To mourn for the days when we were a nest of vipers

[HoneyDragon]

Instead of our current tendency to be more like a barrel full of drunk angry Honeybadgers that have suddenly decided they do give a fuck after all.

MN seems to have turned me into a stroppy 14 year old in RL, usual. I blame AIBU. I'm going to have to hide it I think.

Nest of vipers used to mean you could say something without sugar coating it. Now it seems to mean act like a twat towards another poster.

I know you could tell someone to fuck off, but I don't think it happened that often. If you allowed it now, AIBU would go to shit.

Shagging shenanigans. OMG my attempts at OLD, I was seriously shit. Not as shit as the Menz though.

I miss MN from around Mitmoo days, when you could call a cunt a count without being banned, when you didn't have to tiptoe around the overly sensitive, and when fucking 'lighthearted' didn't exist.

Too much running and whining to MNHQ these days. Lot of grips and balls missing.

When I joined, I used to really feel the pressure to post intelligently (or sensibly at least) and to keep myself informed so I could try and keep up with everyone else.
And now the place is overrun with goady fuckers of various flavours.

OP, I find this thread seriously triggering.

Reported.

Hmm it's been a while since I made the round up, I guess I'm not as dedicated as I used to be :(

I've reported you, op!

meowli , you'd slipped under my radar but you're going on my spreadsheet now - I'll start typing 14yo blue wkd, blue wkd, blue wkd into random threads sporadically and see if you turn up

Stratters!!!!!!!!!!

I spent a couple of evenings with Oliver Read many years ago, and I promise you, Honeydragon, that NO ONE is EVER ready for one of them, let alone a whole army of them to stagger out of their chuff.

Re: the intelligence has gone down, I agree, and the spelling has really suffered

Also, the threads going into Classics are really not what they used to be apart from mine

I think part of the problem is that there are now things that you Cannot Mention without knowing you are going to get a massive kicking. It is All Right to be well educated (people often refer to having gone to a Russell Group university) but no one can ever imply that they are well off.

Doing so will result in accusations of stealth boasting and announcements that everyone else is really poor so the OP should feel bad about that instead of whatever they were posting about in the first place.

Also, the threads going into Classics are really not what they used to be apart from mine

Totally agree, fucking Penis Beaker made it, yet I bare my soul and confess all about my smurf incident, and it falls from memory

Sparkly blue sad bum hole attempt that failed ^

Smurf bum hole sounds slightly familiar but I can't quite remember it.

Could use a giggle if you feel like retelling it? please

I've started lurking and posting again after a couple of years break when real life intervened, and have to agree. The appreciation of irony has gone; it is getting painfully PC; the whole joy of it at times was that it could be offensive, and that it was very robust. It doesn't seem to have that now.

Another who can't quite miss Cod...yet will never forget her

Penisbeakergatae was unmistakably a mumsnet high, followed by Piratenoisesex, and does anyone remember the enormous hoo haa caused by a thread asking what color rug to buy, starting by a poster who constantly started threads saying she barely had enough money to feed her kids? That must have been about 11 years ago!

Certainly was a different place back then....

It is very PC here indeed.

I've been around for a fair few years and although EVERYONE always says MN has changed I think it is less witty, less fun and much more aggressive.

I think there are some posters who just spend their entire time posting 'you/him/her/they sound like a twat/cunt in response to fairly uncontroversial OPs. And that's the response; not advice or an opinion other than 'twat/cunt'.

And I think a lot of members feel this is their community/safe place etc when it is not. It is an anonymous and huge Internet forum which will inevitably have a huge amount of trolls or GFs and lots of people who are simply ignorant about certain issues.

So all these MN is letting us down by not deleting X, Y or X posts or threads and the assumption that people having a less enlightened or educated view must be GFs. Sometimes they are but it's entirely possible someone holds a view which other people don't agree with but people leap into the thread with accusations as they seem to have become hypersensitive to any view they disagree with.

When I joined 12 years ago...eek...id say it was very cliquey but very funny.

In those days it was just PO-faced baby websites and magazines which seemed to assume all your brain cells dissolved as soon as you were pregnant.

I find mumsnet aggressive now - I certainly wouldn't look for any nuanced advice as I might have done five years ago.

but many posters seem to want strong moderation, they want rules and the opportunity to have threads deleted etc

The odd gem still pops up though