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..to want to flounce because I never get to know who is pregnant on MN..

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ShinyHappyChickensLayingEggs · 17/03/2008 21:19

..never understand the cryptic clues (probably because they're not aimed at me, but others who "are allowed to be in the know", or some inner circle)... and get the urge to post "If you're pregnant, either post and say who you are so EVERYONE can congratulate you .. or bloody well keep it to yourself!" (Or at least when other people are posting that they know.. obviously not if you're incogntio because you're distressed/unsure what you're going to do/nobody on here knows who you are... it's different then).

It's a wee be isolating, when so many people keep smugly saying ^I know who it is!" They may as well go the whole hog and post ner-ner-na-ner-ner and done with it! ) and when you (perhaps stupidly)DO actually give a toss about these cyber people you count as friends-of-sorts (probably in lieu of a real social life, but still...)

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Carmenere · 17/03/2008 21:20

yeh, me too (not flouncing though natch)

MarsLady · 17/03/2008 21:23

Honey... I never know either but they are normally outed in the end!

LeaveThatEggAloneNaughtyNigel · 17/03/2008 21:23

well - i thought i was so tturned into ohbuggerybollox for a couple of days - now i'm not so am me again - so that might rule one out.
and i don't even know who anyone is anyway so i think i'll just slink back into my corner.

ShinyHappyChickensLayingEggs · 17/03/2008 21:25

Mars really? But you are just about the most loved Musnetter ever so that makes me feel a little better if you really [narrows eyes] don't know...

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Trolleydolly71 · 17/03/2008 21:25

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unknownrebelbang · 17/03/2008 23:30

Lol, the smug "I know" is sooooo irritating isn't it?

YABU to want to flounce though. That would mean MN is real.

and it isn't, is it?

is it?

ooh, rebel goes away to ponder...

Ellbell · 17/03/2008 23:45

Hold on a minute there.... You namechanged to post about the total impossibility of you being pg etc etc etc, just the other day.

Of course I knew who you were [smug]

(I'm not pg btw!)

VeniVidiVickiQV · 17/03/2008 23:48

Yes, but I know who it is [lies]

MarsLady · 17/03/2008 23:58

shiny... bless you. I'm sure there are some that would say I was a bogstandard MNer lol!

Now ladies... leave the shiny chicken alone. She joins me in blissful ignorance!

ShinyHappyChickensLayingEggs · 17/03/2008 23:58

Oh fabbie Ellbell, you just tell the whole WordWideWeb that stoopid Shiny was worried about pregnany regardless of her DH's vastectomy yonks ago...

Well that was a usesless namechange wasn't it!!

Actually, s'not the same.. I knew I couldn't be.. I just needed reasssurance re the odd symptoms. (I didn't get any though did I! The world and his wife came to tell me about their children of various ages conceived AFTER snips!!

Has DH had his yet?

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ShinyHappyChickensLayingEggs · 18/03/2008 00:01

Bogstandard yeah right Marsy (Although it may be just the cake they like )

Did you ever see that fab picture of you and my inebriated sister lolling all over each other at the meetup? Can't remember whose photo it was.. It's a lovely pic.. A mass of glossy brown bare skin and two big smiles!

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MarsLady · 18/03/2008 00:03
Ellbell · 18/03/2008 00:29

LOL! Sorry Shiny. (I never actually said which thread it was did I? You could've denied all knowledge!)

Dh hasn't been snipped yet. He went to get it done but his blood pressure was too high so they couldn't do it. (Nasty story of what happens if you get a blood clot in the scrotum.... No wonder his BP was high!)

(MarsLady - you are far from bog-standard!)

expatinscotland · 18/03/2008 00:34

I have never done, and never will, do a namechange and one of those 'I'm pregnant, guess who' threads.

Also won't participate and try to guess.

I just spill it.

expatinscotland · 18/03/2008 00:34

I have never done, and never will, do a namechange and one of those 'I'm pregnant, guess who' threads.

Also won't participate and try to guess.

I just spill it.

havalina · 18/03/2008 01:17

If it helps I don't think the recent one was an inner circle type thing, I'm not even close to an orbit nevermind an inner circle, I think you just needed to read a certain thread and you would have guessed. (I think )

CantSleepWontSleep · 18/03/2008 07:24

havalina - now you're being cryptic and smug!

belgo · 18/03/2008 07:54

I didn't do a name change either to announce my pregnancy

hippipotami · 18/03/2008 08:10

I find it all a bit 'attentionseekery'. Fair enough, until you have told hubby, it is quite fun, but to have 300 or so posts with 'who are you' desperate guesses and a few select smug 'i know' posts, just smacks of attention seeking to me.

Either you are, and you spill or you keep it to yourself.

So now those threads go into 'hide' straight away.

Expat, not sure if I have said that already (or paths have not crossed much recently) but huge congratulations to you

FioFio · 18/03/2008 08:14

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FrannyandZooey · 18/03/2008 08:22

Ner ner na ner ner

[tongue out]

CantSleepWontSleep · 18/03/2008 08:44

Ooh Fio - are you saying that's who TooPanicky is?

FioFio · 18/03/2008 09:49

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CantSleepWontSleep · 18/03/2008 12:05

Now I know you're joking!

ScoobyDoo · 18/03/2008 12:08

Was'nt the most receent one Misdee?