To think MN is bizarre?

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Look at the last 39 threads and ask yourself is this normal or are people a bit silly?

MrsW the watchmaker can't see the 42 but MAY have Darwin in his sights

You beat me to it, Sparklingbrook.

OFRS notwithstanding, WHAT GIVES?

Regards

Confused Of MN

Mumsnet is like thinking or wondering out loud sometimes I like the weird and wonderful

mrsjay me too

Huh?

Maybe I have a different active convos to you. All the threads drawing my attention this evening are rather serious - rape myths and divorce and sexual abuse.

I have just been on Active convos I am not seeing the bizarre tbh

But it is like the thinking out loud for the plain stupid or uneducated.

Like how do I lose a stone

Or how do I save money

How do i get a mortgage

What car is cheap to run

All looks normal for MN. I left this went to look was enthralled in random thread, of course people are a bit silly, did you just realise this?

Are the plain stupid or uneducated not allowed to post?

Maybe it's not the forum for you then OP. Perhaps you need to go in another direction. What do you want to talk about.

OP, people like to talk. Otherwise they would Google. What's your problem?

Maybe people just want to chat, OP?

What was it that made you take the time to post this thread?

You're doing exactly the same thing, it's hardly a pressing dilemma you've got and need advice/support you can't get anywhere else.

Of course MN is bizarre, if it wasn't it'd be NM.

are we not allowed to be a bit daft it is after all social networking where people just well chat

I have been around for 5 years! It's just beginning to concern me. Really worried about other people and their down right lack of common sense and knowledge.

Are people really that daft?

well it's not going to be the same as real life is it - It's a board full of anonymous usernames who are free to type whatever they want to with no fear of any judgement or consequence. Naturally it will attract a different kind of content to conversation around the school gates or in the office.

first thread in active i read was somebody was was small in height talking about wedding dresses I fail to see what is daft about that

Apparently so.

Have you met many people?

Some of them are deeply stupid.

Although I don't think any of your examples are particularly stupid.

I believe we were discussing socialism, constructivionism, patriarchal constructs and determinism -

that is where the party is at

Bizarre, silly, whatever. I love MN. I'm not a particularly well known member but always find great support or a good laugh, dependant on what I'm looking for.

I'd say, if it doesn't 'float yer boat' don't log in.

Why isn't it ok to ask which car is cheap to run? People's experience can be v useful. That isn't a common sense issue.

'Are people really that daft?'

Not only do they want to chat, but they can be lonely, insecure, scared, isolated, excluded, living a lie, being abused etc etc etc.

The best thing about MN for me is that it takes my mind of the huge shit I've got going on elsewhere, it's a bit of escapism. Of course it's not very nice in a way using other people's problems to obscure my own, but I try to give something back to balance it out a bit.

Does this spell the end of the road for your MN days?

Maybe it's a bit like Neighbours/EEs and you can only watch them for so long before getting fucked off by the storyline recycling?