Mumsnet in the Times by Caitlin Moran

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Mumsnet in the Times

Here's a nice article about Mumsnet - make way for the newbies.

And blimey don't Justine and Carrie have a lot of children?

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oh i give up, foxy, i'm on a mission to explain here but if you're goiing to call me smug...

It's probably in the wanky section MB, well at least foxinsocks thinks it is. Mind you there has been a wankerty wank thread so it's probably most definatly in the wanky section.

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I felt v sorry for cod over the norwich ferago, but that was before I knew she was semi feral

SEA I am ill educated too, but still a liar genius.

I may have missed something here, but the choice of posters and their character summary was done but CM and The Times - not Justine et al. I may be reading more into this but it's just one opinion, not the mn Official Who's Who. I think it just runs a bit close to home, when you consider those 'name your fave mner' popularity pleading threads.

Where is hunker?

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lol at cod being feral

i can hardly think of anyone less appropriately epithetted

is it in the white magazine or the one with the TV bit ?

lol yes magazines fall into the wankery category I reckon...I only got as far as David Walliams in the magazine before the kids had finished their hot chocolate and hell was about to break loose

oh aitch, I'm just joshing. you don't need to explain. It makes you all sound strangely defensive

for the record, i specifically did mention the fact that soapbox started the christmas appeal, i distinctly remember doing so.
i imagine that CM and the editorial staff thought that given that times readers wouldn't know a prufrock from a happysmoochykitty on here, it wasn't terribly relevant to the piece.
we can all give credit where credit's due, surely that's the most important thing?

Martianbishop it's in the magazine, not the paper.

I thought it was excellent and agree that there could have been many more MNers mentioned in the list of Elders, Lulumama and MarsLady are two missing from that longer list that I'd wanna mention for example. But as someone else said, one's personal list will change from week to week. Funny MNers, Wise MNers, knowledgable on certain subject MNers and countless others who get support from each other just by being there.

Anyway St Caitlin was always going to mention Cod - she's quoted her before on her times blog hasn't she?

oh ffs, how many posts? i have 3 small children here folks, how exactly am i supposed to keep up with threads if they go and move this fast??

i liked the article.

and of course you cant talk about xmas appeal etc in a paper... we could never do it again.

im sure the only reason im not on 'the list' (any of them ) is because of my perpetual namechanginess. {nods}, yes, im sure thats it

I've just read it in the Times magazine section. I can't believe how many children Justine and Carrie have between them.

LOL - I think a mention for a the 2006 Christmas appeal would definitely be trading on past glories

I think that the article was fine BTW!

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lol soapy. yes, i said something witty back in 05... do i get a mention? do i buggery

cor what an ENORMOUS picture. Double spread and all. Whose house was the pic taken in ?

BoT -

hackles are we all cats now

mumsnet seems odd since i have been away

maybe it is always odd

it is like when you come back from holiday and your houas esmells weird

lololol @ zippi

It's MN towers foxinsocks! Isn't it? Don't we all live here/there Where you been fox's? Down in the shed with tech?

Everyone is going to have their own list of 'elders' don't you think?

Depending on the age of their kids.

I value Custy's advice on older kids, because mine are getting nearer the teenage years (well dd is anyway). Hunkers BF advice is first rate, and invaluable to posters with bf babes, but my kids are 7 and 11 and by that stage even the most extended of BF will tend to have stopped

Horses for courses and all that

is it cats that have hackles? i never knew that. see? MN is a great resource.

lol foxy i know you were joshing. hard to know what's right to do, though. people are asking how the list was formed etc, seems perfectly obvious to me that CM came up with it and it was longer initially, so i'm just trying to clarify. but i'll stop now.

is it? there are children with Arsenal shirts on AND the books look like they are all aligned nicely arrghh and there's a very modern print on the wall with 2 dots on .

Yes, perhaps on reflection, they just borrowed the neighbour's house for the shoot. Tis far too organised and tidy to have actual people in that house.

to quopte the wonderful Cat in Red Drawrf' heckles , hackles, feckles, shmeckles, what ever they are they are up, and pointing at you, buddy!'

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