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Original poster

to insist that Mumsnet be shut down?

97 replies

FithColumnist · 01/08/2015 23:42

I originally stumbled on MN about six months ago because I was googling the school I work in and found a few threads mentioning it (nothing bad!). Since then, I have become a full-on MN addict. Chat and AIBU are my daily obsessions, and Relationships has helped me out with advice on more than one occasion.

Now, the thing is, I'm not a mum. I'm not even a dad. Nor am I currently contemplating having DCs of my own. I'm a gay man in my thirties. AIB totally U to have not anticipated how much a bunch of witty, level-headed, opinionated, hilarious, compassionate people here would have taken over so much of my online time?

OP posts:
TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge · 02/08/2015 00:15

Welcome to an eternity of hitting refresh or active while meant to be doing anything but!

Just watch out for the poo trolls!

elQuintoConyo · 02/08/2015 00:15

Yoo hoo Fith

A couple of weeks ago, I checked out my 'threads I'm on' page and it listed 34 Shock Blush Hotel California indeed!

reni1 · 02/08/2015 00:17

I wouldn't know where else I could discuss feminist child rearing, ice cream van chimes, my cervical mucous, racism and other people's wedding guest dress rages all in one place and often with the same posters. All of this without leaving the sofa and meeting actual people. Discovered it about half a year ago, same as you, op.

Pipbin · 02/08/2015 00:18

Welcome to an eternity of hitting refresh or active while meant to be doing anything but!

That exactly sums up my life!

SpecificOcean · 02/08/2015 00:20

MN is the equivalent of blue meth.

Be seeing you around Grin

molyholy · 02/08/2015 00:23

I also stumbled across mn whilst googling something and am totally addicted to aibu.I have found the other boards really helpful too. Even on holiday whenever I was in a wifi zone, I would check emails then mn in the opposite order

honestpointofview · 02/08/2015 00:24

Hi Fifth

You are most certainly not alone! I am a single early 40's male who spends far to much time on here. I have learned all (most) of the acronyms and try to give advice when i can. It is fun and a time stealer!!

WorraLiberty · 02/08/2015 00:25

OP you need to come back to this thread now

As you have no posting history, it won't be long before you're accused of being a 'charming troll' Grin

And that's a new one on us, I think we can all agree Grin

HelenaDove · 02/08/2015 00:26

OP i hear you Im a childfree by choice 42 year old woman Ive been a member for 4 years and spend a lot of time on here.

DarkEvilMoon · 02/08/2015 00:32

Your thread title IBU, perhaps a little goady.

Your Op about sums it up Grin
Not a big fan of people but rather fond of this viper's nest. Pretty damn amazing some of them. Collectively I wish they would set their minds to solving the problems of the world.

Issues in Calias? No problem, They'd have sorted out the problems in the home country, sorted out the wealth and poverty issues, dealt with the corruption, given hope to the desperate and then offered the immigrants chance to go home in safety and economic security or helped to get them safely settled with basic human welfare issues attended to. Simples.

DarkEvilMoon · 02/08/2015 00:32

Your thread title IBU, perhaps a little goady.

Your Op about sums it up Grin
Not a big fan of people but rather fond of this viper's nest. Pretty damn amazing some of them. Collectively I wish they would set their minds to solving the problems of the world.

Issues in Calias? No problem, They'd have sorted out the problems in the home country, sorted out the wealth and poverty issues, dealt with the corruption, given hope to the desperate and then offered the immigrants chance to go home in safety and economic security or helped to get them safely settled with basic human welfare issues attended to. Simples.

DarkEvilMoon · 02/08/2015 00:32

Your thread title IBU, perhaps a little goady.

Your Op about sums it up Grin
Not a big fan of people but rather fond of this viper's nest. Pretty damn amazing some of them. Collectively I wish they would set their minds to solving the problems of the world.

Issues in Calias? No problem, They'd have sorted out the problems in the home country, sorted out the wealth and poverty issues, dealt with the corruption, given hope to the desperate and then offered the immigrants chance to go home in safety and economic security or helped to get them safely settled with basic human welfare issues attended to. Simples.

WorraLiberty · 02/08/2015 00:34

Sorry DarkEvilMoon but can you repeat that please? Grin Wine

pigsDOfly · 02/08/2015 00:39

I have been on here for a while now - lurked for about a year before posting anything - with my longest break being about three months during a very stressful and protracted house move.

I do try to give it up periodically but always creep back.

It makes me smile often, cry sometimes (usually the doghouse) and frequently furious but I just can't keep away.

DarkEvilMoon · 02/08/2015 00:42

I know i only hit post once. I used the fecking post button. I never use the post button I prefer ctrl-enter Confused

Gratefully accepts Wine from Worra

WorraLiberty · 02/08/2015 00:45

Oh you thought that was wine?

Well this is awkward Blush Grin

TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge · 02/08/2015 00:45

Ok,that's going too far.....

ChwatFeechers · 02/08/2015 00:46

Ewww haha Grin

dougieroseagain · 02/08/2015 00:48

worra LOLOLOLOLOL!

FastWindow · 02/08/2015 00:51

I love the stumbling description. It sums up my mn intro - about 5 years ago, when the river of sweetcorn was a thing.

I wouldn't be without you all, you harsh but fair, tell it as it is, bunch of Real People.

I've been guilty of a couple of ill advised posts, it's true. But I'd rather that, than be vanilla. It's nice that pp care enough to tear you a new one when you need it.

I also find it helps me to help others here: new mums and such mostly, but I also have some other, much sadder experience that I sometimes share, as I suspect a lot of other mners do.

It's a family. And I love it, and y'all.

No hugs. Frowned apon :)

Original poster
FithColumnist · 02/08/2015 00:53

Worra: that is exactly my intention damn!

OP posts:
cocobean2805 · 02/08/2015 00:58

I originally came here because I had my wedding, so the wedding website I had spent much of the 9months in the lead up to the day became slightly obsolete. Now I only go on there to tell brides to calm down, don't do a money grabbing poem and to abandon the idea of two guest lists for day and evening! (I had none of these things at my wedding but MN has taught me to type out against the injustice and ridiculousness!)

My DH says I used to be chatty and engage him with witty repoitoire, now most of my sentences start with "well there's this thread..." I see, knit and crochet (I don't have a lot of friends Grin ) so he thought I was on a craft website initially. Now he just can't get his head round how I have no idea who I'm chatting with and they're not actually people I know in real life!

We did have an in-depth chat about the pros and cons of attachment parenting vs routine the other day though, we aren't even planning on children for a good couple of years!

DarkEvilMoon · 02/08/2015 00:59

Grin worra -genius as always

Although we have had charming trolls before. Didn't we collect a few that tried to invade and destroy a while back. I seem to remember some of them were adopted into the nest. Can't remember if they were allowed to stay though. Believe they were disowned by their original home.

Charming trolls can be a nice change.

Queenbean · 02/08/2015 01:02

Yanbu

But I am a childless woman in my 30s who has a do that I have no immediate plans to marry. When people say to other posters "if you have no children why are you even here?!" I think 1. Whoops and 2. Oh, fuck off, I'm having a great time here

Wine for all your lovely mn-ers

ChwatFeechers · 02/08/2015 01:02

I knew I spend too much time here when my daughter informed me that Taylor Swift liked to watch the medical program I watch, and I answered Gray's Analogy.