what's this PO stuff all about? I have just read some really vile stuff on here....

[Portofino]

Women presumably who don't have a certain sense of humour, or don't agree with certain (long standing) posters being described as beige admin workers who nag their ugly husbands, who were friendless at school, wear cheap clothes, have no fun in their sad little joyless lives etc etc Literally paragraphs and paragraphs of nastiness.

This is some of the most vile and misogynistic stuff I have ever read on MN from other women. These kind of comments normally come from trolls and MRA invasions. Is this really what MN has become? Does everyone think that this sort of shit should stand? What happened to the fucking sisterhood?

I am astounded to be quite honest.

sorry Sauv I did think my post might be misunderstood. The first para was to you, the second to the pissers [bugrin]

Amber leaf has it spot on tbh. Posts designed to provoke... Cries of 'it was a joke/harmless' (other minimising stuff)... Annoyed response, bun fight ensues... Dissent amongst posters. Their work is complete.

I detest the term 'professionally offended' on disabilist threads, but the one the OP has alluded to was using the term in a different context.

Porto you could have joined in the fun...

Amazing

It was not "joshing" it was sneering.

Now I get it, I thought maybe I'd had too much !

Oh yes - I really missed out on slagging off other woman.

Oh my god.

it doesn't mean professionally offended, that is a wanky term. It means PO-faced, joyless.

It may be used to mean professionally offended by other people at other times in other corners of the world but not by anyone on that thread. It's a slang word, same as fanjo or naice ham.

A Joke.

It was sneering an a mon-existent person though.

OK Porto I take it you have a picasso and shop at Morrisons?

Think the poster suggesting getting a shag has the best idea...

It is pretty awful.

I tried to ask last night about what was causing all the upset, but didn't get very far unfortunately.

Ha ha, Arisbottle!

Who are these people though? The ones who supposedly are pissing on other's fun?

There seems to be an attitude that 'joyless' posters are somehow ruining MN, but I'm not seeing it. I'm still seeing the fun and the support and the interesting stuff, with the odd bit of close to the bone stuff in AIBU - as per usual.

Anyway I have a cock waiting for me.

I'm afraid we have an attack of the po here. Don't you all have a migraine and need an early night?

COME ON people. See a joke as it is and understand that some folk will just be offended by stuff almost for the sake of being offended.

So we can't sneer at non-existent people? Why? They don't exist. Bloody he'll.

Funnysinlajardin; Thank You. < grabs coat >

I've got a bloody Piccasso, the bastards but I don't shop at Morrison's