to wonder what Mumsnet is actually for?

[Mintyy]

I find it impossible to use these days.

There is a fight on every thread. And I don't just mean in a yanbu/yabu sort of way. I mean that people are happy to round on others because they have different reasons for being here.

I have even seen a row between two different support threads this week.

If you want to make friends you are told off for being royalty or cliquey.

If you want to indulge in a little mild gossiping you are shouted down for being judgemental or shallow.

If you want to have a lighthearted chat you have to make that clear in the thread title nowadays.

I find the general mood of the place to be aggressive, angry, confrontational, defensive, impossible, predictable.

I keep hoping that things will improve, but how ?

I thought disgrace to Scotland was a belter,v funny

SM!

As I live and breathe.

You do what you has done, Mintyy doll

You start a thread and then your mates turn up and you can all have a lovely old chat. So much faster.

I have been working too much for more than a quick nip and pop.

You weren't banned? That's not very exciting. What happened then- did your Irvine Welsh Translation Keyboard pack in? We would have had a whipround.

Me too. I have been working today. It was the most boring piece of work ever assigned to anyone in the whole history of working EVER. I did well to limit my mumsnet/facebook/local forum time to just the 4 hours I reckon.

Don't ever leave us like that again,SM.

I started a thread asking where you were sm.

Not banned.mnhq did send me a screw the nut email,which I didn't receive
Meanwhile I was off project managing significant stuff,working like A dog
Missed the email,came back.thats it I'm afraid

I noticed SM on a thread yesterday (I think) and did a double take!

I was also deleted for calling a racist a racist...but she really isn't you know. She has friends from all over the world and it's only immigrants she hates. Because blacking up as the Jackson Five isn't racist at all, y'know. Or the Supremes. It's a tribute

I am sick of the way that being kind & nice & normal is kind of overlooked and shouted down by utter cunts. Some awful people on relationships. Tbf MNHQ are being a bit tardy about deleting threads too. Ah well such is internet life.

But this is the same ole same ole mn gorn to dogs
Maybe yes,maybe no.thing is it's all subjective
I don't think there ever was a halcyon Days of lovely posts and no judgements

Where is this racist motherfucker?

There WERE halcyon days,

23rd November 2008 was one

I rarely go into relationships.

MN has always been judgmental.

People judge stuff on here I've never given a 2nd thought to.

Oooh I am intrigued by "project managing significant stuff" when I have been doing work that makes you want to go grrrrrr today.

It's all opinion but no I don't recall cosy mn of yore.imo it's got better as get bigger

Yeah keep it that way usual relationships in a bear pit at the mo.

It wasn't cosy when I first joined.

Every bugger just ignored you.

It has got a lot worse, honestly. When you left, a massive cunt vacuum was created, and the world rose to the challenge. I'm not sure what happens now you're back- it could be the apocalypse

I think scottishmummy has been project managing HS2. It's a complex awl bugger that one.