To think this is awful -Do you have a resident town loony?

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I think it's dreadful. It's really got my goat.

Eh? It's not good to start a thread about another thread. Hide it if it upsets you too much.

There is no rule about starting a thread about a thread.

It is a bit like the "weighty issue" thread on the other channel.

Making judgements about people with horrible labels.

No rule no, just an unwritten one. If everyone did this then the whole board would be just one giant thread about a thread. Hide it if you don't want to see it.

I HATE when people decree it is not good to start a thread about another thread.
Whyever not?

IS THERE a law about it?
Usually the thread about the thread has a different slant to the main thread , or the first thread has gone off at a huge tangent.

Start a thread about any blimin thing you like.

Now what was the question?

The use of the word 'Loony' is just too bad. If you can't see how bad it is I suggest you move to 'Bounty'.

YANBU, I was a bit 'gosh, can you say that?' but then thought maybe I was being too PC. Some of the people described clearly had problems. Although there is a guy in Bath city centre who busks and genuinely seems happy, and everyone thinks he's a legend. Don't think he can be described as a 'loony' though...

I posted on that thread and i do think the term 'loony' isn't nice and all.

For that reason I avoided using that word. But i did know what people meant and chose to post. Maybe wrongly. I don't know.

It's shit to start a thread about a thread because the board gets full of boring threads about threads. For eg, I have no idea what this thread is on about. it's like MN spam. A waste of time opening it.

It is still a dreadful word. Why should I hide it when it is such a non Pc term??

I think you are justified in starting a thread, horrid word to use.

yanbu

for those who don't like this thread why don't you hide it?

YANBU.

YANBU

I haven't seen the thread in question but I hate that word!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/895469-Do-you-have-a-resident-town-loony
Thread in question.
Ho ho bloody ho.

yanbu

v upsetting

waiting for 'does your town have a resident spaz' or perhaps nigger or paki?

IMO mental health problems are the same as physical problems.

Imagine starting a thread about 'one armed Sue' or one legged Bob'.

YANBU. Chuckling at people whose lives have been laid waste by mental illness doesn't make a great deal of sense to me.

sack of shit - hadn't seen that thread before...I work in mental health.
Having said that, some of the people I work with like the term loony - it's preferable to some of the other things they get called

YANBU

YANBU. Very fucking angry.

YANBU. Disgusting.

YADNBU

oh dear god, someone has linked to you tube vids of one of these people where they have filmed him burning himself with fags (I haven't watched it, they say so in the info panel. The tags on it make me sick to the stomach.)
'' Rudy funny god jesus insane mental weird wierd arogant arrogant rave it burn eye eyeball roodee roody retard retarded spacker''