...to expect you Professional MNers to...

[5goldrings4MONKEYBIRDs]

....bloody enlighten us Newbies about the Hidden Depths A LITTLE EARLIER so I don't have to:

a. assess what the minimum time is to cuddle my two youngest to sleep so I can get back on to catch up on 41 fecking pages of Middle Class Bore, 8 million pages of Don't Do This and I haven't even found Jon Ronson's Missus yet. Can we have a very special mini-digest of Essential MN classics please otherwise DH will be calling social services soon...?

b. burn my bacon and smoke out my kitchen, and put a whole in my bread trying to butter it too quickly?

c. get butter all over my keyboard?

My own fault I know for not looking beyond Breast and bottle for 2 months but FFS you coulda pointed me in the right direction? Where do I fecking start?

Recognition.
People remember their name and see who they are associated with.

Wow!

I always thought mumsnet was a bit like being at school in quite a nice way (I was at a convent boarding school), but that is truly awe inspiring.

I want to be someone's bitch lackey.

Or you could just pick a random poster, and go round posting great post, and make everyone think WTF is s/he on, then they'll all remember you too.

It could be like being at school in a horrid way. As an anti-Christmas thing

Now the thing is, I have been posting "great post" and stuff like that lately when I've particularly liked what someone has said but have nothing much further to add of my own. Does that mean people would think I was doing it to gain a foothold in the MN hierarchy?

How do you mean pinetreedog?

I don't think people read too much into it, iorek. I hope not anyways

But about being at school in a bad way how did you mean ptd?

I just meant there could be a spoof mnet fagging system. It would all go horribly wrong though. The idea alone is interesting enough

I am a newbie too stumbling my way through unknown nm talk- I think I have been here solidly for weeks. Dont even know if dh still lives here!?!

I'm going out tonight! aggghhhhhh how will I cope!!!

great post by the way!

if anyone ever says 'great post' to me I will punch them
in fact whenever i read 'great post' i feel like chukking up

Great post!

Lol dingdong, I sometimes read a post and think it is a great post though.

We did that fagging thing in the summer, IIRC

Apparently I am a God on MN. Don't know what the actual MN elite think about this, and as a practising atheist am not interested in prayers, but cash and bottles of Jack Daniels are always acceptable...

Well, it's official... Active Convos (see, I've even adopted a whole new lingua franca) has turned me horrible and given me ADHD and made me try just that bit too hard to be funny AND noticed by big girls and talk complete inane shite just because I can, and it's only been 24 hours since VS enlightened me.

I can now be found, peppered liberally all over the sodding place, attacking in all directions, especially lovely naive people asking to be shot at just for fun.

What happened to me? I used to just try and be helpful to the BF lot, ask the odd needy question myself and be extremely understanding but open when someone wanted to drop the BF. Now I'm lambasting city workers for thinking they deserve more than arse wipers, wombling on about making love to my new fridge and attacking rogue midwives who think reading Company magazine is good prep for childrearing. Or summat.

Will the ADHD wear off? What in god's name happens when MNers go back to work? Do you have to go cold turkey or just get an extremely good 'boss coming' button on your PC and hope you don't endanger the financial health of your LOs by being a dirty stinking ADDICT...?

And now I'm even bored with my Xmas name and not only want to change it, but have got this strange urge to create mischief while doing so. Can I be someone's fag please. Then can they please spank some sense in?

Ta.

Thank you MonkeyBird and I thought it was just me- I think I will just follow you round saying "great post!"

Oh Great post by the way

There was once a thread where newbies were assigned to oldies as mentors. I'm sure custardo had one for a while. She's on to great things now i hear.

I've never tried Active Convos. Think I'd definitely better not.

Madamez now I'm picturing you as C3PO in Return of the Jedi with the rest of us mumsnetters mere ewoks bustling around you and squeaking.

I've always enjoyed your posts, but how did you get to be a God?

Iorek, I dunno. But someone told me I was one [shrugging helplessly emoticon]. C3P0? Is that the camp gold one or the short chubby burbly one - or the hairy barking one?

I'm still waiting patiently for Lord Madamez to tell us about her golden showers party.

He's the camp gold one that the ewoks mistook for a God in Return of the Jedi [geek emoticon]

Great thread, MB

Boco; I can;t remember. I drank to much. Noooo that's not what I meant....

OK I am going to bed right now.