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[motherofdonkeys]

the stealth boasting used to make me laugh, the we haven't had our heating on since 1983 and my kids packed lunches use homemade bread made by unicorns. I remember the days of the mn royalty, the old guard when I joined, cod when cod was cod and not icod.

 

[Thistles]

I mentioned the subscription service to my DH and he said 'isn't your DS on there, she has three DC and CF neighbours', so I told DH I'd phoned DS but her DH answered as she was out walking DD with DD1, DD2 and DS and DS would phone me back when she'd fed DD and put DC to bed.

I don't have a sister btw, just an example of everyday posts on mumsnet. Those acronyms drove me mad.

Like nails on a chalkboard... add "hubby" to that list too, oh and people that type in "doggo language"

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Don’t forget a statement necklace. It’s the standard answer to anyone who’s asking what they should wear to an event. Job interview, night out, wedding, funeral. In mumsnet land you must team every outfit with a ‘statement necklace’.

 

[Nonnymouse]

Also the:

1) He earns more than me so therefore has more disposable income= all money is family money, he's financially abusing you
2) I earn more than him = he's a cocklodger (a term I had never heard before MN but apparently means he's a kept man and is abusing you)

1) I only see him once a week on the same day and I'm OK with that but... = he obviously has a whole second family you don't know about
2) I see him every day and I'm OK with that but... = he's smothering you and has something to hide. LTB

It's a whole other world over there

 

[Fin]

God help you if you admit to being a doctor's receptionist, they are the rudest people on this planet! I really quite like mine, they are all lovely.

 

[BigMavis]

I bet that was Crumbs, her of the hotel bedroom pictures and sheeps with fairy lights. If you know you know. There are more fantasists on mn than anywhere else online.

 

[rainbowlemon]

"Did you mean to be so rude?"

"Have a unmumsnety hug"

 

[Guacamole123]

Anyone just go on MN still for a giggle?

Any story about badly behaved step children is ALWAYS followed up with comments like ‘were you the other woman?’

Husband stays at the pub an hour longer than he said ‘lynch the bastard!!! He is cheating on you!!!’

any minor inconvenience on someone’s street ‘log it with 101’

 

[Beverley Macker]

I hate when they have FUCK OFF DAILY MAIL at the top of their dull story. Like the mail or anyone else cares.

The mail do nick stories from them all the time though? I appreciate that writing fuck off at the top doesn’t stop that however, and it’s always posters with the least interesting posts that do it, like not even the Sunday sport would make a story out of that.

However, Mumsnet might be awful at times but in my opinion the amount of men (and other assorted misogynists) who want it closed down simply because it is a place where women can talk to each other, about issues that concern them, means I have to support it.

It’s too important not to, in my opinion.

 

[RedMagnolia]

They all just want a bit of rough when it comes down to it.

But heaven forbid one of the tradesmen they employ goes and takes a dump in the ensuite.

 

[Fin]

Oh and if you a perfectly nice husband who does all the housework, looks after the children, does the garden, shopping etc then you're a lazy, controlling bitch. And please never admit to being a stay at home mum or wife because you are comparable to a prostitute. Yes it was said on there.

 

[MonkeyTennis]

I think name changing is a shocking idea. I could set up a persona over there as a die hard Tory then name change and become a Corbynista, be anti NHS and pro private health care, then decide the NHS is awesome. A lot of trolls become unstuck when they forget to namechange and are rumbled by claiming to be a victim of DV whilst also being a happily married mother of 6.

Agree, also it's so judgemental of anyone who doesn't have a 5000k income and doesn't have their breastfeeding child attached at age 6.

Pre Covid, I remember reading a thread, a nice lady who was having a birthday party for their child, but underestimated how many balloons and goody bags she needed, she said she was a single mum and didn't have much cash. And any advice would be appreciated.

The first reply was go to the Pound Shop, quick they have what you need.

But the rest of the thread was members having a go at her, for using balloons and non recycling products.

Absolutely no help to her just "think of the environment" preaching

If she was a middle class woman who was having a birthday party for little Tarquin and needed to know where to get the same recycled things tat for the party, the replies would have been very different.

 

[RedMagnolia]

There's someone on my Facebook who has posted 6 separate photos of all the goodies her DH bought her for Mother's Day - flowers, chocolates, jewellery, clothes, cosmetics, a watch - all with love from their 17 week foetus.

Mumsnetters would be up in arms, either raging with jealousy or sneering at the expense.

I just hope her DH realises he has set the bar extremely high for all future mother's days.

I think it's really sweet.

 

[OhhBacon]

I am obsessed with the aibu thread, just for a laugh. Some of the questions and replies are hilarious. I check tattle and aibu several times a day.
It is so toxic though, some of the responses are so frustrating and I feel sorry for people who are looking for genuine help.

I also find the AIBU thread fascinating. People get such terrible responses on there, responses can be horrifically argumentative but then people ask for advice about some really ridiculous things.

My favourite is when some says something like, ‘I was in a queue in Lidl with my huge trolley of shopping and a chap asked to go in front if me of me because he only had a bottle of wine. I said no, he can queue like the rest of us.’ AIBU.

The thread then descends into a baffling argument of no you weren’t being unreasonable, he is clearly a raging alcoholic and he shouldn’t have been allowed to buy the wine as he was so desperate to pay for it that he couldn’t wait, did he open it and get a straw out. V It takes me three hours to pay for my shopping in Lidl because I let everyone with less items go in front of me.

 

[ChubClubThug]

mumsnet is a bloody nightmare. I went through a lot of parenting sites but mumsnet was the worst. Someone called me selfish for putting my son through cancer treatment. Never went back after that.

Babycentre was alright but I never got into it as much. My birth board was pretty dramatic but I learned not to take it seriously.

I hated mumsnet and really hated the baby centre message boards. Full of rude, sanctimonious cows with pack mentality. Waiting to brag how brilliant and moral they are. I Used to spend all my time arguing with people on there

I find on Tattle you mostly get a better class of person wanting to actually discuss opinions and thoughts, rather than be pedantic just for the sake of it. Not bad for a bunch of Trolls eh

 

[BigMavis]

Oooh I'm going to read this thread today. I left mumsnet around the David thing if any of you have mentioned it, I ended up on reddit, the cockroach saga was sooooooo funny, I saw that unfold in real time, hilarious. Then it got weird and dark and I had no home I didn't like reddit nor did I want to go back to mumsnet, I was lost on the Internet. I became a nomad but eventually found tattle. I like it here, I'm home.

 

[RedMagnolia]

Probably a dumb question but how many real members does it have?

For instance, say if they had 10 million registered members but as you know a lot of people name change a lot for various reasons. Are they counting the same person twice and that pushes up the numbers?

It's just so often l see the same old members dishing it out and a lot of people who are regulars say they have changed their username.

I think name changing is a shocking idea. I could set up a persona over there as a die hard Tory then name change and become a Corbynista, be anti NHS and pro private health care, then decide the NHS is awesome. A lot of trolls become unstuck when they forget to namechange and are rumbled by claiming to be a victim of DV whilst also being a happily married mother of 6.

 

[AlanBanan]

The sex threads can be hilarious, they think getting oral sex is gross and masturbation is embarrassing and yucky

If half of them had a good ride every now and then, they wouldn’t feel the need to be so stuck up and spend all day online belittling people.

I should create a sex toy company solely for the bored lacking of sex Mumsnet crowd and name it “Go fuck yourself”

 

[HockyRorror]

“Head tilt”

“tinkly laugh”

And

“Are you on glue?” - No, because it’s not the 1980s anymore.

“Did you mean to be so rude?” - Err, yes I did. That’s precisely why I was rude, it wasn’t accidental.

 

[RedMagnolia]

I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Crumb's fictional Christmas Eve celebrations where the entire village joined in, including the amicable and delightful teenagers - there were never any surly spotty ones, drinking cider and smoking behind the church hall, telling everyone to fuck off - oh no, Crumb's teenagers were a cheerful lot - they thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the live nativity play (with real sheep adorned with fairylights) and then happily babysat younger siblings whilst their parents drank mulled wine and danced the night away. On Boxing Day the same happy teenagers would willingly box up the majority of their Christmas gifts for "the poor."