Can someone tell me why.........

[astonished]

Some people need to come on here and take the piss out of others? Alot of it going on at the moment, often on other threads where others can't defend themselves.
Some people may see it all as a bit of a laugh, but is it really?? What is the motivation in sitting at a computer and making others feel bad??
Why the superiority complexes, clearly they are not justified, otherwise there would be no need to rip it out of others??
Harmless fun? Just remember what it feels like to be treated that way, in real life or on mumsnet.
And whilst I'm at it, being a regular poster does not give anybody the right to say what they want, and why should I be told to take anybody with a pinch of salt, or should know that by now??

Its okay to be abusive mumsnetters just make sure at the beginning of your post you remind people to take you with a pinch of salt.

Back..... had to put DS to bed as DH is in Europe on business.

I bet it was my fault. Usually is, just ask Lou33.

I think you can probably rest assured on this one though, HD

evening all.

astonished - essentially this is a very big M & T group - so develops some odd social dynamics of its own that don't necessarily conform to any external standards of fairness. like in RL sometimes the ability to be amusing is prized above the ability to be compassionate, and the greatest sin can be to boring. in terms of taking the mickey it may be a case as I think Blu said earlier that it's jokes between online friends rather than anything more similar.

oh all right now i've killed this thread.

where've you all gone?

come back and play with me

I'm still here!!

MTS - I think Astonihed probably didn't think any one was going to answer her seriously!!

not just me, Blu did a serious answer as well!

I'm still here, too.

True - at 7.17pm!!!

ok, i'll stop being serious now then, in keeping with the new ambience of the thread

Will we get told off for not being serious?

who knows

just have to take risks in life

Has someone been being nasty about me on another thread that I've not noticed? Or have I slagged someone off without rememebring? Bear with me, my memory's not what it used to be.

well people have been shutting your tail in doors, soupy - i imagine that qualifies as nasty

Say help this foreigner - who moved here expressly for the delicate are of piss taking - why isn't it 'taking the wee' or 'taking the leak'? And can s/one please explain the origin of 'taking the mickey'? What's a mickey (besides my life story)?

expat - I am almost certain that 'taking the mickey' is racist (stereotyping of irish people) in origin and may, therefore have to quote the Mumsnet Philosophy IN IT'S ENTIRETY very soon here!!!

Becasue piss is such a good pithy word

Surely in Scotland they say taking the pish or certainly in Glasgow. Irish folk say extracting the michael - or is that just my eejit uncle tony?

A word about our philosophy
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Taking the mickey comes from Mickey Bliss, a radio personality in the 1950s, and it's rhyming slang: taking the Mickey Bliss = taking the piss.

Apparently.

But the expression 'taking the piss' isn't offensive, is it? Just like, in the States, people don't realise that 'bollocks' is almost swearing here. They just think it's a sweet idiom Brits use.

Aha! No need to have quoted the MNP after all, Soupy. It's not racist, merely obscene.

Snafu - have you ever had your intermittent lisp seen to?

I absolutely agree that between on line friends there is always going to be some fun, pisstaking and a laugh. I do think that sometimes though it is at the expense of more 'innocent' mumsnetters with sometimes genuine questions.
Whilst it doesn't bother me how this thread has gone it amazes me that many of you seem blinded by what sometimes does occur and unable to answer the questions at the beginning of the thread.
If some of what happens on here did occur in real life, and a mumsnetter posted about it, many of you would be offering support, yet you seem oblivious to what goes on within your online network.
I don't see why I should be specific about the threads, if you don't see it then i'm obviously dillusional. I did think more may have opinions to post on this, either they don't or don't want to upset the masses. Off to drink wine and have abath, interesting though.

Stop taking the pith, Blu...