To think that the bullying culture on MN can be a bit much....

[tjah04]

Having been a member of MN since 2003 I have seen and read some disgusting comments from other members particuarly on this board.

I am starting to think that some of these people must be very sad and insecure.

Some of the names that are called are disgusting and I am sure that these people would never go up to someone in RL and call them that.

And do not get me started on the "I am better than you because I can spell" attitude which seems to be the final insult if all else fails.

Other comments include

"troll" "Oh not another thread" etc.

It is cyber bullying at the end of the day and as mothers shouldn't we all just grow up a bit? The MN team do a great job of deleting such posts but often the OP has seen it and the damage is already done.

I'm not ignoring you Boffles, my lamb. You're quite right.

Tough - LeQ doesn't joke about paint. She is deadly serious.

But OP a small minority of mindless twats being deliberately snippy does not a site full of bullying bitches make.

We are just saying don't Farrow & Ball tar us all with the same brush.

And I still don't believe that a PA like 'dyslexic cunt' went completely unchallenged, so you are being rather disingenuous to insinuate that it did.

You can state anything you like. But to prove you are correct, surely you do need to show specific instances?

Oh my good god, I have just looked at the F & B website and there is indeed a paint shade called Elephant's Breath.

ROFL

serious lolz at that.

So basically this thread has turned into example A. of the ops opinion being correct - was that your intention or did it happen by accident?

Off to look at nail polish!

I'm off to the paint shop. Thanks LeQueen. Now, play nice everyone.

I had a post deleted for calling someone a twat. But she was being a twat so felt that was ok.. I don't moan if I am similarly abused, I usually deserve it.

and everyone carries on with their own conversations, just like RL

The thing that I find the most curious about MN are the worries about:

1. beneficiaries

who does or does not deserve to be on a benefit (i have worked out it's okay if you're "nice" but definitely not okay if you own a horse or similar)

1. buggies

ensuring everyone knows your children walk and never go in buggies

1. parking

at home, at the supermarket, with a badge, without a badge

Elephant breath, I am assured, is very popular amongst the wealthier households around here (DH is a wealth of information regarding paint colour trends LOL!)

Hully that is so horrible and unfair and just wrong. I am sorry. X

On this occasion, the Crown does not consider there to be enough evidence to make a prosecution viable or in the public interest.

I move that the case be dismissed.

It's in Elephant's Breath, doncha know?

No Artful.

We all addressed the op's question, we had a discussion about it, most people have given their opinions (politely) and now the conversation has moved on.

As conversations do. It's not as if we all came on here and thought "what can we talk about to piss off the op - I know, let's do paint". It's an evolving conversation.

I'm happy to continue the conversation with the op as well, but I'm not sure where I can take it next - she thinks one person calling her a name (and being called on it and the thread deleted) means there is an ingrained culture of bullying throughout the site.

I don't agree. I don't suppose we will meet in the middle, no matter how much I try.

So I'll go back to paint (very relieved that LaQ very politely ignored my Dulux admission).

Artful. The people talking about paint are talking about paint. That doesn't mean that I can't talk about the OP's assertions or that I'm being bullied.

I have just had a very much needed laugh at the F & B paint names, some of my favourites:-

clunch
smoked trout
pigeon
dead salmon

LaQueen can you recommend a photographic beach mural wallpaper for my back bedroom?
The rest of the house is pink except the doctor who themed front box room.

Ta

(hears a feint popping sound from LaQueen's locality)

I think I broke LaQueen :(

Clunch ?

dead salmon . dead salmon [baffled]

ffs. Why not rotten eggs. Or decaying bodies or summat. There's imaginative and just plain weird.

MrsDeVere I read your sentence as The doctor, who themed the front boxroom and I thought, wow, a Doctor, who not only makes house calls but gives interior decor advice too

You are making that up FENTON. Dead Salmon?

clunch? Is clunch a livid pink or a shell like one?

Clunch?

Please describe the colour. Because it sounds vile.

Or maybe a pinky brown.

Or just brown.