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AIBU?

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to think MN is being infiltrated by Huns?

467 replies

BendyLikeBeckham · 31/08/2019 13:27

So much love, babe, hun and xxxx on here lately.

I'm getting viper withdrawal.

Am I imagining it?

Thanks in advance x

Grin
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ethelfleda · 31/08/2019 22:36

I read a beautiful MN post yesterday. Someone was explaining how the hierarchy of scientific trials works. It was almost poetic and everything I love about MN.
And then, you look elsewhere and see THAT. Fucking. Monkey.

ethelfleda · 31/08/2019 22:37

It's the weird beige square (that really does look like a slice of toast) that I don't get

I’m intrigued...

onlyoneoftheregimentinstep · 31/08/2019 22:38

And the people wittering on about huns and kisses are clearly snobby arseholes.

God yes! So many smug posters with their heads firmly stuck up their own arseholes.

ethelfleda · 31/08/2019 22:41

Whatever is the problem here?

It’s like if you were watching something on TV that you were really engrossed in, and then someone came along and changed the channel to watch Love Island And then threw the remote out of the window.

Buddytheelf85 · 31/08/2019 22:42

Are the huns the people who habitually misuse the words ‘mortified’ and ‘ignorant’, declare themselves ‘devastated’, ‘fuming’, ‘raging’, or ‘heartbroken’ over tiny things, start AIBU threads entitled ‘to think [insert something inconsequential] SHOULD BE BANNED?’ Or have posters always done that?

NoSauce · 31/08/2019 22:45

How is the monkey anything like toast?

ErrolTheDragon · 31/08/2019 22:45

If this is actually an invasion by Huns, should we be concerned about it being accompanied by an invasion of Alans?

Bouffalant · 31/08/2019 22:47

🍞 = 🙈

NoSauce · 31/08/2019 22:49

So alike 🤔

Crushedvelvetcouch · 31/08/2019 22:52

ethelfleda

Its really not, as far as analogies go its as if an advert for Love Island interrupted your chosen programme momentarily.
In all likelihood the old adage of birds of a feather flocking together likely comes in to play here; the 'huns' will find their chosen subjects/threads and you are I'm certain going to find the majority of yours untarnished by their input/opinions.

On the threads where you do meet, may I suggest that you just ignore them if you genuinely find them so intolerable?

As I say, I don't mind them so much but I can lower my apparent intellect and my expectations of other people's intellect accordingly. I suppose some of you weren't imbued with much of the common touch, which is a shame.
It tends to prevent you from becoming so easily perturbed when the proletariat encroaches on your hallowed ground Wink

LaMarschallin · 31/08/2019 22:58

ethelfleda

I’m intrigued...

I Googled "pale beige square emoji" a while ago and got something to do with skintone.
I asked another poster who'd put a thumbs up one, followed by the pale beige etc about it, and they said they didn't know what it was. They said they didn't add it, but it often cropped up after they'd put a hand gesture emoji.

I may be getting a bit obsessed with finding out about it now.

Sorry OP.
Not the point of the thread, I realise.

SirJamesTalbotAndHisSpeculum · 31/08/2019 23:00

What has happened to Netmums

The site was going to be revamped.

It was then in read-only mode for several weeks longer than anticipated.

When it came back to life it was discovered that several members' details had been compromised.

A lot of the information suddenly appeared in French and Italian (by the way, what is the French and Italian equivalent of "hun"?

Now it seems to be back - but there is no "trending threads" option showing, so nobody knows what the fuck is going on.

The typeface is too small for most people to read comfortably.

Other than that it is much as it ever was. LOL, as they say there, hun. xxxxx

ethelfleda · 31/08/2019 23:00

crushed Clearly you also find them intolerable - if you have to ‘lower your apparent intellect’ and then to go on and cast them in to the lowest socio-economic group... I don’t think anyone else here has even brought class in to it...

Andysbestadventure · 31/08/2019 23:00

What @Moonmaker like when it is in it's possesive form? Such as this? Where it is being used correctly? Dfod.

ethelfleda · 31/08/2019 23:02

I should add, I don’t actually find these people intolerable. unlike fucking love island

purplebutterfly90 · 31/08/2019 23:02

What a sad thread. Please get a life. And then proceed to live your best life instead of focusing your attention on random internet peoples language/grammar. That's all hun. Hugs and baby dust xoxo

SirJamesTalbotAndHisSpeculum · 31/08/2019 23:02

And as for that stupid emoji - I have always wondered what it was.

It doesn't look like anything to me.

I actually thought it was someone shrugging their shoulders - so much like a piece of toast, as it happens.

SirJamesTalbotAndHisSpeculum · 31/08/2019 23:04

purplebutterdly90

You have omitted the apostrophe in "people's".

HTH.

Allthemadmen · 31/08/2019 23:08

Totally new to this thread I wasn't sure what it was about, thinking Mulan...Disney.... The huns are coming... We'll make a man... Out of you...

I can only say I havant noticed except... I did see a.....

Whispers

'Hubby' . Used. In. A. Post.

Maybe I interacted with one and I didn't even know 🙊🙈🙉.

Crushedvelvetcouch · 31/08/2019 23:08

ethelfleda

You're wholly correct in one respect; yes I largely ewuate them with lower socioeconomic groups and to claim otherwise would be disingenuous.
However I don't find those of apparent lower intellect intolerable, why should I?

Intellect isn't evetything. Nor should it be.

Allthemadmen · 31/08/2019 23:08

🙈🙉😅🙉🙊😊🙈😊🙊🙈🙉🙉🙊🙊🙈🙈🙈

I have interacted I'm infected 🙈🙈

StockTakeFucks · 31/08/2019 23:10

SirJames cara/cherie ?

Crushedvelvetcouch · 31/08/2019 23:10

Look at me, I'm rather clever but demonstably can't get a touch screen keypad on a samsung to cooperate with me.

Swings and roundabouts.

Oh, and tolerance Wink

StockTakeFucks · 31/08/2019 23:11

Is this a bad time to admit I like the monkey? 🙈Grin

Bouffalant · 31/08/2019 23:12

@StockTakeFucks You're now banished to NM.