to want to ban the phrase, "Sorry, TMI" from MN? Is it even possible to have TMI?

[BelfastBloke]

Are people in the sex threads or the health threads genuinely embarrassed? Or is it just a convention on Mumsnet that they think must be followed?

I can't imagine a scenario where someone reading a post would think, "Oh, no, that was TMI".

YANBU
but there are some people who genuinely say 'ew, TMI' when they read something. Don't understand it myself - if you don't like it, close thread and don't look! But I agree, it's annoying. But I think I've done it before just as a convention...

Instead, maybe people should post a link to the Simon Bates 'sexual swear words' warning that used to be on 15 and 18 films in the 80s.

yanbu

stupid phrase.

Perhaps good idea to put it in thread title if contents of thread are stomach churning and reader may be eating dinner?

There can NEVER be tmi imo!

Yes some people don't want to read about bumsex, CM, vomit etc in detail, or maybe not when eating. I think it's just a polite way of saying "be warned I am going to go into all the gory details". Which people do have to do sometimes to get advice.

I of course am unshockable so when I see it I just think "ooh what could it be?"

I think the acronym TMI is everywhere on the interweb, not just Mumsnet.

I sometimes wonder if people use it as a "Look at my juicy post!" marker, rather than a disclaimer.

I suppose a poster could genuinely be embarrassed if, say, their genitals have a growth or something.

Or if they can only orgasm in a certain position or only thinking about John Prescott, or something.

But if THAT'S what you're posting about, it CAN'T be Too Much Information, then, can it?

FFS.

i have deffo thought that, its nice to have a warning before someone describes a blow job

Don't people often put "(Sorry, TMI!)" AFTER they've posted their shocking revelation?

YABU, there really is such thing as Too much information.

Its needed in thread titles as a warning to posters who might have children reading over their shoulder not to open the thread.

And a TMI scenario?

Reading in a thread about babies someone on another forum decided to post a VERY graphic description of how they decided to ensure a girl while TTC... it involved words like "splime" and turkey basters" and i'm sorry.. but i dont WANT to read that shit in the middle of a thread about somethin else!!!

Can I resurrect this thread? because one year later it's still annoying me.

The only thing I really have ever thought was genuinely 'TMI' was the diseased willy picture posted on here somehwere. Despite all the warnings, I looked of course.

And it really was.

Jesus fucking Christ!

I have inadvertently read threads on Mumsnet about a fellow mumsnetter's foamy yellow diahorrea. That was definitely tmi and I would have been pleased to get a warning.

Resurrect away, BelfastBloke. It annoys me too.

My favourite on here a while ago:

"It was 'down there' (TMI)"

'Down there' is only TMI if you look like this

I do chuckle when I read threads in Pregnancy saying 'erm, I have a pain in my cervix (sorry TMI'. Have you SEEN the rest of this site dear?

Close brackets went AWOL there, apologies.

a fellow mumsnetter's foamy yellow diahorrea.

TMI, bibbity

Actually LOLed at tethers' link there. The surgery nurse actually asked me how everything was 'down there' after DS was born and I had to keep a straight face .

But it's always TMI if it involves squeezing other people's spots...

The only important thing about foamy yellow diarrhoea - was it funny?

What do you think? Is fyd ever funny??

So BB - it's still bugging you huh!

Doesn't bother me, but it does make me laugh - I mean this is MN what the hell could be TMI.

The ones that really REALLY make me laugh are the newbies

'My period is over due - sorry TMI'

I am just relieved that Reality got pregnant in her first month of trying. I shudder to think of the Chat threads we would have been subjected to about cervical mucus

BoF.

Every time I see 'egg white' I think 'meringue' - it could turn nasty...