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[tippingpoint]

Everything is over exaggerated on MM. so many posters are furious and shaking with rage over any minor thing, I don’t know how they get through the day.

Totally. I once Googled something about smoking weed. I smoke weed before bed in the back garden. I will only do this on cold / rainy nights when I know all my neighbours windows are shut and past midnight. I’m a terrible sleeper and it’s the only thing that helps. I do often wonder though if my neighbours are upset about smell etc although we all have great relationships and I would like to think they would approach me if they had a problem. Anyway. I was Googling one day about neighbours smoking weed outside. Just to see the lay of the land, if people generally are annoyed but stay silent. I found a Mumsnet thread asking basically would you mind if your neighbour smoked weed in the back garden once an evening after dark. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THE RESPONSES. Now, not liking the smell, worried about children smelling it - all valid concerns. However these people went in on this woman (it was about her husband). I would be disgusted to live beside the local druggy. I would phone social work. Once a night is an addiction and he needs rehab. I would contact their child’s school. You are pathetic and talking like an addict yourself. He’s going to end up in a mental institution. You don’t deserve children. Leave him now before it escalates to stronger drugs. Leave him now because he’s a vegetable who will turn violent. Mind totally blown.

 

[PrincessCharming]

Then I’ve seen posts where they insist on making the tradesmen a full on lunch, making the people who do tea/coffee and biscuits feel inadequate. I do add cans fizzy pop to what I offer tradesmen, and always give delivery me (of heavy goods) a can of cold fizzy pop from the fridge.

The last guy who did building work on my house was so cute, I’d have been offering him something more than tea if I wasn’t happily married

Now that would be a good thread!

 

[bellinibobble]

Just signed up tonight due to the AF business, what a bunch of sycophants on mumsnet and it was the final straw for loss of critical thinking on that site.

Welcome

 

[BigMavis]

I missed the baby name thing, thats clever
I've hopelessly tried and failed to work out what happened and why there appears to have been another split. Regulars are gone and there is a sticky thread which includes heated responses.
The only thing I've managed to ascertain is that people where removed from the sub, sounds like a lot of members where fed up with the constant fighting. It was bizarre, I could see responses on the mn sub but couldn't find the other sub.
Must make it clear I was a voyeur rather than a particpater.

 

[50sGirl]

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.

 

[RedMagnolia]

Or, “he obviously has something to hide, OP”!

Followed by calls to check his phone (wait til he's asleep then use his fingerprint to access it), put a tracker in his car and hire a private investigator. He's following the cheater's script, OP, he's probably got another family or at the very least another woman. Get your ducks in a row and hire a shit hot solicitor.

In fact the husband in this scenario is absolutely 100% over the moon that they are having a baby because they had already suffered a pregnancy loss, then he'd been through treatment for testicular cancer. The cancer is now in remission and he wants the whole world to know how much he loves his wife and cannot wait to be a dad.

 

[BigMavis]

Saga threads are the worst, wasn't someone exposed who had a "support" thread, there was a bus involved if I remember correctly. Can't remember the details. There was a sick child thread which turned out to be a troll, again can't remember the details but I was shocked by that.
I don't think I had come across trolling like that until I used mumsnet, I thought rather naively, trolling was saying horrible stuff to someone on the Internet, not these long (or short) drawn out scenarios people make up. MN seemed to attract an unusually high number of these people, many of whom had done it time and again. I guess that's the nature of a message board though.

 

[Pinkii]

The covid threads make my blood boil.

so sick of seeing ‘but ItS ThE RuLeS’

someone mentioned about going to see her new suicidal friend and out come, you CANNOT see her, because ItS ThE RuLe’- maybe just call her or facetime her, common sense is lacking with most posters on there.

some people have truly loved the misery of the last year

 

[bellinibobble]

I’ve read the Any Fucker thread and the arselicking is off the scale. ‘If anyone deserves it, it’s you AF, after all the sage advice you’ve given on MN over the years’. Really?! REALLY?! Is that all it takes to get out of following the rules the rest of us have to adhere to? I wish I’d known that earlier

I can’t get my breath. To say they’re fond of the ‘this isn’t netmums’ claim to fame, some of the sycophants are coming across pretty netmums right now

It’s very interesting that the go to response to anyone who questions the nastiness or lack of support is ‘well that’s just how things are on here’ - clearly they do possess some empathy, it’s just a shame you have to be a well known member to receive it. If you’re not, then get ready for the flaming. Horrible.

 

[XXSJPXX]

Why are women on parenting forums so bloody nasty? It was exactly the same on Babycentre, I came to the conclusion that they are very miserable people who hate their lives and husbands so they take it out on others online

 

[Furnessian]

I don't know the person who took against me is still on MN, it's probably beneath her now. She occasionally gets retweeted into my twitter timeline and is still an absolute arsehole. Imagine spending pretty much your entire adult life showing everyone what an awful person you are via social media.

 

[Lulu Goss]

I ended up on mumsnet when I first started thinking about trying for a baby, after googling some questions that linked back to threads on there.

Couldn’t get past all the abbreviations on there (not just standard TTC ones, it was almost like another language) but also how overdramatic and cutting everyone was to people just looking for advice.

Definitely not somewhere I’d want to go for friendly advice! Love Tattle in comparison

 

[Meh]

I was just on mumsnet reading the Sarah Everard thread (seriously cannot stop following this and I hope she’s found today )

Anyway, can someone explain why - in the middle of an active thread of people talking- users post “bump” “bumping to keep this active” it is active, you nutter, people are actively using the thread

Never used MN before but fuck me, bump bump bump, that’s annoying.

 

[SpiceWeasel]

Everything is over exaggerated on MM. so many posters are furious and shaking with rage over any minor thing, I don’t know how they get through the day.

I know, it’s ridiculous.

‘My husband bought the wrong brand of dishwasher tablets’

‘LTB!!!!!!’

 

[RosetheHat]

Hi I’m a former mnetter.

I know everyone says it but it really isn’t the place it used to be.

Apart from the dullness and repetition ( I've done the babies, children, teenagers ) I got totally fucked off with the moderation and speed with which threads got zapped.

I like it here a lot , see you around .

Totally agree !

 

[Gym&Tonic]

She said the bloke looked at her baby with a moronic idiotic expression, like he thought her son was a cretin.
3 disablist slurs in one sentence which she's now denying because MNHQ edited her OP.

Almost like she was goading them then…

I have to be honest though that I had no idea that ‘moron’ was disablist slur until I went on Mumsnet.

 

[Katnip]

I found Mumsnet to be quite ‘London-centric’ at times.
If you didn’t live there then you were behind the times by the tone of some of the snippier posters, I recall someone saying ‘why didn’t you get an Uber?’ on AIBU about a friend leaving her mate at a pub.

Absolutely!! Some seemed surprised we actually had running water in Wales. Well, not quite, but they did seem to assume we still lived in the dark ages.

 

[E_J95_]

I'm in agreement with others about how Mumsnet has changed and gotten so bitchy and nasty. Especially in the last 5 years. It has been helpful for me in regards to my daughters but it's the not-needed bitchiness

Also I hope this comment is okay to make and probably will be taken down, but what I don't like about Mumsnet is the constant moany/bitchy posts against Brits or England. Especially recently, there's been multiple threads on England/English people all quite negative and I think that's wrong because if the shoe was on the other foot it would cause an uproar when racism is erong on all angles. In the past week on AIBU at least there's been two threads about how crap England is...

 

[Renegadedancer]

The crazies are lapping up her story. FFS why are people so gullible .

 

[LyraBalaqua]

Lots of arseholes on mumsnet . I don’t post but I might start writing stuff just to stir it up a bit

Do a back to school lunch box , it’ll bring them all out.