Mumsnet on The Bubble!

[LadyThompson]

Mumsnet was just on The Bubble as a question! Justine was interviewed. Anyone watching?

[weebump]

Missed the show. Love Victoria Coren. So what if she hates Mumsnet, I would too if I wasn't a mum or hadn't been on the site, because all the media attention it's getting is making it sound like a real hell-hole, full of smug opinionated bullies. But I know otherwise.

Someone told her off on Twitter, so she popped her head in to apologise.

As we would say here in Dublin: "Fair play to you, VCoren".

(I'm reading her book at the mo, and it's fab.)

[EllieMental]

[EllieMental]

I'd settle for getting arseholed with him and having a brotherly affection for me, a la Perkins and licking his face when he has passed out.

I can do flamehaired....and journalism. (beauty, shmeauty)

[ShowOfHands]

Oh we're all the same height when horizontal.

I think, ideally, I need him to dress up in period dress a la jaunts with Perkins. I'm thinking breeches and a riding crop tbh.

[ShowOfHands]

LadyThompson, are you saying Ellie and I aren't beautiful, flamehaired or otherwise. And I have merits that extend beyond journalism.

I refuse to say anything about face stuffing.

[paisleyleaf]

I hope that was a genuine apology
and not on 'damage limitation' advice from her agent.
It was funny when Reginald Hunter said "I'm glad you said that I'd've sounded like an arsehole"

I wonder if VCoren's namechanged and got stuck into AIBU yet.

[ShowOfHands]

EllieMental, now I've had a good, hard think about it and I've come up with a compromise. Shall we share him? I've got other commitments and self-congratulatory child raising to achieve so my free time is limited to the odd half an hour after I've watched QI and before bed. I can squeeze him in quite nicely then. Obviously, if our free time coincides then we're going to have to look at some sort of tag team scenario which could work rather well if we just establish some ground rules.

VCoren, I think, for me, starting your apology with 'hi guys' smacked of new girl in the playground trying to be cool. Wotcha Bitches or Oi Vipers would have eased you in better I feel. Maybe next time, eh?

[AitchTwoOhOneOh]

yes, me too.

[AitchTwoOhOneOh]

why would i be saying i believe her apology and then calling it naff?

she sounded naff on the show, surprisingly so, really quite mean-spirited tbh. but then i felt that way too when i wanted children and it wasn't looking too favourable.

[AitchTwoOhOneOh]

excuse me? ladythompson, VC was the one who mentioned that we were lucky etc.
i thoroughly object to your telling me off when i was merely acknowledging, like VC herself, that her naff chat on the bubble came from envy rather than distaste. i was disagreeing with will's thesis that she is clinging onto her youth in being nasty about mothers and proposing that it came from baby hunger. i've been there and had it and it's doesn't make you say nice things...

[EllieMental]

when I was in in my 20s I sort of though ''aw bless' at mothers.
I had babay hunger myself, but I also remember really sniping at mothers at work who booked time off automatically at every school holiday period (even when their children were teenagers) and left promptly at 6pm.......

[AitchTwoOhOneOh]

i've been envious of mothers for my entire life, funnily enough. my fear was that i wouldn't become one, not that i would. and of course, with pcos, two ectopic pregnancies and one fallopian tube before having dd1, this did actually look like the more likely outcome. utterly terrifying.

anyway, she was born in '73, time's a tickin'... i believe her apology, however naff she sounded (and she surely did) i reckon that was the baby hunger speaking.

[pointysayhiphip]

You feared mothers?

Must admit, I never gave them a second thought.

[WilfSell]

No, not exactly. I did fear them though and sometimes that is pretty similar. I think it is about wanting to hold onto youth or summat.

Maybe I'm projecting . But I do think the relationship between non-mothers and mothers (and grandmothers) is pretty interesting and complex.

[ZephirineDrouhin]

I didn't despise mothers before I became one. But I'm not sure they were brilliantly visible to me if you know what I mean.

(Have noticed many times when taking a pushchair on the tube that women in their twenties seemed to be the group least likely to see me struggling up the stairs with a buggy.)

[PollyTroll]

Oh and before I went all boring again, meant to say the Bubble is REPEATED tonight at 10.45 if you want to get outraged all over again.

Did you feel like that about mothers before you were one, Wilf? I didn't. Just thought they were ordinary ppl, but with children.

[PollyTroll]

Hmm yes ILove about boundary changes. I nearly went cross-eyed totting up those majorities - don't ask me to come up with an algorithm for boundary changes as well. Suspect psephology is not my calling. (But as I understand it, the boundary changes in the last ten years or so have hugely favoured Labour overall - Cons have been left with lots of huge redundant majorities, whereas the Labour vote has been spread out in a way likely to win them more seats.)