to love the fights on mn?

[LadyThingFishAlot]

god, i have to say i think they are so funny. there are some very clever people on here who are very quick minded.

the question i put to you is...

if everyone on mn had a fight, who would win and why?

Agree with soph: I have found quite a lot of the time that people who are complete bellends on one thread will, the next minute, either be saying something remarkably rational in another argument or being really helpful and sensible to someone they were raging mad with the day before.

Nice??

This isn't netmums!!

No, all power to netmums, I heart netmums, but if just doesn't have the same bite that MN has. It's a self regulated site too, and long may it be. Sometimes it feels like a lot of us have known each other for a long time and therefore we can use shorthand with eachother, cos we know each other - that's not cliquey, that's why MN exists!

Yes, newcomers might feel a bit unsure; but I knew the moment I posted and met people like Caligula, WWW, MI, Expat, MB, Mooney and so many more on a F4J thread that I was right at home. I feel challenged here. I have no illusions that if we all knew each other we would kick off like nobody's business, but we use and abuse this technilogy, it isn't sentient, it doesn't care and people can come and go without any fuss if they so choose; - and what a fucking great thing it is - we obvioulsy all need it, so thank fuck for mumsnet and it's bolshy lot!

excuse typos [sheepish ]

christ it's not cliques it's friendships born of common ground, adversarial respect, meet ups, and in short MN.

I generally lurk on heated threads and certainly have a long mental list of posters who get right up my nose!

Cod doesnt do thinly veiled

Sophable, cod started a thread saying "I know its wrong but I laugh everytime I hear mention of ipswich and the prostitute murders" because it reminded her of Alan Partridge.

Even funnier that the whole Alan Partridge thing is based in Norwich

Then folk went hysterical about how evil she was, and out of order, and laughing at folks misfortune and oh my god it was ridiculous. And it went on, and on, and on, and on, and on and on and on and on and on.

I think it's often a sign of low self esteem - like the kid who gets into a playground ruck and then tries to get other people to gang up on the one that's pissed them off.

I don't really think you're at all up your arse, Aitch - it just sounded like that in black and white. That's the thing, though, isn't it? I write something and I know how I mean it but sometimes people don't take it how it's meant. Whereas if you were talking face to face your tone and facial expression would influence how you were received.

OHh that Norwich joke has still got you chaffing has it Cod??

oooor, another situation i can think of... there was an occasion where a big ruck was going on aand it was getting out of hand and the poster (i remember who it was actually) was getting a hard time (pretty deservedly) from a bunch of relative newbies but the net effect was too much really. i know we're all individuals typing at a keyboard but it was getting out of hand. (although actually i wasn't there, i'd said my bit and left already).
it took JeremyVile stepping in to point this out, and i think she said that it was like school, like the less well-kent girls were picking on someone to look cool. and until she'd said that i don't think anyone realised how bad it had got. so that's what i mean by 'making a name', that level of joining in where it actually goes beyond. and i think it's a pretty good description of what i've seen happening on here sometimes.

sophable defn of clique:

A clique is an exclusive group of people who share common interests, views, purposes, or patterns of behavior. A clique is a subset of individuals from a larger group, who are more closely identified with one another than the remaining members of the group, and who exchange something among themselves, such as friendship, affection, or information.

so you are, and so what, its not an insult, its just like entering a room full of people having conversations you're in no position to contribute to!!!

I thought you had mis-typed gnome and were being rude

Aitch you must've done that as an XP looking at the time on your post - take a look at mine and be spooked

Aww leave her little scottish socks alone

NEGTB, It's an internet forum that is already populated with bolshy hags [usual disclaimers - not talking abotu you NOO!! (cod)] if you don;'t like bolsy hags, go find one not already claimed by said hags. That is not disrimination, just life!

Justine and co can tell us to f' off if they don't want us throwing our weight around, but I think they heart us really

I've never started an AIBU thread

But I cause plenty of trouble on other people's AIBU threads

I am scared of Expat and in awe of MI who comes in, does elliptically clever and you suddenly realise the game is so totally and utterly over. And Policy is good too

BTW, I'm drunk

it was an xp but not an irrelevant one...

MI bloody does, doesn't she? she's writing a novel, you know... when she finishes it we must all buy it and shoot it up the charts.

I'm drugged

Notevengoingtobother. I saw this thread kicking off and your postings way down and did wonder why you bothered, as you must have known what the reaction was going to be, but I'm glad you did and two hours later its still kicking off.

I agree with you that there are lots of friends on here who do stick together and feed on their friends opinions. Just like RL.

I love this site though and look on here sometimes for support but mainly to offer it if I feel I can. Or just offer an opinion even if its not worth much.

I don't agree with namechanges and think this should be outlawed by MNET.

was there a swmnbn thread?

'small, exclusive group of people, as in: I wasn't invited to join their clique.'

'an informal and restricted social form of ruling cliques or a group of politicians who limit control of others through insular conduct'

the important words are exclusive and restricted here aren't they.

and in that very important sense of the definition it is NOT a cliquey thread. or site.