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Who are the newbies?

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fartmeistergeneral · 08/12/2006 09:36

I've only been on mn for a few months - August I think it was. Who else is a newbie? It's hard to tell from posts who is new and who is 'old'! Also, do any other newbies find

1 you can kill a thread stone dead with one flash of your nickname?

2 your threads fall off the active convos at an alarming rate

3 you spend ages thinking of something incredibly witty to say and no-one notices?

only joking really, love mn, am an addict!

OP posts:
SHHHHsantaiscoming · 08/12/2006 21:55

mn is addictive. I came and joined around 2.5 years ago when expecting dd and haven't looked back. It was actually my dh who found it for me..! Bless him..supoose he can do something right

Yes sometimes you do get the odd clash but just move on iykwim.

Welcome to the new ones. x

BTW my usual name is shhhh.

PeachesMcLean · 08/12/2006 21:56

Lulumama, you're new and you go in the bar? I'm too scared...

2nervesnapartridgeinapeartree · 08/12/2006 21:56

I had lurked a few times when I was going through phases with the children but only to search for specific topics. Then I got a laptop from work and that coincided with the youknowwhat. I was so outraged that someone could try to take such action I started lurking regularly and then the bug bit. Now pay for ironing to be done because it interfers with my MN time.

lulumama · 08/12/2006 21:58

honey,..... i run the bar !!!

come on in...we are terribly friendly !! i do pints of G&T and pints of baileys with pickled onion monster munch!!!!!

Original poster
fartmeistergeneral · 08/12/2006 21:58

hi all, I started this thread and am so pleased that there are so many other newbies like me! I will definitely look out for you all and give a big hello!

Will check on this tomorrow, feel a bit more part of mn now somehow!!!

x

OP posts:
lulumama · 08/12/2006 21:59

my sister , taylormama is on barmaid duties tonight and it is a free for all !!

SHHHHsantaiscoming · 08/12/2006 21:59

lulamumma and Bacon fries left..??

2nervesnapartridgeinapeartree · 08/12/2006 22:00

We should all be pleased that newbies have got a thread up to 157 messages.

PeachesMcLean · 08/12/2006 22:09

Not dead yet.

But I might be off soon since they're serving pints of baileys over the road...

lulumama · 08/12/2006 22:10

bacon fries a plenty!!!

Jam77 · 08/12/2006 22:20

Come to the bar!!!!! - we are dicussing everything from dress sense to gordon ramsey in the sack (see lulu blush )

lulumama · 08/12/2006 22:21

Blush Blush

PeachesMcLean · 08/12/2006 22:37

Aaaagh! Sorry, got distracted with something fishy going on elsewhere...

TwinkleInSantasEye · 08/12/2006 22:47

Lulumama and Quootypie - I'm amazed that you are both newbies! You both seem so assured I was sure you'd been around for ages.

I'm a newbie - joined some time in August. To answer the questions:

  1. Yes - I think it's cos I like to have the last word!
  2. Thankfully not always
  3. Yes, frequently!

I absolutely love MN though - it has helped me through a really difficult time. I tend to post only on certain baby-focussed topics and have posted a few threads asking for advice. I absolutely love my postnatal club.

I have met some brilliantly helpful people, two of whom are named at the start of this post . I have also got embroiled in some controversial threads, mostly soon after I joined before I realised how bitchy things can get. I'm more careful about saying controversial things now as some people will recognise me. And I'm sure I've crashed a few threads in my time, as I'm not well up on netiquette.

MN is brill!!

Snowstorm · 08/12/2006 22:49

Hello everyone. I'm quite new here too. I've just asked DH how long I've been coming on MN and he said it seems like forever! Think I first posted in June or thereabouts but I was lurking for a couple of months prior to that. I'm not sure how I stumbled across MN but what hooked me in was the Telly Addicts thread and all the really funny threads about CBeebies, the programmes and the presenters ... with DD's of 4 and almost 3, it was like stumbling into a whole world within my world IYSWIM.

I recognise quite a few names on here. Someone asked me the other day what my pre-festive name was and I replied that it was in fact "Snowstorm" Along with trying to work out how to spell-check my messages on here and also how to find messages over a certain age, I've got no idea how to name-change. If I did, I'd probably become "CouldntBeConciseIfITried".

singsalot · 08/12/2006 22:51

hello, I am a newbie in that I have only just started posting, but boy is it addictive, I don't mind the cliques, really love how funny some of the threads can be, touched by some of the threads, and ignore the negative stuff...

stumpydogsbaubles · 08/12/2006 22:56

hello.i only found out about mn a week or so ago, but have done quite a bit of posting and killed a fair number of threads already i have 5 dcs including a 2yr old dd and 15 wk old ds, who will be having an op, pyeloplasty, in feb. i should go to bed -poor dh has noisily and grumpily gone up the stairs muttering about me being on computer. poor thing !

TwinkleInSantasEye · 08/12/2006 22:58

Sorry Quootie - spelt your name wrong! People do that to me all the time in rl and I hate it.

gmummy · 08/12/2006 23:01

Thank God - I thought I was just being paranoid!!!! I have a real self esteem issue - even when nobody actually knows who I am.
I also made the newbie mistake of starting a thread which got a disabled person all annoyed at it's frivolous nature so it put me off and left me lurking for a bit.
Gosh lulu - I thought you were a real "oldie" (stricly in the MN sense of course!) esp since you always seem to give some of the best advice. Of course, that was why I joined MN - I really gain a lot of "real" knowledge from reading various threads and quite frequently just feel like I'm not "the only one".
I might even get up the courage to go to the bar now - GREAT THREAD

gmummy · 08/12/2006 23:15

Oh Oh - not paranoid after all

lulumama · 08/12/2006 23:18

do come to the bar,...! it is bedlam tongiht !!

full of newbies!!

whensantagotstuckupAITCHimney · 08/12/2006 23:27

the examples of lulumama and quootie as newbies are good ones, really. they both got stuck in when they first arrived and are funny, wise and supportive. they're also prepared to explain their own sometimes sad experiences to people, so they give out more than they get back i'm sure.

i myself came looking for advice on Baby Led Weaning nearly six months ago, and i found most people hugely welcoming. i've had my fights, one about a week after finding this place, and i took a monumental pasting from one of the most respected members of mumsnet (imo) on a subject that i was particularly vulnerable about.

it hurt, but i had already seen the value of MN and was not going to leave. of course the same poster answered a thread of mine within a fortnight, clearly not having a clue that i'd gone hammer and tongs with her earlier. i like that about MN, that you can be mortally opposed on one thread and completely in agreement on the next.

with regards to the threads not being answered, does everyone know that you can search for unanswered threads? it's up at the top, and it's worth doing so people don't feel left out.

anyway, i'd say welcome but it sounds a bit ludicrous from someone who only pitched up here a few months ago, and who has only been in the bar twice because i was too frightened. (i went in, got a virtual guinness served by quootie and had a lovely time). but i'm going to risk it, so welcome, make yourselves at home but don't be in too much of a hurry to change things round cos you might like the fusty old ways of MN after all.

HumphreyCushiONtheFirstNoel · 08/12/2006 23:33

Agree with Aitch about just pitching in.
And 'thread amnesia' about having a run-in with someone is important to, IMO.
I hate it when someone clearly bears a grudge with someone, and carries it over into other posts.
I am (mostly) madly inoffensive though, and will probably secretly cry at the thought of hurting someone's feelings.

2nervesnapartridgeinapeartree · 08/12/2006 23:33

Whensantagot....

Are you usually aitchtwoooh? or similar.

lulumama · 08/12/2006 23:41

see,this is what i love about Aitch.....she says all the thing i want to say, but much more eloqunelty and wisely!

and , god, she can be soooooo funny !!!! seriously, i have spraaaaaaaaaaaaaayed and snooooooooooorted at many of her comments,!!!

sorry for talking about you like you are not here !

and BLW saved my sanity with babylulu, the amazing non eating baby ! who now eats!!

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