Neil Tweedie, for instance ...

[WineBeforePearls]

is a prat

Anniemac must have got home from work early, obviously, to post at 1600 and really should be cleaning instead of wasting time online.

Kewcumber lives in Kew, therefore must be a bored City wife (oh boy)

prat prat prat

[LadyBlaBlah]

Eeeeeeeeewww

He clearly isn't getting any at home.

[SausageRocket]

Ho ho ho

Tweedie must be ruing the day he thought taking lazy, ill-thought out potshots at MN would be an easy way to fill his word count for the week.

Not so witty now are we Mr T ?

[stuffitllllama]

oh yes, just read it, yes he is a twat

thanks for pointing it out

also probably a bit of a twat for reading this thread?

[WilfSell]

Welcome yangymac

You should sell your story to the Mirror though. You and Riven . Anonymously obv.

[ladylush]

Odd article. Gr8 response from Kewcumber. Mumsnet also featured in yesterday's Evening Standard - something about Gordon and Dave schmoozing cybermums.

[theyoungvisiter]

well yangy, let me get you up to speed.

The patron saint of MN is a lady called Gina Ford. You might like to buy all her books and then post a thread about how best to use controlled crying on your 5 week old.

We are all in favour of a good hearty spanking when children are being naughty, and agree that there's far too much fuss made about breastfeeding, which is a modern fad anyway. A spoonful of rusk in the bottle at 6 weeks is just the trick if you want your baby to sleep through.

I think that should get you started... oh, and if you have any sensitive issues you'd like to raise, the best place is a part of the board called AIBU? It's where we discuss high-level philosophical questions and particularly sensitive topics.

Have fun!

[SkipToMyLou]

Is there no way Big Tech can just change the posting name on all your posts instead?

[theyoungvisiter]

[slaps wrist] I must stop making rude generalisations about journalists - actually several friends are journos and I deeply respect the trade.

It's just so hard to take them seriously as a species when silly articles like this appear on a daily basis.

[theyoungvisiter]

actually I like Tim Dowling.

The man makes a living poking fun at himself, not others, which is a step up from most journos.

And he makes me larf, which is more important.

[WilfSell]

On one of the other Cameron threads, there's a link to Tim Dowling's write up of the webchat. Much more respectful actually...

[theyoungvisiter]

he he he can you imagine Thatcher on mumsnet? AIBU would be her heaven.

AIBU to want to crush those upstart miners?
AIBU to think that anyone on a bus over the age of 30 is a FAILURE?
AIBU to think that every Prime Minister needs a Willy?

[theyoungvisiter]

It really is just a slightly dressed up version of "women, know your place".

Which, apparently, is pregnant, barefoot and chained to the kitchen sink, not fretting our silly little heads about [watch out - 3 syllable word coming up] POL-LY-TICS.

(Have I got the spelling right, girls?)

Come back Tim Dowling, all is forgiven - there is a new uber-twat of MN.

[Merrylegs]

Exactly, Bramshott!

The meeja seem to find it hilarious that politicians are courting MUMSnet. Remember Ian Hislop was sneery about it too on HIGNFY - and the audience tittered away.

If this site were called Parentsnet, or even Dadsnet, would it get so many laughs? No.

Because being a Mum is trivial and pointless. Obviously.

[Bramshott]

Why has "mother" become such a term of contempt? I mean everyone has one, and many women (don't know the stats, but 2/3 perhaps?) become one so that's quite a sizeable chunk of the population. Even Thatcher was a mother FFS .

[BecauseImWorthIt]

Kew - bloody well done.

I was x 10000 at his comments, and so, so glad that you were able to deal with it.

[HerBeatitude]

LOL

Yes they're quite keen on respectable mothers but old habits die v. hard. And they will always provide a haven for the harumphing loons.

[WilfSell]

Not [as Dave would say]

[WilfSell]

I think we need the Official MN Telegraph reader Moondog perspective on this issue.

I imagine she will take kindly to being characterised as a lazy stay-at-home, brainless fool who never gets anything done

[GrendelsMum]

Yes, I agree with YoungVisiter - I would have thought that the Telegraph Online was all for yummy mummies in the home counties. Is the Telegraph Online actually read predominantly by mysoginist men? (This is intended as a genuine question, btw) I had imagined that it was intended for people like my in-laws, well-off retired people in the home counties, who are not noticeably outraged to have a daughter-in-law such as myself who is pretty universally competent round the house and also has a prestigious job.

[theyoungvisiter]

I am surprised that they're apparently so contemptuous of yummy mummies in the home counties.

It's the Telegraph ffs, not the Socialist Worker.

[HerBeatitude]

Is anyone really surprised by the fact that someone in the Telegraph thinks women should be cleaning if in doubt?

[theyoungvisiter]

[re-inserts sense of humour chip]