Mumsnet #2

[FrannyGallops]

On a thread about 400/500 quid jumpers, someone said they would spend more than 30 quid on a jumper and someone said...

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I don't know where I'd go to get a jumper under £30.

I was coming on to mention that thread. I can’t believe there are so many people wandering about who spend so much on a single jumper. Someone else said they wouldn’t get good enough cashmere for that amount and to spend more!

And what’s with the mention of Brora all over the S&B boards at the moment? I had a look at their website and it’s like fashion for the over 90’s. Someone started a thread about buying a skirt off there and I was expecting them to get a flaming but everyone rushed on to tell her how lovely it was. It looked like something you’d find on a decrepit 102 yr old in a nursing home. All it needed to complete the look was a pair of flesh coloured velcro slippers.

 

[Blond3g1rl]

That's one which has always mystified me too!

Same as the sick children ones.

 

[FrannyGallops]

The one about the secret santa and the boss being late for the "fisting" springs to mind. Someone found that so funny they managed to unlatch their breastfeeding child as they were reading it while breastfeeding

‘You’ve just made me squirt breastmilk all over my keyboard, OP’

 

[April89]

The one about the secret santa and the boss being late for the "fisting" springs to mind. Someone found that so funny they managed to unlatch their breastfeeding child as they were reading it while breastfeeding

That is the one I was thinking of when I posted

Ah yes the ridiculous reactions - ‘I spat out my drink / I have tears streaming down my face / I woke up my husband laughing’

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Can someone explain to me why people seem to post a thread at the most unconventional times!?

Eg- husband having a heart attack- need a hand hold waiting for ambulance

If that was a normal Person surely their focus would be on their husband or whatever the situation is.


I can’t imagine going through something scary and my first thought being i need to post on an anonymous forum

Ive also seen a few where they’ve said things like ‘my DH died this morning and I am struggling to cope’. Well firstly your husband has literally just snuffed it, so I’d be worried if you were coping and secondly the last thing I’d be doing is posting on mumsnet if my husband had only just died in the first place!

 

[ElectricDreams]

That is the one I was thinking of when I posted

Ah yes the ridiculous reactions - ‘I spat out my drink / I have tears streaming down my face / I woke up my husband laughing’

It was so obvious, it was literally the last word of a fairly long post! I mustn't have a sense of humour as I didn't spit my drink out at the hilarity of it

 

[EmilyChambers]

Can someone explain to me why people seem to post a thread at the most unconventional times!?

Eg- husband having a heart attack- need a hand hold waiting for ambulance

If that was a normal Person surely their focus would be on their husband or whatever the situation is.


I can’t imagine going through something scary and my first thought being i need to post on an anonymous forum

Or the ones where ambulances should be called but they check if they are being unreasonable to do so?!

My husband is lying on the floor, clutching his chest and turning blue, would I be unreasonable to call an ambulance

 

[Traveler001]

Or the ones where ambulances should be called but they check if they are being unreasonable to do so?!

My husband is lying on the floor, clutching his chest and turning blue, would I be unreasonable to call an ambulance

I've seen a few where someone has dropped their baby (Including one who dropped their baby on a tiled kitchen floor from a standing height) and wondering if they should 'get the baby seen to'...

 

[April89]

It was so obvious, it was literally the last word of a fairly long post! I mustn't have a sense of humour as I didn't spit my drink out at the hilarity of it

It was also strange wording, I’ve hardly ever used the phrase ‘gifting’ in that context, very convenient that the poster used a word that could autocorrect to that!!

 

[Toothbrush]

After lurking for months on the celeb forum, I've just made a tattle account to reply here.

I've been on mumsnet for a good eight years now, and I am convinced that a huge number of posters are a) not female, b) not mums, and c) either shills, trolls or commissioned content providers.

Some of the responses on childcare threads, not that there are many of those around anymore, are frankly batshit. Some posts on certain current affairs threads are quite obviously from male political activists. The nastiness in some posts over really mundane stuff is just bizarre. I was reading a thread last night where there was a horrifically venomous post over a comment someone had made about public health in third world countries.

But the bit that really makes me suspicious is that mumsnet posts, in general, are just too well-written to be real. I've been an editor for twenty years, and the quality of linguistic expression across that site is strange. No bunch of self-selecting people consistently write that well, even academics. It's almost as though specialist writers have been commissioned to provide post content.

 

[CyanideKiss]

There's quite a few on the site who are clearly very unwell. The level of sustained hatred they manage to maintain over long periods of time and across several boards is just not healthy and is very worrying. It often scares me that these people are out there, queuing behind you in Sainsbury's or sat at the next table in Starbucks. And they're seriously disturbed.

Then factor in how quite a large proportion of vicious posts are made quite late in the evening at
the weekends and you suspect they have a drink problem on top.

 

[Hunsgraveyard]

There's quite a few on the site who are clearly very unwell. The level of sustained hatred they manage to maintain over long periods of time and across several boards is just not healthy and is very worrying. It often scares me that these people are out there, queuing behind you in Sainsbury's or sat at the next table in Starbucks. And they're seriously disturbed.

Then factor in how quite a large proportion of vicious posts are made quite late in the evening at
the weekends and you suspect they have a drink problem on top.

You're so right. The level of sustained bitterness and anger at literally everything is really unhealthy. And the fact there's rarely a voice of reason is very worrying too. It always goes from zero to nuclear, no thought of "and breeeeathe" or "counts to 10", its straight to reactivity and escalation.

The mindset and suggested reactions to so many normal day to day occurrences are really harmful IMO.

 

[sixdinnersid83]

I suspect some of the regular trolls flit across various boards too, seeing where they can get the most attention. So sad that’s how they choose to spend their time and get their kicks.
I wonder what their children would think if they saw how Mama behaves online. Hopefully the children are made up.

 

[Lechat]

After lurking for months on the celeb forum, I've just made a tattle account to reply here.

I've been on mumsnet for a good eight years now, and I am convinced that a huge number of posters are a) not female, b) not mums, and c) either shills, trolls or commissioned content providers.

Some of the responses on childcare threads, not that there are many of those around anymore, are frankly batshit. Some posts on certain current affairs threads are quite obviously from male political activists. The nastiness in some posts over really mundane stuff is just bizarre. I was reading a thread last night where there was a horrifically venomous post over a comment someone had made about public health in third world countries.

But the bit that really makes me suspicious is that mumsnet posts, in general, are just too well-written to be real. I've been an editor for twenty years, and the quality of linguistic expression across that site is strange. No bunch of self-selecting people consistently write that well, even academics. It's almost as though specialist writers have been commissioned to provide post content.

I very much agree. I’ve suspected for a while there’s a lot of men and activists on there. The posts are too long to be written on a mobile, and if you’re a mum whose got time to draft war and peace on the merits of brexit?!
Wouldn’t surprise me if mumsnet add their own content in as well. What drives more traffic than click bait thread titles and arguing? Funny how they criticise the daily Mail but MN is the same playbook.

 

[CyanideKiss]

Does anyone know how to create a new thread?

 

[Wackie Jeaver]

Done! with the imaginative title Mumsnet#3

 

[Captainmouse]

New thread this way

Mumsnet #3

New thread, carry on tattling

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