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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

MN clique

521 replies

TickTickBoomBoom · 05/02/2017 14:12

I'm a regular poster, and have name changed for this.

Is it just me, or does there seem to be a clique here? Some people's posts always get answered and they seem like a happy friendly little group. If you're 'new' or haven't posted that much, you pretty much get ignored.

I enjoy reading the posts, and I enjoy posting, but this 'exclusivity' is really getting to me. This is supposed to be a place people can come with their problems/jokes etc, and to feel like some people are 'left out' kinda defeats the object IMHO.

OP posts:
Lweji · 05/02/2017 15:39

shrodingers worms can be treated by a tiny tablet from the chemist
Or not.
The problem is that we never know if they're alive or dead until we open the can.
And then the drug may have worked or not. (A bit like homeopathy or wild guessing)

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 05/02/2017 15:42

Sparkling enough to ask dh if it was possible to do it without there being any come back ( so to speak!) Dh didn't like the idea of it and I had to respect his views ( while eyeing at least 10 pairs of scuzzy old Birkies in the hall with sadness)

DonkeyOaty · 05/02/2017 15:42

Excellent detour via Shrodinger, folks. Loving your work here Lweji btw. V good.

Sparklingbrook · 05/02/2017 15:44

Oh darnit Dame you could have made a mint. Grin

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 05/02/2017 15:44

And then the drug may have worked or not. (A bit like homeopathy or wild guessing)

Is there much doubt about whether the homeopathy would work or not?

Although, now I think of it, I did come across an old thread about using homeopathy to treat worms the other day.

ClashCityRocker · 05/02/2017 15:44

If you'd started a thread about selling your Birkenstocks, they'd have replied.

To be fair, if your thread has loads of replies, it will probably be full of people telling you exactly how much of a twat you are and what you should have done differently. Sometimes it better to get a handful of reasoned replies from people who have a greater understanding of that particular issue than ten pages of 'YABVVVVU'

Theaprilfool · 05/02/2017 15:46

I remember there was a member of the site with a disabled son who got a really pervy PM about his nappies once.

NotYoda · 05/02/2017 15:47

Homeopathy worked for me. Though I think it was the lovely woman who listened to me for an hour and a half and was a trained counsellor that did the trick. Unless she was also a worm-wrangler I suspect that wouldn't work on worms.

Maudlinmaud · 05/02/2017 15:47

Op have you previously had your arse handed to you? Name changed, posted again, arse handed back to you etc etc?
And have posted threads recently which have been ignored?

exLtEveDallas · 05/02/2017 15:47

I want to know who the Regulars are - I hardly recognise any fecker these days.

onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad · 05/02/2017 15:47

I quite like being ignored .. although I do prefer it when when a mumsnetter says something positive about one of my posts.

What I dislike more than being ignored is a poster talking about you in the third person as if you're not there when you're on a thread .. and I quote (something like this anyway) "haha onemorecupofcoffee sounds like someone right out of the eighties, either that or she lives in some remote part of the north of England". Immediately after I'd posted something. Made me feel invisible, embarrassed and rather stupid.

onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad · 05/02/2017 15:48

Oh and I am from the north of England and very proud of it!!!

NotYoda · 05/02/2017 15:49

I think onemorecupofcoffee'spost was very erudite

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 05/02/2017 15:49

What's wrong with the 80's?

Sparklingbrook · 05/02/2017 15:50

So I guess we will never know.

MN clique
HarveySchlumpfenburger · 05/02/2017 15:50

No, it probably wouldn't NotYoda but maybe worth a go anyway.

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber · 05/02/2017 15:51

We can narrow it down Sparkling.... for example, it's not Tuna or Corned Beef.

665TheNeighbourOfTheBeast · 05/02/2017 15:51

I don't think the op is coming back
What with her failure to supply enough buns
An attack of existential worms
No cute kitten photos
Do you think she's got on her high horse and ...no, it's too easy.. must stop and try..self restraint...( No body is to pm me with pervy suggestions about that)

ClashCityRocker · 05/02/2017 15:51

If you want people to reply, make a grammatical error in the thread title. 'Should of' will get them there in droves.

Yeah I hate that too onemore. It's like some people live in their own bubble and anyone who does things differently is wrong. I mean, fair enough to disagree, but at least have the decency to challenge me, rather than doing it in such a dismissive snidey way.

haveacupoftea · 05/02/2017 15:52

Never really noticed. I feel a bit sorry for anyone who is part of a clique on an internet forum Confused i'm on here quite a lot and still haven't got the time to keep up with half the threads i post on let alone being part of a clique.

ClashCityRocker · 05/02/2017 15:52

sparkling that's baked beans. The ring pull on top gives it away.

NotYoda · 05/02/2017 15:53

Rafals

When I was a child the only treatment for worms was this terrible powder you dissolved in milk or water (or once my mum tried putting it in lemonade). I tasted of raspberry but made you feel really nauseous. To this day I can't eat or drink anything raspberry-flavoured

Anyone else remember this (or is it just me who was afflicted)?

Sparklingbrook · 05/02/2017 15:54

It's not Sardines either Just.

NotYoda · 05/02/2017 15:54

Could be soup

Wondermoomin · 05/02/2017 15:54

Yoda I have not looked up Pandora's box. I have looked up "Pandora's Box"

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