To want the thread police..

[SmileEachDay]

To fuck OFF.

Many examples recently of people appointing themselves thread curator and being rude, annoying and pointy finger ish to other posters who disagree with them.

It annoys me more than it should.

And then half the people police the poster for saying LIGHTHEARTED and the other half lament the good old days when we didn't have to declare our whimsical intent.

Raspberry
I think the bun-fighty people are off doing RL things, and the rest of us have taken our medication so it's OK

I hate the "light hearted" disclaimer.

I refuse to use it and threads that have it are usually rubbish anyway.

Is it too early for a drink? Or is that too downmarket?

😂 notyoda
I whipped up dinner for 5 while posting on this thread.

Chardonnay

It's a bit "You don't have to be mad to work here but it helps" I always think

BTW, anyone want to comment on my use of bold ? Non?

Good use of bold there.

Keep up the good work.

Is it too early for a drink? Or is that too downmarket?

Was that to me?

Highalert I fear it is far far too late to start drinking, for all of us.

Except drunk husband. He's already started of course.

bold is quite upmarket.

Oh actually it's not as bad as I remembered and quite funny. But there were people who though I was serious. I misjudged the audience back in 2012.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1567304-To-ask-the-farmer-up-the-road-to-not-muck-spread?pg=1

raspberry is that a stealth boast

We have no booze in the house.

I think (lighthearted) often is like when people say "I'm not being funny/racist/offensive but...."

"Did you mean to be so rude?" - one for the bingo cards which I noticed (having RTFT, natch) was omitted earlier on.

If you can't tell if a thread is intended as being whimsical and funny without the use of 'Lighthearted' in the tile, then you simply haven't earned your MN spurs...

Good work YesMadam

You must have had the country set on that thread, Sparkling. I bet they let their horses shit every where too.

DYMTBSR is a terrible comeback.
"Why yes, I did!" is the inevitable reply. With a hard stare.
Not so scathing now, are you?

When I was new to MN I used "HTH" in a sincere way and soon realised my error.

I've deployed it correctly ever since, but only rarely. I try to play nice generally speaking.

I imagine the person who writes HTH to be matronly with folded arms, a prim expression and narrowed eyes

I always imagine them as very thin with a smug smile brushing imaginary crumbs off their expensive cardigan. And they'd make a little high pitched "hm" noise after they'd said it.

Hello MaQ darling.
YY Lighthearted is for the wusses.

Ooh, another one left out - "if you don't like it here you can jolly well flounce off to Netmums!"