Discussion amongst Mums with babies born in December 2008

[Veggiemummy]

Hope you all can find it, Moms title was perfect I thought.

Oh how funny. My fingers were twitching to start one "Dec 08 sluts" but this is much more civilised.

Well done veggie, I have jst posted on t'other thread!

I am so by it!!

Good work, and much less passive aggressive than my title .

Just got notes in from editor about my book. Need to write a bit more and sort my references out. Good feedback from the sales reps about the cover too, so am feeling more hopeful than before.

T being very funny at the moment. I wish I could see all your DCs and they could play together. (feeling sentimental about this scandalous thread and haven't even had wine)

I was going to put 'Dec 08 mums find rubarb alittle bitter' but thought better of it. It would have obviously been in reference to the long stemmed vegetable but someone might take offence .

Oh veggie, that would have been good!

Hmmm I am sure we will get flamed for the cutsey fairydust use of the word "Mum" rather than Mother (or Main Carer). The mind boggles it really does.
The Poonani thing was it just a play on the word Tsunami or was it Ponani too (as in front bottom) sorry I am quite dense.

Sybs - really looking forward to your SM and KW update!!! I am very impressed with your circle of friends. Interesting that it was on the cards. Matthew Cu.tler I love, but I think of all the Strictly gays (or not gays) I would most like to be friends with Ian Waite.

Do you know this is the 3rd title that Mom has come up with in a row. Maybe other threads could commision her.

I don't know what the problem with poonami is actually....must be either that it's a bit cheesy (and that our thread is very noticable as we've been v chatty of late) or that it's flippant about people dying in tsunamis (though that is really really being over sensitive to a massive degree, surely?). I didn't think of the punani reference at all until you mentioned it now turnip.

I find the whole thing amusing, in partiuclar insinuations that people who post on these types of threads have too much time on their hands when they are clearly scanning thread titles looking for ones to take offense too!! they are probably the same people who spend all day on AIBU having arguments about Parent and Child parking and the suchlike.

You lot all move in such celeb circles, all this inside goss . My mum used to think that Sam Mendes and I would make a great couple, bless her, way back before he was so famous and went out with Kate Winslet. Why she thought a famous director would be interested in a maths undergraduate I never did find out. She also though "That Naked Chef guy" and I would be great together too.

Kayz I hope you are ok too. Come back and let us know how you are doing.

Thats funny Summer. An Australian friend of mine who now lives in the UK told me that her mum (who lives back in Australia) was devastated when she found out Jamie was married as she really thought he and my friend would make a lovely couple. He was known in Australia but not as big as here and she thought if my friend looked him up and asked him out they'd be on.

Like the title Veggie

I'm surprised anyone can be bothered for be offended by a thread title. And FWIW the content of the thread is what matters, for me the content of this thread(s) have been invaluable in getting me through some tricky times, and has often made me laugh too.

I know this is the interweb and everything, but heck some people need to get a sense of humour, eh ?

What I am still laughing at is Turnip somehow getting 'Poonani' mixed up in it all. I spat out my drink

Loving your Mum's suitor suggestions, Summer. My mum is a bit wistful that I don't read the news on local radio, or possibly the weather. I think it's coming from a similar place.

I'd be a complete fruitloop if it wasn't for here! I'd end up talking to myself.

Spot, that's really good news about the book. And also about the sales reps - they are so important! Great they are on side. I can't get back into mine. My agent wants me to make a character more self-aware and sensitive from the start, but if I do that, it won't be a journey of enlightenment. It won't be any sort of journey, which kind of defeats the object! OH, I dunno...I'm too close to it, probably.

I am having a very very tiny spot of cheerfulness. It is so small it is virtually invisible.

Well done Veggie, but I do wish you'd gone with the Rhubarb title!

I'm amazed the thread lasted 6 pages, and a little bit honoured too. I knew our group was special. Clearly they are just jealous.

Am joining the band of voices worried about Kayz. She is having fun with her friends lately, maybe she's just busy.

Also missing Urbane, DS1 often asks about your I. Kiwi too but I think she is in Budapest!?

Also we haven't heard from Kim in Ages and Ages.

found you. have i missed something. what with the poonami? have mn elders banned some sort of thread? give me the gossip - and not just sam and kate (awful but i did feel schadenfreude - even the beautiful, successful ones go on to have troubles). also, i worked with kw's sister once - right proper crackers.

wg - in summary it seems that some people are offended by the antenatal and postnatal threads they seem to simultaneously find the titles cheesy, vomit-inducing, cliquey and offensive. Ours was mentioned in particular.

In addition there seems to be some large feud about the use of the word "slut" in some Twilight fan thread.

Lady I'm loving your well shaped eyebrow

WG I tried to cut & paste the thread in question but couldn't do sorry. Rubena put a link to it towards the end of the last thread. We seem to have taken over it now. Chased them away it seems. I feel ladies, that we were very gracious & dignified in our treatment of those troublesome ladies. DH is finding poonami-gate very amusing. I must admit a bitch fight would have been fun (and I think what DH was imagining...but in a naughty way).

Yes, I hope everyone else finds us. People who haven't been on for a bit might wonder a little about the staid title

The threads that bug me are the egotistical ones that have to have poster's names in them. And hypocritically, one such person, who has a longrunning diet/fitness thread and has to have her name in every thread title, was very quick to post on the 'moaning about pn and an thread titles thread'!

I love our thread to pieces. And I love it even more now that I have had a taste of the ante natal thread(s) for my potential DC2.

I'm watching that baby show again. No good can come of it. I would like to know what Nolda thinks of it, she had her DS there.

Why, thank you Veggie

I am afraid I do find I like to irritate some people on MN (not OUR thread, although that's not to say I am not irritating on here sometimes, as I am quite sure I am).

Nolda! I wonder how she is? Is she on facebook?

you not been back to the antenatal thread(s) then LadyT? I still haven't joined the one I would be on either.

I haven't been there for weeks. I peeped the other day, but....

Oh I didn't know that summer. Personally I quite like the word, it is the female equivalent of stud and should be used with the same regard. However, as it is a female description it gets used offensively. As in the use of the c word also. I'm a bit sleepy and not making much sense but I know what I mean. When I was a twentysomething some friends and I wanted to reclaim the word for women everywhere. We started using it quite often in reference to each other & even some male friends. One friend ran into trouble once when she said 'goodbye s%#t to one of our male flatmates as he was leaving to go out with his new girlfriends who was with him. She thought my friend was calling her a S@%t and was highly offended. Got a bit tetchy about it. We then realised we needed to watch our dirty potty mouths.

I don't think Nolda is on FB but I can't remember what her real name is. I say real name - obviously everyone's REAL names are what's on here Your given names seem less real to me.

Hello! Sorry I posted and ran - had stuff to do but knew you'd all get a chuckle when I stumbled across that! - Actually someone in the due Aug thread that I was reading had mentioned it so I went for a little look see but I don't think I will post as it makes me all anxious just thinking about it!!
Oh Veggie - I love the title you were thinking of using!
And Summer I agree - as if we're the one's with too much time on our hands - erm I think it takes a lot more time to pick arguments and scan threads etc!

Oh gawd - watchin One born every minute.... eek!