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I am everything you hate about people on the internet. I am here to help.

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Blacklight · 12/02/2015 21:26

I am male, mid 20's and grew up with this technology.
Wondering what something means?
Wondering how to do something?
Wondering how your kids did something?
Wondering if you should let your kids do something?

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ArcheryAnnie · 13/02/2015 08:25

Iheartu you seem to be amazingly fine with the OP treating a group (us) as stupid based on what he assumed was our group affiliation (female, old). And you seem to be quite angry about women on here pointing out that we aren't stupid.

What's your stake in this, then?

Lweji · 13/02/2015 08:44

Oh Hun if you think this is bullying you can't be in MN.
This is as lighthearted as possible considering the smugness of the OP.
Nobody even told him to FOTTFSOFAFOSM

BuffytheThunderLizard · 13/02/2015 08:57

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tabulahrasa · 13/02/2015 09:07

I've been thinking about this thread...

My DS will be 19 soon, I don't remember ever not having at least one computer in the house as a child, every school I attended had computers in classrooms, I studied computing and programming in secondary school, I have minor IT qualifications from college and uni.

How is that not growing up with computers?

So if I grew up with computers and am old enough to have adult children...who did he expect to not have grown up with them?

BuffytheThunderLizard · 13/02/2015 09:14

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MsRabbit · 13/02/2015 09:16

Backlight and iheartu are the same poster, I think. Look at the syntax 'they' use.

QueenTilly · 13/02/2015 09:17

I've been on mumsnet since my early twenties. I have never started a thread like this!

I would also point out all responses on this thread have been very mumsnet, that is to say, lighthearted. If the OP had started a thread like this on any of the forums I frequented before that, the responses would have been actually abusive.

Mumsnet was a culture shock, really. No-one quotes logical fallacy websites and people only tell you to fuck off if they don't like you
What forms of talkboard do you use, iheartu?

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 13/02/2015 09:19

Yeah like we're going to click your link OP

Dizzyfatbird · 13/02/2015 09:24

...and if your car broke down in a country lane and you had no phone u would do what OP? Cry probably - because your brain lives in your trousers!!

Iheartu · 13/02/2015 09:26

He was asking for it...

LOL this just gets funnier.

Little Miss Telltale thinks shes being clever? The other thread is in feminsim chat and is called housework if anyone wants to see what I actually said. Seriously this is a playground haha

MsRabbit · 13/02/2015 09:27

And interestingly, he posts a thread title saying he is 'everything people hate' and then sets up a character called 'iheartu' who storms in a vehemently defends and protects him. He also ignores all of the ribbing, but responds to the one about his 'mummy', claiming that she is dead. He does all of this on Mumsnet. Definitely some Norman Bates issues going on here.

ImBatDog · 13/02/2015 09:35

my older brother works in programming, He's a Senior Architect, he gets paid an obscene amount of money to build computers, operating systems, databases and webpages, he knows more programming languages than spoken ones. Microsoft tried to poach him on several occasions.

if i have a question, i'll ask him thanks, he's probably forgotten more than you've learned in your whole life, Blacklight.

MsRabbit · 13/02/2015 09:36

This isn't a playground iheartu, but it is a place where people have to be accountable for what they write. Do you think the OP would have received a difference response if he'd swaggered over to a group of girls in a bar and started lording it over them like he did on this thread?

Cyber bulling my arse.

ArcheryAnnie · 13/02/2015 09:40

Again, what's your stake in this, iheartsu? And why are you totally fine with the OP very patronisingly ascribing stupidity and/or ignorance to what he assumes are our group characteristics (female, old), but so very angry at us defending ourselves?

GilbertBlytheWouldGetIt · 13/02/2015 09:46

I clicked the link. It's a google image search of Kim Jong Un.

I would love to assume there's a hidden meaning that my fluffy ladybrain doesn't grasp, but I'm convinced it's a case of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

BuffytheThunderLizard · 13/02/2015 09:46

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ArcheryAnnie · 13/02/2015 09:50

As an aside, I'd be bleedin' over the moon if I only did 70% of the housework.

ArcheryAnnie · 13/02/2015 09:51

Also "Little Dr Telltale to you". Buffy, ILU.

Iheartu · 13/02/2015 09:52

And now your just defending yourselves. That. Is. Classic. :)

MrsWolowitz · 13/02/2015 09:55

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Lemondrizzletwunt · 13/02/2015 09:57

Gain 'you're'. There clearly is no telling some people.

BuffytheThunderLizard · 13/02/2015 09:58

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ArcheryAnnie · 13/02/2015 09:58

Still no problem with the OP's post, then iheartu? And why is that, then?

tabulahrasa · 13/02/2015 09:58

You are or you're - your is a different word, with a different meaning. Smile