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To mourn MN as it was in the Moulden Days

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GregoriaTheGreat · 02/10/2019 21:59

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.

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Onebatmother · 04/10/2019 20:26

Boysarelikedogs - so lovely! ... and who remembers Suebaroo? I was thinking about her just the other day. She was a natural feminist stuck in an extremely conservative religious sect; I really cared about her. It was the possibility of making those kind of connections that was amazing here then - so many different varieties of smart women, whom having children had sort of knocked sideways in one way or another. Not necessarily because we were struggling, but because we were having to rethink our certainties and were all sort of.. open to connection.

Although I agree that it was v London centric and MC and it could be a bit .. -y at times. As someone said up thread, it all feels giddy when you're on the inside and it's easy to overlook or ignore the fact that being consistently on the outside must have hurt. Gawd, I'm really sorry if I was part of that for anyone - I was sort of on the edges of a few groups but not, you know, truly cool. Though of course I am now a cool mom, not a regular mom. Bien sur.

Gah, there are about five or six names of people I loved that are just out of reach. I have such a shit memory now. Slur! and Hackney...girl? lady? And I did love Hecate. And there was someone else who was an evolutionary biologist or psychologist, and very post-feminist, with whom I'd have looooong debates in a way you just wouldn't now.

I hope Dittany realises how many lives she changed. That must have been a freaking hard row to hoe, back when liberal feminism seemed to be fixing things .

ScrambledSmegs · 04/10/2019 20:27

Oh! I didn't know it was TDWP that Zombie did the rescue mission for. That was an odd evening.

Does anyone remember the box room poster? I always had a horrible feeling that it was possibly and awfully true. Haven't seen that one in a while now.

HerRoyalFattyness · 04/10/2019 20:27

I agree it's definitely a lot different now.

I only came on here at the end of 2014 (i was pregnant with my youngest at the time) but it's definitely changed a lot since then even.

I miss some posters, recognise a few on here (although don't think I'd be recognised back except by a few posters I'm on long running threads with) and avoid all the "Hun" shit.

PlacidPenelope · 04/10/2019 20:32

Fair enough, I am a tad grumpy - nothing to do with MN or anyone on it.

CatThiefKeith - you could always tell which threads she had started and they were a joy to read, I particularly loved the thread about when her dog ate her boss' lunch.

ScrambledSmegs · 04/10/2019 20:35

Although I agree that it was v London centric and MC and it could be a bit .. -y at times. As someone said up thread, it all feels giddy when you're on the inside and it's easy to overlook or ignore the fact that being consistently on the outside must have hurt.

Completely agree Onebatmother.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 04/10/2019 20:36

I remember getting completely enthralled by the cheating bf being sent on a date with a penguin.

There was that time a couple of MNetters went on a rescue mission to someone’s home and helped them clean it.

I didn’t mind LaQueen’s fakery but when she used to criticise others I lost respect. Crumbs posting the hotel bedroom was hilarious.

I really agree with the comments about abuse apologists at the moment. Some fuckers recently chased a poster from AIBU to relationships nitpicking about details in her post when it was glaringly obvious she was being financially abused. The thread had be deleted because of them. And as for the twats posting why don’t you get a job to someone who was working and covering the childcare. MN should be a place where abused women can find support not further abuse.

ScrambledSmegs · 04/10/2019 20:39

CatThiefKeith yes {sad]. She was really funny. Just one of those people who bonkers stuff happened to, but she had such a sunny outlook and a great way with words.

Onebatmother · 04/10/2019 20:46

JeremyVile!

PlacidPenelope · 04/10/2019 20:52

I have a vague recollection of the box room poster, can't remember the details exactly but do remember it being pretty awful.

Advicepleasefortoday · 04/10/2019 21:05

@gingersausage I agree with you, been around since 2003, I would share my past names but that Reddit group is stalking and I name-change every week now.

Dljlr · 04/10/2019 21:09

I know everyone bangs on about the hated penis beaker thread but the most overrated one for me, from that time, was the fucking trex one. I clicked on that thread when it had just been posted and thought it was a load of utter guff, then it filled up with people finding it utterly hilarious then it got referenced forever more as a highpoint of wonderfulness. Just, nah. The bloke who wanted us to get in touch with our yonis was good though (Brian?) and that poor cow who answered her own question like 3 years later about a pram made me do actual tears of lol

Ninkaninus · 04/10/2019 21:11

Heh yes the pram thread made me chuckle too.

Fizzypoo · 04/10/2019 21:13

The Brian thread about massaging yonis was very funny.

PrincessFiorimonde · 04/10/2019 21:22

I joined in 2009. Tend to agree with a pp way up thread who said there is still wit, but the site's so big that it's more diluted.

Totally agree about the nonsense too.

ScrambledSmegs · 04/10/2019 21:23

The poster who answered her own OP was called ecco. Which was perfect.

I enjoyed being schooled in sexual technics too Grin

ssd · 04/10/2019 21:26

Who was the poster who had a daughter and lived somewhere in the North of England, I think she was a teacher, she went to florida a lot? Was it hulababy?

Habbibu · 04/10/2019 21:28

Goodness me. I can't remember when I last posted but browsed a lot and got sucked in by familiar names, including my molar pal hazey.... Hello!

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GregoriaTheGreat · 04/10/2019 21:38

Hulababy! That's the name I was trying to remember last night. She had a DD at a school that many of my friends went to a million few years ago.

Admittedly I have had wine, but it was worth starting this thread for "I'm hardly getting personal, Glenda".

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Hullygully · 04/10/2019 21:43

Good lord!
Habs, it's been YEARS

And dear fliffy

Habbibu · 04/10/2019 21:44

It has a bit! My little post molar baby is now 10...

Hullygully · 04/10/2019 21:45

I think you were the first person I spoke to on here, Habs. You were kind

GlendaSugarbeanIsJudgingYou · 04/10/2019 21:45

If anyone is feeling grumpy this Friday evening take a look at this.

A porcupine names Teddy Bear eating pumpkins.

GlendaSugarbeanIsJudgingYou · 04/10/2019 21:45

Named*

Ugh.

Habbibu · 04/10/2019 21:46

Oh, wow. You had a rough start with a misfiring joke as I recall. I thought it was v funny....

Whatafackinliberty · 04/10/2019 21:48

This is like a particularly shit episode of loose women.