You need to explain this to your membership.

[manicgeek]

I'm sorry to have to break it to you, but there is definitely a gender discrimination thing going on here. Some of you will have noticed that I have been repeatedly accused of being anti-feminist, that I have repeatedly been accused of being that sad little prick from facebook. That I have been called various names. You've probably also noticed that I haven't broken a single rule, I've not personally called any member a name, or posted anything nasty towards any individual. But I've now had two accounts banned, I've had posts deleted. I've had an entire thread deleted, because I dared to create a post calling into question whether this site is operating a gender discriminationj policy towards men.

You'll note the published policy about trolls:
Unfortunately, it's not always immediately obvious whether a poster is, in fact, a troll. We all tend to be a bit suspicious of new folks posting things of a sensitive or inflammatory nature, but we would rather Mumsnet erred on the side of giving folks the benefit of the doubt and risked being made to look a bit foolish than pounce on someone who turns out to be genuinely in need of help. We hope you agree.

I'm afraid that's not true, in reality the women can go around making all sorts of nasty personal remarks about the men, but even if a man (such as me) stays within the rules, and doesn't make nasty personal remarks he will be banned should he dare to say something the women object to.

I am living proof of this.

I have been banned twice without the administrators of this site having a single piece of evidence to support their claims of me being a troll. You've seen me repeatedly ask the women making that accusation against me to show some evidence from any one of my post that in anyway demonstrates me behaving like a troll on this board. They have completely failed to do so. I have asked via email, and only received a response which basically says that because I stated that I didn't care about what any women thinks or feels... in direct response to a woman breaking the rules and making yet another unfounded allegation against me, that the administrators 'feel' I 'might' be a troll.

That's their reason for banning me... despite there being nothing in any post of mine which constitutes trolling behaviour towards any other member of this board.

Expect this thread to be deleted completely, in line with their attempts to hide away from the membership the truth of how they are operating gender based discrimination on this site.

This account will undoubtedly be banned and I shall be back to point this out all over again... until the administrators of this site have the decency to show some honesty and admit that this is exactly how this site is being operated to the membership.

Tic, tic , tic, BOOOOM!

I love a good dogshit thread - gets the old juices flowing. But who mentioned dog piles .

Is tiny Lego related to the Borg, you thing?? It'd explain a lot...

think, doh

Maybe tiny Lego is little Borg seeds?

Mmelindor - yes, those do make me feel a bit better.

'I love 70's done stylishly. I loved the tiles in Perniles and Theis kitchen in
The Killing.

My living room has a carpet that looks like a hundred ferrets were sick over it. I am saving up for a new one.

I'm always surprised when posters turn out to be men. There is normally no way of telling, they seem so, er, normal.

I've tried to get DH on here. He won't. Says it's for women.

Magnolia with lots of magnolia. (Boring DH's taste) But we have a fantastic charity shop near us that sells ve cheaply so I have some great quirky crap clutter bits & bobs that DH doesn't approve of.

Mumsnet is also turkeyist. But it's taken me ages to make it so.

My living room has dark maple floorin, pale nothingy coloured walls and oatmeal coloured sofas. And I have a plant called Pete.

It's the way they divide and yet form one larger Whole when put together - now I am scaring myself!

Do you think we can keep this going to 1000 posts?

Our living room has cream walls, 1 fireplace, nice oldish parquet flooring, but the overall effect is sadly marred by ancient baby puke stained sofas and more primary coloured plastic (not just Lego!) than would look good in Toys'r'us.

Ours is some sort of incredibly boring magnolia-type shade, with a white ceiling, but it is a nice high ceiling with Victorian plaster cornicing around the edges.

Fireplace unfortunately modern and not that nice (predates us) but not very noticeable either, so not too bad.

Very creaky, splintery, badly maintained original pine boards and a big woolen rug in an impractical colour from the John Lewis clearance. We should spend a lot of time Hoovering.

No Lego yet, but lots of tiny Playmobil items lying around to stab the feet of the unwary.

(Is he gone yet?)

There is also a male poster called someoneofgg, can't remember his name (sorry).

My living room, laminate flooring, brown and cream walls, and electric blue settee and armchair

Chickens
I think that you need to help me make MN liquorice-ist, since you were so successful with the turkeys.

Does everyone agree that liquorice is the lowest form of confectionery, and infinitely inferior to chocolate? I feel that we should perhaps section off a corner of the shops to be reserved for the liquorice products. In case they cross-contaminate the chocolate.

Oh yes, the sofa: another impractical pale shade from the JL clearance sale, currently sporting a large smear of Soreen malt loaf stickiness on one seat cushion.

So what is the general consensus on 'accent walls', then, stylish ladies? DH keeps threatening to paint one wall red or summat. Is that a good idea or has it been done to death?

I remember a very dark aubergine wall in the living room in our previous house rather fondly

I'm with MmeLindor. Can't stand liquorice.

Mine is Laura Ashley cranberry Lori curtains over dark wood venetians, cream carpets and sofa with cranberry and brown cushions, battered brown leather chair in corner, Moroccan mirror and pouffe

Pale blue and dark wood sounds gorgeous.

i know who you are and i wanted to like you. i wanted to see your pov. But it soonbecame apparent that you post in vehemently anti women way as a small minority of women post about men. neithere of you will consider other points of view and both sets of people are rigidly vehemently militant in their beliefs. fundemental even. so blinkered, so dead set, so unwilling to listen it is quite scary actually.

You can't set up another site which names posters and slag them off and not expect repercussions. to do this whilst single mindely posting in one topic area, rather than interact in any other way..shooting the breeze...

I do try and pride myself in being even handed. If there is one poster on mumsnet who doesn't follow a crowd its me. i don't have a gang or cronies and i don't kiss arse.

if i thought mumsnet were acting in a weird and underhand fashion, just picking on you i would say so.

i decided to 'unlike' your page and i don't read it anymore. I find it difficult to understand this kind of obsessive behavior. I don't think this kind of obsession is something that falls within the remit of healthy or normal. Therefore i personally find it alarming.

Men do come on mumsnet, men shouldn't have to find their own site (as someone has said on this thread) Men should be made welcome and should post where they like. And d'ya know what? they do.

I do like the thrill of a mini revolution, i like a bit of upsetting of the applecart, i like to question norms...especially on mumsnet where things get cliquey..fast! You severely dissapointed, there has to be some background that we are unaware of becuase you are single minded, with a single cause and you spend a lot of your time doing it. That alarms me becuase i don't understnd why

Why was tethersend talking about smashing cisterns?

Anyway my living room has cream walls and cream sofas - soon to be replaced by brown sofas - wow, I know how to live!!!!!

Accent walls are a NO but nice wallpaper on one wall could be good as long as not damask or oversized flowers.

MmeLindor, much as Lindor is the pinnacle of cenfectionary, I feel that liquorice does have its place

Pacific
I am anti-accent walls, I am afraid. I think their time has come and gone.

When I go into a room with an accent wall, I am reminded of the final days of the split wallpaper walls with the border in the middle.

My living room has black walls, sisal carpet, orange leather 70s suite, g plan sideboard, 70s lamps and a huge oil painting of Quincy on the wall.

I do like 70s.

yellow walls, pine flooring poorly sanded and varnished by me, heavy multicoloured (mainly orange) striped curtains, random pics, dark red art deco ceramic fireplace, olive green sofa gradually being destroyed by application of two year old....

We always got our friend licorice rizzla papers if she was cheeky enough to ask us for some normal ones and then wait to see her face when she'd run out and had to use them.

Saying that I quite like licorice allsorts.