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[Chunkeylaydee]

WorraLiberty is another one. Nasty fucker.

They are all so middle class and privileged.In real life I don’t know anyone with a cleaner or who shops Waitrose or who sends their kids to fucking prep school. It’s another world that I don’t live in.

I bet they aren’t middle class at all. They just pretend they are.

 

[Anasnake]

No one eats home made cakes and no one owns a loo brush because they’re all obsessed with germs

 

[ElectricDreams]

I posted on Mumsnet for a while but didn't last long. The final straw was when they ripped apart a poor poster who was upset about not being able to see her partner at Christmas due to Covid restrictions and being in a long distance relationship. They all piled on telling her if they had a long distance relationship it wasn't real, they couldn't possibly love each other if neither of them were prepared to uproot and move to be with the other, how very date she suggest she was being hard done to etc. I was in a similar situation and it stung me to the core that they were being so vile.

I couldn't be done with all the DD, DS, DH, DDog etc, name changing because the post was "outing", and generally being very vague about where they lived (a small Northern town, handy for 2 nearby cities). Vagueness in general really, instead of giving actual examples they'd say things like "we gave our DD a traditional name, think Victoria Georgina" or the inability to talk about their DH hobbies (we all knew it was either golf or cycling but they could never admit it).

There were a few good wind up threads but some posters for far too invested in them.

 

[Kaylon8083]

The sneering and mocking of the Facebook crafts also annoys and upsets me. Ok, it may not be to your taste and some of it is a bit questionable but there's no need to put it on a thread to take the piss out of it.

 

[bubbletea123]

I have been on Mumsnet, I don't have kids but was looking for something on Google and it came up... it was pretty shocking. What everyone is describing Tattle as (which it is not) is exactly what Mumsnet is.

 

[Sunshinegal]

All men are evil and abusers and narcissists. All women are saints, except step mothers. Stepmother must do everything for their stepchild, do anything they want and most definately should love them the same if not more as their own child. If not, they are terrible and damaging to that poor child. However you are also awful for doing these things if their mother objects because you are not their mother and how dare you try to be. At the same time, you get no say in anything, can not get involved in anything, tell them off at all and they can treat you however they like because you are just a step parent not their mother! It's so ridiculous it makes me laugh. Some poor women have real issues asking advice with step children and its like they are the devil. Also it's always assumed they were the other woman before. So bad.

I do read on conception and I am TTC and find most of the girls on there really lovely. Some totally ignore you, maybe they are part of a clique then?

A personal favourite is baby name posts. Some people are SO rude. They also say completely random names as alternatives. Apparently every baby should have a classic name that has a long proper version on the birth certificate and nickname for home. So if your child does not have the long version it is not a proper name and they will be bullied, never get a job or be taken seriously and will look like they have a babies name for life makes me laugh seeing as I have a perfectly normal name, it has a longer version but my parents didn't like it and I can say nobody has ever bullied me over it, rejected me for a job or told me I have babies name .

 

[Yel]

I reckon a lot of businesses stopped claiming after it started being published.

They should have released it right from the start. That would have probably saved billions.

 

[FrannyGallops]

Yup and yet hundreds of posters are still taken in?

Parking threads are so fucking boring. How do so many of them get sucked in?

 

[Sven]

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.

Hahahaha this was me - I used to defend them fiercely because I had done that job and it was utterly soul destroying.

 

[Lechat]

I think there’s a lot of bored people who just have too much time on their hands and pick at what other posters say for fun.

Some of it is superiority, picking at spelling and grammar or making a big deal about innocent phrases/statements to stroke their own ego and look important.

Personally I think some political groups are using the site to influence opinion on things and go on the attack around certain subjects - you notice it a lot around election time.

Final theory I have is that a number of men also use the site to bait, ridicule and aggravate genuine posters looking for help. Any site that’s aimed more at women is going to attract weirdos. It’s a shame as there is definitely a market for a website for women to support each other but MN is just too well known and I imagine many posters are just not the typical demographic anymore.

Tattle is less well known and the discussions are more respectful and moderate in comparison.

 

[Inforapenny]

There was another wedding gift thread!

always brings out the pettiest & craziest posters who seem to live in 1950

I saw this one.
And responses are awful everyone saying they hate wedding anyway. Bunch of miserable c##nts.
I am literally chomping on the bit to get to my friends wedding in August. A big fuck off party after 18 months of lock down yes please!

 

[Lechat]

Exactly it’s the sheer lack of rational debate on it all. And there are clearly some people on their deliberately trying to put fear out there, pretty sick as you can tell they are loving it.

anyone else get fed up of the lies and inaccurate posts as well? There‘s a thread on AIBU called thanks all brexiteers which OP was importing 3k of art into U.K. from Russia and blamed brexit. The thread descended into a mess of people mocking the 3k art and a brexit debate. People keep saying that russia has a trade agreement with the EU which is completely unsubstantiated and if it did, there would still be customs charges to import goods. so OP has managed to create a complete froth about two unrelated things as her AIBU is about the customs fees and process.

There needs to be some fact check on certain posts like a big banner that says ‘this could be bollocks’.

 

[DuckDuck]

Loads of threads on there at the moment about fucking useless husbands and martyr women ... one husband was ‘ inconsolable’ because he spilt milk and couldn’t feed the child ..
Cue the obligatory ‘ book yourself a weekend in a hotel ‘ posts
Yeah because everyone has the means to do this
There are some right nasty cunts on there at the moment...no one is that horrible in real life are they ?

 

[sixdinnersid83]

Omg, averagegaylad! I actually ended up talking to him, me and him used mumsnet at the same time (i was/am the same age I just used the site as a surrogate parent and I guess because we were close in age we kind of grouped ) - omg. I saw him go through ban after ban and ended up getting inundated with tearful emails and PMs from him every time he got banned, asking for me to kick off on MN and request he be unbanned. And after a while he started to weird me out because in between his MN threads/his emails to me he would be talking about all the sex he was having in really squicky, minging detail Like - I don’t want to know, why would you want a bunch of women old enough to be your mother to know either?! - so I thought there was a fetishistic element to it. Eventually he got banned for good, then (because MN is shit at keeping out banned posters) managed to come back. So off I trotted to MNTrolls and warned everyone... he then found my post and started up the poor me act - I ended up getting hounded off of the sub as a result. But not before getting a PM from his supposed ex boyfriend telling me to stay away and that he was a troublemaking liar and all this.

No bad thing to get hounded off that sub as it’s such a toxic place. They make me laugh with their troll hunting given how many trolls are posting there.

 

[HockyRorror]

I gave mumsnet £50 as I was worried about them closing down as so many use them for support. I had no idea just how much money they made because they run it like its a small cottage company or charity struggling to get by as it runs so badly and keeps getting hacked. Anyway I got baned last week for talking about meghan markle. I didn't say anything bad more that the language used was like finding freedom and I don't know what to believe. I thought there was a glitch with the site when I couldn't login, then no password reset was being sent and they've wiped my account without even an email after taking my £50. And mumsnet premium is a load of tosh, nothing premium about it. I wouldn't trust that site again.

Sorry to hear that. I can’t remember if it was on here or on an old thread on mum’s chat that warned this would happen and the moderation basically said “yes, if you pay for premium and get banned, you will not get your money back”. I’ve been banned several times (but to be fair, I deserved it )

And I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but has anyone else seen the poster who makes constant threads on there slagging off Tattle and asking things like “AIBU to think Tattle is mean and horrible to poor instagrammers and influencers”? Normally they get told they ABU but the same person (I think) started a recent one in Chat and got mostly sympathetic replies how this place is pure hell and spiteful I’ll grab the link, it will probably still be in my history...

...Oh ok, I can’t link to any MN threads, I just tried but they get auto blocked on here with a sassy message. .

 

[LyraBalaqua]

That's the laugh I am! I'm also nearly ashamed to admit I am, but can confirm I have never stepped foot in a waitrose in my life, so by mumsnet standards I'm probably not.
I always found the what do you earn threads to be odd and possibly phishing or trying to out someone.

No one should be made to feel ashamed and that’s Mumsnet’s core problem, it’s full of posters doing their best to pull up or put down posters depending on their post.

 

[Itsallaboutmememe]

I once posted on there about dv
it had just happened and I was in shock-I’d ran to my mates house so was safe but felt I needed some support
some posters where lovely-some where just foul
i went to bed (on her sofa) and when I woke up not only had every single word I’d ever written had been deleted but I was banned!
no email,no warning,nothing
i sent a shitty email-never answered
i sent one via Facebook-deleted
fuck em-I hope they sink without trace-I came over here after ptwm had her snotty meltdown and never left

i love it over here-if someone doesn’t agree with you,we seem to agree to disagree and move on

I wish I’d known about here that night-would have saved a lot of tears

 

[Apple In My Pie]

The reddit sub is still around. I read it sometimes purely for entertainment //munches popcorn//. It was set up to call out the trolls after a group of MNers got fed up of the trolls and shitty moderation (but specifically David and Caroline). People said it was like another MN group from way back - Mouldies?
Members of MNTrolls then broke off from the group and began fighting with one another — another sub was created in response to it called MNNontrolls (now dead) and the sub was overtaken by fighting/threats/doxxing of members, all sorts. It’s still ongoing now even though the sub has gone back to ‘Normal’

 

[Lala1998]

They are all man haters.
To mumsnet every man is an abuser it was actually sinister how a poster would come in clearly looking to blow off steam after a petty fight with their husband. Every reply would tell the poster that their partner was abusive to leave him it was utter bonkers I had to delete my account.

 

[Mardymermaid]

A lot have them have such a skewed view of the finances of many there was a post once and people couldn’t understand how the poster couldn’t afford twenty pound for something