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Mumsnet - help or hindrance?

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mears · 15/05/2003 12:59

Morning everyone,

I have spent ages surfing away this morning when I should be doing more important things.

Having read all about everyone's different cleaning habits I was prompted to strip the beds (the sun is shining), and have dove 3 beds out of 5 so far.
Bloss has encouraged me to do a bit of housework so that I stay 80% on top of it instead of snowed under. So I have cleaned the kitchen and bathroom floors ( just with a mop, didn't take long) and I have hoovered downstairs.

That is all I am going to do today but what a difference it has made to my mood. A half cleaned place is better than an untidy tip but I just can't face 'proper cleaning ' jobs.

But here I am again wasting time to tell you all what I have done this morning. I am once again addicted but can't go cold turkey and stop all together.

How do others manage to keep themselves under control regarding logging on to good old mumsnet.

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Tinker · 15/05/2003 16:22

So is it able to tell just from all individual clicks? ie everytime a flick from one site to another to a spreadsheet etc?

sis · 15/05/2003 16:29

wiltshirelass - you are really scaring me!

wiltshirelass · 15/05/2003 16:29

they don't necessarily know when you are looking at a spreadsheet (unless it is on the web) but they do automatically log every site looked at, and for those purposes a site is a page of a site. so if you are wandering around johnlewis.com, they will know that you spent 5 minutes on kitchen equipment and 2 minutes on...I don't know...garden furniture? and that in total you were on john lewis for 15 mins....

Tinker · 15/05/2003 16:34

So if I leave it on all day they couldn't possibly argue that I'd spent 7.5 hours just surfing. I literally spend seconds flitting between loads of screens all day.

Mind you, one bloke openly reads the BBC site ALL day and reads out the cricket scores.

wiltshirelass · 15/05/2003 16:36

there is something about cricket that turns sensible men into complete obsessive statistic nerds, isn't there?
I know, I'm married to one.

edgarcat · 15/05/2003 16:45

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wiltshirelass · 15/05/2003 16:52

we seem to have a lot in common, edgarcat. you aren't a 34 year old taurean lawyer by any chance?!!

edgarcat · 15/05/2003 16:57

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Mum2Toby · 15/05/2003 16:58

Edgarcat and Wiltshirelass - are you the same person?

edgarcat · 15/05/2003 17:01

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edgarcat · 15/05/2003 17:01

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wiltshirelass · 15/05/2003 17:10

spooky!
we are definately not the same person, my nipples are in fine form at the moment and edgarcats sound jolly painful!

edgarcat · 15/05/2003 17:12

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Mum2Toby · 15/05/2003 17:13

Edgarcat - Old Dragon is Soupie!!

edgarcat · 15/05/2003 17:15

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Mum2Toby · 15/05/2003 17:16

Aaaah I see. Doh!

I'm off now. Au Revoir.

edgarcat · 15/05/2003 17:23

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wiltshirelass · 15/05/2003 17:29

I'm completely confused. oh well!

edgarcat · 15/05/2003 18:12

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wiltshirelass · 15/05/2003 18:13

ahhhhhh.
well I have no idea who that is, but i don't come on here as often as some
although I've been on all day today it seems!

edgarcat · 15/05/2003 18:14

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wiltshirelass · 15/05/2003 18:16

i purport to work too, but haven't achieved much today. ..

edgarcat · 15/05/2003 18:17

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wiltshirelass · 15/05/2003 18:20

nothing as exciting as
crime
debt
divorce
death

I'm afraid. And don't work in WB (as we call it around here - bit like "LA" we think), but in London. but only a couple of days a week and then I work a couple of days from home down here. nice set up.
I'm a technology law geek I'm afraid (blushes in shame)

edgarcat · 15/05/2003 18:21

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