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 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.

soup If several posters asked for help in understanding what you're now say was a non-in-joke, but they were ignored completely, then it was excluding them, intentionally.

I don't buy into the " but it wasn't an in joke". Whatever it was, people were trying to get in on the laugh and weren't given an explanation. Fine, but let's stop kidding ourselves that sometimes there aren't posters who (as in real life) like a snigger with a few folk, but happily leave other people out.

It is tedious, actually it mirrors the stuff in every day life that I always step away from!

I'm actually grateful to you soup, as you're the only person who has had the good grace to explain it, so thanks

@SheGotBetteDavisEyes

Pictures appear on screen because God put them there

A hurricane is what women have to put up with and they do it without complaining, whereas a Tornado is a man hurricane, and they make a massive fuss battening down the hatches

There are no My Little Ponies.... because that's gender stereotyping

Winnie "YABU because your ghost of MN past sounds like an MRA"

there's a reason for that.

Op I understood that, thanks for the patient explanation I simply had no idea what that had to do with anything you'd said before

Is something wrong with OP?

Men, eh?

You are Jacob Marley and I claim my UK5£

Thanks @bitoutofpractice

I've actually changed my mind now.

I read somewhere that acronyms has stimulate the Lentil's Chair section of the hypothalamus, which is the part of the brain that stimulates the creation of the PompyTocin, the hormone that induces a sense of temporary importance that you get when the other person looks confused

If you use five illogical acronyms a day, it can boost self esteem, inflate grandeur and send much needed eponcey fuckitol to the spleen glands, which helps self important influencers to exude Dudgeon from every pore

But don't over do it. Otherwise you can become addicted to acronyms, and accuse innocent strangers of having of terrible sinister intentions, even when they ask you a simple question.

In The Lancet they call this Mens-shaming Syndrome by Proxy.

It's a form of psychological projection whereby the patient blames all their own failings on someone else.

at least I think that's what the article said.

But can you pass the Turing test?

@GerdaLovesLili

fiendishly clever. but....

That whole Shroud of Turing myth has been discredited now

it was actually Jesus that cracked the Enigma Code

You're not tricking me that easily. MRA!

RTM (read the manual)

TTFN!
Toodle Pip! Bon soir old thing, cheerio, chin chin,

now boo baby hoo, Good Byeee!

I for one welcome our new AI overlords.

This thread needs a breathalyser 😳

is it funny?

@CeciliaBartolli

is it funny? confused

It's a matter of taste.

But the good news is it's not obligatory, so you have the option to ignore it.

Sorry, that sounded like a definitive statement, which would be mansplaining. I understand how awful that is. so I'll try another style.

Would it be good news, perhaps [TUGS FORELOCK] if it was not obligatory because, I imagine - I mean you'll know better than me - that possibly might mean you have the option to ignore it? Would you say that is a good thing? I'm easy either way.

You know when you've accidentally got caught up with a stranger at a party and you've no idea what the hell they're on about and you do that smile, head nod and shake at the same time and laugh a little and then sigh and go yeeeeees, well no, but that's great - and sorry i just have to er ....

MaddHugger - who is that man and why do you keep bringing him to us?

I know what you mean OP (I think).
When our cat was run over, the vets rang and said, "We have your cat. It's an RTA".
I replied, "Well why do you have our cat, who brought him and he is a tabby."
It took about 5 mins for me to work out that RTA meant road traffic accident and to this day, I still can't believe that they would do that.

@g1itterati

Some people watch too many cop shows.

Another thing that annoys me, perhaps even more than acronyms, is people who pronounce everything the American way. (Nothing wrong with Americans mind. I just don't see why we have to copy their speech patterns. It looks a bit people who copy the cool kid)

You get people who talk about reeee-search, instead of research. Never trust them.

Then there's people who, when sitting in an audience, start to go Woo! Woo! These are sheeple. If earth was invaded by Martians, these are the people who'd start sucking up to them and reporting their fellow humans to our new interplanetary overlords.

"Sheeple"

I can't stand it on American cop / law shows where they speak without moving their mouths, "We have a supina under section 3b..... and then try and get as many legal acronyms into one sentence as is possible without taking a breath. And everything is, "At this time..." in America.
"At this time, we would request that passengers please utilise the facility of the overhead luggage compartments..." rather than, "Please put your bags in the luggage hold."

@daisychain01 I'm sorry it came across like that, I honestly thought it was self explanatory on the thread if you read it from the beginning and although I did see people asking on the thread I also saw quite a few explanations.

I often don't understand things on threads and people have always been quite good at explaining. On the Janet thread I had to ask what a Wendy was and that was explained for me.

@g1itterati

A lot of people say leverage, instead of use.

They say things like "we have leveragised some world class IT solutions" when all they did was look something up on the computer

@daisychain01 @pollywollydoodle @Mummyoflittledragon

Thanks for restoring my faith in this board.

I'm glad you got the joke. I will buy you all a metaphorical drink.

@Ifailed No, I'm afraid I have not inhaled any vapours from popular adhesives, although my nasal passages do feel like they've been filled with Bostick

i made the mistake of trying to drink away the pain, which means that
@UrsulaPandress has teh correct answer!

You go through to the next round

@daisychain01 I promise you it's not an in-joke. I wasn't aware of the Janet thing as I'd been to a works party but left early as I'm feeling so ill.

You're not GabbyLoggon, by any chance, are you OP?!

@PanPanPanPing

No. Is there a story behind GabbyLogon?

I'm quite pleased this thread has maintained an upbeat air of optimism (well I like to think so) and hasn't been invaded by the usual MLCAAAAs

(that's Misery Loves Company Almost As Much As Acronyms)

I didn't say GabbyLogon - I said GabbyLoggon.