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.

Did someone mention something about LaQueen being ill?

I have a lovely, warm, buttery cream colour on my walls. Haven't the first clue what it's called or who produced it.

You should go on bounty debates its far worse!

I don't like grey.

forgot to say, the admin on here do an amazing job also. can't fault them

I've heard that the value range from B&Q does a lovely magnolia.

I don'y like yellow though Hilly. It just remindsmeof The Yellow Wallpaper. It invokes my nausea. I like it in other people'shouses but not mine. Ilike yellow things.But noy yellowwalls.Ive a lovely old enamel yellowjug.
I know grey can be depressing but i've got so much tatty shit in my house with colour (blankeys/patcjworkthings/paintings that i think grey might be ok.

I went to a friend's stately home affair the other day (runs not owns it) and they had the most delightful pale dove grey in the minstrel's gallery affair.

I've never been on Bounty. And Netmums hurts my sensibilities eyes.

Thanks Biwi, I know exactly what you're saying but it's not what I mean. If you look at the start of this thread, it happens a bit.

People are kind of ignoring, mocking, pretending the OP isn't there, being really defensive. Having private jokes. Saying silly things.

All because they're unsure of her intentions and feel threatened.

When in fact it turns out she had justified cause to post about this.

Do you see what I mean? Not the inevitable ignoring of a fast moving site - which does happen too, and is just as you say, something to get used to as you become familiar.

It's the deliberate turning conversation away from the OP that I mind.

OH FINE THEN JUST REJECT MY IDEA

Ed

May I just assure you that the absolute very very last thing I felt was threatend by the op.

Dubious, bored, suspicious, irritated are all possible adjectives, but not threatened

This is like a thread for me. I am sick, sitting on the sofa moaning a bit and looking at paint and wallpaper for my sitting room.

If you could talk about 'difficult mothers' and 'which iPad for a 16 year old' now I could sort everything out before I next need to get up for a pee.
Thanks

LeQueen yes,i'mgoing for a 'snug'effect because we've got a bit other, lighter,morejunk kitchen living dining room. that i might also paint grey.

Look,why don't you just come round here,with Hilly andMary.I'llmake onion soup and you can allswan about with swatches. Good idea?

Now I really don't get you on that one, Ed. Who is feeling threatened by the OP? I don't know what her/his intentions are, as she/he hasn't made any helpful suggestions as to ways around it (unlike Hully, who did). I suspect the intention behind the OP was to goad, personally.

But I realise it's now sounding like I'm picking on your posts, which isn't my intention!

I like Nelly's Breath, Skimming Stone and Bone

But does she have justified cause Ed? That's a genuine question. It seems to me that the one thread she does describe is unlikely to have happened in the way she says.

So it appears on the surface that this is yet another "you are all bullies" threads, which are posted deliberately to get people to fight with each other.

There have been lots of such threads over the last six months in particular, and those of us who have seen a lot of them realise that the only way to avoid a nasty bunfight is to lighten the mood early on in the thread, so that is what tends to happen recently.

Oo yes, let's all go round Tifty's and try out paint, what a great idea.

Is the ipad for ds2 paggy?

LaQueen I assume the phlegm you are hacking up is not Dulux green and instead is more like F&B Pigeon?

Don't sulkHilly. Idon't have a gallery. Pag you come too and we'llfind you an ipad. Does it have to be real.Would a generic tablet do? I bought one of those £60 affairs on Amazon and I was amazed. But it's not an ipad.