to think that the strike out function is the most overused and misused thingmy on Mumsnet?

[bibbitybobbityhat]

(apart from non aibus in aibu, of course)

oh, and the biscuit.

Ah ok. Now I get it.

Thank you ladies all round. My treat.

And goodnight

(bloody 5:30am toddler wake ups)

And from me too! (Nothing like a spot of agreement in an AIBU thread on a Friday night.)

Oh, my last post was to Bumping by the way.

Oh, I'm very floral, me

Yes, whats all this consensus about?

YABVVVVVU. So there. All of you. Stamps feet.

I remember when the strikeout was new.

UABU

[bumsex] as it's Friday

Olivia was that back in the olden days when you were doing the sexing, instead of the birthing and rearing stuff? [innocent enquiring face]

Honey - that looks a bit painful, what with being red in the middle. You might want to get it checked out.

What does PA mean? As in, [PA wink] upthread ^

Passive Aggressive

Yes Moonlight, without medical attention I may look like this ---->

That would be 'passive-agressive'. The function is used for that too.

Passive aggressive

HTH

:)

Yup, what Honey said.

[Realises typo in previous own post]

I think all should be presented as

PA
Nice

You are SO NBU. The strikeout, when used correctly, can be comic genius. But for every correct usage I see, there are 3 muppets with NO CLUE. It's like incorrect apostrophe usage, it doesn't read right. MNHQ should get their deleting fingers out for it, really they should.

That said, I have probably been guilty of misusing the upon occasion. Once I even tried to give one out in a genuinely friendly sort of way. I was very new.

Also, "it doesn't read right" doesn't read right

Right, even though the thread has moved on I will report back regardless. We definetly had the strike out in 2008. I've spent a while warmly looking back at the www bootcamp threads and they appear about halfway through.

Actually it's a bit weird looking through your posts from 4-5 years ago. Not that much has changed. except a divorce

Someone answer the question about four dots please!

I'm liking your PA/Nice smiley policy, Honey. It gave me death teeth.

yes please on the four dots things

See? Perfect use of the strikeout function there Mavis.

That seems a bit PA there bibbty. given the title of the thread!

No Mavis it was not in the least bit pa. How very dare you!

I think they could make striking out less hard work and yes I do copy and paste :)