To spend literally all day on mumsnet?

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Day off. Could be being productive, creative, relaxing with good films and books. Planting shit, going for bike ride. Meeting friend.

Nope. Instead I'm eating crisps and hanging around mumsnet and have been since this morning. Cant see myself dragging myself away until about 5pm at which point I'll probably watch some First Dates (making my way through all seasons).

I'm a loser arent I?

@NiceandCalm

Do you also find yourself telling your significant other about 'problems' on here - as if you were talking about a mate? Or is that just me?

All the time.

I'm on and off it too much, meant to be job hunting but it's so depressing

I don't know about unreasonable but you must be flipping patient.

The same threads appearing over and over, so bloody boring sometimes.

That's not to mention the amount of tedious threads (obviously there are a lot of good ones too).

I hide so many threads, I think that bit of my screen is starting to wear out.

@Lexilooo

24 hours would be "literally all day and all night" not just all day

How many hours are there in a day?

Crikey, calm down!!

@Dawnlassie stop been pendantic

@vodkaredbullgirl

If people can stop saying "literally" in every bloody sentence then I will. It completely changes the meaning of what they are attempting to convey.

I can't find much of interest any more outside of the feminism threads. Probably been here too long ...

@Dawnlassie you need to get a life, literally.

www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/109061

1c @Dawnlassie

@Ducksurprise and @NiceandCalm thank god I’m not the only one
I do that all the time. DP must be bored stiff every time I start a sentence with “On Mumsnet...”

@Chicchicchicchiclana

I can't find much of interest any more outside of the feminism threads. Probably been here too long ...

Yes and I do feel that in 9 years I probably haven't got any more to say on the subject of BF v FF and seen every variation of a CF parking thread complete with diagrams. Although I do miss the competitive primary school lunchbox days .

I spend a lot of time on MN. Have done for the last 17 years!

I didn't go to college today (sick) so I've spent all day watching Netflix, playing the sims and on mumsnet

I would use the actual (not the weird new) meaning of the word literally to say literally all day meaning from when I had woken up, not necessarily from 00:01.

I would mean it literally as in every waking moment, saying "I've been doing this all day!" (Not literally) would mean that something had taken up a large chunk of my day but not, actually, all of it.

Before you wake up it's not really the day, is it, it's the night.

Anyway OP I have done this before. I find it makes me feel a bit depressed and stressed out though

Yes if I am going to work 'all day' it means a 7 hour shift for me not a 24 hour one thankfully.

My excuse for spending so much time on Mumsnet is that I get very few opportunities to have have a good gossip/vent/chat with friends - my interactions with people who are not family or work colleagues are so rare, that Mumsnet is a substitute.

LizzieMacQueen
Mumsnet to me is like a multi staged theatre. You can dip in and out of 'plays'. Watch how the person on the stage (the OP) interacts with her audience. You might decide to chip in with your own tuppence worth then move onto the next 'play'; more likely you're just there to watch the dramas unfold.
Given what little else there is to do, I don't judge you.

Love this answer, it makes mumsnet sounds like a actual hobby. Wonder if I can put this on a cv where they ask about hobbies...

@NiceandCalm

Do you also find yourself telling your significant other about 'problems' on here - as if you were talking about a mate? Or is that just me?

Yes sometimes.

He thinks we are an odd bunch though - one day he used my phone for the internet and it opened on the Christmas shopping thread. Someone made a typo and instead of saying 'thick woolly scarf' she said 'thick willy scarf'. Cue a fully page of chat about willy scarfs. This is what he saw when he opened the internet. He didnt realise it was a typo and thought we actually come on MN to chat about the likes of willy scarfs

@NiceandCalm

Do you also find yourself telling your significant other about 'problems' on here - as if you were talking about a mate? Or is that just me?

all the time with everyone. I don't even need an intro anymore. I just say 'omg I read this post online' and am immediately met with a 'was it Mumsnet'

I literally love that half of this thread is about the actual AIBU and the other half about the use/misuse of the word literally...this is literally why I hang around here

@Lazysundayafternnons - . You do realise I will now have to look up 'willy scarfs'!

And 'fake oodies' now!

you need to get a life, literally

Incorrect use of they word again. Fail.

@Marisishidinginmyattic

Yes I have looked at that link. And it shows my point to be correct.