MN - signs of addiction!

[lowrib]

Oh dear, this mumsnet thing is a wee bit addictive isn't it?!

My recent symptoms include:

Dreaming about MN (I dreamt I changed my name to "Mother of all Hangovers", then "Two feet high and rising". Quite impressed I remembered them actually. The hangover is wishful thinking - sadly I've can't have had more than two in the last two years!)

Putting ** around words when I want them bold at work.

When the internet isn't working and I can't get into MN, one of the worst bits is I can't complain about it on MN!

Thinking the words DP, MIL etc

Is there any hope for me?

Is there a cure?

How are the rest of you faring out there?

I am sure I do that all the time shockers.

I don't think I am addicted enough - I only come on once a day between 6-6:45 pm (usually). It is depressing because recently I have missed out on some really good threads.

Love this thread!

I constantly think in the way I would post something rather than speak.

I've started to lie about where I have found information or heard something interesting, even I was getting sick of hearing me start a sentence with "On Mumsnet....."

Also do the 'AIBU' thing like foureleven and think of people as dh, dd etc like so many other addicts MNetters

Glad to know I'm not alone

Hah, I lie saying that I never post on here! And mumsnet always comes into conversations at work - they all think I'm a right saddo....hmmmm

I have the mumsnet haircut, do OCM and curly girl and I find I have made wtf into a word.

At work once i wrote FFS on a post-it note and stuck it to my forehead while the boss wasn't looking. my colleague sitting opposite were in pieces, we got the library giggles.

nappy- ds2 is echolalic. He chose Cleethorpes to spend all day loudly declaring "Naked." "I'm naked" "Help me, I'm naked." "Naked" "I'm naked"

The whooooooole day.

Variations of Help me, I'm naked.

People who could see him as he yelled it were slightly less alarmed than people who heard him yell before seeing him.

I said I needed to go on the laptop to do some banking and ds (8) said curiously 'so Mumsnet do banking, do they?'

Lowrib, that is spooky. Yesterday I updated my profile to 3feethighandrising as I was toying with the idea of changing names for a bit(I was listening to a De La Soul album in the car and got all nostalgic).

My symptoms are listening to things all the time and thinking 'now, THAT would make a good name' (I'm getting a bit fed up of mine now I am no longer pg, nor likely to be again in the future).

I also have to stop myself from always saying 'I read on mumsnet that....'. I have to come up with creative ways of weaving things into conversation with my DH without starting the conversation with those particular words. He always clocks me though and asks me if I read it on mumsnet even if I haven't mentioned it!

JM2PW- that is hilarious.. have just spurted tea at "Help me, I'm naked".... I'm assuming he was actually fully dressed?

For me... no matter what piece of edifying, astounding, diverse information I present to DH.... he knows it came from mn... but he does understand, because anytime we need the answer to a question he asks me to search on mn!

Oh yes.

On that occasion.

I have realised that I refer to MN an awful lot. I don't want to out myself in RL so have managed to keep it at 'my forum that I post on' but still, everyone knows I have this place I go to al the time.

I also regularly type all the acronyms and what makes it worse is that I have a few mates on FB that are also MNers and we talk to each other in using acronyms on FB.

Makes it so hard not to do it in RL, but I am constantly thinking in MN acronyms!

JMTPW

DS is echolalic too. His worst ones at the moment are "I don't like Mummy" and "policeman's coming" which he says every time i attempt to kiss him.

I'm sure dp is sick of me saying, "Well,on Mumsnet" . I do think in terms of dd ds1 ds2 etc. I have also had mn dreams, both in terms of meeting mn'ers in rl and also just pure dreams of being online .

help! i am new (and newly pregnant which is v exciting!) but i have no idea what all the shorthand like DH etc means -please enlighten me

princesslizzie top of the page click on Acronyms for all the answers

Congratulations princesslizzie

And welcome to MN!

You have been duly warned though - it really is more than a little addictive. Enjoy!

I knew it was bad when my DP had a dream that involved my DS posting threads on MN asking for advice. Really really bad.

CaptainNancy even my DS tells me to ask mumsnet when we're not sure about something, or when he things I am being harsh or unfair.

When RL people ask me what I've been doing I just smirk because I can't say. (ffs RL people, who are they ).

When cleaning is 1/5 cleaning and 4/5 pauses to check post updates.

When I wake up at night and I email MN buddy at 4.30am with extra info I can't say on MN

When my idea of a good night's entertainment is a Dumpling Sing-A-Long on MN

When I constantly lock my laptop screen like DCs do

When I am up against hideously tight deadlines and I still come on to MN to give my brain a break, despite not having the time at all.

When I find myself using instead of Ctrl-I to do italics in emails

When I really wish that and and (and in fact most of the others too) were available to use in emails instead of the crappy ones that hotmail use

When DS keeps coming up to me and trying to lift my hands off the computer, saying "mummy no! Computer away"

when I'm sitting here right now typing this instead of sewing up DH's trouser legs like I said I would (he needs them for tomorrow, apparently)

I have come very close to saying MIL out loud to RL people, and have used it in emails by accident (such a useful abbreviation!)

When DH asks me every time he really pisses me off if I'm going to start an AIBU about his behaviour

I also used to tell people about things I had read on MN; sometimes telling them that it was this internet site that I had found, other times lying and saying that a RL friend had said X.

Hello, my name is Thumbwitch and I am an MN addict.

Very funny ThumbWitch - I do most of those

Click on My Pictures on your computer.
If Soupy the Bat is in there you're a true addict!

goddamn bat. number of times I've ben suckered in and clicked on that damned link...

I gave up for a week, though DH says giving up for an arbitrary period of time just to prove you can is further proof of addiction.

Oh that bat! I always get suckered in by the hairy trucker and Terry Wogans Cock as well.

ok, I'm still fairly new here. somebody is going to have to link me to the bat/trucker. Not the Terry Wogan one though. I've already seen it [traumatised emoticon]

another sign of addiction is that I keep wanting to say BFing instead of breastfeeding. even on my questionnaire that I filled in to apply for a BFing breastfeeding peer support training course