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what does it mean...

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WannaBurger2016 · 22/01/2016 18:28

....when somebody replies to a post with just a Biscuit?

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FruStefanOla · 22/01/2016 18:39

Wanna, apparently it all started some years ago when Gordon Brown was invited to participate in a Mumsnet webchat. Someone asked him which was his favourite biscuit and he refused to answer - or kept saying "no comment". So the Biscuit 'no comment' smiley became part of MN lore.

It's now used as a quite derogatory 'non answer'/no comment'.

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WannaBurger2016 · 22/01/2016 22:35

Ahh thank you, that makes sense.

Offering someone a biscuit seemed to me to be a very nice thing to do. Couldn't reconcile that with the context that suggested there was something passive aggressive about it!

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