In Thinking The MN 10th Bash Could Have Been More Charitable?

[Highlander]

apologies if I've missed something, but....

it's the boring old MNers themselves who have highlighted all the almost-taboo aspects of parenting

2nd trimester miscarriages
special needs
breast feeding and all its proiblems
the Nestle issue

etc etc etc

So why the flash sleb-fawning party? I kind of feel MNHQ forgot the real reason why MN is so successfull. Were the guests hand-picked so that they wouldn't embarrass Carrie and Justine by bringing up the issues we MNers care about with the PM and his wife?

Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to have the guest bring along a bag of their favourite biscuits and donate the money they would have spent on catering to a charity chosen by us?

oh I must have missed that bit in the haiku competition where you had to state the topics you would/would not discuss if you were to win... or do you think MNHQ went through every entry and analysed the person's posts?

oh I'm not sweet. MN seems so right on that I'm surprised the 10th anniversary was so London.

I didn't see many slebs there in the pictures. its a party anyway, not a political rally

Oh aye.

And how exactly are you expecting us lot to agree on a charity?

in an ideal world, it would have been that way.. but back in the real /commercial world..

I don't think it is fair to disregard the huge amount of good that MN gets, the publicity, bad and good helps that, being in the broadsheets constantly does help, and you have to suckup get along with the movers and shakers

yy mary

Plus there is NO WAY that I would sit with anyone wearing stout lace up shoes

Hey, look they did at least raise the issues and I suppose some people are inconveniently located in London

Anyway it is Saturday Night and I have a reasonably priced glass of wine to hand so

Happy Birthday Choo
Happy Birthday Choo
Happy Birthday Dear Mumsnet
Happy Birthday Tchoo

I agree with Lulu. Also it's not really the done thing to ask the prime minister and his wife to a party and then have people advising him about his policies either I wouldn't have thought. Although Cod did have a go I heard.

What a ridiculous argument.

So the women who get their act together to turn the idea into reality and run the business and turnover the income and set up the structures and who provide space for women to talk and pay for the legal advice and who promote good deeds and keep it all going while apparently drawing little serious income from it all this time, shouldn't celebrate their achievements in whatever glam way they see fit because you feel they haven't thanked you enough?

All this nonsense is really pissing me off now. Of course you feel MN is yours: it is yours. But only in one sense. Frankly we are all replaceable. But people who get off their bums and do stuff, that isn't replaceable. Could you have done it? Did you?

It was a celebration. A party. I hope they had lots of fun, with lots of posh frocks and famous people.

They deserve it.

Can we stop all the whining now, it is most unbecoming.

wilfsell

Nice post wilf.

WHAT WILF SAID

mn is a brand defined by all posters,traffic,number of hits,media interest and sponsorship

it is hugely egotistical to bellyache a few "boring old MNers" defined mn

so called sleb fawning,generate interest,generate revenue and allows it to be free.means people like pm,cameron etc participate as they perceive a large audience (and something to be gained)

What wilf says.

I'm getting a bit sick of the naval gazing tbh.

Can we change the subject away from sodding parties, to which I was neither invited nor would want to attend.

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I wouldn't have believed it possible that posters on this forum would feel the need to have a go about how MNHQ decided to celebrate their own 10th birthday. Its slightly chicken and egg isn't it OP? Mumsnetters wouldn't have had the opportunity to shape Mumsnet into what it is without its founders. There would have been no charity chosen by us because we wouldn't be here.

I'm sure I'm not unusual in thinking it was nice that there was a party and lots of people went and had a good time...

over personalising a website is problematic.creates false attachment,false sense of entitlement

FGS, it is getting boring now.

They had a party. They worked hard for 10 years, suffered through the GF affair and other scandals, they have to available night and day in case something kicks off - even posting from their holidays to explain themselves if need be.

They deserve to have a bash, invite who they want and have a jolly good evening. That they invited all MNetters to post a Haiku to win a ticket to the party was a great idea. And very fitting to MN.

totally agree wilf.

totally agree..

wold have liked to go in theory, but laaaahndaaan is big and scary and a long way a way and my boden tops were all at the dry cleaners

i've just typed london in the stupid way i type it when i am emailing my sister ! ooops!