Mumsnet mafia ??!!!

[charlyp]

Am a really new poster to Mumsnet having just found out I am pregnant for the first time EDD June 1st, have been surfing the site and making a few posts but have been very surprised by the amount of vitriol in some of the posts on certain subjects, and am amazed about people outing other people and everyone seems to know everyone elses business - more than you might expect on a forum? How does that work?? Is there like a bunch of people who all live in the same road or something? Just wondering as on most forums I post on there are lots of people sharing views but it rarely gets that personal inn terms of people getting to know other people off line. Made me wonder if there is a Mumsnet mafia in place!! Makes me alightly concerned about posting my thoughts and feelings about the things that are happening to me and about how my privacy will be respected.

but to troll in front of you
thats the worst thing I could do

ooh Corrie was much better - Fred met his maker.

Do any of their weddings actually come off?

Dunno, PF. It's a British thing, and I wouldn't understand.

humble? Sorry enid if I am mis-interpretting, but that does make it sound like newbies ought to come shuffling in, cap in asking asking, in their inherent unworthiness, for permission to be accepted...
I would argue there are a lot of regular MNers, who aren't especially humble...

thanks expat and enid

its fun to gang up and take the piss out of people isn't it

thats not cliquey unpleasent behaviour at all

i'mm not feeling at all intimidated or belittled

you must be really nice supportive people

I didn't say it must be a man, I said that it was my first thought - not the same thing.

For the record, I don't like 'up the duff' either!

But Ghoul! Nana was in the bed, but you couldn't see her.

oh you lot

I'm not in charge

believe it or not

of course people can be as cocky as they like and start threads critical of mumsnet core posters but I don't hvae to like it

anyway I am bored of this now and psml at mine and expats song

classic song girls

classic

MN is a great place ....................

We're here for each other like womp bop a looma a womp bam boom
Just like my brother is sha na na na na na na na yippity dip da do
Chang chang changity chang shoo bop we'll always be together
Waooo Yeah!

We'll always be together
We'll always be together
We'll always be together
We'll always be together
We'll always be together
We'll always be together
We'll always be together

Yes, I felt very pregnant both times. From the get go.

Pregnant is such a heavy term. Exactly how I felt, too.

rofl sherlock

I think with child has a certain biblical ring to it.

CUDDLES, Sherlock!!!

expecting

'In the family way'

'Your condition' - of feeling shite

'Expecting' - to feel like a lorry has mowed you down

Look at me Im Charly lousy without virginity wont go to bed til Im legally wed I cant Im charlyp

you're in the wrong musical LVT

nice

yes you're all very nice

theres no such thing as a mumsnet mafia..... people who gang up like a bunch of playground bullies and take the piss

i haven't even slept with anyones husband or anything ... just asked a question

I don't even know anything about the whole sleeping with someones husband thing

I didn't like the phrase musmnet mafia

now apologise and we'll play nicely from now on we promise

youre a nasty piece of work charlyp

now move along

look charlyp, it's like walking into a party and saying 'hello I'm charlyp, I'm new to the area, pleased to meet you but I've heard you're a nasty bunch, is there any truth in it?'

can you not see that?