hm am i the only person who thinks this mumsnet is a tad bitchy? hm probably wrong thread topic but hey, seems i upset alot of people on here, am i the only one? or is this just how mumsnet works?

[welshbyrd]

made a comment on a thread, and i have to say it wasnt worded the way i meant it, and oml it was chaos. When i first joined, i opened a thread, and most of the replies barr a few were quite unkind, hmmmmm is i the only one with this problem? or is it a mumsnet thing?

It is bitchy on occasions...

Most people would not be like this if they had to use their real names.

It is like the worst mother and toddler group you can imagine!

Oh I promise you, in real life on this issue I would certainly stand up and be counted. OP was offensive in her original post in my opinion. There you go.

Peachy is my real name, well almost- enough to easily id

I would stand by what I say on here, I wouldnt post it either

If My screen name were my real name, I'd probably hold back a bit too.

YABU.
I think it easy to see MN as more than just a forum of different people from all walks of life gathering to pass comment, judge, chat, discuss and debate with other people. But that's all it is, a forum ( a very good one imo)

I think it is good to get involved in threads and have strong opinions on either side of the fence, but what you can't do is equate to to RL ifyswim. Once you get over the posting styles of different MNetters you can appreciate the debates that go on without people having to censor themselves, but by the same token you have to take the inevitable backlash if you say something that people may find offensive. Its a forum on a computer, you can turn off at any time!

FWIW I do think it is important that these debates can happen and it opens up issues that other people may not have encountered or thought about before.

is peachy short for peaches like in geldorph?

LOL

Yes I am Peaches Geldoff, didn't you now she had 4 kids was in her 30's and lived with her pauper DH in S E Wales?

LOL

As you well know madam tis my surname

however

I am not given usually to outbursts of nastiness and have no RL friends to upset LOL, so risk is low

what are rl friends and how does one find them.
mine name is 2shoes it is my rl name, ask custy she calls me it at meest ups

I think one RL friend from SN rugby lurks... actually I know she does LOL

and I have a few others but all from sn clubs or school / college

but i love them dearly

I used to have 2 but they have disapeared, damm pesky people with 4 kids they are always busy

Dunno what you eman (unless you mean busy MNing anyway LOL)

I don't see my BF very often at all but I do miss her a lot. She's ds4's Godmother though.

(nosy)What was the op's original post then?

See hangingbellyofbabylon's post at 9.28

Ah. Thanks Peachy.

No that's NOT the original Ops post that's PART of the orginal ops post which has been taken completely out of context.

The whole post was longer, and discussing attitudes towards termination. Apparently the quote was meant to be showing an extreme view someone might hold about disability. Given it was not punctuated or explained as such, but was put in the "I" form, I genuinely thought it was the poster's personal opinion.

I don't really understand "it wasn't worded the way I meant it". All you've got here are words. YOu have to try to get them right.

By welshbyrd on Thu 09-Apr-09 21:36:14
"p.s, perhaps i did word my original post wrongly, and i certainly would not like to think people think im discriminating against disabled people, cause that was not my intention. my intention had been, to type good and bad views of different circumstances, as to why people might or might not have thier babies.If you read through the middle of the thread people started quoting religions etc etc as to why people shouldnt have terminations.
I didnt really want to explain about my son, thats why i used alternative views, however, post did come across how id meant it too.im sorry if i offended people, think thats the problem with a thread of this type, you will always end up upsetting someone with your opinion "

as she said her opinion!!!
can't copy over the offensive post as mn hq deleted it

I quoted 4-5 extreme views, for and against abortions in the post, not just the one that has upset people, so if you all think that was my personal opinion, why would i have stated other views against it?,

And peachy that post of hangingbelly was not the original post.

if you read through this thread, you will see opinions of people who ACTUALLY seen the original post, there are lots of people stating they seen the post, and understood it wasnt meant in the way it has been turned around to become

but i didnt give just one opinion 2shoes, there was 4-5 example of pro abortion and against abortion, so if infact these were my genuine opinions, i would be for abortion and against abortion, so which one is it? i didnt once type my opinion, i type your opinion, as in other peoples opinions, which i may have worded wrongly, which hmmmmmmmm how many times have a wrote an apology for offending anyone that read what i typed in a way i was not intending

Erm Welsh if you read the opriginal therad I actually stuck up for you on there.

After reading whole thread.

And I linked to HB's post as its the closest and because as 2shoes copied yes she did make it sund as if it were her opinion afterwards.

you have just stragetically copied and paste the bit that you wanted to, and not the whole post. Sorry but if people who didnt read original post, see what you have copied and pasted, of course they are going to be enraged, however you didnt copy and paste all of it did you?

OK Welsh here's the thing: could it just possibly be that your written English isn't great so leads to people misunderstanding you?

It may well be English is not your first language in which cse you're a damn site better posting in another tongue than I am, nevertheless I am pretty sure it is compounding the issue.

but you started this thread. the original post has been deleted, so no one is now going to see it.
I was just trying to show where the confusion came from. as you can see even on the post I copied you were saying it was your opinion.
yet you still insist on saying you are a victim and people are being bitchy.