Spoofs, Jokes and Trolls

[Hullygully]

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?

Presumably they could have just changed the title of the thread and removed any accusations of criminal incompetence. Because I have been on plenty of threads where estate agents have been slagged off and their picture taking skills ripped to shreds but because they didn't contain legalese (or probably because they weren't reported) they stood.

Anyway I am boring myself to death now and I am supposed to be looking for hotels.

freddie. dont feel beleaguered. it just goes wrong sometimes. Mintyy is ace. it should indeed have been renamed rather than deleted.

wait till you get flamed as a troll hunter. now THAT is something else!

Someone quoted that Martin Niemoller piece in relation to dobermanns, staffordshire bull terriers and rottwielkers on a thread yesterday and nobody said ANYTHING. I remember when Valhalla did that and the whole of mumsnet burnt down.

Yes sorry freddie I sound like a haranguing bastard and I don't mean to be.

And that truly is offensive in my book.

I always imagine them in a house smaller than the one they wanted, a DH they settled for, quite commonplace children and a part-time job they loathe, with colleagues who avoid them because they never get a joke, and a small village community who avoid because they just don't know what to do the the Po in their midst.

Oh the "all regs are bastards" thing pisses me right off. But what pisses me off more though is that if you agree with or laugh with a reg you're apparently a suck-up (Or sook which I have recently been educated about) and only doing it in a pathetic attempt to be liked.

You can't just agree with someone, or find something funny. Oh no. It's deeper than that.

What happened to fighting like cat and dog on one thread and arsing about happily on another? When did that become against da roolz? When did it get all, yes what you said both insightful and humorous but I shall neither nod nor smirk as last week you and your mates said my trousers were shit. You sir, are a bastard.

I can't be arsed having to remember names and histories. I'm not very bright and it makes MNing feel like work.

I have no idea what's going on. I'm going back to my digging. It's easier.

in fact their whole lives have been dominated by the impetus of because "that's what you do" rather than having the gumption to imagine their own lives for themselves. And it does create bitterness when you wake up and realise there are no medals for just getting on with it.

lol at digging

I am sick of looking at hotels and finding that they are either joyless business holes for £150 or something ridiculous like £350 a night for palaces.

I am going to stay at home at this rate.

It was a rule. but its fallen by the wayside. got in the way of real grudge-bearing.

Or, I might become a presenter on Radio 2, it seems to be the same though. But out loud.

Yes to being able to have a spat with someone and then being able to go back and have a happy conversation with them later on.

This is a website, it's not your family. You don't have to have a 30 year old grudge and snap at someone forever. Unless you are my mother.

GOD ALMIGHTY at the thought of her on here. She would make scottishmum look like Bonnie Langford (nowt against SM who I do like)

How do you know your mother's not on here though? I might be your mother. I might be mightn't I?
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I think Johnny Cash should be quoted at the po. In particular:
DAMN YOUR EYES

does anyone think our fave mother north of the border has been told to calm down too? she's been silent on threads where I would have expected a full on assault. or maybe she just has a life. dunno.

Or tufty one of my Johnny Cash favourites I WONT BACK DOWN....

I always imagine they only have one friend. They agree on absolutely everything and are a completely joyless pair. They sit on the bus (the 8:25 into town every tuesday and thursday) harrumphing at strangers, then go to their usual cafe and order the same thing they always do even though they rarely like it. They discuss nothing controversial ever and only have one collective opinion on everything.

Yes madame, infact most Johnny Cash will do.
JACKSON