To expect MNers to be resourceful enough to just sometimes look elsewhere on the internet for answers to very simple questions?

[beansprout]

Instead of starting another thread along the lines of "what colour is red?"

ah I see. Or could be I perceive a marketplace as having a slightly collegiate atmosphere - as in we are all in the place looking for the similar sorts of things, with our shopping bags

I vote no

and a pound of cherries, please

probably

along with Hillary and SHirley

Surely that is what mumsnet is about ? I post Q's on mumsnet sometimes that I know I could fidn elsewhere but it's quicker to ask on MN if I am in a rush and lazy (which I am the latter)

Also: not everything you read on the interweb is actually true....

but everything you read on mn is!

fio - yes, like juli in EE although not sre how you spell it

YABU Those are the threads I can answer you see.

Gus' bro

Juley

yes, that's it!!

yabu

social interaction is a positive thing! just don't answer the threads you don't approve of!

And Lesley. Sometimes you don't just want the facts, you want to hear from someone who has experience and get some differing opinions. Googling can be scary!

Beverley / Beverly, this name can be used for both F & M

big jule in guys and dolls, it's sort of a mafia type name isn't it

Shirley crabtree?

Sometimes people dont know what to look for on google - I once started a thread asking what Morgan Freeman said in Shawshank so that I could use it an a eulogy - in google I would have had to trawl through the whole script whereas some lovely person whose name escapes me found it on here in 30 seconds.

who had clear shit?

My tongue was in my cheek a bit btw, there was a in the original post. That said, the "do you like peas?" type threads do make me wonder sometimes....