MN allows racism to stand

[amillionyears]

I have reported it 3 times today, 1 before 9am.
Heard nothing from them.

Thank God amillion hasn't come across the phrase 'like boiling a frog' yet.

Seriously, I think she really does mean well, but is prone to odd idees fixes.

Thank you LRD. I may have to change it if people think I am poor AnyF

"Mad as a box of frogs" is racist?

I always thought the saying was about actual frogs. you know, ribbit ribbit. Packed in a box. Hopping mad. (sorry about that )

And are the french a race? as in an ethnicity?

I mean, they're a nation, but they're not a race. So even if it was about french people, it still wouldn't be racism. It'd be xenophobia.

but I honestly struggle to believe that the saying refers to actual french people.

I suppose if you put a load of french people in a box they'd be fairly perturbed about it.

As perturbed as a container of french people.

Having seen the link, I still don't get it. Someone posts the 1944022944643390229th thread this month about how they don't like mumsnet. Someone says they're as mad as a box of frogs. And this isn't saying they're being a bit bonkers but is actually a calculated slur on their nationality. Which isn't mentioned on the thread. But apparently at some point in the past, they've mentioned their children are in the french education system. Which means that these people had read the OP and then searched the OPs other posts, noted this and made a decision to choose a euphemism for battyness that mentions an offensive word for the french.

Really?

Isn't it more likely that they just meant it how everyone else means it when they say it?

I fucking luffs your Xmas hoverererer I does Rudy

We definitely need a rolling-eyes smiley. A box of frogs = racist?

It is so batty.
Oh wait, is that racist?

Ta muchly Honey. I shall enter the Festive Hoverererer comp.

I've seen AF posting, but I'm afraid I don't know who you are. I'm sure you are equally lovely, though.

Sadly for anyone who has made intelligent, well-reasoned posts on this thread, the boxgate OP has done this sort of thing before and never admitted fallibility.

Funny really. It's almost like the OP enjoys starting a fight and never backing down.

It's me, SuePurblybilt

OK, shall we have a MN pool on what's going to set off the next complaint?

I'll take mentioning gingernuts on a biscuit thread to someone of the auburn haired persuasion.

One of the posters on that thread is called Alberto Frog

Im reporting her..

I've seen a big box of frogs, well they were cane toads but same difference. They weren't mad at all, just mostly sullen.

Are cane toads the ones that you lick?

Showing this to someone from Hartlepool?

JEALOUS of RudolphUcker - what a brilliant name.

there is a certain toad that turns blue if you are pregnant and wee on it.

troofact.

No. They're the non-native ones in Australia that kill the local wildlife - they're poisonous.

No no no. Alberto was a seriously clever frog. He conducted an orchestra and liked milkshake.

Oh. Got it.

I am slow.

Aha, I will AVOID the licking then.
Perhaps I was thinking of another toad altogether.

I'd love to know how they found out which one Blameit

If other people dont agree with me, so be it.

As far as i can see, no one agrees with you. That should tell you something.

Lol at sullen frogs.

Only for dares Rudolph.

Just remembered I also collected a vivarium of frogs at Dunham Massey and they weren't mad either. National Trust frogs though so no suprise.