to think MNers can be better than this

[IceBeing]

OPs may be ignorant, they maybe obtuse, they may be in the wrong and they may be trolls...

but how can dozens upon dozens of swearing riddled instructions to carry out intimate acts be considered a reasonable response?

For some people MN is the first forum they frequent. It is perfectly possible to post something that is innocently ignorant yet massively outrageous to MNers. Then suddenly you are being called all the names under the sun and told to fuck yourself preferably until dead? really?

Believe me it can be a massive shock that people say things on the internet they would never say in real life. It is possible to feel very very frightened and threatened by such an onslaught.

AIBU to think if the last 5 posters have covered the 'fuck off to the far side of fuck' angle then maybe you don't need to stick the boot in too?

The best case scenario is that the person on the other end is indeed a troll....in which case why are you giving them what they want?

It's not you.

I wrote a texbook on how to be passive aggressive, Maryz.

You weren't passive though

polite aggressive then. Or polite rude. Call it what you will

Twattish?

Blimey.

This has all gotten a bit epic hasn't it.

Just rude

Yes Randall. Epically twattish

Yes Randall. Epically twattish

Twattish made me do an actual lol.

It's a bit ironic that, on a thread about being nicer, some posters are using it to make personal attacks.

Amerigo, your post wasn't PA or polite aggressive. It was just unpleasant and unnecessary.

New insult:" Don't be such an epic twat".

Applicable to some on this thread.

Quite the little flurry of namechanging socks this morning isn't there.

Fine rude. but I still think what I think.

I odnt stalk MaryZ. I just remember her as her post on that thread was, um , memorable.

You can think what you like but you can't make personal attacks just because you disagreed with someone on another thread.

If it was so memorable, if it seemed so awful to you at the time, what did you say then?
Because presumeably you didn't leave it alone, nursing some peculiar grudge just to spew it when you felt that someone else having a go at Mary woud give you some cover?
Because that would be astonishingly cowardly wouldn't it?

Oh, come on now M, fair's fair.
I'm a twat and I still like you.

It never fails to surprise me how 'lurking' or seldom posting characters can pop up with such vitriol.

Still whilst we're just thinking what we think, I think that such behaviour is that of cowardly twats.

Northernlurker; this is a thread that keeps popping up in active convos about MN, posters will have a quick look/skim read, some will eyeroll & move on, and some will comment. It has all gone a bit silly though with the 'twat' word being thrown around like confetti.

I'm pretty sure that the stupidity proceeded the use of twat.

Please don't be silly

Silliness is offensive, you twats

I'm in a good mood actually.
I'm just about to send DH to the post office with my first every woolly hugs squares.
Now thats a bit more mumsnet.