to feel let down by mumsnet

[cantbedoingwithit]

A friend has been raving about mumsnet and said that i should join as it is "like talking to friends who are supportive, friendly and who give sound advice." I have been lurking on mn and have been reading lots of threads and have been put off from starting a thread myself because i found some of the replies really quite un friendly (to say the least) and some sound quite rude. I realize that mn prides its self on being a 'no nonsense' type of forum and life isnt all flowers and fluffy clouds, and that sometimes the truth isnt always 'nice' but i was quite shocked at some of the 'un sisterly' comments.

Some people on MN can be cunty to be sure - I've had a fair few people make my cry/get extremely upset.

But for every one of those people, three more have made me smile or laugh, comforted me in a crisis or encouraged me in some way.

My OH always rolls his eyes when I say I'm on MN and says "why do you do it to yourself?" because he only sees the nastiness.

It is what you make of it, I guess. You soon learn what not to say

Did Asda sort you out a new friend Oinkment?

I dont think that MN is unsisterly. But then my sisters are a pair of cunts.

I still love them.

Never let anyone here make you cry or get you extremely upset. Most people doing that have actually set out to "achieve" it.

YABU.

I think you should sue ASDA for some compo, oinkment.

PoppyAmex

Tis an old fave.

Bye, then. Don't let the door hit you on the arse, on your way out.

and have been put off from starting a thread myself because i found some of the replies really quite un friendly

... and yet... here we are

She said they were delicious and moreish and filled you up and she couldn't get enough of them

oinkment are you sure your friend said big cocks fig rolls?

Ignore the rest of them, they are a bunch of vipers.

Tell me about your ishoos, I'm understanding and nice and I don't even fucking swear much unless you treat me like a cunt!!

Chipping. But does it take a certain type of person to go on MN.
Or be able to cope with MN?

MN has thousands of posters, I doubt they are all a certain type.

Do you think OP is watching this and laughing?

Well I think yANBentirelyU as there does seem to be a plethora of ornery arseholes on AIBU.

You are not wrong, Fanjo.

I'm not here enough to notice any cliques or silly stuff - sadly I do notice the loons

gordy: I have certainly noticed the fence woman. Otherwise everyone seems sort of normal (even if not all very likeable).

Do you think it's the same poster posting the I-am-writing-my-first-post-ever-to-tell-you-I-don't-want-to-play-with-you or do you reckon it's a new one every week?

They always claim to have been lurking for some time, but apparently not for long enough to get bored with the ever-recurrent surprised-to-find-you-are-a-nest-of-vipers.

Or perhaps they are like Douglas Adams' sheep, surprised every morning at the fact that the grass is green.

YABU

I got deleted for saying similar, cory.

So watch out for Helen.

In. H experience there are a few long standing right goady posters. And then there there is the odd troll. But the vast majority are lovely and helpful in the extreme