How addicted to mumsnet are you?

[Lucy123]

My name is Lucy and I am a mumsnet addict.

I have just realised this as I have sneaked upstairs while dd is with dp for a fix (and a fag - but that's qnother thing).

Also the other day I was talking to dp about something or other beginning "On mumsnet someone said...". He repied "This one time, at band camp" (you'll have to have seen American Pie to get that). It's awful. what should I do?

Since joining I have become very addicted! Forever quoting stuff that I have read on Mumsnet and it is really nice to have such varied conversations 'on tap' - especially if stuck in all day watching 'Bob the Builder'!! Only thing is that I am now a bit wary of recommending friends to join as I quite like being free to be totally myself without friends guessing its me having a moan about DS /DH etc!

Gawd...I'm an IT teacher, the temptation is there ALL the time. ("No, you may not look at the internet, finish your assignment, while I just have a quick look at mumsnet"

my name is Jasper and I am a mumsnetoholic

I check it even before my emails. I check it even before I start the packed lunches. I check it before the lunchtime pick-up. I'll check it straight after that, too, and countless times througout the rest of the day. I even manage to post after they've gone to bed!

BUT ... am I the only dimbo out there who didn't read the writing and actually gave her proper name??

I am addicted too. I have just come back from a busy day out and just had to come on and check what has been happening today!

I would have Mumsnet as my home page unfortunately DH who runs his own business seems to think that having his own website as the home page is more important, men!

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Robinw, basically there is someone in the film who keeps telling stories about her time at band camp, and people get fed up with hearing them. they always started the same way as lucy 123 put. Must admit I told my dh that and he thought it was funny.

Breeze, don't mean to be picky but she says bang camp, the point being they all think she is really boring and straight,so don't listen to her, but in fact she goes to these sex camps every summer!

lou33 - does she say bang camp? what are all those musical instruments about then????
(dp has made me sit through this film upteen times and I never noticed).

Yes its definitely bang camp, because at the end she says why do you think it's called bang camp (after showing the bloke some of the things she had learned!)?

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I have Mumsnet whirring away in the background all day at work. I always come into work intending to do at least 2 & 1/2 hours work before I read the latest threads. My appetite for Mumsnet is just too strong though and I usually don't get any work done properly until after lunch, which, according to time management courses, is meant to be the worst possible time for concentration as your body is concentrating on digesting your lunch. So, Mumsnet often gets the best of me. I'mm sure I'm going to get into trouble over this soon.

I have ried not to log on at work, but I think my record is 10.45am before I just had to check.
I think Rhiannon gets the "most addicted" awad though. IIRC she was lgging on whilst on holiday in Barbados!

I read ALL the threads about 3 times a day, but hardly ever post! I tell myself that I'll just have a look to see if there's anything relevant whilst dd is in the bath with dh...and before I know it, I am deep into a thread entitled "Anybody live in Belgium?" or "Anybody else with twin boys?". Nothing to do with me at all.....but I just feel compelled to look !
The most annoying time is when dh works from home and insists on sitting at the computer - I spend weeks, nay months, lovingly cultivating a lunchtime nap long enough for adequate mumsnet browsing, Neighbours viewing and cheese toastie eating and he comes along and ruins it all!!!

sobernow, so you're actually more obsessed than you appear to be from the amount you post and you just told us that! Oh, your poor, poor children (JOKE!!!) I didn't know it was bang camp either. Dp found the American Pie reference funny too, I am always saying to him "someone on mumsnet said..."

Another addict here but have the same problem as Ghosty. Time-difference means you're all curled up in bed while I'm reading/posting but I love my hour after lunch while DS is napping. Hearing what's going on with other Mums, what people are talking about in general, what's going on in the UK ... then I don't feel quite so lonely and so far away from home. Thanks to all the Mumsnet Addicts and long live "Other Subjects"! They cheer me up no end.

Very, how can you not be? Some days you guys are the only commication I have until DH gets home in the evening. (DS - 18 months isn't that chatty yet!!) I cringe every time other (real life??)friends with children ask questions about things and I always pipe up "well, the mums on the internet...blah, blah, blah" I've said it so many times, but on the other hand I always give them a solution to their woes.

I've even 'given-up' Eastenders to allow more Mumsnet time.

It has to be band camp. At one point she says that she learnt to play Bach on her flute at band camp. I think the line you're thinking of is "Hell, that's what half of band camp is! Sex ed!"

I'm relying on this being the proper script though.

I always thought she was supposed to be saying bang camp, but everyone thought she was saying band camp because of her instruments. Happy to be proven wrong though, as long as I can go and beat dh about the head for telling me I was right in the first place .

Just realised I am going away for a couple of days and will not have access to mumsnet. ahhh definately feel a wave of panic going over me. Maybe I can find a cyber cafe somewhere (won't go well with DH and DS though).

I don't actually work any more - just read mumsnet at the office. As I don't go to mother and toddler groups, take the kids to the park etc.. its great to have a place for mums. Stops my work mates listening to endless drones/eulogies about DS and my ongoing pregnancy.

I must be addicted. Our internet connection has been down all day ( dp's computer decided to go belly up and we shaere the adsl connection). I was beginnhing to suffer withdrawal symptoms. Thank god it working again now. Going to my parents in Scotland next week for a fortnight, I hope Dad allows me to use his computer or I will never survive.

I'd be facinated to know just how many people here read all the messages. Wish I could, but just don't have the time.

Totally addicted - I have been really busy at work for the last few days, but do I come in, make a coffee (mandatory) and get on with it? No, I read my emails (work and fun, so a bit of work involved there), then catch up with Mumsnet chat for two hours. Then do half an hour of work, then it's lunchtime......

Having said that - I've just had an email from Carrie saying I was runner up in teh competition and have won £25 of ragged Rascal vouchers! Hurray - it has been worthwhile!!!!! This of course has prompted a half hour surf of the Ragged Rascal catalogue to try and decide what to get.

Still really busy......