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??

Kind of agree with the OP.

But here I am, still typing away!!!!

But, I spend a lot of time on the computer doing work etc.... at home, and end up checking this bloody website faaaaaar too often, and getting sucked in to some mindless drivvle, ie., about whether I wash up by hand or with a machine, fighting my corner as if my life depended on it, and then wondering why on earth I am getting so het up about fruit shoots.....
... but it's fun.

MN keeps me sane. Keep typing oh fellow bored ones - hi small rabbit...

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Humble apologies to the opening poster.

I will make sure I never post again unless my post has some serious demonstrable value while I recover from cancer thousands of miles from all my friends and family.

Finished chemo last week lapin but still very tired. Thanks for asking. All the same I ought to be reading an improving novel or learning a new language really shouldn't I, not engaging in idle chit chat on an internet forum.

Gosh that's us told off then.

my mumsnetting increases when pg or bf ing!
i try not to mumsnet in daytime as it interferes with rl

i agree with the op on some levels

some of the BIG posters can barely have time for rl and for that minority mumsnet seems to assume more importance than reality...... cannot be healthy

i come on here when bored, mainly evenings and find threads cos i'm bored.my dc are asleep, my friends are at home catching up with their dp's and dh's so i dont like to phone and interrupt whateevr it is that hubbies and wifes do. (from what i find out from rl friends when i see them is argue and shout at eachother lots although they must do something else besides this as they all have dc!)
so this is my insanity net! i come on here when i'm bored or i'd have to talk to windows (i'm bored of walls they are not nearly opinionated enough

suppose i could be putting away the trainset the dc were playing with and built by themselves earlier, but its not doing anyharm sat where it is and they can have more fun playing with it tomorrow. i could be scrubbing the bathroom- despite doing it earlier.
i could be making the princess crown my dd asked me for when i put her to bed, or i could leave it til tomorrow and we can do it tomorrow together enjoy it more, then go to look for pirates again (as we did earlier today)

instead i'm saving the fun stuff for tomorrow so i can share it with my dc and wasting my time here

who are our big posters then? would be interesting to know.

well nappy there are the obvious ones!

really? i can't think of any obvious ones.

i tried knitting

maybe you are not on here enough!!!

You, me and everyone else. The internet is also full of people that would be doing something else if it hadn't been invented. On lots of forums apart from mumsnet.

Apparently the internet is one of the best inventions of mankind along with the wheel.

that means that you must be and you post is therefore completely hypocritical

Lets face it, it rivals the TV and 60 years ago that wasn't the norm so it all about progress.

I was following this thread with a touch of bemused amusement until I saw it sandwiched between a mothers bereavement thread and MB's update.

Put things in context a bit. If the worst crime on MN is a few pointless threads who cares.

I come on here for a couple of hours in the late evening when DS is in bed and DH is doing his own thing. It's my only chance to have contact with other mothers. So I value it very highly. When I find myself posting on a thread about David Tennant and the like, then I know it's time for a break.

I do have a life! I just choose to ignore it sometimes! LOL. TV is crap. DH watching football/crap. Toddler and baby in bed so can't go out (breast feeding) and all friends have small dcs in the same position. Housework? Boring! Knitting? lost needles! Facebook? Done everything including talk to 'real' friends (saves on the phone bill.
........Mumsnet.....lots of interesting discussions, chat, banter etc and different every day.

Read this for a larf

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/2724/548532

Yes it's a wonderful waste of time.

....and your point is???????

'Tis only the modern equivalent of leaning over the fence talking to your neighbour.

I agree with QS -lets have a roundabout of threads -save any of us thinking too much yawn