day and you never actually had it?!

LePruneDeMaTante · 07/12/2011 13:38

Ooh I hadn't read the frothers thread (something about the word made me think it was silly not serious) and indeed haven't, but I like the start of it.
I've been frothing about all this since well before the election, during the election, and god knows I've carried on What is saddest of all is the inevitability of it. I ranted about said that before the election and mostly got told not to be so negative. To which I instantly thought 'you twats' and gave up.

LePruneDeMaTante · 07/12/2011 13:41

Though - re the election - I have a friend who refuses to vote on the grounds that people power is an illusion, the banks run the whole game anyway. I've very much enjoyed trawling the New Statesman archives and turning up bits and pieces on land ownership, the City of London Corporation etc. I have respect for his point of view, though it is at the moment socially unacceptable to say you don't vote on principle.

skirt · 07/12/2011 13:41

woah was on the original thread then had to go to work. Just checked mn in my lunchtime and see all this. I'm proud to be a founding #frother too.

nickelbabe · 07/12/2011 13:41

not yet, Mme
i can imagine the emails to MNHQ

MmeLindor. · 07/12/2011 14:03

Pruney
I don't understand people who don't vote, tbh. I cannot vote for some strange reason and it pisses me off.

olgaga · 07/12/2011 14:09

Well done KM! Hope the coalition are as worried as they ought to be about what they read on here and elsewhere.

BTW. hope you enjoy the posting in the Malvinas - thank goodness for the internet eh?

LePruneDeMaTante · 07/12/2011 14:22

MMeLindor: I know what you mean. I think 'well people died so I could vote' and 'It's my duty to play a part'. But recently I've become more open to thinking about why those statements might not be worth very much in practical terms. I'm interested in why it's taboo to say that you think the country is properly run by unelected interests - and the more I read, the more I find this interesting.

Anyway, I did vote, always have, and CERTAINLY will next time round, to make myself feel better about giving this shower of bastards the metaphorical finger. And I'm not a conspiracy-theory-type person, but I like thinking about it in a devil's advocate sort of a way.

KateFrothers · 07/12/2011 23:01

I always vote. And a Tory always wins despite me never voting for them. I won't give up though. Women died to get the vote.

Even if it does feel like pissing in the wind

gallicgirl · 07/12/2011 23:21

Have you been googling yourself?

I bet that advisor Camerwrong employed to tell him what women are thinking is just using MN as a lazy way of doing his work.

KateFrothers · 08/12/2011 14:12

Not yet gallic

MmeLindor has been doing a sterling job on @TMC_Frothers giving Grant Shapps what for. So, just to warn everyone, if you will be articulate, informed and passionate you may just find yourself frothing too. At housing ministers no less.

For those who are still going eh? What ARE you on about, check out this rather brilliant blog post toomanycuts.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-used-to-froth-alone.html?showComment=1323352575612#c7956153050250915559

gallicgirl · 08/12/2011 23:12

Just started following.

Had 10 tweets from bbcqt to catch up on while pressing the relevant buttons.

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