PLEASE can we have a pre-menstrual emoticon? Or can we flag our names or something?

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I am v bad tempered today and while I have, I believe, been sweetness and light on mumsnet, I have been entirely unreasonable with my lovely calm husband and feel it would be fantastic to be able to warn people postng on mn in some way that I may, in fact, be talking utter crap and be snippier than usual, due to hormones.

Do people think it's a good idea or the thin end of the wedge wrt emoticons? Pregnancy could also be taken into consideration, maybe?

Yes. I think it would certainly go some way to stopping the misunderstandings that only rarely happed here!

good idea I am totally irrational when I have pmt would be lovely to warn people.
Could we not just make up a code

DEFFO!

I am on at the moment, so a little calmer, but emotions are all over the shop.

We need a PMT WARNING emoticon - could I get away with using it 29days a month?!

Great idea, something to indicate irrational hormones are rife, whether pg or pmt induced!

God, what a STUPID idea!

I've never heard dafter!

Honestly, WWW, I expected better of you, of all people!

[pmt]

is that the sort of thing you meant?

What would it look like though? Crazed looking and carrying an offensive weapon?

It would be more

wouldn't it?

Hey, and it would be interesting to link it to the incidence of 'am I being unreasonable' threads too.

but surely you would have to type the emoticon yourself ? If you are a true pro at the mad axe weilding PMT moodswing then you will be completely convinced that you are 100% right and therefore wouldn't use the [irrationality alert] button

yes that's true NdP

I never realise how irrational/short-tempered I've been till my period arrives and then everything seems to make sense again

ha ha ha at linked to Am I Being Unreasonable threads. Everyone could just go "Yes you fking are!" job done.

Maybe we don't need an icon, maybe I will just copy and paste

It's probably the area where we need tickers, you know. So that everyone else can think patronising thoughts when one ventures into a rant.