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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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Hullygully · 04/10/2019 21:53

Yes, hab. It had all gone terribly well and then there was a great misfortune.

Hahaha

hazeyjane · 04/10/2019 21:54

Heavens to Betsy! Habbibu!!! In a truly woo moment, this thread made me think of you earlier, and wonder how you were getting on....and here you are?!!

My post molar baby(s) are 13, 12 and 9!

Have you had your Pisjoëg silver plated? (If you don't remember this I think of it every time I have to do a urine sample or go to Ikea...)

AudacityOfHope · 04/10/2019 21:55

I miss the realness of it back in the day; it felt like a proper community, a gathering place.

Women were really supported, online and IRL, when terrible things happened to them. People cleaned houses for those who were struggling; we sent cards to someone whose child died; someone posted all of their weight watchers books to me when I mentioned going but couldn't afford it.

Little things, and big things, but it felt real and often meaningful.

Cut to this week and I've had to leave two threads because women were just pissing their disdain all over each other; we've divided ourselves by class and age and politics and now we scrap over the smallest things, desperate to get one over a stranger inside our phones.

It doesn't feel like a women's space any more for me, really.

untoldstories · 04/10/2019 21:55

@GlendaSugarbeanIsJudgingYou

That's brilliant, I saw what I think is the same Porcupine eating sweetcorn the other day on YouTube, shall try and find it. Grin

Habbibu · 04/10/2019 21:56

I very much do remember it. Can't see a 2 litre plastic jug without thinking about it! That thread was a lifeline.

PrincessFiorimonde · 04/10/2019 21:58

Love that porcupine!

Aridane · 04/10/2019 21:59

Same old, same old

untoldstories · 04/10/2019 21:59

Yes, same Teddy.
I have a Grandson called Ted! Grin

GlendaSugarbeanIsJudgingYou · 04/10/2019 22:00

I had no idea porcupines were so noisy.

ScrambledSmegs · 04/10/2019 22:08

Is that porcupine talking or is it my overactive imagination? It's adorable!

untoldstories · 04/10/2019 22:16

GlendaSugarbeanIsJudgingYou

Me neither, but isn't it wonderful?!

Mummylin · 04/10/2019 22:25

Samcro we had such fun on the word game back in the days, with lovely Tn0g. I remember that time fondly.

PlacidPenelope · 04/10/2019 22:27

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

Happy to oblige, GregoriaTheGreat.

Greensleeves · 04/10/2019 22:31

Does anyone know what happened to Spidermama? She was so interesting to talk to. Dry sense of humour.

Also WickedWaterWitch

I try not to do the cliquey-nostalgia thing as it tends to make people lose their shit (understandably) but nope, it isn't the same. I do miss the old vibe.

SlightlyWizened · 04/10/2019 22:34

I just read an old thread I'm on with Spidermama and wondered the same thing.
BexieID
Carrielou
nicolamumof3
Deemented
Disenchanted
I used to chat pushchairs and it was heaven! Happy days indeed.

Shosha1 · 04/10/2019 22:41

I've been here since the early 2000's and the funny threads were Funny then.

I wish I could remember it all. But there was one about aDH looking for a hole in a swimming pool. From the Inside. With Google's Made me howl.

AndcLissue with her tea room during the day. And the Bar in the evening . God we talked some bollocks in there

ScrambledSmegs · 04/10/2019 22:45

I just laughed out loud at the M&S toblerone AMA.

Proper silliness. That's what I like. No penises or beakers to spoil the ambience.

ScrambledSmegs · 04/10/2019 22:46

I am practically delirious with lack of sleep though so don't get your hopes up.

RustyBear · 04/10/2019 22:50

Shosha! Remembrance the cocktails in the bar?

RustyBear · 04/10/2019 22:50

*remember

HoneyDragon · 04/10/2019 23:05

I loved the pushchair threads. You were considered normal there for having five in your hallway and could hun people with abandon and not get a single wee humphy face. It was MNs fluffy side Grin

shinynewapple · 04/10/2019 23:08

Again- yawn...

Why do these threads come up every bloody week

Greensleeves · 04/10/2019 23:09

The massive bust-up on the pram thread one night was fucking comedy gold - all these pram enthusiasts ripping into each other and STILL ending every post with "hun", "babes", "xxxxxx"

HoneyDragon · 04/10/2019 23:12

It’s was great it was like being Mumsnet bilingual as you flitted betwixt the two. Worried you might accidentally slip out a hunni xx in Chat.

And as we all swapped and sold them we all paid our CAT subs so you could annoy other board users with having message privileges, like a swanky millionaire that could fritter your cash on such extravagances.

SlightlyWizened · 04/10/2019 23:23

HoneyDragon you are right! Reading it back......I hadn't remembered the level of hun and xxx. Pram Hun was a vile insult thrown about by the rest of MN