To not like this ghost Of Mumsnetpast that just visited me

[OhThisbloodyComputer]

A ghost just invited my safe space.

before long, he was mans-ghouling

Grrrr.

He came put with some patriarchal lecture (YAWN!) about men and women loving each other.

Stop spoon feeding me, you ghoul!

Even worse than that, he kept asking to explain acronyms. And he was passively-aggressively polite, in a typical sea lion way.

Should I leave my husband? Why shouldn't I, just once, put myself before the kids.

No, no, I am absolutely not a vag-whiner!

I'm so so sick of men telling me to "don't* get your chromosomes in a twist'

I mean, like d'uh. Where do I put my anger?

what would Lily Allen do?

I am so so angry.

To make matters even more patriarchal, he said (AFTER HE"S USED MY TOILET LEAVING A BLDDOY AWFUL SMELL!) that I could expect a visit from two more ghosts.

I'm like, d'uh! Hello? He was like so, goady. I've asked Mumsnet's moderators to ban him, but they said 'he hasn't aid anything offensive"

Help puh-lease?

I think it's supposed to be 'invaded' . . .

So many posters here who think they're funny and just aren't

. . .because nothing says lighthearted like mocking women for being concerned about losing safe spaces

Back in the day.....you got a better quality of...well I dunno really....

Do you have a toilet brush to deal with the aftermath?

It’s either that or a lot of bleach.

Winnie
I’m not reading this as mocking women at all. I’m reading irony and a big eff off to misogyny.

Hmm.

You didn't seem too much of a twat on the 'erosion of women' thread but now you're acting like a complete fuckwit OP.

Winnie has it spot on actually Mummyoflittledragon - he's taking the piss out of women who don't want men in women's spaces.

Oh those bloody faux naive posts.

How very Try Hard.

This reads to me a bit like the scene in Gavin and Stacey where the girls are all a bit drunk and say stuff like D'ya know whaddi mean though, at the end of the day and it is though innit and they all sort of knew what each other meant but nothing meaningful was said.
I would love to be visited by the ghost of Christmas past if it brought Cog with it.

I think the Ghost of MN Past was funnier than that. You know, armed with a supersoaker and trailing Pom Bears, and giving the vague impression that s/he might be Caitlin Moran, or possibly India Knight bitching about Liz Jones.

DaisyChain01 Nobody was excluding anyone on the Janet thread. It wasn't a 'thing' before that thread. Janet was simply the OP's work colleague who acted as if she 'owned' running and therefore no one else was allowed to do it. Through the thread other people piped up that they have known people to behave in the same way, and thus have their own 'Janet' in their lives. Other's then joked about what things they were the 'Janet' of.

I think perhaps you just didn't 'get' it, which is fine, we don't all have to have the same humour. but no-one was using an 'in' joke or reference or deliberately excluding anyone.

@WinnieFosterTether

Oh per-lease!

RTM - and LIU if YDKWTM

Yes, since you asked nicely, @dandelionandBurdock

I would be delighted to explain what those acronyms mean

RTM means read the manual

LIU means look it up

YDDWTM is short for You don't know what that means

Incidentally, RTM (or the ruder version RTFM) was invented by pompous and incredibly irritating IT nerds, when they started inventing their own stupid little acronym language to heighten their sense of importance.

It's funny, because people that really are important, like surgeons and murder detectives, will be incredibly polite to the public, if you ask them even the dumbest questions. And these are people will a huge weight of responsibility and under incredible pressure.

Whereas chat room charlies and IT nerds and corporate marketings buffoons have a sense of entitlement and self importance that is massively out of proportion to their actual abilities and influence.

Even Steven Hawking explains all his acronyms, the first time he uses them in a piece of his work, and I'm sure you will agree he has to make more effort to type than the rest of us.

Yes, I share your despair @isMyPrescriptionready and @giveItToMyStraightDOc some of these people, with their silly private language and their DOG (delusions of grandeur) ARE even worse than IT nerds.

It's that bad

And no @OhhMeBloodyPiles I haven't got my vas deferens in a twist.
I'm just so so upset that when people are rude.

Maybe I'm just needy! Help puh-lease!

I'm even more confused now. If that were possible.

Ha ha 😂😂🤣🤣. The joke really is on you then.

I thought you were a woman. Oh no, don’t tell me. You identify as one.

Your manhood really has seen better days.

With all that whining you really do sound like benny from top cat.

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Why do you keep typing Puh-lease? Have we been transported back to the early 2000s when that was acceptable?

@bitoutofpractise

I think what I was trying to say was that people who use inexplicable acronyms and corporate jargon - and then huff and roll their eyes like teenagers when you get the name of their favourite Grime artist wrong - are usually doing it because they are massively insecure.

They tend to hang out in IT departments, corporate boardrooms and the online chat rooms.

Emmeline Pankhurst once said, If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

Emmeline Pankhurst once said, If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself

That means I understand more or less nothing.

Dew, how pictures appear on the TV screen, the difference between a hurricane and a tornado, exactly how lightening happens, how many My Little Ponies there are...I know shit all.

Should I leave my husband? Why shouldn't I, just once, put myself before the kids

leaving a marriage is sometimes best for the children, if the alternative is growing up in an abusive environment. Domestic abuse affects children too. Please don't suggest that women all leave marriages for selfish reasons, often it is absolute necessity and only when things have got so bad that there is not alternative.

The risk of abuse in such scenarios is highest after the separation, after the women leaves, in other words. It is hardly a picnic.

My six year old could probably tell me how many MLP's there are, though She, so what does that do to the theory?