not to want to be all lighthearted and forgiving about the troll invasion?

[StayingDavidTennantsGirl]

I don't get the 'fun' of invading another site and causing real upset to real people. I trust people on mumsnet and respond genuinely to them, and now I wish I hadn't - and that has upset me.

I'm sure this is going to get me labelled a humourless sourpuss over on CUK - but then I reckon I am already one of the "...rampaging horde of offended lardbuckets..." they refer to, or perhaps one of the ".... small clique of salad-dodging, vindictive, manic-depressive yet very vocal inadequates..." who is "...likely to go blubbing to the Admin if anyone does not treat them with kid gloves?..." (not that I did go to Admin, but hey, why spoil a good insult with facts).

The average age is probably around 37/38! !!!!

CUKAmbassador You aren't 4chan fans as well are you?

how old are you MadamDearhstare?

I thought most of it was quite funny but I didn't actually see the soup thread...

I am an "IT type" though and I'm sort of used to the bush babies in the headlamps when faced with a feisty woman genre.

I like them, they type purty.

We should force then to stay.

Spidermama, the soup thread that Coco started has gone now, though 'she' did also post on 'AIBU to feed my children crap for tea', and I don't know if her posts on there have been removed or not.

There were other threads, but that's the only one I knew about. I think they posted on the 'dh going to a lapdancing club' thread and either posted on or started one on erectile dysfunction.

HTH

How can people bear those frigging moving smilies on their forums? They get right on my tits.

I quite fancy the Irish one on The IT Crowd but I have my very own IT geek at home so it would be somewhat of a busman's holiday....

CUK folks...... I LOVE your smilies. They are way better than ours!!!

I have just registered and I wasn't part of the "invasion" although I have been following it. I am a CUK regular and sad IT geek with no life/knob/etc (don't really mind how you choose to characterise me - we're in cyberspace after all).

To answer the OP's point in this thread, there is actually a thread over in CUK questioning the point of the excursion here and making many of the observations made here about how childish it was, so some of us over there didn't think it was that great, either.

I have found the whole thing interesting - there was a previous excursion to a forum of serial parking offenders and speeders, many of whom seemd to think they had a perfect right do anything they liked - I did enjoy seeing them messed about with a bit, but this one's made me a bit uneasy at times. What is highly instructive is the range of responses. Anyway, must get on, I've got a knotty problem with my corporation tax to sort out and I get told off (quite rightly) by DP if I do it at weekends instead of playing with DD who is nearly 2.

Oh - about the smileys - there was a poster some time ago that said every time he saw that dancing bannana a small part of him died - each to his/her own eh?

YANBU

I'm glad some of you saw it for the harmless fun that it was. Try living in a hotel for a few nights a week and not think of strange ways to fill your time

Those of you that didn't ah well - I'll let you get back to taking yourselves far too seriously

I presume you are talking about me there, Sockpuppet. I have a sense of humour, but I also have depression and some vulnerabilities - failure as a mother being a biggie. I think I said, on the 'feeding your children crap' thread that my children have grown up with my depression, and whilst I have done my best to stop this affecting them, I worry that it has.

So being called a bad mother prodded me in a very sore and sensitive spot, and yes, I reacted to that. Words hurt me - I am trying to learn how to stop that happening, but haven't yet. So I did take to heart things that your mate intended to be part of the fun - that's a risk you take when you play a prank on someone.

For what it's worth, I think if you do cause hurt by accident, during a prank, you should apologise, rather than trying to make it the other person's fault - for example by saying they are taking themselves way too seriously - though that's easier for you, of course.

And 'harmless fun' is surely fun that causes no harm. This caused harm - it upset real people - I accept this was probably accidental at first, but Shaunbhoy carried on even when he knew he'd hurt and upset some of us.

Doesn't fit the definition of harmless fun when you do that, does it.

I'm actually quite impressed with the CUK 'raiders'.

It really seems like they've changed their opinions of Mumsnet while they've been trolling and now have some respect for us Mums - and are big enough to admit it too.

Makes a change from the likes of Janet Street Porter et al. who have a brief scan of the site then slag us off!

In general, yes, GoldenSnitch - my comments were aimed at Sockpuppet.

@GoldenSnitch That's because most of us had decent mothers ourselves. There are a few exceptions, obviously.

see, i go and do something in REAL LIFE for once and i miss all the sodding fun.

is this the equivalent of pulling the girls pigtails in the playground?

Oh! I missed all of this. I hope it's not inappropriate to thank CUKAmbassador here for the donation to the Mumsnet run. (Thanks!)

I just find it a bit weird that they would bother, I mean, a planned invasion? WHat are they? 5 yr old boys?
Weird.
Bit sad really, they need to get a life. As do I LOL

my son is a genius with IT....can hack any system, watch it you silly CUKers....

@Vicar

He's probably one of us. And if he's not, well, if he's as good as you say we'll recruit him.

Fine to thank them for the donation here, JJ - they've been very generous.

Damn I missed all of this. They must be very bored with their own company to do this. Quite funny in a weirdo's sort of way but not on, upsetting vulnerable people on here, knowingly.