To have realised that I just don't belong here?

[Bambambini]

Been here for donkeys years but reading recent threads, I realise that:

I don't really care if people pierce their babies or toddlers ears.

Can't get that worked up about male circumcision.

I like Mathew Wright

Am actually quite fond of WH Smiths

I like my in laws

I hate the phrase "wine o' clock"

There was something else also very important but I can't remember it.

Suggestions of suitable new hangouts that meet my superior/ inferior (depending on your viewpoint) tastes are welcome.

It's just words on a screen. Nothing to 'belong to' as such.

I do think there are a lot of people who are waaaay too over invested in helping others. I'm all for offering another perspective or support but I'm not qualified to tell someone what to do financially/legally or diagnose others they may be involved with. These types of posters get very emotionally involved and start acting like mother hens warding off other nasty balanced calm sensible advice posts. A lot of projection goes on and they bend the situation to reflect their own experience, disregarding the bits that don't fit the story. It almost gets to the point where a little clique forms and anyone not agreeing with the party line gets bullied/shouted down until they stop posting. I'm not always convinced the OP in this situation is getting the best advice.

"netmums?" - Has it really come to that Morris?

I'm already a member over there anyway.

Consolidated list of the MN calendar:

The Christmas family fall outs.
The new year party crisis'.
Valentine's Day angst
Mothers Day outrage.
The rows about Easter choc and MILs.
Exam season (plus new subcategory, phonics screening test)
Sports days
Wedding season et al.
The summer hols angst.
Weddings again.
Kids going back to school.
Halloween is just American imported begging!
Poppies
Run up to Christmas.

Plus regulars not tied to the calendar:

Birthday parties
Thank you letters
School applications
School appeals

God 'words on a screen' is fucking annoying.

Sorry - I know what you mean but it's nonsense really. People connect via mumsnet. Dismissing every type of relationship formed on here as if none of it means anything, ever, is silly. I can't see MrsDVs guest post and go 'oh, just words on a screen'

I've also been here since the very early days and it just amuses me when the same old threads come round and round - interspaced with the usual sleep training threads/Gina Ford and WOHM/SAHM. It's all so predictable and very rarely do you get a really new interesting point of view . But I am still addicted to it.

And don't forget all the threads about how hard it is to make new friends get off the internet then and meet some real peopl .

I have been here many years, for my sins.

The things i used to get worked up about don't bother me so much anymore - want to give your child fruit shoots via an IV line, go for it. SAHM/WOHM - up to you. So many threads i don't read now either because ive seen it done to death or its no longer relevant to me - my DD is 10 now so it means alot of the early days stuff isn't of interest to me now.

I mostly lurk on relationships (because im intrinsically nosey), The doghouse - because i frankly, prefer animals to people, mental health - because i have issues and AIBU because i love it when it kicks off over trivial stuff. Chat because its chat.

I get lots of support here and like to think i can offer support sometimes, othertimes im just passing the time procrastinating

Do i fit the demographic? i am not even sure if there is one.

It's been weeks since my last sahm/whom thread.
I get sucked in every fucking time. The idiocy is unbearable.

Deep down, we all don't fit in. Look at Justine, managed to out herself as a gender-politics heretic today!!

I laugh at jokes MNers would call X-ist.

I don't have kids with autism I don't know anyone with kids with ASD I don't have a single word to say in response (20% threads gone)

Ditto anxiety (another 20% threads gone)

I love all the wedding angst and the MIL arguments. I love it all - i love the cycle of life running through MN every year - it's not autumn until we have a trick or treat is begging thread. Every year the salmon return yo spawn and i'm here to watch it

I think some of you may find you'd enjoy the tweedy thread...

I posted on the fireworks thread, saying I didn't think a total ban was necessary, but perhaps some minor controls might be a good idea. I'm building up the courage to go and see if someone has jammed a rocket up my arse.

I have a child with autism and anxiety.
Would you like to be my bestie Trout and all of MN will be available to you. I'm like a one poster vip pass.

Aaaaah. Can I pull up a comfy chair and join my kindred spirits? I have been put off posting for a while now because I just can't work up enough angst for the popular moans and I can't be bothered to trailblazer for the stuff that really matters.
Thank god some of you are still around

lol @ Capriniha

I spend most of my time reading this website like this .

It's quite compelling though, it makes me feel better when I realise I go against the grain. I still love it. The trolls and fuckits get on my nerves but there's enough laughs to balance it.

I do love the cycle though, the run up to Christmas is always a "special" time here. Lest us not forget the infamous NYE debacle and everyone's favourite group of special snowflakes The Moldies.

It's all good but no special treatment here, you don't like it Fuck off

Aahhh Christmas dinner angst. Personally I operate the following policy:

You have two choices, you eat it or you don't. Your choice.

Worked well for me over the years. I don't see the angst personally. My house my rules. Fuck Deliah and her hosting nonsense. You get a hot meal and booze, what's not to like?

I can just say out loud as well I hate all this baking shite that everyone is into these days. It a fucking cake not a lifestyle choice or status symbol. Cupcakes do not define me, fatten me yes, define me no!

Ginslinger - that was rather beautiful!

Add term time holidays and P&C parking threads to the list.

I don't think I fit in either;
I like my PIL.
I'm a foreigner.
My DS is NT.

It's a mumsnet thing to complain mumsnet has gone downhill and, in fact, it is a great British tradition to accuse great British institutions of this. Virtually everything apparently used to be better: the education system, M&S, royalty, Jamie Oliver, the NHS... All this shows is that mumsnet has been successful for long enough to engender nostalgia.

Is having a child who is NT really unusual. Because that's a really odd thing to pick .

The only place I've really felt at home on MN is Reastie's Xmas bargains threads. I mostly lurk there but post more there than any where else. Astonishingly we always have at least one kick off over there. No where is drama free that's why I love MN

There is nothing new under the sun stoppingbywoods.

It just a matter of endurance really. How many times can you read the same threads without losing it