to ask if you can't give a flying what goes in the AIBU topic and you think all Mumsnetters should post whereverthehelltheylike ...

[bibbitybobbitybunny]

to sign in here?

Thank you.

Slow night, then Rowan?

Rowan herself??

I thought you were a man

I'll sign a sodding petunia. Sounds good.

It could do with a cull.

For example. holidays. Why have the subsection of short haul, long haul, UK holidays. Just have one big holidays topic.

Ditto books. Why have adult fiction/non fiction, and a whole seperate area for e-readers. Just have one topic called books, or reading or whatever.

I too can never be bothered to scroll to the correct topic, so shove most stuff into chat or aibu.

That's what MIL said to me the first time we met.

it is a bit slow, yes please don't get any ideas

@WorraLiberty

Rowan herself??

I thought you were a man

I get that a lot

I blame Mr Bean

It could never by my fault obviously.

Also education, why have 'education' as a seperate topic and primary, preschool, secondary, further etc.

Why not just education? And what is the education subsection for if it's not preschool, primary, secondary, further or home ed then wtaf is it? Is there another form of education that no-one has told me about?

Rowan a man? Que?

Agree with GetOrf

Way too many topics, which is why most of them have tumbleweed blowing through, and everyone posts on Chat or AIBU

Well I've been posting here about 15 months and people have repeatedly said there are far too many topics....that's why most of them are empty.

But 15 months on, the only thing that's changed is there are more of them!

You've only been here 15 months worra? . Are you sure

Less topics. More emoticons.

Yes and I haven't ever logged out in all that time

By 'logged out', I mean 'signed out'....not that I haven't had a shit for 15 months.

Oh I am so in.

I can't fecking stand it when someone starts a good ol' light hearted thread and some joyless fucker has to sap the fun out of it by pointing out it's erroneous placement.

Yes. Every time someone says 'can we have a seperate topic so we can talk about our terrapins' MNHQ are lovely and create one, which is very nice but means we end up with hundreds of niche topics, and everyone eventually abandons the Terrapins topic because nobody ever looks at the threads, and all traffic is in aibu and chat.

And people moan about all the traffic being in aibu and chat, and rightly so in some respects. The one way to resolve this issue would be to have a mass topic cull.

lol at terrapins btw. Where the fuck did terrapins come from?

I think it speaks volumes when MNHQ moves a thread to its correct topic and it dies an instant death.

What does perplex me is people doing "aibu" when they know full-well they're not.
e.g.
Aibu to think this is not on..... (followed by one of the following)

• I was doing the shopping in Tesco when another customer called me a racist name and decapitated my child
• That my husband got drunk and smashed every window in the house
• That I was crossing the road when it was green for pedestrians and a car full of EDL members went straight through it nearly killing me

I'm sure MNHQ don't give a fuck either really.

They just want us all to play nicely I expect, and not stir.

I'm in! I don't give a fuck! and I like to wind up the thread police

Yes, but those people are a special subsection of divs, mayor. Nowt we can do about them.

Oh I'm SO going to start a thread in Terrapins!

"WIBU to flush my terrapins down the loo as they are fundamentally the most tedious pets ever?"

(Actually that's probably an AIBU thread!)

"Can someone recommend a terrapin breeder that just does those nice green ones with the stripes?"

Cue a load a terrapin-frothers arguing endlessly about backyard terrapin breeders.....