To skulk around these posts hoping a fight will break out?

[panicstationscentral]

Just that really. I'm addicted to MN but only because I kind of love it when people have a go at one another. Especially when it's some class based bitchiness from the Waitrose crowd. I feel like a twisted bastard but also #sorrynotsorry

My favourite was when some people found it 'common' that people bought cards with names on 'daughter, dad, mum and nan' ... wtf?! I also enjoyed a thread where landlords were bitching about their tenants.

What are the most judgemental comments you have seen on mumsnet?

I've just been on a thread about the 1970s. A poster said people certainly did not have bread and jam except as a party food.

How blinkered do you have to be to believe that! Some children bloody lived off bread and jam in the 70s.

I really want to have a go but can't be arsed.

How do I find the fattist thread and how do I tag a person?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2826051-That-fattist-discrimination-is-allowed-in-the-workplace

I like a good bunfight as much as the next person, but it can all get a bit predictable.

Thank you cock!

God I'm a numpty, I only saw the title of the greeting card thread, didn't occur to me the 'names' were about Auntie, Nan etc. I thought it meant actual names like Moonpig cards. Wondered why they would be 'common'

Sorry, do carry on, just thinking aloud.

Ah Parish- I'm a Leither now, does that count??

Parrish I don't know how I missed an Edinburgh page in all my time here but I am now intrigued.

Edinburgers! Salutations!

Maui and Cancel the cheque....

If you have a go at any behaviour on here ATM, you're accused of 'shaming'. That's a Bad Thing, apparently.

The 'it's so common' threads amuse me. Many opinions on here can't be real

I said it elsewhere, but those who say "I am name changing for this as I may be outed" really make me lol.

Why not just fekkin post under the name change and get on with it!

Why oh why?

Anyway hope you are all enjoying Saturday night. Whatever you are at.

Some posts are just batshit crazy OP

Mumsnet is a great place for entertainment and can be quite helpful in some areas.

But mostly, it does not reflect anything like real or normal life for me

One of the weirdest things I ever read was an OP saying, people who don't like spicy foods are boring and have boring personalities.

If you think that's batshit, there were loads of posters who actually agreed with her?!?!

I take a sick twisted pleasure in people complacently boring on about how they do things "properly", as "manners cost nothing", but their idea of manners is really naff. I realise that this just makes a really nasty snob and it is nothing to be proud of. In real life I never judge anyone for not having upper middle class manners, and would never make someone feel uncomfortable, but on here a real nasty streak comes out in me and I horribly enjoy the wrongness of people boasting about how "well brought up" they are while doing absolutely cringey things.

I blame mn. I think the whole site is predicated on various forms of snobbery and some part of it takes me over when I am on here.

This place is mad as a box of frogs, but that's why it's still here.

The "I hate you all you are nuts" Then the yummy mummies, who hate anyone to say anything about their babies, or the humungous travel systems that take up all the space in little cafes. You pat your toddlers on the head when they go apeshit.

Oh and You should all LTB but no, you never wanted to in the first place. Yada Yada.

And it's just so hilarious. Thank you all. Take a bow.

If you all weren't like this, no one would log on or read this shit.

Parrish I thought I was the only one bothered by that! I am massively over-invested in the thread where the (very lovely sounding) OP is going to QMU and just wants a school... Near QMU.

although I was tempted to suggest Loretto. But I have ishoos about private schools.

Hey, the fight is here, fuckface.
Swing yer mitts

What pisses me off in quite a lot of the threads on here is the snobbery/ignorance and the preconceived notions of sections of society from the following categories;

Being homeless.
Living in social housing.
Not earning more than minimum wage.
Being underweight/overweight.
Not sending your kids to private school.
Being different.
Not having private health/dental insurance.
If you're not a surgeon/city banker etc.

Basically just anything that seeks to demean people for not being as rich, as educated, as beautiful, as lucky etc as the OP.

Parish it is a bit disproportionate given that only a quarter of children attend private school that the majority of threads are about them!

I thought only 7% of people go to private school?

The name changing explanation is because of the thread police: interesting first post, must be a troll etc

Panic, to tag a person @panicstationscentral

It sends an email to them which they see if they still access the account they set up Mumsnet with and haven't opted out.

I wonder whether the people who are blunt beyond the point of rudeness on here are at all sensitive in RL? I wince at the casual venom with which people react on here, and wonder why they... Well just why, really. Surely you are not like that in RL. Are you? Is it about enjoying not bothering with the social convention of being nice to people?

I found the "buying named cards is common thread" hilarious. Especially since my privately educated, VERY middle class mum buys them for every birthday in the family. Yet I (live on a council estate, state educated, very working class) have never bought one. That thread was MN gold.

paulanka hello back!