Use of 'Twas on Mumsnet

[Puttingitoutthere]

It makes me cringe. I find it smug. AIBU?

I've just seen 'give your head a wobble' on a thread.

Can't stand it.

Twas ever thus was a film from 1915 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Twas_Ever_Thus

I hate 'bleddy' - why would anyone say that?

I sometimes work with a very posh lady who says "Oh blarty hell" when she's annoyed.

It's only the fact I really like her, that's stopped me from pulling her lungs out through her nostrils.

Accent is one thing, but writing is another, usual! Most people have an accent of some kind but we don't write as though we're speaking.

Don't hold back, Worral!

My accent is like a sponge though, in the sense that it changes if I spend time with other people with stronger accents.

One week in Spain and I'm talking broken English for a fortnight afterwards

Usual if it helps, I've been told I sound like Pauline Quirke!

But regional words are completely different to accents. I agree with you that regional words are great, but if we all wrote according to how we spoke, it would be chaos on here!

I think you are a little over-invested, OP.

hoicks pearls

smugly

When I started on MN I loathed SM. By the end, I loved her. She was so equal ops blunt. Always livened up a thread even when I disagreed completely (especially, quite often).

It took me about 2yrs to stop skipping SM's posts and actually read them.

I'm glad I did because she was hilarious at times

Is it wrong to take some small measure of satisfaction that whenever I post something on MN, somewhere I am pissing someone off?

I think it takes a lot of us a long time to realise that whatever we do, we're pissing off somebody, somewhere. Getting pleasure from that realisation may be the path to true happiness.

I hate lol, always makes me think Of someone slumped in an armchair (you know, lolling) rather than laughter

(DISCLAIMER:

and then some rambling thing that isn't a disclaimer and besides no disclaimer is required, just give your opinion ffs, and also, you clearly have no idea what disclaimer means.

And you're not witty either.

Double whammy if the whole thing is in strikeout.