Same as the sick children ones.
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‘You’ve just made me squirt breastmilk all over my keyboard, OP’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 postedThe 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
Ah yes the ridiculous reactions - ‘I spat out my drink / I have tears streaming down my face / I woke up my husband laughing’
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!
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 itThat 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’
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'...
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!!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
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
I wonder what their children would think if they saw how Mama behaves online. Hopefully the children are made up.
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?!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.
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.
Does anyone know how to create a new thread?
Done! with the imaginative title Mumsnet#3
New thread this way
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