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Dear MNHQ, I didn't see all the problems kick off over poor Revjustabout...

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georgimama · 20/01/2009 12:38

but I would be grateful if you could tell me that you have at least given serious consideration to banning the posters who were harrassing her.

Thank you.

OP posts:
tortoiseshellWasMusicaYearsAgo · 21/01/2009 10:06

enid has apologised for that. I know you don't think that was genuine, but I do, particularly reading the post afterwards where she said she had thought about it and decided to apologise.

MrsBrendaDyson · 21/01/2009 10:06

"she did it so i can do it" is a very childish argument

i would like to draw everyones attention to Firepiles excellent post.

the fact that kerrymum said something to PPH

has a whole lotta shit all to do with the honourable REV

and thats the issue isn't it

becuase if we are attacking modlies v non moldies, i have a whole world of 'by association' stuff that has nothing to do with anything that i could post

as i am sure do a lot of other people

MauriceDancer · 21/01/2009 10:08

bollocks, tortoisehell. enid knows how to apologise and that sure wasn't it.

morningpaper · 21/01/2009 10:08

Justabout has posted here, FYI

tortoiseshellWasMusicaYearsAgo · 21/01/2009 10:13

Look at enid's post at 16:40 yesterday.

tortoiseshellWasMusicaYearsAgo · 21/01/2009 10:14

Sorry 16:46

IorekByrnison · 21/01/2009 10:20

Do us a favour, tortoise. Is that an apology you would have been happy to receive?

MauriceDancer · 21/01/2009 10:22

By MrEniddo on Tue 20-Jan-09 15:21:56
Dear Rev,

I am sorry for doubting that your family died in the Holocaust and that you are not a Rev. And that you are your dh.

Love,

Enid
x

By MrEniddo on Tue 20-Jan-09 16:46:21
Yes, if you must know, I thought about it and thought 'hmm if she really did have family in the holocaust that must have been quite upsetting'

so I apologised

tortoiseshellWasMusicaYearsAgo · 21/01/2009 10:23

Actually, with the clarification later on, yes. I've chatted to enid loads online, and I believe her that that is genuine. You of course are entitled to interpret it any way you like.

tortoiseshellWasMusicaYearsAgo · 21/01/2009 10:23

(I mean chatted loads over the years)

MauriceDancer · 21/01/2009 10:26

i've chatted to her loads online over the years, that's how i know it's bollocks.

she may well (and should) be ashamed, but if she wanted to apologise she'd do a better job than that.

VinegarTits · 21/01/2009 10:26

What you mean this post?

By MrEniddo on Tue 20-Jan-09 15:21:56
Dear Rev,

I am sorry for doubting that your family died in the Holocaust and that you are not a Rev. And that you are your dh.

Love,

Enid
x

With this post directly before it?

By MrEniddo on Tue 20-Jan-09 15:16:23
No I won't apologise as I do not have the first clue if anyone on this site is who they say they are or whether anything they say is actually the truth.

And your telling me that was sincere? Come on!

tortoiseshellWasMusicaYearsAgo · 21/01/2009 10:27

VT - no, the one following it. By MrEniddo on Tue 20-Jan-09 16:46:21
Yes, if you must know, I thought about it and thought 'hmm if she really did have family in the holocaust that must have been quite upsetting'

so I apologised

MauriceDancer · 21/01/2009 10:29

so
'i'm not apologising'

followed by

'i'm apologising in a sarcastic manner'

followed by

'i apologised'

you wouldn't let your kid get away with that, i take it?

VinegarTits · 21/01/2009 10:31

Yes but this was her apology:

By MrEniddo on Tue 20-Jan-09 15:21:56
Dear Rev,

I am sorry for doubting that your family died in the Holocaust and that you are not a Rev. And that you are your dh.

Love,

Enid
x

Tell me honestly, do you think that is sincere? (and especially this bit 'And that you are your dh')

popedaftpunkII · 21/01/2009 10:33

shall we just say amen to all this now..... (goes around in circles and gets nowhere afer a while)...come on...plenty of other stuff going on on mumsnet.

tortoiseshellWasMusicaYearsAgo · 21/01/2009 10:34

Tbh, I think it is.

And you use kids as an example - if my kids said 'I'm not going to do something' then did it, then said 'I thought about it and decided I was wrong and decided to do it' then that's a fab lesson.

And since we're discussing a rev, there's even a parable in the NT about the brothers - father asks them to help in the fields - one says 'Yes' but doesn't. The other says 'No' but then later changes their mind and does it. And he is the one commended.

It's hard knowing what's genuine and what isn't on the internet. Hence this whole debacle in the first place. Many people believed the Rev was genuine. Some didn't. Many people don't believe enid's apology was genuine. I do.

Tortington · 21/01/2009 10:36

ive chatted with lots of them loads over the years and would never have attributed some of the attitudes and actions to most of the people involved. the whole thing is utterly bizarre and distasteful, the fact that we now have coined the phrase 'moldy raid' speaks volumes IMO.

I have always had the utmost respect for Enid, and we have disagreed on occasion - only once seriously - and it wasn't that serious, i can't remember what the subject was.

Never had much respect for PPH - sorry love am sure the feelings mutual.

but the fuck you ness of the attitudes of some posters is telling, esp. when they weren't like that before.

I also think that the true MN Oldies ( you know who you are) are probably mortified at this classless display over the last few weeks and i am glad that they at least have kept their dignity, even if their choice in joining said group IMO is questionable.

you are making yourselves look foolish.

I think we should leave Enid alone now

it just turns into a tit for tat witch hunt.

i have been on the recieving end many a time and its not nice.

orangina · 21/01/2009 10:37

I remember the judge flounce business, and althought she/he didn't talk about having family in the holocaust, he/she did talk at length about losing a child to meningitis. I think that when people started questioning whether or not JF was who she said she was, there was a lot of shouting about how unfair it was to question something as serious as that. I don't know whether it was ever established whether or not the person posing as JF lost a child (or indeed ever had one), but there has been a history of quite serious deception here on MN...

(not a disclaimer or anything, just a comment....)

tortoiseshellWasMusicaYearsAgo · 21/01/2009 10:39

orangina you are quite right. there was no child.

VinegarTits · 21/01/2009 10:40

Oh well ho hum, i was just giving my 2 bobs worth, not that it matters much to anyone

(still think my conspiricy theory is right though)

MauriceDancer · 21/01/2009 10:43

it would be a fab lesson, that's right, if the person then sincerely apologised, rather than referred to their snarky previous one... s'all i'm sayin'.

MauriceDancer · 21/01/2009 10:43

it would be a fab lesson, that's right, if the person then sincerely apologised, rather than referred to their snarky previous one... s'all i'm sayin'.

Tortington · 21/01/2009 10:43

....and considering that deception orangina and tortoise, i think it speaks volumes of mumsnetters that they continue to put trust into the posters on a website.

becuase be have to trust even at the most basic level.

It isn't a coincidence that the pitchforks for rev which were out on the Moldy debacle were sharpened again especially for her.

I think the whole point is to make mumsnet such an untennable place as to make people seek solace and advice and laughter elsewhere.

i think MN needs to be v. careful, i am sure they are aware of that

tortoiseshellWasMusicaYearsAgo · 21/01/2009 10:44

MD - that's your reading of it. I read it differently.

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