Your worst moment on mumsnet?

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OK - this is meant to be lighthearted & not meant to stir up any old battles. Just noticed a few posts recently from newbies suggesting that they haven't found mn particularly easy to break into at first and, being newish myself, just wondered if any of you old timers would put us newer members at ease by sharing any memorable snubbings, false troll accusations, clangers you've made, threads that really DIDN't work out the way you meant them to, etc...

Ideally you'd be able to laugh at them now rather than still being bitter

I suppose some peoples NEW worst moments will be seeing on this thread that they caused or contributed to someone else's bad moments...

Threads where I've come to virtual blows include ...

1. Boys in dresses.
2. Kids at weddings.
3. 'Extended' breastfeeding.
4. Kids with dummies.
5. Perceived 'smugness'.
6. Pus in cow milk.
7. Lying to kids.
8. School uniform.

oh dear Shiny. Hadn't thought of that. Surely serves them all right for being so inconsiderate of people's feelings in the first place

This is really disturbing. I can genuinely recall only one bad moment: Zippitippitoes insinuated that I post only about nannies. She is of course quite right, nannies do figure largely in my Mnet life, but it did make me feel bad for a couple of days. Kissy kissy to Zippitippi.

Other than that, nothing. Nada. Zip. From which there are two possible conclusions - 1. My Mnet persona is blander than Dale Winton or 2. I am constantly insulting and being insulted and have utterly failed to notice either. I'm not sure which is worse.

issymum you are pulling my leg

i thought you were a hot shot lawyer so you must post about that too

Zippi - Dotty was 'real' wasn't she?

Still think of her and wonder how she got on abroad.

I keep having rucks with Ruty, who seems really nice, which is a bit crap.

No really I'm not Zippi. You made a completely innocent, off-hand and accurate observation, but it did upset me. Mnet is bloody weird like that.

I rarely post about being a lawyer, it's just too dull. However, I have been known to allude to the fact that the DDs are adopted once or twice......

gosh I am sorry issymum

dotty as in fox this and that real person fabrication of events...I had a rethink and an absence as a result of the fall out

My responses are usually ignored - except for one occassion where I related an experience with my DS and moggling and got blasted by someone in the industry (she will not be named) for putting forth my opinion. The thread on which that was posted has never been quite the same again.

Once a thread about how cruel parents were leaving their children in daycare made me cry.

That was in my very first few weeks though. Then I got a life and realised that I didn't have to take some anonymous person's opinion so much to heart.

I admit to feeling hurt or angry fairly often at things that people put, but again, this just points me in the direction of getting a life. Quite useful things, MN rucks.

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Pruni the Juliet thread is one of my all time favourites and I still LOL thinking about it. It did nearly cripple me with horror at the moment I read your post (you should be flattered, I was mortified to have offended you!) but that was what made it so wondrously appalling

However you are right, it was in no way my worst moment on MN. I can instantly pinpoint my 2 actual worst moments, but there is no way I am going to dredge them up or even admit how much they upset me

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my first ever post (under a different name and long ago deleted). when i was accused of getting pg on purpose to trap my bf (who had buggered off and left me). still cant bring myself to speak to that poster now. (but remember one lovely mner in particular who stuck up for me).

and my first bollocking from someone who can be a tad frightening at times but who i actually like very much (espesh her no-nonsense attitude. she says the things i always want to say, but she does it louder, and with better words ) a misunderstanding, but i was gutted at the time!

My first post on here was in the Health section explaining the terrible loss of my 19 month old Dd to Pneumococcal meningitis and how the new Prevenar jab would have saved her life.
Two certain individuals thought my story was a sales pitch from a drug company!!
I was really upset by this luckily one of them apologised but i still can't forget it.

I'v just read it back and it still makes me cross!!

Amyjade

Amyjade, I didn't see that thread

I very recently upset a pg Mumsnetter. I thought it was a light hearted thread but quite rightly the person who started the thread I was mocking wasn't too pleased. Sorry.

I hate upsetting pregnant women. When I first started posting I though I had upset Hunker too (but Moondog reassured me she was made of sterner stuff!)

Amyjade - that is just the worst thing I have heard about this site. I am not surprised you are cross. FFS!

Aw Aloha, only just seen this! Our rucks keep me on my toes though! Love you really.

[sorry Amyjade to dive in after your sad story]

the first thread I ever started (under a different name) and I didn't realise it was unusual (cos it was usual in our family) and got jumped on and asked if I was making it all up.

Put me off for ages. As you can see I obviously never came back

There was another one that really hurt, but it wouldn't be fair to bring it up so I won't.

I had a huge row with someone last year under another name and it was so unpleasant I've blocked out what it was about. Oh yeah it was about bullying on mumsnet! I don't even remember who I p**d off but they were really angry and I just stopped using mumsnet for ages.

I thought I'd create a new low