To think MN is getting nastier?

[MaggieJoyBlunt]

So far this week we've had giving birth referred to as 'calving' (in the context of women having children while young). Someone loved that one so much they immediately commented on what a great expression it was and repeated it.

We've had someone propose that Prince Phillip should be 'humanely destroyed'. swiftly followed up by a similar suggestion about taking him out to a barn or a shed or some such and shooting him.

We've had a thread about the death of a convicted murdered where several posters queued up to tell us they were, smiling or "laughing gleefully" or simply to post "lol" as a one word comment. (Okay she was a vicious killer and will not be much missed, but really?)

Add to all of that the Budget threads where in the midst of people worrying and calculating the cut to their household budget, other people came to gloat and make helpful observations such as "If you can't afford DC, don't have them."

MN didn't used to be nasty. Vigorous, challenging etc; But not nasty.

What's going on around here?

You lot are funny!

I don't want to name change and am not in a clique as far as I am aware. what does that even mean? That you recognise certain posters you get on with and dare to comment on it? . Why shouldn't I?I have had this name a long long time.

Tickers are what's needed. To make the quiches clear. It's all so deadpan.

We need bunnies and kittens and pink swirly things and banners.

LOL.Let's have a codeword so I know it's you too. Mention pigeon eggs or something everytime you post.

Inverse snobbery happens on any thread. You mention you only like Heinz Tomato Ketchup and some malcontent will 'ave you because, you know, not everyone can afford branded ketchup.

So ketchup or the Caribbean. Doesn't matter which.

MaggieJoy - I started a thread about how sad I was that so many friends were moving away and was told that I was stealth boasting about living in London and should suck it up.

I've definitely seen a few threads about skiing where the OP has put in so many disclaimers it's a bit hard to work out what the actual issue is.

I don't see inverse snobbery on here. Inverse snobbery is when less-privileged people consider themselves superior to those with more privilege.

Admittedly I consider myself morally superior to rich & powerful perverts whose hobbies include sexually abusing children. And to bent politicians. So, hmm, perhaps I am an inverted snob after all.

I need to wrack my brain for a brand I can get worked up about and test that.

Would waitrose essentials work, do you think? Or is that a mixed message?

Quite a few posters start frothing if anyone mentions private schools.

Oh very happy to agree that not everyone will want to name change and it certainly won't be enforced!

But, no one who has commented that they don't want to name change is marked out in my book as being a chronic pain in the arse. So as you were

Well I would rather stick pins in my eyes than go ski ing again. It's freezing, all the clothes make you look fat and you have to exercise at high altitude every day. Call that a fucking holiday?

I'm so poor I have to forage pigeon eggs for my breakfast.

MaggieJoy - I started a thread about how sad I was that so many friends were moving away and was told that I was stealth boasting about living in London and should suck it up.

Oh yes I saw that thread. But there were extremes on both sides and a fair amount of sensible posters weren't there?

There were, to be fair. It was nice to see.

Cru, private schools? The work of the very devil himself/herself (don't want to be accused of being sexist in my satanist analogy obvs).

There's always someone who thinks that whatever the problem is, it is the ops fault. Like the one where boss told all members of staff that x was pregnant. And it was the op's fault. Someone even said "your boss isn't your friend" meaning that because she was the boss, she could inform everyone of someone's pregnancy for some reason

Well I would rather stick pins in my eyes than go ski ing again. It's freezing, all the clothes make you look fat and you have to exercise at high altitude every day.

Quite. So I never open skiing threads

I must keep an eye out for private school frothing, though.

Skiing sucks. There were fucking pigeon eggs on my balcony every morning

Yes, MN went downhill after PenisBeaker. So, it kind of brought it upon itself.

However, it's no less nasty and bitchy as it's ever been IMO.

Usual story in life and on MN, those accusing others of being self righteous and judgy are themselves as self righteous and judgy as they come.

I suspect people have several user names and contribute various different posts to the same thread.

There's more and more troll threads that get deleted after people have taken the bait. The fact that there are people actively taking the piss out of MN is brilliant !

Also, there's an increasing amount of TAAT just now. I wonder if it will become a TAAT for every thread, like some sort of mirror of the original thread or a side order of TAAT.

Ski-ing does suck. Cold, wet, uncomfortable, and the pigeon eggs are frozen.

I might have been known to feign an occasional sprained ankle whilst on skiing holidays so I can sit quietly in the bar, by the log fire and drink gluh wine and read my book (ahem).

Do! It's surprising how angry it makes some people.

If you can sprain your ankle while skiing your boots are far too loose. You risk a broken ankle.

Sorry, do carry on.

I hate the fact that if you don't name change you get accused of being cliquish, or royalty.

I like the fact that there are lots of posters here who I 'know' - and even many of them that I have met over the years. Surely that's a lovely thing about a place like MN, that we can make new friends?

But just because I may have drunk gallons of wine with met Paggy, doesn't mean that I'm automatically going pile on to a thread just so that I can agree with her. I'm just as likely to argue with her as I am with someone I don't know from Adam.

Whatever you do, do NOT mention grammar schools.

I like this thread because it's actually a discussion not a slagging off/slanging match. Nice work, people. Can we have more of it?