I know @Lampzade that this sort of thread is not "nice", and on the surface may not seem to have any beneficial qualities. I also don't suppose that @Nightsgettingabitlighter started this thread out of any conscious, social ideological thinking.
(There was another similar thread, but I think it was about people we know who we are not too keen on - apologies to both OP's if my memory is playing me up again - anyway I think that OP said that that was what gave her the idea for this thread)
However, we all (and I mean by that the majority of the Earth's population) have been through terrible and emotional upheavals in at least the last 4 years. There are many ways to help a population counteract some/all/any/a few of, the effects caused by such disruptions. However, once we drastically cut down a forest and are left with a few individual, or small clumps, of only half alive looking trees, then the choices available to help those worn out, or teetering on a precipice, individual trees, has also been drastically reduced.
What on Earth am I going on about? To be fair, I have to admit that I barely know. I feel as if I am a few feet under water, in a very choppy sea, but on trying to see through the waves breaking both the surface of the sea, and my view of the dull - but yet welcome - grey light as it is constantly fragmenting above me. I find myself thinking (correct usage of "myself" I think?)
"do I actually want to find enough strength to start pushing myself through the water in a mad attempt to survive whatever the latest setback might be, or should I just give up trying, and just let myself sink forever downwards, whilst saying my first, and now maybe, my very last prayer in such a long time?"
As I quickly sink, would I be desperately begging some occult presence to ease my suffering, and to not let my lungs silently scream in the pain of gallons of water pushing out and replacing the precious air that I am only just managing to still hold on to? Why am I being so ridiculously fanciful - kind answers only to PO Box 65 please - @Lampzade, and anyone else who is still here and dreaming of what is at the other end of this very strange rabbit hole?
Where was I? Oh yes, sometimes we need to let off a little steam, and let our constant striving to be a good, kind, and nice person, not be quite so good, kind and nice, even if only for a very short time. To have the confidence to let ourselves "go" for a very short time, we need to be somewhere where we ultimately feel safe, because occassionally we need a place away from the prying eyes, and judgemental looks and words from those who know us, and insist they love us. If anyone can be bothered to read my whole reply to Lampz, and if you, or they, want to berate me, I will be safe, because you don't know who I am. If the Daily Mail pick up this thread, they don't know who I am either. The only ones who know who I am are those acting on behalf of Mumsnet Headquarters, and I trust them to not give my private details to anyone outside of MH.
By the way, I am not talking about needing to give in to some deep dark secrets, such as which Mumsnetter was kind enough to let me bury my abusive husband, under their patio... I am just talking about this being a safe place to let off some steam, this time by giving our views on certain "celebrities". If any of those celebrities do see this thread, they should just let anything unkind being said about them roll off their backs and get lost in the muddy waters breaching a river - hopefully not the River Styx - unless of course there is some tangible truth that they are as horrible as the Mumsnetter complaining about them is saying...
So please stop worrying about this thread Lampz, I doubt very much that any of the celebrities will even find out about it, unless of course, you or any other Mumsnetters kick up such a storm about it that it becomes inevitable that the paparazzi pick it up!