to want defensive newbies to just "get over it!"

[amethyst86]

I am neither a newbie or a member of the old guard but it seems to be there has been a massive influx of new names some of whom get rather defensive if anyone even mildly takes the piss in the usual spirit of Mumsnet. I love MN and won't be flouncing off just yet but it feels very different at the moment. I know things change and move on and I am all for that but there is a very different and rather touchy feel to it just now. Sort of reminiscent of lunch with my uptight MIL.

This will never be babycentre/netmums et al - unless we all start agreeing with each other and this thread proves that's just not going to happen.

LOL at get a grip.

"There should be an induction course where newbies get to read all the old threads so they know what is expected here"

Is this a residential course? It might take a while. Will there be breaks for fruit shoots and ginsters pies to keep us going?

In that case Trillian, the course lecturer could be Justin from cbloodybeebies and the uniform strictly Boden. If thats the case, I'm off..!

See southeatastras you won't see me going off in a hissy fit because I have been told to "get a grip". Used to it.

repeated "case" - need to go on the course obviously

I'm a newbie.
I think this thread is really funny, a bit like when you go on holidays and the people who have been there the week before you always say oh it was so much more fun last week but now all the good people have gone home, like the people before them weren't saying the same thing about them at one point. Give people a chance. Its cliqueyer (sp) here than a mums and babies group fgs.

I'm not in a clique and am happy to mouth off on here.
Can we just go back to how it was before the whinging started?

I don't think it was more fun. It just felt different, more honest I think.

I miss Cod , she used to think up cracking threads.

I think you could have a joke without feeling guilty. Lets have another swearing thread to let it all out.

Me too. I always look for Custardo now. She always, without fail makes me snigger in her reponses.

Agree with Fimbo re Cod

She was imaginative with her thread titles

Not a baby name in sight

brightongirldownunder, Ummm I thought we was in a clique together

PS ithinkimtallandblonde please can you point me to the cliques and who are in them as I can't stand some of these people on Mumsnet so don't want to end up in the wrong group

My stuck one of those energy-saving lightbulbs in his fly the other day, with the light bit sticking out obv, thrust it towards me and said "Don't get any bright ideas"

That's how sad life has become.

Oh but now you're being unsupportive. It's just so tough and generally horrid out there, can't this be a place where we can just support each other, we are all mumsy-wumsys after all. And anyone that doesn't agree can get reported and fuck off.

Hi amethyst86 you say new people start such boring threads?? Are they boring to you because you have read threads like this before? Do you not think that for someone who is experiencing a first/new PG that the last thing they are going to be thinking about is if they will bore anyone on this forum in case you have heard it before - I expect they are so excited and thought they would be welcomed with open arms by a forum full of mothers all of whom have been through the same thing and therefore would be very undersatnding ??

What bores me is poeple moaning about other people's threads.

my dh

Trillian - I like the idea of a residential Mumsnet Orientation Course - we could have midnight feasts and get drunk in the bar and fancy the lecturers sommat rotten. All that AND time without my kids - count me in!!

And if I've been oversensitive or started dull threads or had hissy fits since starting here fairly recently - meh!

Or like school.
There is always an uber-competitive freak who jumps at something as soon as they see their chance and wants to tell everyone (indirectly through the medium of ticking off) how bloody brilliant they are 'yada yada yada...breastfeeding so easy...yada...how dare you give your child chocolate/let them watch television...Milo or Freddy?....we live on organic rice cakes and cress...yada...AIBU to think its abusive to dress your child in Cherokee?... shriek!'.
They are everywhere.
They get everywhere.
They are called gits.

Not talking about those sorts of threads Gillyan, best and most reassuring advice I have ever recieved has been on here.

More like the crapola to be found in the AIBU threads really.

That is shit funny Rhubarb ha ha Please can I join your clique as you post the most random things lol What was your response to him?

Oh pingping I'm touched...
Right I'm starting the swearing thread now. Follow me for a bit of therapy....

Follows Brightongirldownunder like a lost sheep to the swearing thread.

i'm hardly ever rude on mn, but lately have becoming more so.