So Ian Hislop thinks Gordon Brown came on Mumsnet because it "wasn't too tough." Can we have Ian Hislop on a webchat please...

[nigglewiggle]

The cheek!!

Also who said "that's the cringiest thing I've ever heard." You've been mentioned on HIGNFY .

I was about to comment on this, then realised I had paused it and would be far too late!

What a wanker. Why are they contiuing to ignore the fact that GB did not know about the question and that many important questions were also asked.
Twat.

Is there somewhere we can e-mither them?

What a cheek, it has been on the news all week.
So it was not an ostensibly 'important' question, but the non-answer was very revealing.
So it was the most incisive question of the week.
But it was only on Mumsnet, so that doesn't count then. Only Mums.

The Island was dire, I gave up.

oh i see
gotcha

Why would Ian Hislop "get eaten alive on here"?

HIGNFY sneers at everything, especially Ian Hislop. I didn't watch but I can just hear him saying the words whilst crinkling up his scrunchy little face.

HE did crinkle up his face

Like a toddler eating broccoli

PMSL at 'e-mither'!

Did you witness his patronising disdain for "Muuuumsnet"? He clearly thinks we are a trifling bunch of bum-wiping fish wives!

my dad worked on hignfy

I'm not sure that helps our argument SEA

well ian might remember him fondly

You lure him in then SEA, and we'll do the rest .

I don't think we can really blame Ian Hislop for not knowing what Mumsnet is actually like. I imagine he is too busy to log on regularly and trawl around in active convos looking for a chat. I admire him very much even if his comment was trite and lazy.

I might even be stirred to participate in a live webchat if he came on. Am sure it would be interesting. C'mon mnhq, please issue the invite forthwith!

Did he know Harry T, SEA?

[rubs hands]

mwa ha ha

we could lay a trail of bisuits

He said mumsnet is an information exchange for young mums.
Whats not to love?

These jumped up little 'funny' men

He is known as Ian 'The Hobbit' Hislop in my household, incidentally.

Oh, and HIGNFY stopped being funny roughly around the time Deayton got rumbled snorting charlie off a prozzer's nipple.

I often agree with what he says, but I think this was a lazy swipe based on assumptions. He didn't bother to find out what MN was about he just preferred to have an easy dig a mothers. LAZY.

I'd much rather have Ian Hislop on MN than Gok Wan!

(I like HIGNFY, wish I'd seen that one.)

I can't believe that anyone here really thinks it was GB answering on that thread! Of course it was his advisers and spinners.

Yep. Lazy.

I did like the "YOUNG mums" bit though. Shallow - me?

i would virtual shag Ian Hislop if he were ever here. you'd have to lock my username for the day

yeah jeremy I liked that young mums line.

I agree he's a journalist, HIGNFY sneers at everything, as do journos, esp Hislop.

We look daft if we rise to the bait as my mum would say.