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"on MN this week" in the Daily Mail

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StealthBearWipesBumOnDailyMail · 14/08/2009 11:13

Thread no 2

OP posts:
Mumcentreplus · 15/08/2009 01:23

Starts watching Custy/WWW posts after 'Well you know'..(nosey emo)

Platesmasher · 15/08/2009 01:25

....and the parcels are wrapped in string!

KingCanuteIAmAndTheDMCanFOff · 15/08/2009 01:29

Mum, you must be able to get that one???

Oops

Mumcentreplus · 15/08/2009 01:29

lol..proper string?..

Tortington · 15/08/2009 01:29

well i hope you keep the string - she might ask for it back

thumbwitch · 15/08/2009 01:30

ah but, Platesmasher, are the biscuits intact? or smashed to bits by the Royal FMail? I mean, does she wrap them up proper-like inside the brahnpaper'n'string?

(this thread is making me pmsl - every time I go away for a few hours, it has transmogrified again by the time I come back )

Platesmasher · 15/08/2009 01:33

yes, proper string!

i don't keep the string?! but i don't need to as she has provided me with my own ball of string and a little dispenser which cuts the string also.

perhaps i'll start keeping it just in case.

Mumcentreplus · 15/08/2009 01:33

true custy..she might need it back to hold up her broad beans or sumthing..

Platesmasher · 15/08/2009 01:34

there's the occasional breakage.
the jammy dodgers definitely fair better than the party rings.

Mumcentreplus · 15/08/2009 01:34

Gosh..real string...how Mary Poppins..lol

Platesmasher · 15/08/2009 01:36

bubble wrap makes an occasional appearance for extra protection.

she also sends some coins sellotaped onto something for the boys to go and buy ice cream.

bloody brilliant.

Platesmasher · 15/08/2009 01:37

er, what string isn't real string?

Mumcentreplus · 15/08/2009 01:45

The plastic stuff isn't real ..the cotton stuff is..(maybe it's just me )

Platesmasher · 15/08/2009 01:48

cotton of course.

Mumcentreplus · 15/08/2009 01:56

she's old skool

expatinscotland · 15/08/2009 08:31

'As long as you boycott those companies you hate so much, just like I do with nestle. '

Just saw this. LOL. Still trying to dictate your own moral code to random strangers. Tell it to the hand.

Wickedwaterwitch on Sat 15-Aug-09 00:09:15 - this! [Bows to WWW's well-put posts.]

StripeySuit · 15/08/2009 08:38

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oopsagainandagain · 15/08/2009 08:58

Am interested in the -MN is a good thing and we want its opinions herad in the media.

MN changes and the opinions shift massively over a period of time-
eg if the weaning boards are more leaning towards the "mum knows best" opinion in a given time because some of the people who are aware and trust the WHO guidelines are away/given up etc.... will MNHQ be happy with those posts all being taken out and quoted?

And how can we be sure of the context of our posts?

ID we ware posting somthing quite complicated and then asked to clrify later in the thread- how is anyone going to make sure the context is kept and the explination still there when it gets lifted into the nest media.

I am not alarmist nor hysterial.
i just see that this amy work with very very very stight restrcitions on how stuff gets pulled and quoted.
ANd I don't think that at this stage MNHQ is up for that job- sorry.

it will end up with lobbyists coming in and having a certain opinion and then discussion ensuing... all for the benefit of a particular publication .... using the Mn massive as just fodder for aparticular opinion.

And how would you trust that in a thread all of the dissenters would get quoted for an atticle in support of something.

and are you going to stop at teh DM/papaers... or are our words and witticisms going to be used to advertise stuff?

Now you've opened a door and seem actaully to be happy it is open, i feelt eh rest is to come with some sort of haphazard/no regulation from MNHQ..

CristinaTheAstonishing · 15/08/2009 08:59

Are MNHQ going to change this decision? I don't believe they were not involved in this (I have read the protestations). What's the long-term plan? Rake in as much money as possible, by whatever means possible, maybe a bit of Nestle in the future, unsavoury but pays the bills etc? Oh, business plan, none of our business. We can always stuff it and move on. Cynical.

sarah293 · 15/08/2009 08:59

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oopsagainandagain · 15/08/2009 09:04

sorry- i apologise.
I feel at this stage it's probably a good idea to ask if this is what is wanted by posters when they join and now whilst the trasition is seeming to be happening.
And give us all the option to delete posts that we don't want to go into the pot for use in the next phase....

I'm sorry if that makes the boards look strange- i'm sure that there will be plently more new threads and posts so that the boardw will soon look better and more vibrant and helpful more like MN.

oopsagainandagain · 15/08/2009 09:08

riven, I agree,

sorry that it has come to this- but I'm really really not happy with my posts/anyone else's posts bing taken off this site and used for another publication AS A REGULAR THING , with thoughts by MNHQ for expansion on this.

It's just s differnece in opinion from MNHQ, but I believe it would be the decent thing for them to give us all this option at this stage.

With respect, justine and all at MNHQ I ask you to think about this seriously and see our points of view, hoever niave others on the board may think we have been.

lizjonesatemyhamster · 15/08/2009 09:09

Well put Oops

oopsagainandagain · 15/08/2009 09:11

OMG I fele like i'm going through a bust up and am asking for my records back

that's my Neil Young, and YOUR dollar album!!

lizjonesatemyhamster · 15/08/2009 09:14

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