Recognise your fellow Mumsnetters by nominating your favourite Mumsnet user to win Silent Pool gin

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To tie in with their new #FortheSpirited campaign, Silent Pool Gin is on a quest to unearth the UK’s most spirited characters – and the search starts right here. For two months, the award-winning distillers will be celebrating the spirit of Mumsnet by getting you to nominate the users who you think show the most – well – spirit. They'll be giving one bottle of gin per week to a winning Mumsnet user. In addition, if your nominee wins, you'll also receive a shopping voucher worth £30..

Here’s what Silent Pool Gin have to say:
“For the spirited. Three small words that capture the essence of Silent Pool Gin. It represents our independent mindset and our uncompromising commitment to producing a gin with a refreshingly individual character.

For the spirited is about following your own path. Embracing life and living for the best things it has to offer. It’s about doing something kind, inspiring, creative, different. Could be finally handing in your notice, booking that round-the-world trip, starting that new Japanese course or even just deciding to make your very first post on AIBU.

Whatever your version of ‘spirited' is, we applaud you. However, applause only gets you so far, so to officially recognise the wonderful achievements of the Mumsnet community, we are launching the Silent Pool Gin For the Spirited award. Each week, one lucky Mumsnet member will be recognised as a kindred spirit and will win one bottle of Silent Pool Gin.

Also we’d love to hear your spirited stories so please tag us in at #forthespirited @silentpoolgin”

There's no such thing as a best Mumsnet user but you probably have your favourite(s). Is there someone: Whose posts you always read? Who brightens your days and whose views keep you glued to the screen? Who has given you priceless advice, yet you wouldn't know from Adam in real life?

Every week for two months, Silent Pool will be giving the #FortheSpirited award to one lucky Mumsnet user – with the prize of a bottle of gin. Simply nominate your favourite Mumsnet user on the discussion thread and they'll be in with a chance of winning. In turn, if your nominee wins, you'll also receive a £30 voucher. Win, win (gin) .

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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Terms and conditions of prize draw:
Activity specific T&Cs: Mumsnet will run a random prize draw once per week. The nominees within the winning entries will be contacted via email or PM to inform them of the win, and to ask if they would like to receive the prize. A non-alcoholic prize will also be available if desired. To receive an alcoholic prize, nominees will need to provide a copy of photographic ID to Mumsnet (eg a photograph of a passport or driving licence), as well as a physical name and address for the prize to be dispatched to. The name and address will be shared with Silent Pool Gin, with the user's permission. Mumsnet will dispose of this information within one week of users' receipt of the prize. Posters of the winning entries will be emailed by Mumsnet to inform them of the win, and to give them the opportunity to choose the voucher they would like. Their name and email address, with the user's permission, will be shared with Mumsnet's voucher fulfilment company for the purposes of ordering the voucher. Voucher winner's details will be retained for audit purposes. Winner's details will be used for the purpose of the prize draw and prize delivery only, and not for any other marketing purpose. Standard Mumsnet T&Cs can be found here.

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Hahaha!

I don't think MN can be held responsible for what happens on another site. That's the risk I suppose isn't it, you may disagree with a nomination because someone is behaving like an arse elsewhere on the internet or you may disagree with a nomination because you think their advice is harmful. They are individual nominations, that's the nature of it.

Oh dear Hyacinth. 😉

When you’ve already had previous derailing posts on this thread deleted for bringing up another site that MN does not control, why would you think MN owe you an email, however happy you would be to receive it? . I don’t think more gin will help that logic!

All this for a bottle of Gin?

Alcohol is very important to some people christina!

Well I am partial to a wee tipple myself. I will buy my own as no bugger will nominate me

I nominate @Christinayangtwistedsister

But in all seriousness we often remember posts not posters. I had so many people be incredibly kind to me on a thread months and months ago but I can’t remember what any of them are called

Cats 👍

Aw fanks

There are lots of people on MN who are very kind so have a virtual drink on me

It's the poor sod that needs to deal with this thread that is going to need the real Gin

www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/21/police-christmas-hamper-sting-results-multiple-arrests/amp/

ith Christmas rapidly approaching, detectives knew the offer of a free hamper packed full of luxury treats and several bottles of wine would prove difficult to turn down.

Indeed, almost 70 suspected criminals fell for the ruse after South Yorkshire Police reeled them in with a false offer suggesting they had been selected to receive such a festive gift.

Officers sent fake vouchers to the last-known addresses of more than 400 local suspects wanted for crimes including burglary, drink-driving, drugs offences and harassment, asking them to phone in to arrange a delivery slot with fictitious firm Herald Hampers.

The old-fashioned sting was deemed a great success after around 12 per cent of the suspects fell for the ruse and unknowingly got in touch with the police to let them know specifically when they would be home.

Detectives managed to arrest 21 of them in two days, on Monday and Tuesday this week, after they confirmed their identity on the doorstep before being invited to step outside to the van to select their wines.

I think I saw a version of that "fake hamper" sting on one of the documentaries. It might have involved tickets to something. Pure genius!

That kind of sting was featured at the start of the Al Pacino film Sea of Love, where the crims were lured in by the promise of meeting the squad of a famous basketball team at a special dinner.

Came on to nominate, eye rolls at the argument over the prize on offer, the tin foil hats on the address for a winner, and the obvious dragging over to here of another part of the internet.

'hate the term "MN Royalty" - rather I think of these posters as the "beating heart" of MN. They provide the muscle and distribute the "oxygen" that allows the site to be what it is.'

Rare paparazzi pic of Mumsnet Towers at break time.

My dad had a print of that in his study when I was a kid!

I remember studying that picture in History when I was about 12! We had to ring all the comments that Hogarth(?) was making, eg the mother dropping her baby and the prospering pawn broker

Wasn't that sting used in an episode of The Simpsons? I seem to remember it involving speed boats!

"The trouble with that is that there are likely to be a number of stalwarts who will never be named because, for good reason, they change their names."

Or who don't change name, but people just don't like (either actively dislike, or just find dull). Some prolific and longstanding posters never ever get a mention on threads such as these