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to want to ask this lady iof shes a MNetter?

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lisad123 · 07/03/2009 08:10

LOL I was in A&E with DD2 (shes fine but was struggling to breath properly and inhalers weren't having much effect)
Another lady there was BFing her 3 year old and I was soo tempted to ask if she was a mumsnetter!
Have you ever wanted to ask if someone was a mumsnetter and if so why??
Nice fun thing for saturday morning early risers!

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merryberry · 07/03/2009 08:41

In the park earlier this week, I heard a mum ask her friend on the phone if she was being unreasonable about something , obviously got told yes and then got angrier and angrier justifying why she wasn't. i thought, must be mner

EntersStageLeft · 07/03/2009 08:52

I went to a focus group once about nappies. 8 or 10 of us. They started by asking which websites we might go to find baby product reviews - one lady piped up "mumsnet". I wondered... but just because she'd go to MN for product reviews didn't neccesarily make her a "MNer", IYSWIM. Then again, it was clearly the utterly first place she thought of...

LackaDAISYcal · 07/03/2009 09:13

One of the mums at my local baby cafe; we were talking about weaning and she mentioned that she was going to do baby led weaning rather than purees. I know it isn't a MN concept per se, but I'd not heard of it until I found mumsnet.

Pristina · 07/03/2009 09:21

I find it strange how few people I know are MNs (or admit to it anyway).

MerryPonymum · 07/03/2009 09:36

I was standing in the queue at Sainsbury's in the Oxford mall behind a young woman with a baby in a buggy. Her basket was full of good organic fruity things and the gorgeous little boy had a ricecake in his little fist. I thought 'she's got to be an MN-er...' and I nearly said something when she smiled at me, but didn't in the end. It did seem odd to think that I might be standing next to a total stranger who'd know instantly who I meant if I mentioned a few random well-known MN names, or if I said 'did you see that one in Active about the...' - instant connection!

But she looked really nice. If she wasn't an MN-er she should be! (PS if it was you, I was the harrassed mother with the student daughter - I smiled at your little boy, and you smiled at our 'coffee conversation'.

FfreckleFface · 07/03/2009 11:54

I often wonder this too. Maybe there should be some secret badge we could all wear to identify ourselves to each other. A code word, or a little pin (maybe a froot shoot in a red circle with a line through it?)that would make all MNers instantly identifiable.

Bumperslucious · 07/03/2009 12:14

I started going to a knitting group in this beautiful farm house, complete Cath Kidston kitchen, home made cakes, talk of schools, knitting and bunting, very bunting cupcake with (mostly) mothers who children were at school and they were off work (I work part time took DD with me) and I though they must be MNetters. So I put a shout out on here and lo and behold one of them owned up (incidentally she works part time and bought her toddler too so she wasn't one of the lucky ones off work with kids at school)! Still convinced some of the others are MNetters, I have dropped it into conversation but none of them are biting.

pamelat · 07/03/2009 12:18

I don't tell people that I am a mumsnetter as I say things on here that are perhaps more honest/open than I would say in RL.

Not that I keep it a secret, I have a profile page etc. I just dont shout about it.

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lisad123 · 07/03/2009 13:00

LOL I think a MN badge is a great idea. I rememeber talking to one of themums at my work about weaning, thought she must be a mnetter too. She has a sling, does bwl and is extended bfeeder. Shame im not allowed to recommmend sits to my parents, but then again they might see me in a different light if they casme on here LOL

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sherby · 07/03/2009 13:05

I was having a conversation with somebody about breastfeeding the other day and she dropped lentil weaving into the conversation.

I so nearly asked her but then didn't. I don't generally tell people about it because I do post some things on here that I wouldn't want out there out there in rl iyswim. I do know some other people who MN in rl, but we don't really talk about it.

pollywobbledoodle · 07/03/2009 13:13

perhaps we should have a little badge with "fanjo" or "oxo tower" on and wear it beneath our lapels to flash in apprpriate situations....

DrTrillianAstra · 07/03/2009 13:13

Bumperslucious: your gathering sounded a bit too bunting-y and yummy for MN, I think it absolutely fits that the MNer was the one who was working PT and had a toddler, rather than the no-work-children-at-school-bunting-mummies.

Although if you work PT, have a toddler, and knit how do you find the time to MN?

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lisad123 · 07/03/2009 13:23

no i think badge needs to have fruit shoots and greg sauage roll are not welcome here LOL

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Jux · 07/03/2009 14:54

I want a badge that says fanjo

Numberfour · 07/03/2009 15:00

i have not told ANYONE i know about MN because I want to keep my venting space private!

Love the idea of Fanjo badge, jux! er.... well, a badge that says fanjo

FfreckleFface · 07/03/2009 15:07

Next month's competition prize - Fanjo badges.

I'm not so bothered about keeping my MN self anonymous. I think I am the same in RL as I am on here, and am certainly not ashamed of anything I might post here.

wannaBe · 07/03/2009 15:15

I am fairly identifyable because of the things about me I've posted, and my view has always been that you shouldn't post what you aren't prepared for others to read (although am secretly hoping my mother doesn't read ).

But I don't mention mn because, while if someone were to discover me on here it wouldn't bother me, I wouldn't want someone finding out who I was and then deliberately going to find all my posts iyswim.

noonki · 07/03/2009 15:18

I second that wannabe, I am more upfront on here than I am in rl. i think I would be a bit less direct.

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