It’s all gone a bit nethuns

[nethunsinthatway]

Well come on... it has hasn’t it?

I know it’s been done to death “I remember when all was fields, joules and shark Hoovers” but Aibu to say... last month or so...

Or am I just getting old?

i'm old, although not 'mouldy' old, and i do like a x at the end.
sorry.
lol.
i like those too.
he he.

In short, “all a bit nethuns” doesn’t mean anything. However much you want to be part of a special superior online clique, you’re not. There’s no need to defend it, it doesn’t exist.
This isn’t a tribe, it’s a public forum to which everyone is invited to join...and they do, whether you approve of their posting style or not.

Pecking at posters for saying ‘hun’ won’t change that fact one little bit, all it does is mark you out as not having the capacity to see beyond your own (unfounded) prejudice.

Of course it exists. MN has gone down the NM route. It’s not an insult just a fact. The demographics have changed. There’s more inane threads, more bitching about inconsequential stuff, more grammatical errors and misspelt words and it’s odd to deny that.

I've used both MN and NM and I can't honestly see that they are so different. You get a lot of intelligent and balanced posters on NM. It's definitely bitchier here though.

I've been posting here for eight years and there have always been scores of inane threads bitching about inconsequential rubbish. It's Mumsnet's stock in trade and the best thing about it. Don't kid yourself otherwise.

Nothing has changed. It's the same as it's always been...people write posts that get torn to pieces by a gang mentality that has no foundation to speak of.

Perhaps the demographics have changed, we wouldn't know without a survey, but who is to say what is of consequence and, particularly on AIBU, there was never a shortage of bitchy comments.

I have been on Mumsnet about 6 years and I can't see a huge change. The one thing that has remained the same is that there are regular threads about how Mumsnet has gone downhill. There used to be endless threads about how people hated netmums, tickers and baby dust and people were accused of coming over from there if they didn't fit the Mumsnet clique.

Why do you think there’s threads every week about how it’s changed, pointing out grammatical errors etc and the like?

Nosauce because there are so many snobs o here who want to post into an echo chamber and are too narrow minded to accept different points of view?

nerr
I used MN and another site (not NM) and found that when having infertility issues MN was quite catty about fertility in places. You'd get some amazing advice and support in places and then people (who I assume see threads in active and don't see which topic it's in) would stick the knife in a lot more than on the alternative forum I use. I'm no fan of unconditionally affirming, but I did take a hiatus after a particularly horrible thread.

The thing that I find has changed a bit on here is the desire for some posters to fall over themselves pretending they never judge, don't ever find other people's behaviour rude or annoying, never find other people's quirks irritating etc and then accuse anyone who is honest about these irritations of being awful/mean/sneery etc. I think it must be bloody hard being so damn enlightened all the time.

Why do people post about how Mumsnet has changed every week? Personally I think they do because it's an excuse to be snobby against those they perceive as lower class and of lower intelligence.

There probably has been a change but in my opinion not a significant one. I think it's a good thing because why would you only want opinions of people from the same demographic as you?

Yes I agree...there have always been threads snooting about this. They're predictable and regular and all say the same thing...for years.
It's nothing new...ergo nothing has changed.

Why are TAATs so disapproved of here? The swearing is much worse.

Snooting? New word?

Lolasmiles some posters irritate me alright but they aren't the ones calling people hun.

Snooting - is a colloquialism from my youth that I've hung on to. Describes the act of being snooty perfectly imo.

People might not continue to read a post if it has an error like “would of” in it. I’m sorry but that must be the case.

Obviously more of an issue it it’s in the title.

Some people do get a lot of affirmation on mumsnet but certain groups tend to get very little e.g. step parents, second wives, MILs, older women in general, unemployed people. We wouldn't like the status quo to change by getting too many of the wrong type, would we?

Same here...already said I'm as caustic as the next viper but not over spelling or using xx as I don't see those things as a measure of worth.

Hubby hubby hubby!!!

Some people send others a bunch of flowers emoji as a sign of support. I like that. It’s not that different from xx or the apparently dreaded “hun”.

There's a difference between noticing a thread title or post with mistakes in it and feeling the need to point it out, publicly, with all the dramatic "I simply can't understand/have you really gone through life thinking that was correct/being the 75th twat to day ""HAVE, OP, it's HAVE" like the fuckinh apple just dropped on your head for the first time.

Though, as ever, the "my eyes my eyes" grammar twats make far more mistakes than the poor fucker with that one use of "of" in the wrong place.

It's rife on this thread, for a start.

Some people might point the error out but some people might not. They might, however, not bother reading further due to the error.

I can read through an error no problem. I make them myself enough times. It’s the lack of paragraphs that I find hard to read, I don’t understand why it’s so bad to ask for them.