To think MNer's are being very mean

[MARTIN1]

This past week has seen, in my opinion an increase in vitriol and negativity toward other members. Is my perception incorrect or have others noticed this?

dons hard hat and hides under kitchen sink

The OP thinks he's funny. He's really not.

I dunno,I kind of like a thread that gets a bit gritty,and you can get your teeth into.
Especially if I've been on the

I don't understand how he can talk about 'the past week' when he's been here less than a week.

Two thirds of the way through the summer holidays, people are getting tetchy. Not that I've noticed it particularly.

Worra, I was thinking the same thing. There's been about half a dozen threads that seem to have gone down the pan after the first few posters got inexplicably grumpy and took the OP in the wrong way. Threads that might have gone completely differently at any other time.

Nothing really reportable though, and nothing like what I'm guessing the OP is suggesting. It's one of those phases the site seems to go through occasionally.

steaming your fanjo? tell me more Christina

what is "AS" MaryZ?

I've noticed a lot of French speaking wankeriness. but I was actually asking for it, so no harm done

Bof

What SDTG said with brilliant shiny bells on.

We've had a higher influx than normal of posters telling us what a shower of bastards we are too of late.

are we bastards now? since when? thus is confusing. I thought we were arsebiscuits

Leave us we are Bastards

I think now on some threads people are better at pointing out someone being ludicrously unpleasant, but it's a shame that people make such unpleasant posts in the first place.

To use an example, why would you go on a thread about caravan holidays to sneer about caravans?

Then there are the likes of the "thirsty" thread which made me concerned about the state of society.

I'm expecting the "AIBU to ask why you all have to swear so much?" twin thread to appear any moment now

come on, you know you fucking want to!

I love those kind of threads because you're guaranteed to learn some really good new swear words.

It's best to walk away from the computer if someone is being a GF.

My limit is two goady comments then I'm out, otherwise it becomes a negative slanging match which isn't good for the blood pressure. Most of the time the person hasn't bothered to read the comment and just makes stuff up. Happened to me twice this week so YANBU Martin it must be summut to do with the holidays.

Sometimes a see a perfectly reasonable AIBU and think "well there won't be any fallout with that one, everything seems so reasonable", then it suddenly seems they are being unreasonable and everything gets nasty. I can't understand why some have to be so nasty to get their point across.

pjontipines that "thirsty" thread was the most offensive thread I have ever known and was one of the goadiest.

Even when people were trying to explain they needed to drink for health reasons they were slagged off for the words they used, and accused of "adult suckling". What kind of society do we live in makes people so intolerant to fellow human beings.

I think everything will be better once term starts again

for Siri

Daisy - yes, even someone putting a bottle of water on their desk was "aggressive marking of territory" or something bizarre. The thread was awash with so much rage, I worried about the mental state of some of the people posting on it (and hoped I didn't live anywhere near them).

As for the "suckling", there are a definite subset of posters on here who have issues around women eating and drinking, hence all the fat bashing posts, competitive starvation/food policing etc.

The only thing I've noticed OP is you popping up all over the place making generalisations on other people's threads.

And starting some goady ones of your own.

Aren't there any male interest websites that you find more acceptable for your purposes?

There are some mean MNers who think it is funny/clever to pile on someone and try to tear them apart or drive them off a thread because they don't agree with them. It's pretty horrible to see or experience but there are some lovely MNers about too so it's worth sticking around for them. :)

Hide thread is a very underused function. You don't have to comment on any thread. Hide topics and pick your threads carefully. I have hidden threads after commenting because some posters just never give up.

If you post stuff on the internet people might not agree with you.

you are wrong SB

And so are you Zing.