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AIBU what's with the whole 'nethuns' nonsense?

181 replies

AuchAyethenoo · 22/04/2013 19:37

I'm quite happily a member of both forums, I get lots out of both, but it does REALLY rip my knitting when a few on MN call it net'huns'.

Dare I say I actually find it quite an offensive term, being from Glasgow the word 'hun' has very particular connotations in a sectarian form.

I know there is a fairly large cross over of users, so why with the hate people?

OP posts:
crazynanna · 22/04/2013 23:07

Wot a fucking liberty!!

AmberLeaf · 22/04/2013 23:10

I was channeling Nan Taylor when I wrote that Grin

crazynanna · 22/04/2013 23:11
Grin
crazynanna · 22/04/2013 23:12

it should be 'worra fuckin' libity' as I am from Norf Laandan.

crazynanna · 22/04/2013 23:12

Actually...I think I have just written that in Welsh Hmm

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 22/04/2013 23:13

That's a nasty cough you have there, OliviaMumsnet - you should take something for it. Grin

AmberLeaf · 22/04/2013 23:14

Grin I always think of Nan Taylor as from my side of the river, she could be from your side though I spose.

crazynanna · 22/04/2013 23:15

Your cough..your rools OliviaMN hun Wink

crazynanna · 22/04/2013 23:15

Yep I am claiming her.

BrittaPie · 22/04/2013 23:16

Hmm, I wanna try it out, where is good to start (a fight)?

crazynanna · 22/04/2013 23:18

In the coffee house. Try a Thatcher fred. Usually does the trick. Or racism. That gets the apologists out in droves Wink

AmberLeaf · 22/04/2013 23:20

Britta, go to 'coffeehouse' then 'general coffeehouse chat' then 'news, current affairs and topical discussion' category.

That's where I found the best worst topics.

crazynanna · 22/04/2013 23:21

Wine Bar for the bumsex threads..and the sad loner manshapes having a toss

AmberLeaf · 22/04/2013 23:22

crazynanna, I googled it, Nan Taylor is from east London, so I spose you win! closer to you than me anyway! probably.

crazynanna · 22/04/2013 23:24

ha!

BreconBeBuggered · 22/04/2013 23:24

Did anybody read the Whizzer and Chips comic when they were young? Whizz-kids hated the Chip-ites, or pretended to, and vice versa. All the nethun slagging reminds me of that.

ScarletLady02 · 23/04/2013 08:42

Hey crazynanna/comrade Wink

We all miss you lots and lots. Said dicks are still being dicks.

Like I said, there are some great people over there, but our little group is dwindling to be honest. I don't post there anywhere near as much as I used to.

mistlethrush · 23/04/2013 08:53

I 'like' the way that on an AIBU type topic, if you say yes, you AIBU, you get deleted or shouted down or told you're being mean (and then probably banned - I didn't stick around long enough)

ScarletLady02 · 23/04/2013 08:56

I've never been banned...I'm too nice

mistlethrush · 23/04/2013 08:59

I think I avoided it - but I'm not sure as I didn't go back after being shouted down for daring to have an opinion of my own (based on sound evidence) and I've forgotten all my log-in details etc... And I don't like being called hun by people I don't know. I'm not actually keen on being called hun by people I do know come to think of it.

I would like to see a whippet going up a drainpipe. I would also like to see old men in flat caps walking their ferrets down the road too... Grin

ScarletLady02 · 23/04/2013 09:13

I've been thinking if I ever decide to leave I might get myself banned by being evil and completely out of character. Most of the people I chat to on there I'm friends with elsewhere on-line now anyway. There are certain bell-ends it's getting harder to ignore.

KatyTheCleaningLady · 23/04/2013 09:37

For years, I had the two sites confused. I don't know when I realised there are two separate sites, to be honest. I had heard about the "huns" and something about Gordon Brown's biscuits, and assumed it was all one incredibly stupid site full of people complaining about one-armed CBeeBees presenters in txt speak.

I have little interest in parenting forums, anyway.

I found this place when I Googled for discussions about cleaners and realised that this site is not what I thought.

I still haven't bothered with the other place because it does sound like the sort of thing that bores me silly.

I suppose there is a snobbery thing to it. I am obviously working class, but I prefer to talk to educated, well-travelled people who can comment clearly about topics I am interested in.

Also, I like that one can say "cunt" here. That makes me feel so happy.

TigerSwallowTail · 23/04/2013 09:49

I'm from Glasgow and still sometimes do a double take when I see nethuns written down.

OneFingerSjupesUpTheYoni · 23/04/2013 09:50

I'm not a 5 year old child therefore i can't stand the other side - it is pink and glittery and bright like a nursery :( plus i found it hard to navigate they have really bad page presentation .. bleuch.

I also despise being called hun it's revolting and somehow makes me feel cheap and a bit dirty it's just eeew for me.

Over there they all seem to appear saccarine sweet but can be really bitchy whereas here the cunts are cunts - there is no facade Grin

KatyTheCleaningLady · 23/04/2013 09:54

I lived in ScWink and can see why huns is off putting, but I assume it's to do with the barbarian hordes who sacked Rome.

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