To think that flouncers on MN are just arrogant f*ckwitages who ought to bloody grow up?

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If you don't like what's in a thread, don't post on it. There are lots of others.

By flouncing you are just showing that you are needy. Why not just post: 'ooh please beg me not to leave and say how much you'll miss me' instead?

Not every bloody thing in the world is about you. Honestly, sometimes people just have different opinions. It's something grown ups do.

For me, the only response to a threat to flounce is: 'don't let the door hit you on the way out'.

Flouncers, you are only just slightly better than pretend flouncers who threaten to leave and then 'decide to stay' later on in the thread. I have scorn for you both but I will actually mock the latter mercilously every time I see your subsequent posts.

Consider yourselves berated.

Greensleeves - take your point but it's not real. Much like Elvis is not alive even though you can see him on youtube (more on this debate later no doubt) , it's just words and if it's getting too heated, turn it off, look somewhere else etc.

But flouncing takes the attention away from the thread and too how one person is feeling.

Actually there is a particular person who I'm still holding a flounce against.....can anyone guess who it is? She thinks MN is shit and we are full of it and she said she was off. I smelled something funny so assumed she was being truthful.

Octo - that's the spirit - be like the mule, sit and fart till you get your own way

Oopsy I can't do links this one is better

I've never really understood flouncing from MN, I mean it's a site on the internet, if you want to leave, leave, if you want to stay, stay, no need to be mellowdramatic.

yes but how can you make the other person been seen as being in the wrong.......flounce with a long goodbye thread

I don't flounce, but I do fade in and out.

I think MN should have a place to go where you are cross where you can just post expletives for a while, perhaps called a 'fuming farm' where you could sit with impunity posting 'fucking WMMC, evil cow, bitch' etc.

Perhaps connected up to some fuel cells so we could reuse the heat

If you threatened flouncing you would only be allowed to post in this place for a set period, let's say a week.

What thread was deleted?

Well I love a good flounce its what mn is all about innit

LOL at farting like a mule Talking out of arse etc. Very good.

sorry, what's not real? The conversations and friendships we have on here? Our emotions? MN is a very real place and some of us spend a lot of time here.

of course you have to be properly attired to do this

not if it is connected with you

Yes MN is very very real

Not at all like Elvis

can someone just clarify for me 'flounce'? is it 'go off in a huff and not come on mn for a month and hope someone notices' kind of thing?

F&Z - It may seem real but the majority of stuff on here is idle chit chat and actually doesn't affect your real life.

Exceptions - good advice about practical stuff like bfing/parenting/relationships.

I just think people get a bit overwrought when what they need is ten minutes way from the screen and a cup of tea!

Yes thats the one to hope someone says please stay ...as if

No, LoTF - you have to post 'I'm leaving' or some variation.

e.g.

you are all bitches and I'm going back to Netmums

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EricGallagher - no thread was deleted, I just misposted a link - I reposted it later.

I think Aitch actually said it best (I'm sure it was you Aitch) when you wrote to a flouncer 'oh go on then, do fuck off, there's a dear'.

I nearly wet myself with that one.

The majority of stuff on here affects my RL very much. My MN friends are deeply important to me and a very large part of my life.

I think you are making huge assumptions about how people use the site and what it means to them.

thanks wmmc.
i have always thought it is a bit wierd when someone says 'im leaving' or similar.....
but, whatever floats your boat!

i believe i did say that to someone recently but i almost certainly copied it from expat.
it's interesting how many people use facebook at the mo, i think that for some people MN is like facebook. a place where you catch up with RL friends as much as weirdy virtuals who may be blokes.

I think MN is important for lots of people but that is different to flouncing. And I think flouncing is different to folk being genuinely upset.

F&Z - okay, let's agree to differ. I think you are in the minority, there is a small hard core of loyal MNers (of which I count you as one valuable part) for whom MN is very serious and very important.

For some of us though (and that includes me) MN is an amelioration on the tapestry of our online lives.