Mumsnet

[HockyRorror]

There's yet another thread on there, with photos, asking posters to guess her age. Silly woman has 1987 as part of her username so it's pretty obvious she's 33. It still hasn't stopped people from saying mid-40's.

I seriously don't get this - why would anyone seek validation from an anonymous forum? Ask your friends, your family, your workmates. Or try not to give a shit about how old you look! It's pathetic attention-seeking. At least she doesn't claim to be ID'd every time she buys alcohol though

I always side eye those posts and think they’re actually posting pictures of people they know that they don’t like, in order to attract hopefully “mean” guesses and comments

 

[Droosie123]

I was gobsmacked by the request for money on MN today.

I joined when my 17 yr old some was about a year old so have been a member a long time. It used to be an amazing site and I met several people on the SEN board with are still FB friends today.

Over the years it’s got too big and seems to be full of trolls and hate which is devastating considering the supportive place it used to be.

i went through a very bad year when my son was 6-7yrs old and got lots of support from other parents. Then at Christmas I got a message to say I’d been nominated for the Christmas Secret Santa they used to do. I cannot tell you how absolutely wonderful it was to receive anonymous gifts (to the Mumsnetter of the house) at a time when life was difficult. I still to this day don’t know who these lovely people were but they restored my faith in humanity. It was wonderful to be a gifter the next year.

So I have a lot of lovely memories from MN but it’s not the place it was anymore. That’s sad,

 

[RedMagnolia]

There's yet another thread on there, with photos, asking posters to guess her age. Silly woman has 1987 as part of her username so it's pretty obvious she's 33. It still hasn't stopped people from saying mid-40's.

I seriously don't get this - why would anyone seek validation from an anonymous forum? Ask your friends, your family, your workmates. Or try not to give a shit about how old you look! It's pathetic attention-seeking. At least she doesn't claim to be ID'd every time she buys alcohol though

 

[rainbowlemon]

They hate men so much.
There is a thread currently on MN and the poster asked what ppl are envious of in others relationships.....responses saying stuff like holding hands, partners who organise stuff without being asked etc pretty normal and then of course a poster says don't be fooled all these men who seem to be good and do these things are actually abusive behind closed doors.
What the fuck?!

That could be true for some abusers not all men obviously. Everyone should always red up on red flags in relationships though.

 

[FrannyGallops]

Yes to the touchy and highly offended posters.

The mods aren’t much cop these days, when Olivia was on for example back in the day, it was better and less likely to press the delete button.

They are very quick with deleting posts these days. And there are so many posters with zero sense of humour. I love a good pisstake, but there’s too many pompous posters on MN now.

 

[PrincessCharming]

I really hate the cliché of women dragging other women down but MN seems a hive of jealous, unhappy women wanting to tear other women down.



This is so sad but I can only imagine the judgement you'd get.

I did post on MN about lock down and getting married. We've had to postpone 3 times, there are much worse things going on in the world. However I wanted to get objective yes/no about my wedding going ahead next year as I'm going to have to once again postpone/cancel/do some admin
The shit I got in response has really really upset me. Telling me to get married asap which I said legally we did this year with 2 guests and it was a celebration as I've been very unwell, finally out of hospital. After disclosing that I got legally married
I got a barrage of crap from multiple responses telling me I was weird and completely out of order for wanting my original wedding and if they were a guest they wouldn't come to my wedding as it was an "anticlimax". I was shocked because seriously friends and family just want a happy celebration and the pandemic has made life pretty strange. Lost of responses putting me in my place and telling me off and also fucking virtue signaling saying how expensive their wedding was so don't bother so they get their wedding but I'm not allowed to
I only went on to ask if ppl thought the wedding would go ahead instead I was torn apart because I got legally married.
I can't face looking at all the responses but it feels like a real mean girl culture.

My friend’s mother was too ill to attend her wedding so they did the legal bit anyway on their own and had the postponed big day they planned 3 months later when her mum was able to go. Most guests didn’t even know the wedding we went to wasn’t the original.

It happens and it’s not weird to want it xx

 

[Little Miss]

I don’t understand how they can charge £4.99 a month for a promise of an edit button for 10 seconds after you post when I can do that here for free.

I was originally on digital spy when someone recommended AIBU for laughs and I stuck round mainly lurking but my goodness it’s so nasty especially the stepparents section. I’m sure people just hang around there to be nasty.

I’ve been on digital spy, the old Waterloo road fourms and gg and tattle is the only place where I feel welcomed and part of something and not shut out of a shitty little cliche and made to feel like an outsider.

 

[RedMagnolia]

I’ve never been a member of Mumsnet - it’s ever appealed.
Last year a couple of MN members joined a private FB group that I belong to. They took great delight in starting a thread on MN taking the piss out of things that had been posted on there. All so unnecessary. Some of them are like witches around a cauldron.
Perhaps that seems hypocritical of me seeing as this is a gossip site but people on a private FB group are not posting in the public domain.

Was that a crafting group? Because if it was, I remember the thread, and the cackling derision they greeted people's crafting projects that had been posted, in all good faith, for people's opinions of their work. I thought it was horribly bullying, and reminded me of the clique of bitchy girls at school/work who are too dumb to do anything remotely artistic themselves, but will rip the piss out of anyone trying to do something different.

 

[McNuggets]

I’ve been on there for for a long time now and I must say over the last few years especially it has really gone downhill.

People are just desperate to spew their venom and it is really upsetting to see sometimes.

 

[RedMagnolia]

I tell you what irks me on Mumsnet. When someone posts something along the lines of my DH has gone missing. He said he was going to get milk and now it's almost 2am and he hasn't come back.
Then the next morning people pile in with "I hope he's ok OP and you're both getting some rest now" or some other pretend concern. No, you don't hope he is ok at all, you want the OP to come back on and say that it turns out the DH was with another woman and doing crack. But no they pretend to give a crap about the OP just so she will reply with the gossip for them. It is SO obvious!

I do remember one poster whose husband had gone missing, and it turned out he'd taken his own life. That was heart wrenching and was backed up by newspaper reports.

 

[Wetmyplants]

I posted on there once and was so shocked at the responses, my anxiety hit the roof, I deleted my account straight away and vowed never to post on there again. (I have a very thin skin fyi lol)

I had the exact same experience!

 

[Yel]

Justine and Mumsnet sure do have some cheek making so much money for years and still shamelessly begging.

Ad rates and marketing budgets fell quickly in march but then by April had recovered so they've no doubt made a good profit this year.

Mumsnet have had hundreds of thousands of pounds from tax payers for furloughing their inefficient online company that didn't warrant it and had cash donations from people that were taken in by the manipulative begging.

That site is so full of total bs, I'm not sure if it's employees doing it to whip up attention or if they encourage it for the traffic and don't delete stuff they know is fake from multiple account people. Either way the end result is the same and makes the company look shady.

 

[Laughingforlife]

I've just dipped into Mumsnet and there's this bonkers thread in AIBU: "how long we can keep this going before it gets deleted"
They're all just throwing random words around and rabbiting on about boilers. I think they all have too much time on their hands... Are they all right?

 

[rainbowlemon]

Oh cry me a river- £7 million and 575k profit and yet those pesky loans which have been deferred to pay back .

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

I think Mumsnet have lied about so many things about this latest fuck up. Many things don't add up.

I chatted to a friend last night who works for an online shop in marketing sending out their newsletters. She said even for the most incompetent company it's unfathomable that they accidently send it out to everyone and not just a small segment. Apparently you get to preview lots before actually sending, it'll show the number of people it sends to and then if it's being sent to millions it would take many hours to complete and could be cancelled.

It suits Mumsnet that this cash begging email went out to every email address they've ever harvested. I think they did it on purpose with the plan to then call it an accident when a few complain.

Probably a last minute cash grab plan before people feel spent in January. Makes no sense they'd beg new users for donations.

They do seem to like to pull the “Oh we’re so sorry, it was a mistake, we’re just a small site of mums trying our best...” act a lot. Which is confusing when they’re then asking people to pay for the site.

What did everyone think of Justine’s claims of being swatted after the hack? I thought it was very very convenient timing for it to happen...

 

[Lanavalentine]

Not a Mumsnet user but I have been known to browse... a weird thing I notice is that Mumsnet users are convinced they’re really powerful and start all these trends?

The “Mumsnet scarf” is one... I mean, isn’t it just a leopard scarf? I had one years ago, well before I ever heard it was related to Mumsnet!

The “Mumsnet haircut”. Erm, people have been cutting their own hair like that FOREVER.

“Peter Andre loves his kids” is another. Yeah, that’s a joke that has gone around for years on many social media platforms and forums, especially Digital Spy. Someone said it on Gogglebox and all the Mumsnetters were convinced they’re secretly on there?

They also all seem to be convinced that multiple very famous women are secretly Mumsnetters. Yeah sure hun, Kate Middleton is definitely posting for advice about getting the kids to go to bed on time!

They always believr they affect huge change, like boycotting a company will have a HUGE impact and cause them to go under. It’s bizarre. I’ve never seen it on any other forum.

Got to disagree mostly on the feminism boards though - those beliefs about sex work are part of radical feminism, the wave of feminism that addresses the root cause of women’s oppression - biology. I think some of the lib fem arguments for sex work are very weak, playing into capitalism and masking women’s oppression under the guise of choice. That’s just my personal opinion.

I do think Mumsnet is very racist, though.

 

[Beverley Macker]

“Perhaps those vile posters would actually prefer it if AF topped herself.
Is that what you want?
Would you be happy then?
Someone is trying to preserve their sanity, so she can do a good job in what she’s been trained to do.

I don’t have a problem with that at all and I’ll be going to mine as soon as the weather picks up a bit.”

Oh my god, ‘Dowser’ is an actual psychopath.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Digital Spy, despite its faults, has always allowed you to edit your posts. Expecting people to pay for the privilege is disgusting!

 

[Gym&Tonic]

I think a lot of mumsnetters have been badly treated by men in their private lives and probably had poor role models growing up and so that their only frame of reference, but women are most definitely not Saints. I know just as many women as men who had affairs cheated on their partners, it’s not exclusively the domain of men to have an affair. Yet considering how much they loathe the male sex, they also can’t seem to live without them and move on from long term relationships really quickly and shack up with a new bloke and then express genuine surprise when their kids struggle to accept it.

I also remember one thread that really boiled my piss where a woman got so angry at her partner because Nutella on their bed clothes that she threw objects at him and slammed a door so hard it broke the plaster on the walls. Obviously in mumsnet land it was the partners fault and he must have done something to trigger it. Anyone who pointed out that domestic violence can happen to anyone male or female was roundly piled on.

 

[SloaneRanger]

Have you ever read such a load of fawning bullshit in all your life as this post from Beefcurtains79?


‘I’m going to say this in general rather than address individual posters who’ve bleated about fawning or crowning etc

AF is a regular yup.

She’s ‘known’ yup

She also puts way way way more than most of you will ever know. I don’t know ANY of you bleaters, you’ve probably contributed nothing of any value to anyone. Not paid in, not given back. Nothing.

So before you get all mean girls, bitter and jealous take a looong look in the mumsnet mirror.

Do you pm people asking them just how they are? Do you ask people going through hell if they’re ok? Or congratulate them on getting out of an abusive relationship? Offer them a manly punch on the shoulder and a chin up love?

No? Then pipe the fuck down.

Af can stand up for herself, absolutely but she’s kind and caring to others, struggling Internet strangers, and if she’s struggling, ffs.

Ask yourself if your mean little comments are of any help at all.

If you have nothing constructive to say, say nothing.

Wow. And just to clarify, it’s others who are ‘mean girls’?’


Which roughly translates as, yes AnyFucker is long term poster and part of the Mumsnet Hierarchy and inner circle, and therefore can do what she likes and you lot aren’t part of our gang so why don’t you fuck off.

What thread is that and in what section? God I hate mumsnet