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to feel confused by the level of affection one feels for nicknames on a screen?

253 replies

ClockWatchingLady · 02/08/2013 21:11

I'm a bit late to the party, having only just discovered MN (never been on other "chat" type sites either). It really feels like people care about each other here, and (like countless others, it seems) I continually find myself "checking" on people on certain threads, and thinking about some posters' welfare very regularly.

I can't formulate my question exactly, but isn't it a bit weird that none of us really knows each other? Or do we? What does it all mean?! People who have been on MN a long time: do you feel that you have real "friendships" here?

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StickEmUp · 03/08/2013 20:40

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greenhill · 03/08/2013 20:41

zing what a way to put it Blush Grin

PeppermintPasty · 03/08/2013 20:43

Ah yes, I know composhat is a fella, now you mention it. Trying hard to remember the others. I can only recall one I can't abide, who shall remain nameless.

ZingWidge · 03/08/2013 20:44

green Grin

valiumredhead · 03/08/2013 20:47

Oh ,stealth I wondered where you had goneSmile

Anyone seen pinot around lately?

TiggyD · 03/08/2013 20:52

Ah Zing, but where is it?!

And I can still be a fashion model.

ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll · 03/08/2013 20:54

Haven't seen Pinot around. Has she name changed?

PeppermintPasty · 03/08/2013 20:56

Has Izzy come back yet, does anyone know?

LucyTheLittlestLioness · 03/08/2013 21:06

I posted on here about some very personal stuff and had some amazing support.

I have had to namechange, but some particular posters who talked to me very frequently before I had proper rl support were fab.

I also met a MNetter who was lovely.

I like seeing familiar names as it is somehow reassuring. It makes it possible to feel like you are talking to just a small number of people on a thread, though of course that's not the case at all.

FrancesDeLaTourCoughngIntoABin · 03/08/2013 21:26

I've seen someone with pinot in their nme, who I assumed was pinot

ZingWidge · 03/08/2013 21:27

tiggy

btw I wasn't surprised you had a penis what with being a man and all.

I just didn't think you were a bloke! how non-pc of me!

Alisvolatpropiis · 03/08/2013 21:36

Frances

I thought that was Pinot too but she said she wasn't in one of her threads. It was a very not Pinot style thread too. I was Confused until she said.

Kasterborous · 03/08/2013 21:37

I just wish I new about mumsnet when I was going through my miscarriages and had no-one to talk to who understood. Only found it after I had DD. Some of the threads have me howling with laughter. The genuine support people show each other is lovely.

TiggyD · 03/08/2013 21:37

Can we please all stop talking about my winkie now. It gets very shy when you do that which makes it hard to type with.

MardyBra · 03/08/2013 21:40

Hey Stealth. I had a dream about you and Fenton the other night. It was dull though.

I found out Tiggy was a bloke when he posted a dating thread about the wooing of the ladeez. I'd always thought he was a woman and some of his proposed seduction techniques left me thinking he was a very weird original lesbian initially.

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 03/08/2013 21:48

Yeah that Pinot isn't the other Pinot IYSWIM.

Bit gobsmacked that you're a bloke Tiggy but.... it doesn't really make a difference, only makes me challenge my assumptions!!

Omg just read your last post and if I had a cup of tea it would be all over the iPad Grin Grin

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 03/08/2013 21:48
ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll · 03/08/2013 21:52

I thought tiggy was a robot Grin

NoelHeadbands · 03/08/2013 21:54

I'm not really a man.

valiumredhead · 03/08/2013 22:21

I always think of Tiggy as a slightly ruffled 40 something woman, Sloane ranger you're in a wax jacket with a spaniel and kidsGrin am I way off?

SuperMariosSister · 03/08/2013 22:23

I name change frequently cause of nosy feckers. wish I could become a household mn favourite but tis not to be

Alisvolatpropiis · 03/08/2013 22:30

I sometimes wonder if I should namechange because my mother managed to clock my name on the baby names forum and knew it was me immediately. Rather hope she doesn't scout me out around the sit generally!

Punkatheart · 03/08/2013 22:30

Interesting thread. Last year I was seriously thinking of ending my life. I have had more to deal with that most people - and it was all too much. I had dozens of lovely messages from people on Mumsnet - some sharing their stories and some even offering to come around if I feeling that desperate. My situation is even worse than it was back then but I learnt strength and the support that I had received...I don't wish to be dramatic, but it seriously changed my life. The people here can be astonishing. Tough sometimes but supportive.

I love some of the nicknames and I think there is huge psychology behind them. Some are just plain rude and I love them too...

ZingWidge · 03/08/2013 22:38

makes it hard to type with you type with it????!!!!!

oh boy

ZingWidge · 03/08/2013 22:42

supermariossister

if you are mario99 or mario101 you are the best ever.
and also you'd be obliged to tell us who thw bloody hell Sharon is.
and what happened to the wall.
and Adam

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