can't people keep buying and selling in the topic

[2shoes]

i don't want to buy or sell so i tick the box. so now people are linking in other topics.
can't they just behave??
oh and why is ebay not under the no buying and selling topic?

thanks sweetie
mwah mwah.

cheeky feckers

Can we have a 'threads I don't give a flying toss about I am not terribly interested in' option please, so we can just eliminate those that don't come up in active convos.

Or do we already have that and I have just never read the top bit properly?

whats wrong with my hyphens bugger

Hello,
Sorry for your frustration on all this buying and selling stuff - we are planning to look at classifieds properly (including possibly re-housing from talk/ charging etc - we want them to be as useful as possible but not annoying) once tech's done with a few other bits and bobs on his list - customised active conversations, bookmarks, grafitti walls in MyMumsnet etc

We do know that right now it's a bit of a mess and somewhat irritating and we promise to sort in due course.

In the meantime feel free to shout, moan and grumble... whatever gets you through.

does it not accept sheer racism french keyboards then?

oi Justine - while you're there, what is up with my hyphen crisis then?

ggg - you need to put the little feckers "--"s round each individual word

so it would be ==sheer== ==racism== only using --s

what lioke this comme ça?

sigh. bliss. I can cross out.

dimwit

Norm, you and me are a clique friends.

LOL ggg....

Thanks a bunch Justine.

But why do they all talk in text speak?

A classic the other day was cool spelt as "kewl".

Text speak is supposed to be saving letters where letters used to cost you. Then it became saving time.

a) How on earth is 'kewl' saving time? c.o.o.l. = 4 k.e.w.l. = 4

b) Who in this world is so busy that they have to reduce the number of letters they type in a word, anyway?

And to the person who typed 'kewl'

IT'S NOT FUNNY, IT'S NOT SWEET AND YOU DON'T COME ACROSS AS A LIKKLE WIKKLE CUTIE PIE.

Message withdrawn

You go M2PW!

Have just found this, which deserves another punch!

Style: help! summer clothes for men
yajorome Dh needs a summer wardrobe, ie something a bit cooler (temp wise, I mean, not kewl-er) than jeans an Sat 07-Jul-07 17:19:24

pmsl pruners..but does that include acronyms?, bad typing in general[which I am often guilty of!]

I think kewl is just "internet slang" for cool, isn't it? I mean it's not even meant to save letters - it's just a variant spelling.

I always thing it prob started because of the way some American teens say cool, like kee-ool or kyul with a sort of y sound after the hard c.

Or sunnink like that anyway. I'm hoping sunnink will catch on as a new form of something. Some of the kids round here even manage to swallow the middle altogether so it sounds more like sah-ink. That's pretty kewl .

yabbut nobody calls themselves a n00b do they?

kewl = nob

MY nephew says everthing is "Lethal"

Except he doesn't actually say lethal. It's more like luhul....

the buying and selling people should be made to wear neck attire as per the movie "wedlock" once out of their zone BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

I'm with NSF . People are posting as Swaps but then readily sell, just to reach a wider audience. Swaps should be with Buying and Selling. Not sure they do get any speculative "customers" that way but the threads just get in the way for the majority who aren't interested. Also it would be nice if the same exclusions applied to Last Hour etc as to Active Conversations.