For fucks sake, Mumsnet

[Raspberryrubyrose]

Can we BAN these how old am I posts?

For one thing, people always add five years on, at least. The assumption being that people must have self confidence to post their photo to begin with.

And then others add five years to the first reply for the same reason.

So OP looks 40, first reply says she’s 45 and the second says 50.

It’s really shitty and nasty, encourages bullying and a vacuous interest I thought as adult women we were over.

Plus, being old shouldn’t be something to be ashamed of - we wouldn’t have what race am I, would we? Or would we?

Can we just knock it on the effing head now?

I just hide them all without even opening them. It is dull, but people will get bored of it soon as they get fewer and fewer replies.

I don't get it. On a site where a lot of people name change every few posts and are incredibly concerned about being outed, there are people who put their photos up?

Totally agree - the threads with actual people are just asking for trouble and I have no words for the ones with pets or toys.

My" hide this thread" button was just recovering from the flurry of royal drivel and now this.

Hi all

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