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Spoofs, Jokes and Trolls

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Hullygully · 27/03/2013 16:47

Right.

I want a serious debate about this.

I started a joke thread, in my own name as usual, about a neighbour stealing a spoon.

It was questioned as "trolling" and I got told off by Rebecca at MNHQ.

Are spoofs and/or jokes no longer allowed?

Since when?

And why?

What do people think about spoofs, jokes and trolls and the difference theereof?

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UniqueAndAmazing · 27/03/2013 21:49

oh BIWI. you don't deserve that :(
Wine

talking of which, I'm drinking red because of you lot talking about drink and it's all we've got.

MadameDefarge · 27/03/2013 21:50

another cunning get the fuckers is to file for their bankrupcy. i have found this often concentrates the minds of folk. again dead simple.

EostreChaoticResurrEggtion · 27/03/2013 21:50

Madame, I've read it. You have nothing to be ashamed of.

Hullygully · 27/03/2013 21:52

Not bad going on a first date to get pissed, cry, snog them and then biff them round the chops

wah hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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Hullygully · 27/03/2013 21:53

ok I'm orf

wankered weds is sliding towards thankless thurs

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MadameDefarge · 27/03/2013 21:54

god it was ghastly...

EostreChaoticResurrEggtion · 27/03/2013 21:58

I'd probably cringe too Grin I still say you've nothing to be ashamed of.

Going myself, will read some more of my book.

BOEUF · 27/03/2013 22:06

I'm slumping into a DVD boxset. Adieu, mes larkeurs de funne.

RandallPinkFloyd · 27/03/2013 22:11

Damn it, I go out for the day and miss all this

Can anyone be arsed to summarise at all?

I'm presuming it was decided that larking is fine as long as no one gets hurt and if you're a miserable twat you should sod off. Yes?

So all's right with the world now, and if I read down Active Convos there will be no need for eye rolling or sad sighs?

Wonderful Grin

MadameDefarge · 27/03/2013 22:13

thank my dear. just about over it now.

FunnysInLaJardin · 27/03/2013 22:24

OK I have not read TFT because I have a night owl/day napping 3yo. So lets hope it is all sorted. Off TRTFT

EggsitPursuedByAChocolateBunny · 27/03/2013 22:50

Off to bed to be up with the larks.

FunnysInLaJardin · 27/03/2013 23:00

usual you are back? Hooray

TheNebulousBoojum · 27/03/2013 23:00

'I AM REPORTING YOU ALL. AND YOUR COCKTAILS. AND YOUR FUCKING SPOONS.'

Oh for God's sake ginhag, that's all I bloody need.

DS to discover that there are fucking spoons.
He's 18, he'd make it a personal quest to source one. Grin
Just keep that sort of information to yourself please.

And Tee? I was going to have a serious clean before Christmas, but DD threw glitter into the spiderwebs and called them decorations. I liked her problem-solving approach.

Maryz · 27/03/2013 23:26

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LadyBeaEGGleEyes · 27/03/2013 23:38

It's the epitome of po thread, innit Maryz?

Maryz · 27/03/2013 23:40

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TheNebulousBoojum · 27/03/2013 23:42

Locked in?
I shal dig my way out with a jam spoon.

Tortoiseontheeggshell · 27/03/2013 23:54

Randall, yes, exactly right. Except that actually no, not really. In that Helen fucked off had to leave without answering the question.

This is one of those times when I am so sad about being in a different time zone to you lot. Wankered Thursday Morning doesn't have the same ring to it.

RandallPinkFloyd · 27/03/2013 23:58

Balls Sad

If the thread you are talking about is the one I think it is I only got a quarter of the way through it. It made my heart sad.

Chubfuddler · 28/03/2013 04:14

Is it the thread in AIBU?

Bloody hell. I knew MN. Was better since I hid AIBU. it's like there's a whole other MN and everyone in it hates MN, themselves and each other.

TantrumsAndBalloons · 28/03/2013 06:09

Well now.
I put this thread on my "watching" list to read when I got home from work.

Somehow, I then managed to drink far too many vodka and blueberry red bulls classy, no? eat a pizza and fall asleep.

So.....are we all in agreement? There are too many professionally miserable people here, and we can all post what we like?
And anyone reporting these things as trolling or goading or whatever the fuck else will swiftly be directed to the sparkly place/be told to get a grip?

And......usual is back Grin
Thank god for that, I missed you usual

I have noticed that for every normal, happy, chatty, unoffended poster that leaves, 10 miserable, offended, stupid people arrive.

So I have decided that no one else can leave. Please. I will cry if I have to trawl through active convos whilst trying to avoid doing any work and it's all dull as dishwater. And all about parenting FFS.

Not even in a funny way, in a dreadfully earnest, I know so much more than you ever will way.

I already know I am a slapdash, neglectful parent who fed her children cake, left them in a nursery for hours every day, makes them do loads of activities because I don't want to interact with them, put the wrong things in their lunchboxes.

I don't care. 2 of them are taller than me now. They survived. They are still surviving. I don't want to spend my day reading what I did wrong.
I much prefer stolen spoons, vans parked in the wrong place and certain people drunkenly waiting for a shag from the Internet man.

Please. Don't leave, anyone else. I will cry.

HotCrossWeaselInSinisterBonnet · 28/03/2013 06:57

Maryz
Would that be the one where I threatened to piss on people's chips if they didn't stop trying to pick a fight with regulars?

I've told you before. You have to word hour posts carefully to get the post to stay. Wink