So many 'nethun' type posts on here just lately

[HelenaWay]

I've seen so many posts recently with kisses on, not just after a post but after every sentence. I hate it.

Also words such as bubba and hubby have been creeping in.

Does it bother anyone else or aibu to want to punch my computer every time I see it?

Does it matter. The Mumsnet lingo of darling this that or the other is by far the most cringe worthy lingo, yet we all mostly do it.

It's definitely the end for the Viper Empire!!!

Phew!

Someone said 'baby dancing' the other day. No foolin'.

Sex. It's sex.

TTC sex.

Baby dancing means sex?

Fuck me, you learn something new here.

That's just wrong...

And baby dust is like magic fairy dust that makes you conceive. It's not ground up babies.

Oh yy Oyster, v important not to get that one wrong.

I have had more harsh words said about me on NM than I ever have here. It's not always fluff and lightness on NM. I don't post there any more but when I did there were some very clever and witty posters as well.

NM doesn't really care about MN. They just get on with their stuff and don't feel the need to run us down. I know it has happened but it is no where near as often as MN does it to them.

There is so much stuff about MN that they could take the piss about. Biscuits, penis beakers, naice ham, the snobbery. We really aren't that superior a message board.

All the language around ttc is gross. Baby dancing, baby dust, sticky beans
Be adults for fuck sake. You're having unprotected sex you numpties.

I didn't realise there were so many "rules" about what you could and couldn't say on here until I started posting. I feel very guarded about what I say in case it's the "wrong thing" and get absolutely ripped to pieces. It's quite an inhibiting feeling.

Obviously websites like MN and NM have a reputation in the media and society in general, and I think some posters on here are desperate to disprove it. So stereotypical but harmless things like putting an "x" at the end of the post, or saying "hun", becomes completely unacceptable...to the point where there is a thread about how awful they are.

Obviously websites like MN and NM have a reputation in the media and society in general, and I think some posters on here are desperate to disprove it. So stereotypical but harmless things like putting an "x" at the end of the post, or saying "hun", becomes completely unacceptable

I don't get that. Can you explain it?
What are posters desperately trying to disprove by not accepting the x and hun?

It's not correct though is it?
That's the point.

It's not correct English X
To do this X
After every sentence xx
And Hun x
Is not a word X
If anything, it's Hon.
It doesn't make sense xxx

Let's kiss when we mean it.

Fuckers.

Some posters are beginning to use text speak and nethun acronyms like "LO" instead of "DC". What's next? Sparkly stars instead of swear words?

Ok x

It's not snobbery. That's what annoys me. I'm proper working class. I live in a rented house in a rough town in Lancashire where I've lived most of my life. My mum was a cleaner and my dad drove lorries. I still don't xx after each post, I can spell, I don't refer to women as mummies or ladies. That ain't snobbery, it's something else. There's no doubt a word for it but snobbery isn't it.

And it's not inverted snobbery either. I'm fine with shopping at farmfoods and wearing clothes from Asda. It's something xx else xx

Actually it bothers me more when people suggest 'tinkly laugh' 'breezy' 'head tilt' and of course the MN off-used bag of wank that is 'did you mean to be so rude'

Yep. I can agree that x at the end of each sentence is irritating, but the snobbery in this thread is awful, and people in glass houses...

Again, there's no snobbery.