To mourn MN as it was in the Moulden Days

[GregoriaTheGreat]

Admittedly, it was not perfect (full of quiches and Queen Bees). So much so that I gave it a rest for a considerable while. I may even have Flounced at some point (though was not a Mouldie. I would never have been cool enough).

But I now mourn the Olden Days when nobody had to bother with "lighthearted" when a thread was evidently lighthearted. Nobody took everything quite so seriously, even when they would have good reason to.

Posters generally had a decent command of spelling and grammar, too.

Maybe I'm just old and need to take up knitting or something.

YANBU OP.
I've been here years. When I first joined there were many more lighthearted threads and even the serious ones were peppered with humour. Threads would develop. Now, most long threads are just 860 posters piling on.

I started a thread a couple of years ago about winning the Pass the Parcel at DS1's birthday party. The responses to what was an obviously lighthearted thread were weird, nasty and OTT. I was until I found out that I was being discussed off board. No idea why, I was not a prolific, popular or particularly interesting poster. I'm still not.

It changed the way I saw MN.

@DameFanny Holy. Shite. Ha. Yes to patrolling the mean streets. I’ve seen into a hazy possible future...

“Your message caused the klaxons to ring over at Women Against Abuse Apologists, pronounced, “Waaaaaa,” which is also the sound of surprise we make when reading such a dangerously misinformed comment. We have annotated your comment for the good of the many:
You should just sit down and talk with him. No trained professional recommends talking with an abuser. In fact, not even couples’ therapy (without the abuser having SIGNIFICANT individual therapy first) is usually recommended, as it can be used as a springboard for more abuse if you make yourself more vulnerable.
He’s probably just saving the money for you. How lovely, so you can live a miserable existence, walking on eggshells around your abuser now in poverty, so that in the future, you can live a miserable existence, walking on eggshells around your abuser in a mansion.
Just give him the benefit of the doubt, hun. You do not have to give anyone who hurts you the benefit of the doubt. You do not have to be nice to anyone who hurts you - physically, emotionally, or mentally. Not now, not ever.
This has been WAAA, breaking up another abuse apologist. Just ring the klaxon if you should need us!

We used to send each other stuff, as well. I remember there were always parcels going back and forth, things for people's dc, passing on books. I still have some of those. Maybee this still happens and I have those boards hidden?

(No way would I give anyone off the internet my address nowadays!!)

Presumably wolef with the extra e, came from the cartoon where the wolf is thrown by the shepherds crock through the air at the end of the programme. I can't remember the name of it but there was the catchphrase "where's the wolef?" Was there a Lambsy?

crook

Can we just take a moment together to sit quietly and think how vair, vair happy leQ would be to come here today and read a description of her as being the “vair vair posh” one? If there’s any good in this thread, it’s right there

Was she posh? My MN poshometer is set to PPQ. I still think of her when I see a hornbeam (she planted an avenue of them)

I think ginger is spot on Hully.

Excellent @RightYesButNo, let's build us a phrasebook and head into hunnish heartland

It's the wolef

For a minute I thought it was 2010 and I’d time travelled to a bunfight of yore.

As you all were

Depends on your definition of posh. And do you need more than two hornbeams lined up to create an avenue?

(The one I liked for amusement was Crumbs with her many children and extravagant entertaining)

I remember the swaps I think there was even at swap board at one point @nibdebiddle it was called Mumsnet swaps

I miss Mrs.Badger from S&B though I don't miss Cod from S&B too much arse licking for my liking.

Thanks OP for starting the thread I've been reading through my old posts in my first user name. Though I can't find the fuck it rucksack one link anyone ?

Was she posh?

Word would have it, no. Not at all. She was in her head though. She loved to pontificate about her life and how wonderful it was while making some people feel rubbish about theirs.

I think things were very different in reality to how she portrayed them on MN. Quite sad in some ways.

cod is still around afaik

I blame penis beaker!

Was she posh?.

LeQ did have vair strong views —mainly about paint— but she was more of a posh wannabe, wasn’t she. I remember every Irish MNer rose up as one against her, because she was rude about their holiday accommodation. It was one of the most spectacularly ill-judged OPs I’ve ever seen.

Fuxxake why can’t i do strike through any more? Stupid rubbish eyesight and creaky fingers on stupid shitty phone

Definitely unposh. Describing children who don’t pass the 11+ as “dregs” while in conversation with someone whose child hadn’t is of my fondest memories of her.

I think I thought she was posh because I'm common

No- you thought she was posh because she lied. One of the few posters who have ever actually got under my skin.

Describing children who don’t pass the 11+ as “dregs” while in conversation with someone whose child hadn’t is of my fondest memories of her.

. Shit. That's LOW .

hully fids and IPOAT...all wonderful...

Sorry, I didn't mean to start up bad memories of anyone. I didn't know LeQ very well, I was mostly off MN at that time.

(Of course I have a shitlist of usernames that has endured for 14 years or so )

I came here about 8 years ago - a year or so before penis beaker turned it all to worms.

To my recollection, it was much wittier than it is now & posts moved much faster.

I remember Hully well 7 a batshit thread of hers about a wedding & spoons .

Still enjoying mack a rolls, Hully?