'Hi Op'

[Mooey89]

Hi ladies,
I've noticed a huge influx lately of people starting OPs like this, or starting responses 'hi Op'.
Don't even get me started on the X's.
Yes, yes. I know I'm a MN nazi. But I'm a purist. I don't want to be a nethun.

As you were.

Why can't you have a number in your username?

Is it the MN police again?

I think 'Hi Op' is used to make it clear on a busy thread that you are answering the OP's question e.g 'Do you prefer hobnobs or digestives?' rather than the huge numbers of people who have gone off at a tangent and are now heatedly debating whether we should leave the EU.

Hope that helps hun xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Shit. I've got numbers. What ARE the rules about usernames? I got total writer's block when I chose mine.

Listen up bitches sits better on MN?

but then your pissing off the blokes and trans part of the community. Don't swear as that pisses the fuck out of people too.

Nice but too nice. Simples

Aww hi hunneee!

Are you feeling sad?
Lots of hugs and kisses hun.
Unicorns and kittens and small fluffy things for you.

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2boys
I'm going to start every post with "Listen up my byatches"!!!

Hi op

Soz to tell ya Hun but yabu.
Also hi gurlz is much better than hi ladies obvz.

Hope that helps

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god i love MN

Hello mummies, even worse than hello ladies .

I don't mind 'Hi OP' not sure what's wrong with that.

'Hello ladies/mummies' is just vom though. Also 'Man here'.

I think it's much friendlier when people use the poster's username rather than referring to OP.

And 'Hi ladies' has always been very unMNetty (as well as lavatorial) and there is nothing whatsoever wrong with a community having shared language norms (indeed it's a strength) and so pointing out the shibboleths as part of the assimilation process is fine with me.

I don't want MN to become just another site. It's quirks and habits matter.

Yo Yo Yo Bitches!
Having lots of fun and fairy dust!
Fuck you
Love, hugs and sloppy kisses
Bonkers xxxxxxxxxx
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Oh, you used "hi ladies" ironically?

Course you did.

I've noticed that women are referred to on MN as "ladies" or "the lady" when there is a daily maily sadface thing going on.

It's like the writer thinks it's somehow offensive to call a woman a woman when she's been caught up in the Brussels bombing for example. (thread today calling the woman in the yellow jacket "the poor lady with her tummy showing") It's so very coy.

I thought the done thing now was to not refer to the OP by name or 'OP' and just quote huge sections of their post and pick it all to bits. Thus not acknowledging them at all....

inbox me hun - xx

I'm going with hi cuntychops

I always try to make an effort to scroll back and remind myself of the OP's name, and then use that rather than "OP". Except when I can't be arsed, and then I write "Hi OP". Sometimes I want to write "Hi Insane Woman With No Sense of Perspective".

Hi OP!

U ok hun?
head-tilt

Hi hun, you OK? xxxxxx

Has to be Hi Vipers if anything surely?

"Hi ladies, "
don't get me started on that......cos we do have men on here too you know

So, is "oi, you!" acceptable or not?

When I next feel brave enough to start a thread I will begin with "Hello possums!"
Will that do?