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Original poster

I miss mumsnet as it was!!

101 replies

Lightupthefire · 05/12/2015 17:11

Oh how I miss it when we all had fun, no one was serious, no one was stupid, no one ever did anything I didn't want them to do!! Oh wasn't it wonderful!

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TonySopranosVest · 05/12/2015 17:12

Yes

Notimefortossers · 05/12/2015 17:12

I have never know this MN . . . how long ago was it?

tiktok · 05/12/2015 17:13

Er is this a joke? A comment perhaps on the regular moans and comments that 'mn is different now!'?

It's always been a wonderful mix, in my experience Smile

SauvignonBlanche · 05/12/2015 17:13

I don't know, I've only been on since 2007 and don't remember it ever being like that. Before my time, perhaps? Hmm

AnnaMarlowe · 05/12/2015 17:14

How are those rose tinted specs working out for you?

tiktok · 05/12/2015 17:14

Ah it clearly is a joke!

OTheHugeManatee · 05/12/2015 17:14

I miss the days before you had to put 'lighthearted' in thread titles.

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Lightupthefire · 05/12/2015 17:16

I have been here since T rexes stormed asda the earth and I have been here since wasps on the windowsill were, erm, stinging. I have been here forever!! And never before have I known a mumsnet like it.

I am the ghost of Christmas mumsnet past and I intend to show you the mumsnet of Christmases bygone to make you all change your ways!

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Arfarfanarf · 05/12/2015 17:17

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Lightupthefire · 05/12/2015 17:19

No! You are wrong, why, mumsnet was once a land of hope and glory and no one ever fell out and it was funny and it was light hearted!!

And now - now, it is different. It is a hollow cold lonely grave!!

OP posts:
Notimefortossers · 05/12/2015 17:21

I do think it's funny that you have to put 'lighthearted' in the thread title

FruVikingessOla · 05/12/2015 17:21

Lightup, T-rexing in Asda was only in 2012 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1498923-Shouting-at-me-in-the-supermarket - so that's, um, only three years ago.

Fairenuff · 05/12/2015 17:22

OP you are only remembering the good bits. Sorry but it hasn't changed that much.

AnnaMarlowe · 05/12/2015 17:22

So the popular 'Nest of Vipers' moniker was just meant affectionately then?

Arfarfanarf · 05/12/2015 17:23

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Lightupthefire · 05/12/2015 17:23

Ah but much has changed in those three years! Why, the complaints about mumsnet are as thick and as fast as netmums speeding custard so it must be true!!

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glentherednosedbattleostrich · 05/12/2015 17:23

Perhaps we could have a collection so those with the sticks up their arses can have them removed privately rather than waiting for the nhs? Any money left over could go towards sense of humour training.

Should I add lighthearted?!!

Arfarfanarf · 05/12/2015 17:24

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IrisVillarca · 05/12/2015 17:26

I think you'd better, Glen. Or you'll get lots of abuse for not taking the plight of those unfortunate enough to be afflicted with sticks up their arse seriously.

You'll still get abuse, but at least you tried

ouryve · 05/12/2015 17:26

Have we not had one of these threads yet, this week?

chantico · 05/12/2015 17:26

It's certainly provocative to put 'lighthearted' in the title; you could chuck in a question to the girls about goats and bog brushes just to make sure you have a full set...

winterinmadeira · 05/12/2015 17:26

What? Don't know what you are on about!

Original poster
Lightupthefire · 05/12/2015 17:27

O to be in mumsnet
Now that December is here
On the forum of mumsnet
Where all is drab and drear
Posting on AIBU
Filled with chips and beer
Other posters will undoubtedly
Make you quake with fear.

OP posts:
lordStrange · 05/12/2015 17:37

It was a right hoot on here OP, you're right.

Some mean bastards too just like now, but some right funny ones as well.

Sighing · 05/12/2015 17:39

Was it all fields and sunsets after a walk in the afternoon sun OP?

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