to be curious about some things on mumsnet?

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I don't know if they'd be called "in-jokes" exactly, but I always see posters refer to things like:
Naice ham
Pom bears
Penis beaker
Etc...

Now I've been on mumsnet for almost a year and I caught the penis beaker hoopla But what's the story with the other ones? Including the ones I forget right now, you know the ones. I'd like to know!

What was the Hogmanay/NYE thing please?

Been here 5 years but I must have missed that one.

NYE 2013, some pissed posters decided to play a game of mumsnet bingo, posting as many goady and offensive threads as they could. It was juvenile and annoying but not harmful really. HQ left one new member of staff in charge who panicked and shut the whole site down just before midnight because she didn't know what to do. Lots of sad cases people like me who were home alone and had been chatting got upset because they suddenly had nobody to chat to at midnight. I might have cried

lauranorder there's always going to be a certain amount of "smoke and mirrors" on an anonymous Internet forum, but how would you specifically know that posters on that board aren't honest?

Ah NYE 2013

The outrage kept me chuckling all New Year's Day

I'd like to know if the joyless sanctimonious judgy fuckers ever take the rods out of their arses, other than that......

Oh, don't get me wrong. There's quite a lot of honesty in the, 'tell it all to a stranger' type threads.

However, some threads, esp in the relationships board make me wonder if the OP could find their own backside in the dark using both hands.

Some, (on the relationships board which I keep away from sometimes because it is poison) IMO, are just TMI junkies who do it for the attention, like they would in RL as they don't feel the need for social boundaries because they are attention seekers.

There's been another, 'what ever happened to' thread recently. I remembered a couple of the threads and wouldn't mind finding out how they got resolved. A couple of posters 'broke cover' from their name change and said what happened which was good.

However, the one that sticks with me was a mum with four kids and an out of work husband who had 400 quid to get her from the first week of December to the end of the month i.e. no money for Christmas.

I and some others tried to make helpful suggestions. Unfortunately there was also a parallel thread about people who take the piss at Christmas time by pleading poverty or reckoning they are going to struggle.

The poster who was, I believe, genuinely broke, felt that she had been criticised and stopped posting.

So, the self righteous Mumsnetters win again.

Quote: I have name changed for this. Why ?

Or worse still I have NC'd for this. Abbreviations ? Really ?

The new screen name is just a reference to the name change sometimes. Especially if they are concerned that someone else on the board would recognise them in real life. Again. Why ? Fear of being judged ? Fear of being found out ? So, they have recognised someone they know from their information on a thread I assume.....

If there are people who would recognise you in real life then that just feeds into my notion that it's the same twenty or so people using these boards.

Most of them in or near MN HQ.

Is it the same 20 people, and you Laura?

STBXH or something like that means Soon To be Ex Husband. There's a whole lexicon of fairly juvenile abbreviations if you want to be considered to be 'in'.

Actually stbxh is a common abreviation and is used acoss many Internet forums that help with divorce/seperating couples. Not just Mumsnet.

Laura, I take exception to your posts about Relationships and those who post there.

However, some threads, esp in the relationships board make me wonder if the OP could find their own backside in the dark using both hands.

(on the relationships board which I keep away from sometimes because it is poison) IMO, are just TMI junkies who do it for the attention, like they would in RL as they don't feel the need for social boundaries because they are attention seekers.

Did you mean to come across as cruel and scathing?

Are you talking about women in abusive relationships who post in Relationships asking for advice about what to do?

And yes, stbxh is everywhere.

Math is right - the relationships board is an amazing source of support.

Must be nice to always know your own mind/not be blinded by emotion/love/the confusion of bein abused by someone who professes to love you - makes one's arse so much easier to find

My favourite thread was the spoonyfucker one. Peed myself.

Twigs and pebbley shite did that to me

Poo pouffe was the best thread ever. I was crying with laughter.

Naice ham was never found on a shopping list. It was apsis take from when people say what they give guests for lunch.

Always nice ham. Not shit ham. Ditto jeans and a nice top.

I know. I made it up

The biscuit thing was wrt Gordon brown. Google it

grockle I often wonder the same .

Also the posters trying to out-liberal each other, see who can be the most pc. Just makes me chuckle.

Can anyone do a linky to these classic threads

Relationships is a fabulous source of support for many women in difficult situations. I am really confident that many women escape abusive relationships or just plain shitty ones faster than they would without that anonymous safe place

Yes I agree with the out-liberaling. You can almost hear the drawing in of breath and anticipation from some posters.... as an OP posts a slightly honest account of how they feel and instead of focusing on a grim situation, the thread turns into a flaming of the OP because of one word she used.

My mum used to ask me to get a "nice chicken" fm the butcher. Once I asked if she wouldn't prefer a shit one. :o

Please cab some