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

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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?

"lesbo crush". Wow, that's almost as intelligent a comment as "flash sleb-fawning".

lesbo crush,is that like irnbru?people shouldn't form attachments to words on a screen

what, like they shouldn't form an attachment to words on a page? bang goes the literary can(n)on.

nor should those words make folk feel bilious but I do love the sentiment.

I LOVED Queen Bea and Cell Block H. I mourn it's loss from late night/insomnia tv.

Good grief, are there really people this mean-spirited? What with this and the wine at a dinner party thread I'm just doing this ->

ImSoNotTelling I looked at your link and well......yes
it was as clear as mud
can't some one just tell me it in terms that I would get?

party? what party?

that was back in the days of four channels, though, drunk students now have bbc3 to watch. funny, though, it was so formative that show.

think the beef is some folk think they are mn.fuckwits

doh!seeing they didn't evolve the business model or put the graft in trot along

next

forgetting thingys I don't understand....the problem with parties is clothes..........you have to find something to wear.....
thank goodness I can't write briliant thingies

Nah it's been on living or something hasn't it?
I loved it and the them tune. on this inside

these did lenin

lol i loved those ads, spoof.
yy lenin, it's not words on a screen for me, deffo.

I'm a bit of an ad-geek.

I'm loving the latest pizza hut one....

what's that like? i don't see much commercial telly these days...

never having met any of you,only interaction being keyboard and screen,then categorically for me it is words on a screen

if one choses to initiate rl contact thats choice,and will determine how mn impacts upon you,and your feelings about it

vast majority on mn will never meet.by choice

mn as a medium is based upon the words on a screen.habitually they remind people to be cautious and internet savvy.as trolls,pram scams and stalking should remind folk

here you go

but an advert is words on a screen, yet huge budgets indicate that the words have an effect on people. likewise books, magazines, media. the words are expressing something. it's almost sociopathic to say that it's 'just' words on a screen, it's people communicating with other people.

gosh! ...such a realist/spoil-sport

Those words affect you enough to make you 'feel' something though, scottishmummy. Whether it's "bilious" or whatever.

They cause a reaction in you, otherwise why would you keep coming here, to spend time on something that is seemingly so benign for you?

I mean, I can see why some people feel less strongly, I understand that totally, but to just see them as words but feel the urge to interact with those words, I'm not sure I understand. What is it that draws you here? (Just intrigued, don't feel like you have to answer )

yes,people communicating by medium of words on a screen.the word being the trigger.given limited other nuances no vocal,facial,social cues.no corroboration.plenty trolls,pram scams have caught people out.one needs a modicum of reality testing.

no, the two things aren't linked. there are some trolls, although not as many as the trollhunters like to imagine imo, and it's a good idea to be a bit cautious when revealing personal details and exchanging money etc, but that doesn't make the vast majority of mn interaction 'just' words on a screen. it's very human communication with very human feelings behind it. you wouldn't say that a correspondence between pen-friends was 'just words on a page', would you, despite the fact that the two might never meet?

how very dare you! I'm not just words on a screen. I'm bloody marvellous I am.