To not know this (MN term)

6 replies

Hollanda40 · 21/08/2019 17:01

What does hairy handed mean? I keep getting visions of people turning Into werewolves or the like.

Really confused as to why werewolves are being targeted here.

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Sahara123 · 21/08/2019 17:03

Are you sure it’s not Heavy Handed...

helpmeiamatoad · 21/08/2019 17:03

Hairy handed = troll

bilbodog · 21/08/2019 17:04

🤣🤣🤣🤣

BlankTimes · 21/08/2019 17:37

Trollhunting is not allowed by MNHQ and it's a complete pain anyway, if someone thinks someone else is trolling, they should just report it to MNHQ and let them deal with it.

However, there's a minority of timewasters
posters who just can't seem to help themselves and are determined to "out" a troll instead of reporting direct to MNHQ, so they make what they think are veiled remarks like 'hairy handed' or 'under the bridge' or make carefully worded posts to claim someone is a troll without using those exact words and having their posts removed by MNHQ.

RabidRabbles · 21/08/2019 17:45

It used to be a reference to people joking about not being a troll and saying, "I'm not a hairy-handed trucker".

After that it just got shortened to hairy-handed.

DisplayPurposesOnly · 21/08/2019 18:02

It's nowt to do with mumsnet.

People used to be told/believe that masturbation would make hairs grow on the palms of your hands.

Hairy-handed = wanking, ie, someone has posted about something that titillates them so they can get sexually-aroused by the replies.

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