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to think this 'concept' is bloody ridiculous not to mention dangerous and to ask if anyone else would like to give some feedback?!

327 replies

QueenOfFarkingEverything · 23/11/2012 17:40

The Bottle Bib - for those who don't have time to sit and feed their baby Hmm

They have a questionnaire inviting feedback. Please do join me in giving some Smile

OP posts:
MurderOfGoths · 28/11/2012 16:15

Ah yes, 3 posts out of 275 = mass bullying/harrassment. Hmm

Are you honestly saying that we all bullied her because 3 posts might have been a bit OTT?

Jux · 28/11/2012 16:16

Mai, how do you know her site was inundated by people from MN? I didn't even get to fill in the questionnaire as it was closed when I first looked, and that was fairly early on. It couldn't possibly have been inundated by us.

Are you talking about the fb and twitter pages (neither of which I bothered to go to)? MNers aren't the only people who use fb and twitter, you know. Your statement that the woman was inundated by MN is completely without basis.

MurderOfGoths · 28/11/2012 16:17

Haha, great timing there. I revise my figures based on the new evidence and put it to the jury that 1 post deleted for breaking talk guidelines does not equate to proof of bullying/harassment.

MrsReiver · 28/11/2012 16:36

Oh please Mai - if you google 2 in 1 Bottle Bib you will find this thing being discussed on numerous forums. Mumsnet isn't the centre of the internet you know, other people have access to facebook and twitter.

FellatioNelson · 28/11/2012 17:02

isn't it? Oh. Sad I always though we were the internet.

FellowshipOfFestiveFellows · 28/11/2012 17:07

Mai, the only bully here is you. There was sod all wrong with what I wrote in the post you asked to be deleted, and frankly I am really saddened that MNHQ gave in to you. I had tried, desperately to be polite about it. You accused me first of being nasty to the inventor on Twitter and when I told you I hadn't been, you continued to give rubbish excuses as to why we are all wrong and the inventor isn't mental to try and sell this dangerous contraption is in the right. She has broken rules by not giving a trading address on her site. The contraption is poorly thought out, and, if you can't take critique do not go to bloggers and ask for it. We are generally an honest bunch. Then, when bloggers tell her she is crackers and the product could feasibly kill, and breaks every rule ever laid down by healthcare professionals, she asks other Mums via here and other outlets to have a look too. And guess what? they also said it was a daft idea.

I dont believe you have nowt to do with this product, I think you are a big part of it, or a friend of the inventor. I hadn't said anything against you in my comments in reply to yours, so why get it deleted.

I think MN is going to become a sad place to be if it goes all NM or BEd forum like and gives into anyone who goes running to whinge over nothing.

ScrambledSmegs · 28/11/2012 17:09

I AM THE INTERNET.

TunipTheVegedude · 28/11/2012 17:13

Netmums has slagged the product off too as it happens Smile

Not so many posts, but at least as bluntly expressed. Good to see....

FellowshipOfFestiveFellows · 28/11/2012 17:25

May I be the first to suggest Mai takes her preaching to Netmums then.

ScrambledSmegs · 28/11/2012 17:52

Looks like the OP on Netmums managed to see the site before the 'supervision' addendum and editing to make it slightly less outrageous (although just as stupid).

""Holding a bottle for up to an hour with a repetitive process for months on end having a pile of ironing and cleaning to do can be so frustrating, by using the 2 in 1 BottleBib you can feed any baby aged 3 months and over and still do all of the things that you never get a chance to do""

This is probably the most badly thought-out product and marketing I've ever seen Sad

Arthurfowlersallotment · 28/11/2012 17:53

I'm very interested to know why Mai is getting her panties in a bunch over a shit inventor she claims to have no links with.

Jux · 28/11/2012 18:06

I don't believe there are no links. No one in their right mind would be as dogged in their defence of something so crap and dangerous, without a link of some sort. Nor would they magic bullying out of thin air, just because they felt like it. Unless, of course, they were a troll, but we aren't making accusations of that.

We are not fooled. We are MN.

Grin
SantasStrapOn · 28/11/2012 18:08

Good God, I got deleted for saying an idiot's an idiot. WTF happened to free speech and being able to voice an opinion?

SantasStrapOn · 28/11/2012 18:11

Dangerous
Foolish
Unsuitable
Immature
Over involvement
Reckless
Dissembling

Use at your will.

FellowshipOfFestiveFellows · 28/11/2012 18:12

Thank you Santa same here. Really Shock at MNHQ for giving in to Mai.

I saw that too Scarmbled and quoted it in my blog piece about it on Friday afternoon.

She also had said to many of us that she used to tie a dressing gown cord to her child and that's where she got the idea from, as she never got time to do her hair and make up.

I am in no doubt that Mai is connected- I haven't found her anywhere else on MN threads. Elsewise why take mega offence to something that you have nothing to do with to the point of having comments deleted

SantasStrapOn · 28/11/2012 18:21

I agree, far, far too involved in this. Why fight the corner of such a spectacularly ridiculous product if you've no connection.

MNHQ I am REALLY disappointed that you bowed to the report and deleted our posts. Our posts were relevant, truthful, and if unpalatable to some, then they should take a good look in the mirror rather that scream 'bully'.

Really, you should reinstate those posts and allow them to stand. All of them.

FellowshipOfFestiveFellows · 28/11/2012 18:24

Seconded

bradywasmyfavouriteking · 28/11/2012 18:32

Sorry mai its glaringly obvious who you are.

ScrambledSmegs · 28/11/2012 18:36

Sorry what?! I thought she just propped the bottle on a dressing gown. She tied it to her child with a dressing gown cord? So she could do her hair and makeup the ironing?

Dear god. No words.

Jux · 28/11/2012 18:37

Thirded. Most definitely.

ScrambledSmegs · 28/11/2012 18:45

PS I like your blog, FOFF. Off to have a proper nosy Wink

SabrinaMulhollandJjones · 28/11/2012 18:48

I think MNHQ goes too far with it's deletions sometimes.

Calling a dangerous baby product - and let's be serious here - this is a product that could endanger the life of a baby - idiotic should not be a breach of the guidelines imo.

I actually think that on MN you should be able to call the inventor and vendor of a dangerous product being marketing for babies an idiot.

Arthurfowlersallotment · 28/11/2012 18:48

This is a much better solution to baby feeding problems

SabrinaMulhollandJjones · 28/11/2012 18:48

*marketed for babies

SantasStrapOn · 28/11/2012 19:05

It's potentially lethal.

And anyone who cannot see that is, quite frankly, an absolute tool and probably shouldn't be allowed to breathe unaided.