Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To wonder if MNers average IQ has dropped by at least 10 (if not 20) points since Penis Beaker, Jeffrey etc.

289 replies

AVirtuousLife · 28/09/2017 22:12

It used to be a good place.

Now it's full of posters with long drawn out, multiple threads about boring banal shit.

Cheeky Neighbour thread Number 20.

My Boring Life Thread Number 100.

My Blossoming Heart Throb (who happens to be a gardener) Thread Number 90.

My Awful Life In General Thread Number 200.

And if anyone dares to challenge the OP of a multiple thread they must be a harpy or troll.

The fact that the multiple-thread-starters might be trolls themselves seems to escape the attention of the fans.

OP posts:
unfortunateevents · 28/09/2017 22:16

YANBU

stopfuckingshoutingatme · 28/09/2017 22:17

So read a good book instead Grin
Or bake a cake , or go on insta!

AVirtuousLife · 28/09/2017 22:23

I read lots of good books already - and have done throughout my life.

I'm not asking about books, baking or instagram... Confused (wtf??)

I'm asking about MN.

I'm ready to totally give up on MN.

OP posts:
Brittbugs80 · 28/09/2017 22:26

I'm not asking about books, baking or instagram.. confused (wtf?

I think she means go on Instagram instead of here.

Although this thread could be seen as "boring banal shit"

ssd · 28/09/2017 22:28

hate to say it but you are spot on op

there just seems to be so many fucking boring threads about fuck all

and a diagram doesn't make it better

AVirtuousLife · 28/09/2017 22:40

Yes Brittbugs - thank you for clearing that up Hmm
And yes, this thread could be "boring banal shit"

But I doubt it will run to multiple fucking threads with lots of fan girls cheering it on...

OP posts:
CockacidalManiac · 28/09/2017 22:41

Don’t forget the ‘Pkease give me some money’ threads.

FrustratedTeddyLamp · 28/09/2017 22:42

Yawn not another one of these shitty offensive threads. Nobody is keeping you, nor the 1000 other posters that have started a thread to complain seemingly at least once a fortnight how shit MN is.

...steps away from why is MN so shit in 2017 thread 30

SheldonsSpot · 28/09/2017 22:45

YANBU.

AVirtuousLife · 28/09/2017 22:46

Off you pop then FrustratedTeddy ...

OP posts:
Pannnn · 28/09/2017 22:53

V long standing poster here and yes you are correct OP.
Threads about someone looked at me funny in a supermarket. My DP takes ages to poo. Is this NDN a GF for planting fuschia and not irises.
Is DP a narc or on a spectrum.

There was a time....

AVirtuousLife · 28/09/2017 22:59

Yes, Pannn, ssd, Cockacidal* - I recognise old timer names.

I've been around since around 2009/2010 maybe?

I know lots of folk have been around longer.

OP posts:
Pannnn · 28/09/2017 23:02

2006 for me and a male poster. Shock

Haffiana · 28/09/2017 23:03

YANBU at all. When someone bumps up a zombie thread by mistake I am amazed about how different it used to be.

Pannnn · 28/09/2017 23:05

But it's a forum on internet so things move on. But yes this one is not the funny vibrant one it was. IQ points lowered def but business booms.

VeryCunningStunt · 28/09/2017 23:05

It's over run with perverts now. Every other thread is trying to get posters to share wee/poo/sex stories. Grim.

AVirtuousLife · 28/09/2017 23:06

Oh yes Haffiana.

Oh very yes.

Quite eye-opening in fact.

There wasn't an "x" or a "Hun" in sight back then.

Thank fuck.

OP posts:
AmysTiara · 28/09/2017 23:07

The begging threads and school uniform or bodily fluids trolls are really annoying.

AVirtuousLife · 28/09/2017 23:07

Business booms indeed.

Click bait.

As they say...

OP posts:
AVirtuousLife · 28/09/2017 23:12

AmysTiara (recognise your name) - those threads would have been derided and had the piss soundly taken by MNers of a few years ago.

Nowadays your average MNer seems to be a bubblehead who is glued to never-ending threads that are guaranteed to suck the gullible in.

OP posts:
VeryCunningStunt · 28/09/2017 23:13

Cheeky fuckers, toxic MILs, goady fuckers, PARKING KLAXON WITH DIAGRAMZ!!, journos starting ‘tell me about the hilarious time a hilarious thing happened to you’ threads, wee/poo/sex/school uniform trolls, the ‘oh no, I have spent all of my money but am definitely not inveigling for donations’ brigade.

MN in a nutshell.

CockacidalManiac · 28/09/2017 23:15

Indeed, VeryCunningStunt.
It’s a whole smorgasbord of crap.

AVirtuousLife · 28/09/2017 23:15

Yup.

OP posts:
AVirtuousLife · 28/09/2017 23:15

And doubly yup.

OP posts:
Maryz · 28/09/2017 23:16

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Swipe left for the next trending thread