Can we have a Wanker's Corner?

[onebatmother]

Hello.

It's been noted in the past that there are some pretentious wankers amongst us who like to discuss some general subjects (eg.Porn, Religion) in a fairly, erm.. academic manner, and that this sometimes seems to intimidate and/or infuriate other posters.

There doesn't seem to be an easy solution to this problem: there's no doubt that people really do feel intimidated and that it might prevent them from posting on a subject that concerns them. It also must feel hijack-y at times.

At the same time, it's hard for the Wanker's to be told that they mustn't post anything that might intimidate.

Would it be possible to have a special place, with very hard chairs to keep us awake, that we may call our own?

No, we want our own topic (though the request, you may have noticed, is not entirely without irony) so we can talk like this without offending people like you.

So Foucault Off.

I'm not offended by the way you talk. I think the idea - ironic or not - that you should have your own topic is a tad offensive.

Depends though doesn't it, on how strong your desire to communicate is with people who are 'not like you.'

It is cock tongue in cheek.

sorry, my last was supposed to have a after it to make it mildly less rude..

No it's not.

It was a serious request, in capital letters at one point.

Maybe it should be a Bullshitters Corner instead? Or would that take over the whole of MN?

Actually was thinking that one of the rules should be banning the use of offensive/offended as a trump card in an argument - it works for many of not most of the threads on here but in a wanky argument it is so incredibly frustrating

No, it doesn't depend on that at all.

I have a strong desire to communicate with poeple who are 'not like me', which I satisfy both on MN and in RL. However, that does not diminish my occasional desire to talk pretentious shite every now and then, and in the past others, who don't wish to do so - have complained, sometimes agressively, that this makes them anxious about joining the debate.

Hence Wanker's Corner.

You seem quite determined to take offence, 100x .

Nah, I never take offense, I find things offensive, but that's different.

I'm airy and lazy, me.

Well, I still think it's a dreadful idea. If people find you annoying then they should just not join the debate should they, or you should look to yourselves about whether what your saying is useful and interesting to the people reading it and joining in the thread?

Unless of course, Wankers Corner was an enclosure, with a, um, key?

"or you should look to yourselves about whether what your saying is useful and interesting to the people reading it and joining in the thread?"

And if it isn't, we should just stfu?

Or, could there be a place where wanky subsections of threads could be continued, so that everyone else wasn't frustrated or intimidated (completely stand by that word btw - it's been used to me) but without censoring the wankers.

Of course it's important that debates, generally, are accessible to all posters - but where 2 or 3 posters are interested in discussing things theoretically in a way that is either slightly off-topic, or alienating to others, why shoudl there not, in principal, be another place to go?

I know we're not going to get a WC btw - but I hope it's not becasue the idea is in itself obnoxious.

comlpetely agree - there should be a 'wanker monitor'to tell those 3 or 4 people who come across as intimidating to come here. I also thing that bullying is a valid word too - it was described as being somrthing like the last bastion of somone who can't win an argument by a poster recently. i disagree.

Custardo - are you proposing that wankers corner doubles up as some kind of naughty step for bullies?

See, I just don't think it would wrk. Wankers and bullies don't generally mix and I worry that the bullies would put the thinkers off their wanking.

There'd probably be heckling..."oi Geekoid, call that wankin'?????"

...and the like.

Well I do think it's obnoxious, and it wouldn't work because it'd be like the G&T topic and everyone would pile in and take the piss. For sure.

I do see your point though. But surely if a thread sparks another conversation, you just start another thread in Chat or wherever and everyone pitches up and talks there to their hearts content. And you can quip, wear fedora hats and be witty on your hard chairs and then everyone is happy and nobody is intimidated?

As you might expect, I think that 'those 3 or 4 people' could just as easily claim to feel bullied, Custardo.

And the fact that an individual isn't personally interested in that type of debate does not mean that others, who are interested, are bullying that individual, Custardo. Similarly, someone might find it intimidating, but that does not mean that they are being bullied.

And actually, I've suddenly gone off the whole idea.

oh yes JV, like the jail in the BB house or that naughty step that tv nanny with the prole voice uses.

splendid

i know - its a shit idea innit [ grin]

you are right OBM - who decides what is bullying or what is intimidating.

the code of conduct is sufficient

if you're going to pick on people who eat fruit i will flounce from non-membership of the wankery

Oh no! is it dead? Have the naysayers cordoned off the Corner of the Wank?

Oh, I've LOVED this thread. It's been funny, funny, funny to read.

I'm not a Wanker, myself, so I've just sat back and watched.

The thought of Custardo bringing her porn stash with her to Wankers' Corner did it for me.

Oh, no need to bicker about boundaries and corners

mumsnet's great choric skirt can fit us all in, wankers or not

Choric skirt, I need to go look that up.

What about it being a kind of Think Wank

oooh what's a choric skirt? Is it made of serge and very modest - or inappropriately short?

One bat I think that this is quite literally a choric skirt but if you look at it you will turn to stone.

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you forgot

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What's that hanging out of his arse?