For thinking that Mumsnet is full of bored women who should be doing something else

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Name changed for obvious reasons - ie avoidance of cyber bullies whilst expressing my true feelings on this. I was a lurker for quite a while, summed up the courage to post thinking that I had some good things to share and could be of help where appropriate. I think some of the threads are genuinely helpful and a great idea. However, I feel that some of them - probably this one included - is really a complete waste of time and energy. It seems to me that there are an awful lot of MNers who have nothing better to do than spend hours typing endless crap on these threads. Don't you have any "real life" friends to talk to?? Wouldn't you be better spending your life in the real world rather than exchanging endless ridiculous tittle tattle with one another? What are your kids doing whilst you spend hours on the computer?? Or your partners? I'm off to get a life.... why don't you??

Oooh that felt good. Not had a good snurk for ages.

Snurk snurk snurk snurk snurk.

Yup. That's me.

I know. Even the vibrator ad thread thing has gone all boring about how crap some are..
Mumsnet
aka
smut men

or
me n smut

Oh, this is like a merry go round.

We need somebody to plot the monthly cycle of Mumsnet.

The "who is your favourite mumsnetter thread",
the "why is X Y Z poster so mean to me",
followed by a big flounce thread or two,
the "what type of mumsnetter do you know" type thread,
the "wtf is so wrong with fruitshoot" threads
Poncorama threads, and Benefits / council housing threads. Eventually "Get a life threads".

Then nicey nicey as we all turn toward the Get a Life thread OP, we all agree, and we love eachother so much.

Then it starts again with Who is your favourite.....

Or something like that.

I must admit that I have wondered how some manage to post so frequently (and manage to read complete threads etc).

I waft onto MN now and then, have a nose around and post if something grabs my attention (or I have time). Usually, it is a quick peek and then off to do mundane RL stuff these days.

I congratulate those of you who can put in the time and effort. I tried once upon a time but then had to give it up due to DC2 arriving (although hard core MN-ers wouldn't have let a little thing like that get in the way )

Right - off I go to do stuff in RL - will be back to make another random post sometime soon .

I don't see what you're moaning about. What's wrong with coming on because you are bored and why does it matter that you should be doing something else?

Have you never read a magazine when the washing needs doing, or chatted on the phone when you really should be changing the broken ball cock in the loo?

It's a daft OP and surely you would have seen the perceived pointlessness of mumsnet while you lurked. Unless of course, something has got your goat as a poster and you wish to insult all mumsnetters as you flounce?

what's a snurk?

Isn't it a hood/scarf combo> Sorry thats at snood..

The thing is the reason that "some of the threads are genuinely heplful" is because there is a vast army of bored women on here, ready to give the benefit of their experience whenever called for (and frequently even when it's not)

If it was all worthy threads they would mostly go unanswered because we would all have buggered off to Youtube or somewhere else for our fun.

I've done loads of things today.

1. made curry
2. arranged daughter's nursery for when I go back to work
3. been to sainsbos
4. fed daughter 3 times
5. sat on arse on mumsnet while daughter sleeps

That okay?

I think you may have a point. I use it far too much because I feel isolated but my house is messier than it should be and I am really disorganised. If i put a bit more effort into real life, which i have been trying to do, I feel less anxious and more in control. I feel the amount I use mumsnet is a problem and I dont know why people get so defensive about that

LOL QuintessentialShadows spot on !

I have a Very Important Job.
It involves sitting on my arse reading MN all day.
I cannot disclose anymore or I shall have to kill you.

My fav quote:

You can't complain about the terrible traffic, when you are one of the cars

Well of course the op has a point. There is a lot of truth in what she says. But such is the wonderful technological age we live in nowadays. Idle chit chat can be fun.

Well, have to say this thread has been very useful. Lapin, dd and I will be in postbox heaven tomorrow - many thanks for the idea!

Like CD - it's a break from the monotony of work. I work from home so I don't have work colleagues to chat to for 10 mins while I have a brew, so while I'm working I pop on here and just see what's going on.

While I'm doing that, my children are at school.

Is that OK?

i do agree with the op in someways, i do just come on here when i am bored. usually in the afternoons when dd1 is at school and dd2 is at nursery. i am on just now because dh is bathing the dc and i cant be bothered doing the dishes.

i often think this about the "big names" on here, but i have no idea what goes in there lives and if they are lonely and struggle with rl friends then who am i to judge.