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Netmums refugee...

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stripeymama · 13/08/2007 21:52

Can I join you please? I cant take it over there any more. Turns out Jean Charles de Menezes somehow brought it on himself by overstaying his visa... the things you learn eh.
Friend told me that its ok to have opinions on mumsnet so here I am.

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stripeymama · 14/08/2007 00:03

It got worse. Only three people even tried to disagree. Its just the whole "hardworking british families" and "small island" and "look after our own" blah blah. Glad to see there are other refugees here - bran, they'd prob put you straight back on the plane to MN. After all, you could be trying to get a free bouncy castle ride. God forbid.

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hunkermunker · 14/08/2007 00:06

Hannah H writes - "Richard. Thats the Liberal Left Media and because Jean Charles de Menezes was a percieved victim of the Racist Police. The police were doing thier duty to `serve and protect, if they didnt, then they would be of breach of contract and quite rightly taken to task.

When a Police Man was murdered by a Immigrant (with Leave to Remain) here in Luton murdered a Police Officer, it never made Press that he was an Immigrant. My husband is in the Police Force and if the same thing happened to my husband and was murdered by an Immigrant, Legal or not, then I`d Sue the Home Office, Rant over, Thanks for Reading."

And the next post starts:

"Well said Hannah!"

I should be posting on the inappropriate things you've laughed at recently thread, right?!

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stripeymama · 14/08/2007 00:11

Its only just funny tho - they really mean it! They teach their little poppets to think like that!

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hunkermunker · 14/08/2007 00:13

Not funny at all, the content.

But the "well said" - no, it really wasn't!

RoyKeane · 14/08/2007 00:13

And why should we thank them for Reading, for crying out loud??

hunkermunker · 14/08/2007 00:14

Yes, why stop at Reading?

Let's be thankful for Basingstoke as well, at the very least!

RoyKeane · 14/08/2007 00:16

or mildly appreciative of Swindon.

hunkermunker · 14/08/2007 00:21

Steady now, RK...

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stripeymama · 14/08/2007 00:24

What About Dudley? Ooh it is nice to have a little snipe cos the crap english did really piss me off - people who live in glass houses and all that, moaning about "immigrants" not knowing the language. I was just sooo wound up by it, starting to find it funny now tho.

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welliemum · 14/08/2007 04:13

Welcome stripeymama, pull up a chair.

I actually couldn't read all of that NM thread, and I have an exceptionally strong stomach, a legacy of having lived in Reading, worked in Swindon and visited the cinema in Basingstoke. [pauses for gasps of horror and pity]

I think you're spot on that the surface fluffyness on NM is masking some very nasty ideas. MN is a tons better place to get your warm fuzzies, ironically enough.

arfishy · 14/08/2007 04:53

Come on in stripey. I think you'll feel right at home.

Be warned about the mogelling threads.

bran · 14/08/2007 10:12

I didn't say welcome to stripey in my last post, so welcome.

I have to wonder if it had been their brother or son who had been shot whether they would still think that the police were just doing their job?

MrsBadger · 14/08/2007 10:18

ooh, someone else who's stripey...

beansprout · 14/08/2007 10:21

Oh, can we storm Netmums, en masse, just for badness?

Welcome to the dark side, mwah ha ha haaaaa!!!

LoveAngel · 14/08/2007 10:47

Welcome, welcome...

I also turned my back on Netmums a while ago and have found Mumsnet much more my cuppa. Its hard not to slip into 'awwww hun xxxxx' mode sometimes, though :-) But I manage alright. And guess what? You can have an intelligent discussion/debate on Mumsnet. And you can do this - look! - FUCK. Fuck Fuck Fuckety Fuck-Fuck. Its great not being treated like you're ten.

p.s. you may already ahve noticed - there are no epilepsy inducing / vomit inducing tickers here either. Result!

MerlinsBeard · 14/08/2007 10:49

stripeymama haven;t you always been a MNetter? or it there just someone with a simialr name?!

Either way, well done for leaving the ahem pit i flounced when my posts get "moderated" and then they were infiltrated by nestle nazi's

WanderingTrolley · 14/08/2007 10:50

I read the nm thread.

Please someone assure me that nmers don't vote.

Jackaroo · 14/08/2007 11:05

I am a refugee from another website (more of a baby one really) and it seems that really I should have moved "up" to NMs.

Thank goodness I found there was another way....(cue stirring Elgar...)......a more cynical, intelligent, blast-of-fresh- air way.....
(footage of mummies drinking coffee, giving speeches, playing in the park, wearing academic gowns...)
...where I could feel safe, to be me, to be treated with dignity, without fear of being hunned, or awwwed, or told my PND was really "so so sad".....

(close on a black screen reading "This was a partly political broadcast on behalf of Mumsnet. Vote Mumsnet - the saner choice").

Only prob is, I have to use my brain now, as I don't have ticker tape to remind me of stuff.

Cheers Mumsnet

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stripeymama · 14/08/2007 11:13

Nope only joined last night. Had to try very hard to restrain myself from calling them all a bunch of ignorant racist colonialist gitwizards on my way out - still having internal battle now

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WanderingTrolley · 14/08/2007 11:16

"Gitwizards" is the finest word I have learned in a long time. It deserves its own emoticon. Like so: [gitwizard] - v much hope Tech sees this.

Bravo!

Aitch · 14/08/2007 11:17

succumb to it, stripey, you know you want to. get every last ounce of enjoyment out of your flounce.

AttilaTheMum · 14/08/2007 11:21

I'm loving the 'partly political broadcast'

Oops, sorry.

Jackaroo · 14/08/2007 11:21

Nope, it was supposed to be that - but thank you anyway

JeremyVile · 14/08/2007 11:22

Is this like one of those first dates where the other person slates their Ex all night?

You shouldn't feel you have to slag off a group who you were happy to be a part of in order to ingratiate yourself.

AttilaTheMum · 14/08/2007 11:25

It's even better if it was deliberate...