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.

It's just laQueen, got nothing to do with what any one else thinks, daft to turn it into a wider thing.

hth

Funnys - you just did it again saying McBalls has no sense of humour. Why would you do that?

And why does it matter to you so much that everyone should find that thread funny? Do you get paid per laugh?

I just love the idea that noone can find anything at all funny ever, because they might agree with me in principle.

seriously Porto folk have pm'd you because of this thread instead of posting themselves, now that is po

I've nothing against Morrison's but it's on the other side of town. Sainsburys is at the end of the road.

But Portofino you're simplyfying it to the wrong conclusion. Have you ho estly read tbe whole thread or did you get it the bit you didn't like and skim? We were talking about joyless people who seem to enjoy being joyless, we didn't create any backstory of what made them like that or ...
they were just the people that seem to enjoy sucking the fun out of stuff. It wasn't about ccheap clothes, certain jobs etc

Hully I think the number of people getting all het up defending laQ, makes it about more than just what she thinks tbh.

Is it just me or is this a bit Jezza Kyle. Fucking he said she said.

We don't have a Morrisons, just Coop and Waitrose. Take yer pick

Why don't we all just stop with the attacks and meaness and making up names for other Mumsnetters

Let's just be lovely to each other and all will be well.

I read the thread. I said that at least 3 times. I have no quibble with the thread Hully started. Just some posts on it. And please do not try to minimise them.

the point is, the original thread (wot I started) was a question to Mn about whether or not joke/spoof threads are allowed any more, harmless threads about spoons etc that have been part of MN since cromagnon woman.

People that are alarmed by or don't understand spoofs and report etc are known as po as in po-faced.

On to that discussion thread come various people with various view points some of whom get well carried away as per (looking at you Queenie), because it's their MN persona, but that's got nothing to do with the sunjetc which was serious, or what other people on the same thread think.

Or wot Porto said ! ^^

But porto, doesn't that mean you are just well pissed off with laQueen? And if you are, why not just say so?

When i were at school we said pi,meaning someone was 'up themselves' in todays parlance.

I am old and i fucking loved Enid Blyton.

I am not,mentioning names. It was more than one poster.

Funnys...it doesn't work on me. I'm far too fucking big-headed to feel hushed at the suggestion I must be humourless as I hold a different opinion to some random person a website.

I don't feel the need to pick apart your personality...in fact kudos for the marvellous cheerleading, you really are just full of energy

Outraged, I think the two things weren't separated out.

Me and LaQueen have had terrible fall-outs but we have reached an accommodation. She is what she is and says what she says.

If you don't like it, call her on it.

But it ain't the rest of the thread's fault, and that's what people are defending.

Actually though, Hully, if it was just Laqueen and 'nothing to do with what anyone else thinks', why did none of you call her on it on that thread?

How is having a 'mumsnet persona' different to being a troll? Is it because you openly say it's a persona instead of pretending it's real....?

If there were other peopel agreeing and being offensive, porto, youabsolutely should call them on it.

I'll say it. I am well pissed off with LaQueen.

It was foul.

And I wish I'd been a big girl and pulled her up on it on the thread, but I wasn't.

I don't like the fact that the rest of the people on that thread now feel got at, I think I've been very clear, as have most of us here, that it was just her posts, not the thread, that was the problem.

Anyway. Peace and love, fucknuggets, I'm off to beddybyes.

not so fascinating fact. Po is the German for bum [bugrin]

Yes,po- faced,sour faced old trouts who lived next door and disapproved of me getting in very late when i was a teenager and told my Mum i had been seen fagging.

Fagging meaning smoking.