You can always tell some women are childless by the fact that they....

[NinaInCognito]

...get in the way of you when you are in the supermarket dragging around a pram, trolley and fiddly child and then they sneer down at you with their basket full of organic lettuce, baguettes and mini-tampons while your trolley is loaded with nappies, a giant pot of Sudocrem and enough chocolate bars to re-sink the Titanic.

You then have to manoever around them while they continue said sneering.

God you can tell what sort of evening I have had, can't you? And I am embarrassed to admit that I used to be one of those women. I apologise to all you mums out there unreservedly.

Now for chocolate bars and MN......

yes it is a bit strange how those who are throwing their toys out of the pram seem to be the ones who want lighthearted lol

If I don't find a post funny I just don't laugh at it.

I don't make a point of posting to say it is not funny.

MN is a very strange place sometimes.

i think if you do want lighthearted and a thread seems to have gone a bit pear shaped then just powst lighthearted stuff and make the effort to bring it round yourself can work

horses for courses, forever.

yes, zippi. but you see, my partner in crime ChairmanMiaow went and swannged off without me.

Oh, don't mind me, I've just got the O-flimping-lympics to run. Harrumph.

Blimey.
I haven't read all the thread, because of being shallow and fickle.
But it rather took a turn for wailing heebeegeebees on post three.
It seems to me it all went tits up when the OP threw a tantrum at Aitch's post.

I agree with Aitch that you get back what you put out. Hissy fits and faux flounces because no one gets your sense of humour is a bit sappy.

Love and knuckles - brilliant

Has anyone blamed Ken Livingstone yet? THem supermarket wimmim was sneering because they've just paid the congestion charge and resented the OP's superior parking status.

by the same token, FO, if i post something that i want to be seen as light-hearted, i'd tend to write it in an amusing manner.

i certainly wouldn't be caught dead saying 'i'm trying to be light-hearted' and insinuating that someone was pissing on my MN experience. if it's funny, it doesn't need explaining. if it's not, then whinging at the other person about how you'd hoped to return to MN in a wave of hilarity and they're spoiling it for you isn't exactly the way to keep that laff-riot spirit alive.

actually what i can't believe is how thin the skin of some people is, tbh, that they have to get all pissy about someone saying 'whatever, don't blame me for the fact i don't find your OP amusing'.

sometimes i do think that MN is changing, though, becoming more like other forums, whcih would be a shame. say for example www, with whom i don't share the sneery former life experience on this thread , somehow she's managed to keep off the personal insults and bugs up the arses... that's how people relate to each other on here, or was.

vi'm no newbie-basher (largely cos i don't pay attention to the names) but looking at the thread there do seem to be a lot of new names on here who are being insulting without actually having the wit to couch it in good-natured or even debate-like terms. shame, that... i hope it's not a glimpse into the future.

that's because champagne is made with chardonnay grapes, sally.

oops! that was meant for the thread that was created for me - a piss up discussion.

I blame AIBU.
And Ken Livingstone, obv.

Well put Aitch.

And I actually saw a cat named ChairmanMeow up for adoption at Boulder Valley Humane Society.

I was going to go and get him, but some Marxist bastard beat me to it.

how about fidel catsro? did that mangy bastard get adopted?

rofl

I blame Deng Miaoping.
And Ken.

Does your cat have a revolutionary name?

No, but his extremely handsome pal Che Guevara did. Fidel had come from a home where he was beaten with an ugly stick and had many problems.

Our cat is called Pepsi. She is a council estate refugee. She had a poor upbringing and was abused.

We use it to excuse her murderous behaviour.

She's a serial killer.

Mice, shrews, birds, she doesn't discriminate.

lol Fidel Catsro
But poor Fidel with his problems and fugliness.

Underneath, there was a good cat. But it was hard to see for all that fur.

Ah.
So he was 'Fro-del Catsro?
Part Jackson 5, part Cuban Communist.

No, he just wouldn't wake up when I stroked him.

So I took home 'Danner' instead. We had three good years together before he succumbed to cancer, and he didn't even touch those nasty cigars!

Hello everyone- I am a 'newbie' who is actually deeply entertained by the advise disguised as abuse. Or was that the wrong way around I have already realised that you DO all love each other despite your protestations. It's all psuedo animosity. Go on, give each other a hug. Go on, go on, go on, go on. And if you haven't got it in you, do you not have DH/ DP/ DC you can give a hard time rather than each other? [fence sitting emoticon].

Anyway, OP, there are lots of very rude people in the world who sneer at me but that may be because of my chronically badly behaved DC or alternatively as a result of my less than cheerful 'coupon' to use a good Glasgow word

It took me so long to type that, the thread has been hyjacked by some communist bastards? Only on MN. Sorry for any irrelavance.

You wait, Shootfromthehip. Any minute now the haikus will start.

Hopefully.

To write a poem
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffic.

KM -- I have been waiting 27 years to confess this so might as well do it among friends.

When that song came out and I was 7, I didn[t understand the words, to me it was something like this

I leurve rock n roll

sitting in a taxi with a juke box teddy bear

There you go, laugh, laugh at me

I feel somehow relieved