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Original poster

to think other mums forums are mostly poop?

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faroffsomewhere · 17/04/2008 16:28

Mumsnet seems to be the only one where people are witty with banter.
I've not found another where you can talk as you do in real life.
They often are full of things which just aren't like true conversation.
Or maybe it's ME

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faroffsomewhere · 17/04/2008 17:14

They talk about mumsnet on other forums too don't they?
About how scary it is.
Tossers

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southeastastra · 17/04/2008 17:14

i can think of a couple of other sites that are good and not too hunny

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faroffsomewhere · 17/04/2008 17:15

Captain WHAT? tell us hun.. hug

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faroffsomewhere · 17/04/2008 17:15

Where south?

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MrsMattie · 17/04/2008 17:17

I was a Netmums regular for ages. There are a few cracking posters there, but a lot of people left over the Nestle boycott thingie. Then the sparkly Union Jacks and pink tickers got out of hand and all it went down hill. One day I discovered when I typed the word 'prat' it automatically turned into 'apple'. I flounced in disgust and came and had a good, fucking rant about it on MN. the rest is history...

cyteen · 17/04/2008 17:18

I was using the Babycentre boards for a while when I first got pregnant; there were some nice people on my antenatal board, but loads of text speak, tickers everywhere, and I never really felt like I fitted in. I don't want to do them down too much as I did get some great support and information while I was there, but it definitely seems like much more of a 'hugs and support' rather than 'real people having real discussion' type board, which did my head in.

I left after someone started a thread asking if anyone else had declined all the screening blood tests, and it all got a bit self-righteous and 'if you didn't decline you shouldn't post on this thread'. Which seemed like a load of shit to me. People were upset and their feelings were not deemed to be valid; that's not the way a discussion should be run IMO.

I like MN much more [/assmosis]

southeastastra · 17/04/2008 17:22

raising kids and bad mothers club

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faroffsomewhere · 17/04/2008 17:24

Oh, I didn't like raising kids, tho I know others who do.
Not enough witty badinage.

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SquonkTheBeerGuru · 17/04/2008 17:25

the woman with the ravaged foo foo was a BMCer iirc.

I lurked on there for a while, but you had to have been a member for three months or something before you could post and I didn't have the patience.

They were also very good with the whole GF thing - they came over to post their support on here.

Never tried RK. Is that good?

Solitaire · 17/04/2008 17:25

I just love Mumsnet cos I can come on here and be sensible and grown and feel I might have helped someone, or be stupid and childish and share a cheap laugh with someone.

CaptainKarvol · 17/04/2008 17:26

faroff, stop it . I actually got myself chased off Babycentre Lovely headgirl moderator type followed me round the boards slagging me off. Am an AP type, and it went down like a rat butty on my birth board (all 'he's trying to manipulate you', 'they're little tinkers' (boak), 'you HAVE to ...'). I was soooo upset at the time. Long live MN and DIVERSITY. Oh, and debate. And b.r.e.a.t.h.

LyraSilvertongue · 17/04/2008 17:27

I was a Babyworld remember throughout both pgs and it was alright at the time, then they got the tickers and the glitter and it all got a bit messy.
Then I found Mn and have never gone back. MN is far superior to them all imo.

CaptainKarvol · 17/04/2008 17:27

I mean BREATHE. Breath is the easy bit, slow breathing harder

ALMummy · 17/04/2008 17:31

I have tried Netmums and they are all very very.......nice. I cant imagine anyone on there having a good bitch about anything. Everyone seems to agree with everyone else or else they just dont post. Not a great fan of the little photos next to every post either. For some reason I would it more difficult to be up front if everyone could see me smirking out from every post.

ALMummy · 17/04/2008 17:32

find it more difficult to be up front

cyteen · 17/04/2008 17:33

Oh god

the massive picture signatures

knowing that every time certain people posted, you'd spend 10 minutes scrolling down past their billions of pictures of paint-dotted toddlers, all for the benefit of having read their one line 'lol im with u hun' response.

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faroffsomewhere · 17/04/2008 17:35

Oooh yes, those photos.
And they say stuff like mum of gorgeous frufru 18 months

eukk

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LyraSilvertongue · 17/04/2008 17:36

Whose idea was it to have all that glitter and tickers and photos and stuff? Why do people want to do it? I like the anonymity of MN.

PeachesMcLean · 17/04/2008 17:38

I like the way MN looks too. All the others have too much going on on the screen.

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faroffsomewhere · 17/04/2008 17:38

Solit- that's how I feel. You can be both can't you.
lyra being anon is quite comforting too.
Sometimes you can be a person you wouldn't in real life.
Not a scary person but just different i spose

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waffletrees · 17/04/2008 17:38

Have you tried babycenter (the U.S. one)? Now that is scary. Nobody ever admits to having a bad day. They all seem to repeat the mantra "being a mom is the best". Er, love my kids but could throttle them some days.

The best thing is about mumsnet is you can have a good old bitch.

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faroffsomewhere · 17/04/2008 17:39

peaches,yes.
And it's more like a coversation rather than posting a statement iyswim

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faroffsomewhere · 17/04/2008 17:40

waffle, what about mothering? That's us. it tosses

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faroffsomewhere · 17/04/2008 17:41

On mothering they are SO pc you can't even have this little piggy eats beef, it has to be beet.
An you get told off for being nasty.
Go and learn nice posting in "personal growth"

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SheikYerbouti · 17/04/2008 17:41

Tjhose flashing badge things that say "Home loivin', sling wearin', home bakin' mom of 9387493847" and are the ones that make me want to honk my ring up.

Also:


7 years, 10 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 4 hours and 56 secons since I Last Had Sex, which I did with the lights off

Those "oither" sites are generally visited by women who use scented tampons and who think oral sex is unhygienic. I also surmise that they are populated by a hight proportion of Disney sweatshirt wearing women.