To write a polite letter to Private Eye's Editor

[BalloonSlayer]

Respectfully requesting that it does not satirise Mumsnet as

yummie.mummies.com

I am sir, (you ugly micrococked smug little tosser) your obedient servant

etc...

[lindsaygii]

Hislop described it as a 'website for young mums' on HIGNFY>

Patronising little twat that he is.

YANBU

[Ponders]

YABU

IH does far too much good stuff to be ripped into for taking the piss (& he was getting at GB more than MN)

IMHO

[Acanthus]

Only if you sign off with a really good pseudo-name

[MarthaFarquhar]

[GrimmaTheNome]

Yummy? Young?

I am pathetically flattered

[TheBalladofGayTony]

yabvu

what exactly do youthink mumsnet is? yummy.mummy.com is being kind considering mumsnet consists of women talking about their own poo and hair cuts.

[BalloonSlayer]

Thank you Martha.

Hmm

What about

Tess Tickless

Iona Nist

G Nome

[lindsaygii]

Actually, that's a fair point. I'm not in the slightest bit yummy. I'm knackered, greying round the edges, and I have bad poo. And I need a haircut.

yummy mummy will do for me...

[WineBeforePearls]

Can't we just get our revenge invite IH on for a mature discussion?

[lindsaygii]

If you're against being called yummy mummies you should sign off as Miss T. Akenidentity.

[HumphreyCobbler]

The thing is though, anyone watching HIGNFY was presumably doing so because they find Ian Hislop's sneering amusing. It seems a little wet to get so upset about it when it is suddenly directed at us. Presumably everyone picked on by programmes like this feels rather aggrieved, at least we were got at collectively.

[BalloonSlayer]

GayTony are you in fact IH?

I ask purely for information.

And an intention to alert Tony Blair to your nickname.

[BalloonSlayer]

No no I thought HIGNFY OK.

Just private eye today pissed me off.

[daftpunk]

yabu...and wasting your time...your letter would end up in the bin..

plus i like IH

[TheBalladofGayTony]

if you read private eye i can only assume you are (ever so slightly) smug and therefore are even more unreasonable.

[BalloonSlayer]

You ARE IH!

I knew it...

[daftpunk]

lol...

[TheBalladofGayTony]

i am just bitter cos i am too bald to attempt the mumsnet haircut

[MadameDuBain]

I think Hislop might have accidentally looked at netmums instead. Or maybe the Boden website? The poor love has no idea.

[InMyLittleHead]

Hislop was only saying it to get at Brown, making out that he's trying to be down with the real people when he is, in fact, not a real person.

[Alibooobaandthe40phantoms]

Surprised me actually - I would think his wife is a prime candidate for being a MNer!

[HouseOfHorrorMum]

• better to be talked about than not talked about at all, and all that. At last some of my friends have bothered to look at MN properly now.

[Vallhala]

Poor Ian Hislop! He's funny!

IMHO he's in the Clarkson pigeonhole of BBC personalities, paid to make wisecracks and be controversial on a TV programme which is not designed to be taken seriously. HIGNFY wouldn't be much fun if the participants had a serious, "Question Time" discussion about politics, current affairs or website forums.

That MN was mentioned at all gave it publicity, which can't be altogether a bad thing.

[IdrisTheDragon]

I have a friend who writes for Private Eye.

[SlartyBartFast]

actually on the 2nd viewing of hignfy, i dont think he was being too derogetory about mumsnet, i bet his wife is an mnetter,