To Have a Secret Crush on UnQuietDad?

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Cant help it
The thought that there are intelligent, funny, non-sleazy men out there who have masses in common with me....

It just gives me hope

And he's a regular poster on MN too.

And what they choose to hear is "do you think it looks good, it didn't cost much"

I don't think we were justifying not listening properly just discussing techniques for dealing with it, likewise those are just trigger phrase for when we need to become fully engaged, another might be "but it still works OK".

2shoes...i'd rather be rude than sad...but i suspect i'm both.

daftpunk, you know I really don't get you at all.

People have been really bloody nice to you on this thread, but then you carry on throwing insults around, calling people 'sad'. FFS have you been reading this thread with your eyes closed?

I'm so sorry to all the men who have had to put up with this crap. I hope it hasn't put you off Mumsnet. I for one, find you all very respectful, very polite and thick-skinned. If you were as rude as daftpunk has been, you'd probably get a roasting. So my respect for you all has been upped for putting up with this shite.

Please don't stop posting on Mumsnet. These people don't own Mumsnet and if they don't like it they can piss off. I'd much rather have you lot around than them!

sorry rhubarb xpost

Who are 'these people' Rhubarb? There have been a couple of posters who have been rude about male MNers. There have also been a few who have made a reasonable discussion of the value of a predominantly female forum, and that discussion is I think one which the male posters understand to be not personal and not an outrageous point of view.

Rhubarb,

given that this morning you (and I quote)

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I can confirm I have not been put off Mumsnet.

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Why Thready - do you think I mean you?

I wasn't sure.

Thank you PadDad!

Yes Pruners, I'm beginning to work out who to avoid too!

No Thready, you've not been rude have you?

Pruners, do you have an avoid list too?

Course, you may not answer me because I might be on yours... ho hum.

How sad, a post which had the potential to be a LOT of fun turned nasty!All men/dads/mannies/uncles welcome on Nannyjob ~ we need some testosterone over there & a laugh!!!

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I have to admit to avoiding one particular poster. Because she was incredibly nasty to me in the past. I name changed but when I am on threads she is on I try to avoid direct posts to her.

Paleodad - "how did it not go well....?"

Without being too specific to the particular posters concerned, it didn't go well for me in the same way as the Charge of the Light Brigade might be described as heroic yet ultimatley disasterous and futile.

Dadinsteadofmum - techniques for dealing with not listening properly?? I think a really brilliant technique would be to just listen in the first place, no?

ABetaDad, I like your Similies:

Breasts "like the twin Pyramids of Chefren and Cheops".

Your ill-advised foray into a breastfeeding thread like a description"the Charge of the Light Brigade".

What is the theme that inspires such creativity?

But Gateau, as a catholic I do forgive you and I will happily pray over your posts for the saving of your soul!

LOL ABetaDad. I recall the thread. I may even have leapt on you. I think I did. Without rehashing the arguments here, you did come across as a touch, um, well, I don't know how to say it really. You were roundly flamed, which isn't a pretty experience. From that point of view I feel for you.

I very much liked Breasts "like the twin Pyramids of Chefren and Cheops". But then in conjunction with the Light Brigade imagary for the bf thread ("Breasts to the left of me; breasts to the right of me") it is a little suggestive of breasts like scilla and Carybdis (sp?) -- with its lovely evocation of male MNers being crushed in the cleavage that is Mumsnet.

IB "just listen in the first place" - agree absolutely, and at the start of the conversation fully intend to, but then attention just drifts (it will be Top Gear of the TV, or a documentary on bathroom sealant or real ale - if you see us with bathroom sealant in one hand, a pint of real ale in the other AND Top Gear is on, we really aren't listening).