To get annoyed at the lack of empathy being shown by some many posters at the moment?

[coldwinter]

No I know IANBU, but I am stunned by some of the posters on here at the moment. Mumsnet has turned into the opinion pages of the Daily Mail.

The anger quotient is definitely raised.

So sniping and nit picking and tempers go up and up and everyone wades in... Alot of people are feeling unhappy and squeezed, so need to find someone else to kick.

What happened to the whole pride in tolerance thingy? That seems to have died a death and it's all about kicking the person that shows any otherness/ weakness.

I have an intolerance to arseholes.

Doesn't bother me. I only come here for a row anyway.

I have piles. That's an intolerance and a half.

Britain is always like this under the tories. Its miserable, but keep heads down and tough it out. The US default..if it happens will make things worse the effects of that will be blamed on the uk poor too. Its weird how this works isn't it.

Lehman bros and barclays and rbs all tory supporting greed meisters cause a crash internationally and yhen try to blame the poor whilst doing it all again. its amazing its the east india company blaming penniless beggars for losing the nutmeg trade. Mental that we can be so easily tricked.

I wouldn't mind so.much if the goady twats didn't keep nchanging.

At least then you could keep tabs on the idiots.

And Fanjo, don't go.

Although I might be up for another flounce meself tbh.

You can often spot their phrases or 'voice'. Its like a game.

This all reminds me of when I went on a baking course with a well-known chef. He told me how he would get actual death threats over his newspaper cookery column. One flurry in particular was over his defenition of 'danish pastry'. Bonkers.

I'm half tempted to take a break from MN (aside from the HG thread), I come here for distraction from RL, not to be aggravated.

nicenam your cat post made me

This place is full of utter maggot infested cunts right now.

Or newbies who are shocked at our posting style.

Not the same since helen went, and olivia is off too soon.

I think im going to follow and fuck off. Not a sane person in the house atm

I swear if I see one more racist/disablist/general-all-round-twat bleating "It's my opinion and I'm entitled to express it" my computer may well not survive.

You have no idea if people have empathy or not. Some people show empathy by no nonsense practical advice rather than hair patting empty sympathy.

I wish people on here would stop assuming so much about posts and posters. It's just words, you're missing 90% of normal communication, and YOU add in a huge amount. When you make judgements about people, you're mostly making shit up to judge.

Yanbu ive thought this for a long time

Nicename, your cat analogy is superb.

Couldn't you be our Leader?

Or at the very least, could we have some more analogies?

I know this probably doesn't make sense semantically or grammatically, but there's empathy and empathy. I agree with those who are made very uncomfortable by people who claim to be still grieving for Princess Diana despite never having met her, or to be crying all night about the reported death of a child, and the "RIP little Angle" (sic) posts in papers like the Daily Wail make me faintly nauseous. But I think you really should have sufficient empathy for, say, the parents of a child who has died in an accident to know that it is totally inappropriate and indeed cruel to post something like "Terrible tragedy but it was all their fault, they should never have let her go out on her own".

I don't think still grieving for Princess Di is anything to do with Princess Di or anybody else apart from the person "grieving" (apart from people who knew her, obv). So that deffo is not empathy or anything like it. It's an indication of serious psychological need.

Sorry about the two "aparts". Insert "with the exception of people who knew her" as a replacement for the second instance.

Yes, I mean consideration. Not crying or emotionally emoting over someone you have never met. But just being a decent human being.