To feel not witty enough for Mumsnet, but too witty for Netmums

[Tiger929]

They should make another middle of the ground site for people like me. 😂 Is it just me, or do people on Mumsnet seem more "middle class" than people on Netmums?

MN also has a fair proportion of wealthy mums. People always take their posts to be made up but you only have to look on the education boards to realise how many there really are lurking about. They just don't post much because they either get accused of lying or boasting.

So often MN cliques are mentioned. I’ve been here for about 8 years and I’ve not noticed one yet.

@singersarp

MN also has a fair proportion of wealthy mums. People always take their posts to be made up but you only have to look on the education boards to realise how many there really are lurking about. They just don't post much because they either get accused of lying or boasting.

I'm a 28 year old single mum currently on Universal Credit. I often feel really inferior when I read how other people live on here 😂

Totally different sites.As I said before under another username
Netmums is Sandy
Mumsnet is Rizzo.🙂

@Babdoc

Incidentally, when I started on MN, I thought that biscuit emoji was a pic of a breast, and meant that you thought the previous poster was a tit! I suppose that wasn’t too far off the mark, actually...

It can be used as such. For instance, if you wish to refer to Eccentrica Gallumbits, but like me can't quite remember how to spell her name then should do.

The original meaning is simply "no comment", originating from the web chat with Gordon Brown in which he infamously refused to answer the standard question "what's your favourite biscuit".

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8312215.stm

I'm not witty and I'm neither on a six-figure income or have three degrees from RG universities so I suppose in many ways I don't quite fit in here. However, I still want more varied and interesting content than is offered on Netmums, and I am not weirdly hate-filled and obsessed with Meghan Markle so that rules out certain other places. The majority of posters here are cool and I like the fact you can have interesting discussions about all kinds of random stuff as well as get pretty good advice here.

I love mumsnet. I was brought up in a tough area and on free school meals. Now I hold a Masters (not Oxbridge) and live in a detached home. So i don't know where I fit it

I occasionally laugh out loud on here but it's definitely slipped down the witty ranks. I wasn't on here years ago and often rolled my eyes when long term posters would go on about the good ole days but I've recently come across old threads while searching certain topics and it was completely different back then. Much, MUCH wittier/clever. There was a sharpness to the writing that occasionally pops up now but seems to have been common then. I now understand why some bemoan the dumbing down of the site, it's very obviously the case.

Netmums is to Mumsnet what Instagram is to Twitter. If I needed real advice on anything from micrograms (real active thread) to getting a divorce, or a cleaner, I'd come here. There is a clique, the whole site is a clique. The hive mind pisses me off for some things (see: rear facing car seats), class obsession, competitive sport mental health issues, but its almost studious avoidance of child rearing topics just keeps bringing me back.

@Arsewell

I'm not witty and I'm neither on a six-figure income or have three degrees from RG universities so I suppose in many ways I don't quite fit in here. However, I still want more varied and interesting content than is offered on Netmums, and I am not weirdly hate-filled and obsessed with Meghan Markle so that rules out certain other places. The majority of posters here are cool and I like the fact you can have interesting discussions about all kinds of random stuff as well as get pretty good advice here.

I agree. The other new place had such promise when it started in lockdown but now it is a Meghan Markle rant zone

Leave the bloody woman alone and yes you are racist no matter how many times you deny it

that rules out certain other places

Please .... what are these other places of which people speak 🤔

@CatBatCat

mumsnet isn't witty its just a bit cliquey

Ooh I'm not into cliques.. had my fill of them when my children were at school thank you, but I don't mind a fair fight. I'll stand my corner and some :)

@Babdoc

Mumsnet is a very broad church, OP. All of human life is here! Sure, there are trolls and vipers - the AIBU board is the place to go for a fight - but there are also some screamingly funny and witty threads - have a look in Classics - and also some hugely caring and practical support and advice for women suffering domestic abuse, depression, bereavement etc. I’m always impressed by the range of knowledge across all fields - science, law, medicine, gardening, child psychology, you name it, you’ll find professionals on the site. And there’s no “wittiness entry exam”. You don’t have to be flowing with jokes, just enjoy the razor wits of some of the other posters. They often make me laugh out loud, even when I’m having a bad day. It would be very dull if the site was segregated by class or wit, into a homogeneous echo chamber. Joy in diversity, as they used to say on Star Trek!

Agree It's my go - to place for advice on just about anything really

What I like about mn is the diversity of posters, you get so many different points of view and if you are a little open minded, you learn from all and might get a little enlightened about other's way of life.

But sod off to trolls and aggressive posters, really brings it down.

[quote CrazedInsomniac]@Itsjustabitofbanter, maybe work out what the emojis mean before using them? Common sense of any new forum.

Depending on what the thread was about, posting a biscuit could have been the equivalent of screaming ‘Screw you!’ on a thread about a stillbirth.[/quote]
Exactly. Why wouldn't you do some basic research?

Ooooh!

@ElizabethMainwaring

Ooooh!

I missed that one :(

..dang

I mentioned the 'other place' and my thread was immediately removed!

@Pagwatch most amazing comment 👊🏽

@Arsewell

I'm not witty and I'm neither on a six-figure income or have three degrees from RG universities so I suppose in many ways I don't quite fit in here. However, I still want more varied and interesting content than is offered on Netmums, and I am not weirdly hate-filled and obsessed with Meghan Markle so that rules out certain other places. The majority of posters here are cool and I like the fact you can have interesting discussions about all kinds of random stuff as well as get pretty good advice here.

Is your username linked to the other place?

Well spotted Polnm!

@ElizabethMainwaring

Well spotted Polnm!

It made me smile

I’ve had shit for 2 days because I left a biscuit emoji on someone’s thread so I could find it again.

That’s a bit of a weird way to placemark a thread

it was a really sad thread so I must have come across as a complete twat then

Ooof, that’s quite a clanger!

Well I’m not MC. Then again I’m not witty either. .
Net mums is nice enough probably too nice and too snowflakey for my liking.
Mumsnet has far more character and personality.