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?

Well yes, but that's not what this thread is about, really!

Can't we go back to talking about the nasty Royalty?

Sorry, feel free, I'm going to bed

what's odfod?

"Oh do fuck off dear"

(Tiggy is male)

If you can believe my birth certificate...

ODFOD is another irritating one.

Someone posted that to me a while back and actually it's a bit abrasive. I blinked a few times. Then moved on.

Perhaps this is an example of where A Poster makes a thread #allaboutthem?

I do agree that is a tiresome habit of some Mnetters.

I've never had a ODFOD or a biscuit before.

It was a new MN experience.

I actually don't mind being told to ODFOD as much as I mind 'we've done this to death'. Much more withering and excluding (You might have done it to death, I/we haven't...)

I've never seen them deployed together before usual. Some kind of win-double?

I've been insulted many times on MN.

I will add the ODFOD and double whammy to my list.

odfod is a bit terence stamp in priscilla queen of the desert

the really does feck me off

The biscuit's annoying too. I know the story behind it but don't think the rationale for the emoticon makes sense.

(Yes I am a miseryguts)

Oh I love a bit of

Mumsnet has something for everyone

I wonder why a biscuit is seen as a bad thing on here? As a big boned person (big fat wobbly bones mostly in the stomach area), being given a biscuit is more of a reward.

And why are we allowed to tell people to fuck off so long as it's acromynically done?

I like the

I can't raise one eyebrow in RL , so I like to do it through the medium of smilieys

It's a 'no comment' thing (the )

In 2010, before the general election, someone asked Gordon brown what his favourite biscuit was and he refused to answer, so became a sort of 'no comment' - it's generally used when someone posts a goady thread :)

HTH.

odfod is a bit terence stamp in priscilla queen of the desert

Yes!

I'm sure people only use it because it doesn't get deleted. Same with the and the

This is true Tiggy. On a weight loss thread a could be seen as kindness.
would be cruel

I love a good HTH.

I fucking hate but I love HTHs

Yes HTH is lovely - almost a put down but not quite.

I like a 'that's nice dear' on a particularly 'frank' sex thread.

Or "thank you for sharing"

The biscuit is "no comment". So when you post it the sub-text is "honestly, it is not worth commenting about". People might use it when they have seen the same op x 100 or when they are subject to some trivial minutiae of someone else's life, in the he said she said stylee, that they are truly not interested in.

ODFOD is quite an old acronym on Mumsnet. To be used when you suspect someone is trolling or being goady or just being very unpleasant.