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RebeccaMumsnet · 12/08/2015 11:04

Hi everyone,

First and foremost: sorry for the loss of usual service over the last few hours.

To explain what's been going on: shortly after 10pm last night, we started receiving a large amount of spurious (i.e. automatic, rather than human) traffic. This is known in the trade as a denial of service attack: one in which a person, or organisation, deliberately floods a website with requests for pages, with the intention of overwhelming its servers and preventing bona fide users from accessing the site.

It goes without saying that we're doing everything we can to repel borders and keep the site up and running. We'll post on our social channels with any further updates (we're over here on Facebook and Twitter, if you don't follow us already), and in the meantime, thanks, as usual, for bearing with us.

MNHQ

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RainbowRoses · 12/08/2015 21:41

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Sparklingbrook · 12/08/2015 21:41

Has he got a chum? I was imagining him having a mangy dog.

Pipbin · 12/08/2015 21:42

Ah the wonderful saveloy. As in 'oi oi saveloy'. I've been drinking in France. I confused the local French people by eating chips to sober me up from too much wine.

I believe Saveloys are made of minced ears, feet and scrotums, an the skin is made of plastic
Ear holes, eye holes and arse holes, John.

Heckler · 12/08/2015 21:43

That chicken tray mask is hilarious. Didn't have oNe of the proper
Big boy hacker masks so he made one.

Reminded me of this... www.mumsnet.com/easter/sinister-easter-bonnet

Sparklingbrook · 12/08/2015 21:46

The proper masks are £1.85 on Amazon, he must be on a budget.

usualsuspect333 · 12/08/2015 21:46

They didn't show you how to make hacker masks on Blue Peter in my day.

How times change.

Valerie Singleton would have made a better one than that out of a fairy liquid bottle and some sticky back plastic.

Pipbin · 12/08/2015 21:48

I had coffee with Valerie Singleton the other day.............
Well, I was in a coffee shop in my village and she came in. That's nearly the same thing.

twirlypoo · 12/08/2015 21:53

That chicken mask made me snort with suppressed laughter and I woke ds. I think this is Jeffries most dastardly act to date. Toy with us all you like, but don't wake a sleeping child for gods sake Grin

DonkeyOaty · 12/08/2015 21:55

Please let currywurst be a mashup of curry and sausage. Would be AMAZE

BankWadger · 12/08/2015 21:56

Jeffrey needs to head over to Classics and see the tattered remains of Brian and his Yoni massages.

Then young Jeffers will realise he hasn't a chance beyond his afternoon joy ride.

Silly Jeffery.

MistressMerryWeather · 12/08/2015 22:03

I was once drunk in Berlin.

I stumbled into a Turkish kebab house and saw currywurst pommes on the menu and was delighted.

I was expecting some sort of curry with chips, I was very wrong.

What I got was a paper plate with chips, tomato sauce and a massive red sausage sprinkled with curry powder. It was awful.

I ate it anyway.

ScrambledSmegs · 12/08/2015 22:03

Nice curtains Jeffrey. Did your mom choose them?

twirlypoo · 12/08/2015 22:03

I love how modest his "yes, this profile pic is me" tweet was.... Reminds me of
vector in despicable me Grin

youarekiddingme · 12/08/2015 22:08

Jeffrey and his Chum

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Pipbin · 12/08/2015 22:08

Please let currywurst be a mashup of curry and sausage.
Very bloody is.

youarekiddingme · 12/08/2015 22:09

Although you all say he's changed his pic!

wannaBe · 12/08/2015 22:11

ahem, I am back. Grin as my usual self.

I actually had to change my password three times and my account was inaccessible for a period - unable to log in at all.

I sincerely hope nobody thought those posts were mine! - even my grammar isn't that shit. Grin

RainbowRoses · 12/08/2015 22:12

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MiscellaneousAssortment · 12/08/2015 22:13

Naughty mumsnetters on Twitter :)

I don't get the half-arsed-ness of his attempt though, his paltry amounts of tweets, the smattering of admin typo edits... Why gp to all that trouble and then do nothing with it after all that? Very odd...

MistressMerryWeather · 12/08/2015 22:14

I don't think that picture is really him.

I've seen it before.

tribpot · 12/08/2015 22:14

I hope MN will think about giving Jeffrey a job. When he's done his GCSEs and if he can resist the urge to keep breaking the law. His typo correction service borders on ethical hacking.

usualsuspect333 · 12/08/2015 22:15

at wannaBe.

RhinestoneCowgirl · 12/08/2015 22:16

Mistress DH said the mask pic was old. Has been on interweb for a while

Heckler · 12/08/2015 22:16

He is saying threatening things again on Twatter.

"prepare to be swatted by the best"

Thancred · 12/08/2015 22:19

The best? He must have brought in an outside contractor.

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