to tell her shes not aloud pets in the home ever

[rosepettel]

ok i got up 30 mins ago
youngest dd is ill
she got a bug and put it in a pot

messy and hard work
aibu

I always feel like I need to be on the grass when I read anything by the OP.

Stupidwidge. Yap.
That's bread
Stupid
Bread.

With a very large side serving of you're not funny.

Boring.

Rosepettel has delighted and entertained some of us with her previous threads and her unique posting style.

She has endured a great deal of mocking and disparaging remarks (admittedly, I have mocked) and cries of hairy handedness, and yet has not retaliated or risen to the bait. In fact, I believe MNHQ have said they have no reason to doubt that she is anything other than who she claims.

Therefore there are two possibilities here. One, that she is actually very clever and is enjoying winding people up, in a nice way, she has maintained her persona throughout and that must take some doing.

Or, two, she is, her life is, exactly what she appears to be. In which case she probably needs more support than many of us. In which case comments about her being too simple to be allowed to be in charge of children are really uncalled for.

Either way, she has made me laugh, sometimes at her, but I actually hope, with her.

I don't understand why anyone thinks she is anything other than foreign.

Foreign

Yes. That's why she doesn't reply to Qs, because she doesn't understand them.

Why would anyone make this stuff up?

She seems to understand and reply to some of the questions, though. The writing style doesn't really suggest "foreign" (could take offense, being one myself ). To me it seems more like a case of "someone who thinks they're funny, but they're flogging a dead horse now".

Are people so sheltered as to think that everyone who bears a child must have a top notch grasp of English?

I find the hostility weird.

Her posts make me smile. Where's the harm? If you don't like it, don't post.

And to answer your second question: Someone who's bored.

See Toys - I think the writing style suggests foreign.

Just the way she is really stilted, and over-simplified. My husband is one too, and some things remind me of him.

The hostility stems from people thinking she's taking the piss. I'm not sure what to make of it myself, but my gut instinct says that even if your literacy and writing skills aren't perfect, you still try to be legible, answer questions (or ask for clarification) and not repeat things a million times in an effect that borders on poetic (and seems rather deliberate). but, i could be wrong.

GoodTouch: Fascinating. I would however rule out the (clueless) foreigner angle because of her the knowledge and ample use of urban/slang/txt msg abbreviations. But, again, I could be wrong.

See Toys - I think the writing style suggests foreign.

Just the way she is really stilted, and over-simplified. My husband is one too, and some things remind me of him.

I am fairly confident that on the original thread she claimed to have been born in the UK. So, not foreign.

And personally, I thought hamwidge was a stroke of genius which I have adopted

Passme: I agree with your last sentence wholeheartedly.

Thanks, Soup.

I think she's developed this posting style for her own amusement (I didn't say troll). The spelling 'errors' seem too studied and contrived to me.

But it is quite amusing, and there's no harm in it. Just a bit of silliness.

Me too Passmethecrisps

And she has been much more successful at becoming the fabled 'Mumsnet royalty' than those millions of flouncy, goady, earnest threads.

I'm foreign. OP is something else.

Did you people miss the part where she is talking about a bug as a pet, maybe learning to take care of it, wondering how said bug will find its family once released in the garden?

Haha, no I saw that. My theory is that she doesn't mean bug, but some sort of rodent. Maybe a vole or something.