to think MN is being infiltrated by Huns?

[BendyLikeBeckham]

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

I'm getting viper withdrawal.

Am I imagining it?

Thanks in advance x

That's not why you do it, greenberet as you only found that info out from a google search.

Baby dust? Baby dancing?! FFS

Are we still building a wall and are we getting Netmums and Huns to pay for the wall? (and there better not be any glitter or shit like that in it)

'Hi hun'
'Love ya hun'
'Darling '
' my lovely '
🤢🤮

@Badcat666 thank you for bringing back the lightheartedness that this thread was intended to have! It all got a bit earnest and serious.

More sarcasm, irony and satire please everyone!

#livelaughlove #blessedlife #huns4evr #f*thats**t

If we build a wall against them then their side must be a frogtape geo painted design with some glitter mixed in and a Live Laugh Love sign on it

@Andysbestadventure

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

I know the thread has moved on somewhat since this comment, but that really is not the correct possessive form. This might help you: www.grammarly.com/blog/its-vs-its/

Sorry to be a pedant, but you kind of asked for it

Anyway, as you were...

Oh hello @Sagradafamiliar - why do I do it then?

Seems you’re still out to give me a kicking?

You don’t need to build a wall against Netmums and Huns - plenty are capable of “building a wall” on MN even when Hun has never been used in a post!

Here we go

Huh?
Yeah, like you said, you googled the meaning. Then said that's why you'd been doing it :/

gingersausage

The thing is, when you are referring to MN as a business and they don't give monkey's about text speak and huns. What you seem to forget(or didn't know) is the founding members of mumsnet, the original HQ actually decided and set the tone for what they wanted from the forum. Justine use to post regularly, and many users use to pay a Justine to keep the site afloat.

I'm also pretty sure when I joined it was written somewhere in the guideline or
on an information page that text speak was to be avoided.

So the tone and founding principles for the site was set down by Justine and HQ from the off.

it would be a shame, if MN lost the things that made it mumsnet in the first place.

Yes everywhere evolves and MN has evolved over the years too.

@greenberet your post makes no sense.

MoobaaMoobaa good post and great points.

Yes I do know that @MoobaaMoobaa (just because I don’t have a recognisable name doesn’t mean I haven’t been here forever 🙄), but for god’s sake MN has moved on from the cosy little kitchen table chats to a bloody multi-million user site with multi-million £s of advertising revenue. I just wish everyone would stop trying to desperately hang on to the “old days”. It’s genuinely pathetic, in the true meaning of the word.

gingersausage good post and great points because I agree with them

MoobaaMoobaas point was that the tone was initially set by Justine and Carrie, not that she desperately wanted the good old days back. They’re long gone.

I've ended posts with an x (likely under other user names) and do it where I'm being supportive of a poster who is having difficulties. It feels like a kindness

If we are going to war that means we will need spies. Some of us need to infiltrate over there.

I've ended posts with an x (likely under other user names) and do it where I'm being supportive of a poster who is having difficulties. It feels like a kindness

I have too. It’s when people are ending every post with x as that it feels odd.

NoSauce Thank you, that was my point.

@Sagradafamiliar

No I read this thread - recalled that I had recently been ending some posts with a ‘x’ - my reasoning was it was like a hug - googled today out of curiosity whether there was any significance to it and found what I posted - which says what I’m trying to say with the added ‘x’

@Sagradafamiliar - post I did sat morning with ‘x’

Googled today any meaning to it

Which post @gingersausage

I don't mind the odd x at the end now and then, when deliberately put in as a kindness, and I may have been guilty of this myself, it's the use of many xxxxxx or xoxoxoxo as a general sign-off or saccharine response where no thought has been put in that I really object to.

Well I e certainly never been a hun myself. But I have only been here for 4 years so relatively new... but I have learned a hell of a lot about critical thinking, how to structure and argument not mention an increase in vocabulary just by reading posts here. That’s one of the reasons I love MN. I have formed very different opinions on various subjects since reading debates on here... mostly for the better.
So at the risk of sounding terribly condescending... is there a chance we can indoctrinate said ‘huns’ into the MN mindset??