to think MN is turning into the other forum?

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Dilemmas involving texting tattoos to married men? BFFs? Angry Facebook defriendings? Lolling?!

Oh yeah, cash on demand. Was definitely entertaining.

I don't like the thread deletions just because it's gone tits up for the OP. It's anonymous ffs.

Mardy there was a fishy thread not that long ago which was a bit provocative about daytime television.

Shame it was deleted because we all ended up talking about, "Painting with Nancy" and "Crown Court"

What does OP mean by, 'other forum' ? Facebook ? Gossiping Soldiers ?

I've sussed the game with these Name Changers. I wonder if Mumsnet is the same dozen or so people talking to each other. All with a number of sock friends/sock puppets each.

I missed that one Shyla.

The 'other forum' is NM, I presume. I went there once. It was fucking shite.

Guilty of 'lol' here

Sorry. Can't help it.

Lol

See? ^

Lol

Oh for fucks sake..

The deletion message was epic: "removed for being the most mundane thread ever. Were you bored, OP?"

OP perfectly fine with it but outrage on site stuff because it was a good discussion.

Why would you want it to be bitchy for?

Bitchy comments can be abusive, offensive, upsetting, a form of bullying - the very things that people post in the relationship boards about? We wouldn't tolerate if it was our own son/daughter/family member being bitched about?

Now you may think you are being funny, outrageous, outspoken, opinionated - but you have absolutely no idea who you are speaking to here. There are people who post who have PND, mental health issues, are generally feeling down, at their wits end and those people need support not back biting.

Maybe it's worthwhile remembering that we are all human beings that deserve respect, and that we are all someone's son/daughter/sister/brother/mother/father. Just because most of us post with online aliases doesn't give us the right to post whatever we like and everyone else. There should be consequences to bad behaviour, trolling, baiting, people being hurtful and offensive.

So if we are moving away from the bitchiness towards a more supportive forum, then good. What's wrong with that? Forums don't have to be a 'baiting' ground where you can defame and and upset people or take your bad day out on someone else.

I sometimes used to start tongue-in-cheek rants just for the hell of it, because I knew people would take them that way. Nowadays we have the ubiquitous "lighthearted" in thread titles. That makes me sad because it presupposes that nobody can see irony or lightheartedness on MN any more without having it spelled out to them.

I quite like a LOL now and again.

I quite agree, MB. Much of the humour has gone for now, but forums are cyclical. It'll come back.

plinky Sorry "bitchy" is probably the wrong word. What I mean is people tended to be more challenging, opinionated and funny in the past. MN is getting more bland now.

I do agree that there are parts of MN, such as relationships, which do need to be nurturing and supportive.

But other parts can surely benefit from some lively debate and banter.

plinky I agree with you. My beef is with the poster(s) who come on AIBU precisely to be bitchy about someone else, get their arses handed to them, and then squinny until the thread gets deleted. Especially where they do the whole wide-eyed faux-innocent thing after having issued an invitation to the world to give someone else a good kicking.

OTOH, I think there is a time and a place for robust adult wit and humour and that is some of the boards on MN. Not Relationships, not Mental Health, not many others.

But AIBU - that's AIBU.

Oh i remember that thread shyla it was a bizarre old thread. Lots of sock puppetry i thought.

Shyla

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nowhere else can he be hound!

I noticed that a post from MNHQ today ended with x

It's the beginning of the end

Ticker-tapes and glittery pink crap will follow

MNHQ giving kisses!

Zing

War, Plague, floods, famine and now Phil Collins

We are in the End Times.

Kisses are nowt, I end texts with them all the time.. Bit faux like you're kissing the air either side of someone and a way to finish a conversation I guess. Rather than just with a full stop, or awkward 'silence' type of ending.
Said it before will say it again, when someone pays my internet bill then they can tell me what I can and can't say on an Internet forum

Lol

This is the best thread I've seen in ages, I actually cracked a smile. (Although on a serious note, I agree with much of what Plinky & Linerunner are saying).

The banter and debate does get a bit out of hand at times, tho. Then again I don't want the Mumsnet world to become rainbow coloured soft n bouncy touchy feely oh so pc, all hugs, kisses n sunny smiles. & if anyone starts saying 'babes' I shall throw in the towel

Orf with your heads, oh bitchy ones..

I follow the 'if you wouldn't say it to someone's face' rule when tinternetting.. Works for me. MN makes me laugh, the term 'unmumsnetty hug' which I have used myself, what's that all about? As if most posters on here are so up themselves they wouldn't give a hug to someone who needed one.. Pfft. Most I've been in contact with on here are fantastic, sarcastic, straightforward, funny, supportive, none of the 'Hun' crap but you are left usually with the feeling of being among caring friends.

Except on AIBU.. Rarely venture there to comment and am scared to post there. Chicken.

Oh crap. I AM on AIBU.. hides

I have noticed hubby's, lol, xx, BBF and such creeping in. Waiting for holibobs next.

Plus some stepford wives pov which have made me - I'm sure a lot more than usual. Or maybe I'm just less tolerant of keeping the peace after being on mn.

I wonder what the countrywide demographic is of mn users? And if any research has been done on viewpoints/ topics/ popular threads from those areas? Is it true everyone in Tunbridge wells is " disgusted"? :)

Actually what I miss are posters like Chaos and Talc, who are just plain funny.

I know they're still around, but not as much as they used to be.

ok long time mumsnetter.

only go on fluffy bunny site for buying selling and noticeboard not chat.

I am guilty of using the word hubby.

I dont like using the word

lol
bff
xxx after posts.

im not fluffy bunny type person.

i hate lil man and lil princess.
I hate tickers.
I hate overdoing emotion could i love my son any more than I do.
I hate people using word hun after every sentence.

I would say I have quite dry/dark sense of humour at times.

I like the massive range of topics and differnt posters on mumsnet.

I dont think its becoming too much like other site.

Although since penis beaker has been lots of weird posts.

think aibus possibly mellowed.

lavender-i know someone from that town. on fb and she blatently uses the other site and does my head in on fb have had to hide her.

The people on other site tend to be next addicts and use dummy clips and thats just not me i ant be arsed to seach a specific seasons must have item or have some bling on my dummy.

I don't even know what a dummy clip is .