To wish there was a private bit of mumsnet

[SookieandEric]

Where you could post your AIBU's without worrying they would be seen by someone involved or by the Dailymail?

Because I have one and really really need to know if i'm being U but even with changing details etc its still identifiable

We should have a paid for private bit which would hopefully weed out any one but the hardcore MNers!

YANBU. I'd tell her not to bother letting me know as she feels bad for him but clearly not for you and I'd see if I could sell my ticket.

Agree with HarryPotters. Why would you want to go now, you're the after thought, he's the priority. Just say no need to text you, you won't be going as you've got something else to do.

But surely if a journo was reading this thread we have just signposted them on to OTBT...

But YANBU- your friend is a dick.

In fact I'd probably ask for her ticket to give to another friend who wants to spend time with you. But I am a PA Queen

What about impoverished Mumsnetters like myself? I can only work part-time, which would mean MN would be a luxury I could ill afford. Parents in financially disadvantaged circumstances should be entitled to support, too, hence schemes like childrens' centres etc. I actually find your suggestion offensive. I get extremely peed off with people who abuse the forum, especially when I have bothered to reply, only to find the thread is later pulled due to trollism, etc, but I love the fact that parents everywhere can access the support MN has to offer.

Thank you RJ

Slightly disappointing, I thought it was a sort of Room 101

surely if a journo was reading this thread we have just signposted them on to OTBT

I imagine they're perfectly well aware of it already ... it is, after all, their job to ferret things out

Your thread title makes your thread more journo encouraging, I'd say.

Call your next thread. "Aibu to ask for kale recipes" and see how that goes...

I'd like to reassure you OP, there is no way the Daily Mail will be interested in that.

weed out any one but the hard core Mumsnetters so if you only joined a little while ago, your problems/opinions are void? Jeesh. Let's just create Mumsnet Platinum and have done with it. Povs need not apply. Am I going to have to fuck off back to Netmums?

and unfortunately many journalists are members

Thanks for that

I am a journalist. I do not use mumsnet for finding stories. I use it because I am a mum. All the other journalists who I know who are also parents use mumsnet. You know that journalists are people too, right? And most of us are good, decent people?

Besides, the readership of my publication would be uninterested, to put it mildly, in the stuff posted here.

Thats what the PM's are for OP

Failing that, they should have a group chat option!

becky your readers may be interested in twits who want to create ' exclusive' sections of parenting forums....

I do not use mumsnet for finding stories. I use it because I am a mum

I believe you, Becky, but wish everyone shared your principles

Probably my fault, though - what I should have said is that the misfortune is just the reptile-like journalists who are members

Ask your friend for her tickets and helpfully tell her you will try and sell them for her. Then find a couple of actual nice friends to go with and 'sell' them at a very discounted price.

This is something we really need to teach our daughters about, how you do not dump your friends when you have a new boyfriend.

Apart from it being wrong in itself, when your romance goes pear-shaped there is no-one there to support you.

Not even fee paying but a private section you can only gain access to after 1yr and a certain number of posts?

Thanks puzzled. You wouldn't believe the abuse we receive every day because of the despicable actions of a tiny handful of our colleagues.

Your "friend" is being a dick. Why not see f you can sell your ticket?

Ask her for her ticket so you can go to the event with a friend

I was going to suggest doing exactly what Woah said. Get the other two tickets and go with some nice people.

Op, your "friend" is being monstrously shitty

She is being very stupid to hurt you in favour of some bloke. She will doubtless regret it, but that ain't your problem.

Oh and "exclusive" mumsnet. Isn't that Mouldies ? And look how that turned out....

How horrible of your friend. Rude and hurtful. Hope she's mortified when she gets over herself and wakes up to what she just did. She should be cringing at herself. She's going to lose friends if she treats them this way. Yes, it was shitty of her.

for you OP

And actually if she saw this thread or the fascinating DM article so much the better

Your friend is being a cow.

I'd message her and say i'm actually quite hurt that after begging me to come with you you're now expecting me to go on my own because you got a bf. Watch Frozen - sisters before misters!!