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[Pinkii]

Yeh the tea/dinner thing is a divider lol.

I’ve never heard anyone call it Tea where i’m
From, its dinner to us too

one of the funniest threads was the cutlery holding- the snobbery on them
Was astonishing

 

[RedMagnolia]

I vaguely recall she 'died' after being caught out in numerous lies. One of her many socks announced she had passed away suddenly and unexpectedly (and actually hadn't died at all).

 

[PrincessCharming]

None of them get on with their mother in laws, or their neighbours.

Often a sign of someone with too much time on their hands.

 

[FlabbyWoofWoof]

I was also a handbagger!

and was also a MNer. It’s become SO hysterical over the last couple of years. Anyone ever talking about their husband is told to leave the bastard!

Saying about well known Mners who were treated as royalty- what about AnyFucker- very unpleasant.

 

[Right on top of that rose]

A roast chicken should feed a family of 5 for a week don’t you know ?!

And enough carcass stock to make a stew and soup the following week, and still have some leftovers to freeze for Christmas gravy.

 

[Apple In My Pie]

I used to go on it when I was a teenager (Yes I know that sounds weird but some of the troll/classics threads were funny and I got into a crowd on the Internet who trolled MN for a laugh which led me there in the first place) and briefly for advice as I entered adulthood. Tbh I did get invaluable advice while I was there but I feel it is just prime for trolling now, and I suppose that ruins the point of it being a support forum, on top of the tospy turvy moderating. There’s a separate sub on reddit of ex-MNers who seek out the trolls (but even that sub has its dramas!)

 

[BigMavis]

I haven't posted on it for a couple of years. I lost track of the other sub too, not sure if it got banned or made private. It was mighty uncomfortable, one minute it was D&C outrage which I was very much there for, wtf like? And in a hot minute it changed to calling out regular posters, those threads...nasty urgh! It went wrong very very quickly, it was like some sort of weird power struggle
I suspect drink or something was involved for a few folks. I went on the other day for a nose around, still can't make sense of anything, but looks like there has been another split, I think the core posters have walked. Was anyone in the private group, did it exist??

 

[BethanyGilbert]

HullyGully was awful. She was a total bitch. I haven’t seen her username in ages, but if anyone starts a thread about MN Royalty and mentions her, she magically appears on it, so she’s still lurking somewhere.


I was on the Reddit threads for a while too. And despite them slagging off MN Royalty, they had their own little clique on there as well. One of them was also ex MN Royalty but she’d been banned eventually for questioning Justine. She was another well known stroppy C U Next Tuesday.

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

If we deserved things based on wasting time on MN I would deserve a round the world 5 star trip.

 

[LyraBalaqua]

AIBU ; I’ve just had a Domino’s delivery .

*What class am I?

* just joking of course.

 

[Anasnake]

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.

 

[Chunkeylaydee]

This thread has given me the rage today. So much nastiness directed at the OP. They are such a bunch of nasty cows.

Such a horrible bunch of people on the thread

 

[ButtonDownTheHutches]

Someone here said they thought she was MN staff, I think that's a fairly good shout. A thread like that would get picked up by the tabloids and generate many many clicks. Whoever they are they're definitely a fantasist, its exhausting just reading it.

I used to wonder if she was an MN insider making shit up for clicks, but apparently she was doxxed on Reddit. I missed the actual doxxing as I was on a Reddit break at the time, but it seems that she is a real person and reasonably successful career wise, but certainly not the person she’s fabricated on MN.

Under her last username she dropped two of her pretend children (the timelines of her multiple pregnancies never added up anyway), and on today’s thread she’s changed her house to a modest Victorian terrace, rather than the detached listed property she previously claimed to live in (and that she photographed from some bushes as ‘proof’ that it was her house! )

Citrus fruity flower?

Yes. The very same.

 

[rainbowlemon]

To be honest: I've lurked on their mental health board posting about BPD and the relationship area, but there's so many smaller projects to help out at the moment rather than help run a website that has already made tons of money. And I'd rather save the money to make small donations to a food bank and a suicide prevention charity.

 

[FrannyGallops]

Some of the posters are treated like royalty despite being really nasty pieces of work. All posters are equal but some are more equal than others.

Another thing that pissed me off is some threads/forums are completely closed to new posters. They treat it like a private member's club and either ignore you or bully you until you go away. It's horrible and allowed to happen by the so-called mods.

Whereas whenever a new poster joins a thread here I've only seen lovely, welcoming messages, apart from when the new poster is obviously only joining to troll us.

I used to be a regular contributor to MN and gave a lot of my specialist knowledge gratis. No longer after Justine's begging email, though. Not paying when I provided your content, you numpty.


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I don’t think cliqueyness is anywhere near as bad as it used to be though. I know when I first joined MN, there were some very well known members on there who’d been there since it’s inception. Someone would start a thread, get a few answers then one of the MN royalty would rock up and disagree and so everyone would start agreeing with them. And then it would pages of *waves to ‘MN Royalty Poster’* *waves to so and so* *sits on bench next to MN Royalty*. It was fucking tedious in the extreme.
Tbh, it’s getting a bit like that on here on some threads. There’s some cracking derailing going on one particular thread, but it seems a bit mean to report it. I know you get to know certain posters, but stick to the topic in hand, for gawds sake.

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

I’ve noticed another post called PlandeRacourment something like that who seems to jump on any thread right at the start and derail or just posts lies.

There was a thread where the OP asked for help on how to delegate tasks at work. Simple enough question. This poster jumped on as first response and queried the use of the word ‘colleagues’ and totally de railed the thread then went on to quote the dictionary and spout some nonsense about engineering. Of course a bunch of lemmings jumped on to agree and repeat the nonsense before another poster with common sense put a stop to it and actually answered the OP.

Certain posters just revel in being complete dickheads. It’s a waste of time reading some threads.

Plan got right on my nerves last time I went to look. You’re right, every thread she can she’s there derailing and making it about herself an her experiences. I swear she’s claimed to have had more careers and expertise than most people have had cups of tea.

 

[PrincessCharming]

The first hideous reply on that thread was deleted, as well as many others. Even the replies left show the posters love a pile on for no real reason. The attitude towards anyone not from London area is horrible.

 

[LyraBalaqua]

I know a few of you have commented about moving over to the Mumsnet offshoot group on Reddit. Do any of you still post there?

In my opinion, it was great fun at first to openly discuss all the things that MN would have banned us for. It felt secret and naughty, yet we were getting away with it!

However, as someone stated earlier, it all started to get a bit dark and sour. Lots of infighting started and then another offshoot group of the MN offshoot group was set up (Sounds crazy and unbelievable but it is true). Lots of snarling and insults flew between the two groups, which I found hard to understand as surely they were all on the same ‘side‘ ie anti Mumsnet?

Almost everyone was being insulted with childish jokes, some of them very bitter and some absolutely disgraceful, misogynistic barbs thrown from women to other women. Talk of the large size of certain posters’ fannies and accusations of one poster secretly being a man. It was mind boggling.

I also deregged from reddit once all the insults and infighting started. It became Mumsnet on super strong steroids. Mind you, the bulk of those Reddit posters were all banned from Mumsnet and, after a month or so on their Reddit thread, it was very easy to understand why. They were nasty, catty, mean, and downright vile - even to each other! And they were meant to be friends fighting for a common cause, ie anti Mumsnet. No wonder they all got banned from Mumsnet and assembled on Reddit.

And as for that Mango and her acolytes (aka her sock puppets), WTF was that all about? She was deranged. All sensible one minute then fuck fuck fuck fuck the next. I suspect alcohol was involved with that one but she was toxic. There was another super snarky nasty one on there, Duplassie or something. She was downright cruel and seemed to revel in goading the people who she didn’t like. She got banned in the end, thankfully. I don’t think anyone missed her. They certainly didn’t ask about where she had gone, which you would if you genuinely liked someone on a forum.

It was fun and light at first , a few of us all on the same page humour wise. I felt it became a threatening dark place where you could be turned on very very quickly if you were perceived to have said the wrong thing, I left soon after.

I don’t know about a private group, I would have steered well clear of getting too close to anyone on an anonymous forum , especially there.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

And their comments to all of this stuff is LTB ( leave the bastard). It’s the same old hags that feature in the comments and its a big clique.

‘My husband farts in bed’... ‘LTB!’

’My husband wees on the toilet seat’.. ‘LTB!’.

 

[SpiceWeasel]

Totally and so many taxi drivers have told me that the bigger the house someone lives in then the smaller the tip, he said “I take many people from X area (bad areas in my city) to their chemists every day to pick up their Valium and methadone and they live in council homes but always tip well, rich folks wait for 20p change” and I always think they’re rich because they don’t tip taxi drivers like I do!! I feel awful if I can’t leave a tip!!

My dad used to be a taxi driver so I always tip! I always feel like a lazy bitch when I cba walking 10 mins from the pub to our house, the fare only comes to like £2.80 so I always say to keep the change from a fiver

Also in my pub days I was once absolutely fuming when I spent hours waiting on this family table of 12 in the restaurant when there was a big football match on, if I was behind the bar I would have been raking it in in tips, the bill came to over £200 and when they had paid the dad ushered me over and pressed 50p into my hand! I would rather have had nothing

Tipping is another thing that starts a war anyway on Mumsnet. 'Oh I never tip my hairdresser and it costs £££££' I'm surprised she doesn't leave your peroxide on too long so your hair snaps off love!

 

[Pinkblush]

Meanwhile the woman who founded it lives in a 2 million pound house with her odious husband ian katz who is head of C4 programming. He used to be editor of the toxic guardian so that says it all really.