To think ODFOD used to be allowed?

[DirtyKit]

It did right?

but now it isn’t?
what happened?

IABU - it was never allowed
IANBU - it was allowed

Agreed.

Me too

ODGFAMD

Oh Do Go Forth And Multiply Dear

Been here yonks, seen it loads, used appropriately.

Of course it's patronising. It's often used to rebuke posters for being patronising. Fight fire with fire.

I always preferred this one tho

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1419634-Fuck-off-to-the-far-side-of-fuck-and-when-you-get-there-fuck-off

Ddraig bingo

I didn’t realise it was now deletion worthy. Sad because it’s sometimes definitely merited.

40 minutes until the midnight feast! Bring ginger beer and tiptoe past Matron's bedroom.

For me and the 4 posters who thanked me.

This feast you talk of - will there be cake?

I am another proponent of the ‘it was always deleted if reported’ theory. It certainly doesn’t have an automatic block like some terms, eg some ableist slurs.

Ginger cake!

Well that makes my 'it might be you but it might not' username a bit useless <cackles and Googles the blueprints of the tunnels 'neath MNHQ>

I don't think MN should delete ODFODs. Often completely justifiable. Can we start a "keep the ODFODs" petition?

@MNHQ please could you let us know what’s changed or if it is allowed?
thank you

At the risk of being told to fuck off isn't it you that's being snowflaky for caring so much about a deletion that you've started a thread about it 😅

Mumsnet is a moderated thread and it's clear personal attacks are not allowed. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don’t mind the fuck bit, bit do mind the ‘dear’. Have enough of men putting us down with this type of patronising shit without doing it to each other. So can we change it to ODFO?!

I had absolutely no idea! Learn something new…

Back when I first came to MN (10 yrs + ago) there would have been howls of derision at this statement.

This place has changed out of all recognition.

It probably wasn’t ‘allowed’ as such but only deleted if someone reports it.

Just the way things are now really

The dear is at least 50% of the point.

Yes I recognise that, but it is definitely the pathetic 50%.

I’m not upset, I was surprised that MNHQ deleted my comment and couldn’t understand it given ODFOD used to be allowed. It was on the Botox thread so in response to someone criticising other women for doing what they want with their own faces.

I was questioning if my memory had let me down.

I suppose it comes down to whether ODFOD is seen as a personal attack. I wouldn’t take it as such and the fact there used to be MN merch with the phrase seems to indicate it didn’t used to be seen as such. Now it seems that the line has moved and we’ve lost it to the dark side.

Here was me thinking it was oh do fuck off and die 🤣🤣

Where’s the fun in that? That’s just Fuck Off, really, which is quotidian.

ODFOD is so much more interesting, dripping with distain and sending a petty irrelevance on their way.

“Hush now, the grown ups are talking” vibe.

It’s not remotely misogynistic, I’d think it about a man more often than I woman, I think.

My mum used to say to my brother, “run away, little boy, your mother’s calling you,” when he was annoying. ODFOD has that feel. I’m rather fond of it.

(As to “if you can’t express yourself… not the place for you” etc - that is PROPERLY funny)