to not want Mumsnet to become a forum where people sign off with a x?

[Mintyy]

and/or use textspeak/hun/lil' man/b**tch etc and no paragraphs and no discernible grammar?

OR

am I a terrible old curmudgeon and change is inevitable and in the end the huns will take over the asylum?

My problem with text speak is that I don't understand it and LOL irritates the hell out of me when it's at the end of every sentence. It's not bloody punctuation.