Mumsnet

[FrannyGallops]

I think there is a lot of piss taking on there, snobbery and trying to outdo each other . However, once when I was was worried about the possibility of Mum nearly dying during a major operation some people were very kind / helpful and supportive. No one was taking the piss or being nasty. It really helped me and I am grateful for their kindness.
I'm not on there now, its too snobby for me.

I do wonder if you’d get the same response these days. There are a lot of posters just waiting to jump down an OP’s throat for the sake of it, especially in relationships, where you get a lot of smug married people telling women that they’re needy, clingy and suffocating for wanting the most basic of decent behaviour from their partners.

 

[MrsGarcia]

The only time I ever read anything from Mumsnet is when it's posted by Mumsnet Madness on Twitter. Hilarious snippets of some of the crazy posts. I hope however runs that page pays the sub so I don't miss out

 

[bellinibobble]

Loving this thread! Used to be a proper MN lurker and lived for the drama. Dipped in and out as life gets in the way etc. and once covid hit I just couldn't be bothered with the threads. So much panic etc. It's also really hard to find a community on MN. I've only been using tattle for a few weeks and already feel part of it's community. Less deranged people here too.

Couldn’t agree with you more! I never really commented that much, it was more the fact there’s lots of content to read on a boring day at work if you choose not to read Daily Mail.. now I have tattle instead

 

[BigMavis]

And the snobbish attitude about nethuns which I found most amusing, I was never a netter although any time I had a look it was clearly a completely different demographic but they did seem to be using the site for baby/toddler/children advice.
It really amazes me that tattle seems to run like clockwork without much interference from mods, on the threads I visit at least. The reddit community was a place to say what you couldn't on mumsnet and anyone in the know can see how that turned out. I wonder if younger posters who have joined have a better Internet etiquette or will they get sucked into the culture and tone of the site.

 

[FrannyGallops]

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’.

They have the same obsession with duck egg blue. Paint for the living room, cushions and curtains, the answer is always duck egg blue.
I haven’t seen anything in that colour since 1998.

 

[AngryBird101]

So many liars on it too and so many that seem like they need a good bloody shag it May make them lighten the hell up! Stick up arss comes to mind

 

[RedMagnolia]

What words did she use? I missed what she said originally. Im calling another bullshit thread here.

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.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

A head tilt is something a dog doesn’t it? Not a human being.

Anything that causes them worry or concern makes them ‘petrified‘. They don’t say oh I’m really worried about such and such its always ‘ Petrfied. I have chronic diarrhea.’

 

[bellinibobble]

Any paint simply must be Farrow and Ball

to be fair I wholeheartedly agree with this I’m a paint ponce

 

[Notredamn]

i bloody hate her, I literally ignore her if she ever comments anything to me (not that I post these days!) shes who I meant earlier, commenting on police bail when she knows NAFF ALL about it. She honestly gives me the rage and posters constantly quote her for some reason!

She is so nasty. She actually puts some real effort into being as vile as possible and it's so transparent. Her posts are fucking violent.

 

[DCICassieStuart]

I don’t know anyone who has a second home! I know lots of people who have static and tourer caravans, but no one actually needs a second home do they? No doubt it’s in an idyllic area where the locals have been priced out by people like AnyFucker (sorry thats the leftie in me coming out again ).

My MIL likes to boast to people about 'our PLACE in kippy seaside town' It's a static caravan.

 

[Inforapenny]

My friend went up to a few shitty kids who had a bucket of carbs and poking them. She bollocked them with their parents standing by. That's why I love my friend.

The first time I met my husband's family I witnessed a fucking arsehole hit his dog. The red mist descended and I lost my shit at him. My husbands parents are very mild mannered so they.probay thought I was crazy. However I think they admired my morals I like to think

 

[Beverley Macker]

I’ve never seen such blatant arse licking! If she was feeling down, 13 pages of fawning should buck her up eh.

 

[Delia Smith]

I got banned for having a point of view that didn’t fall in line with others on a particular thread. However I’d previously posted about an issue of my own and received a barrage of upsetting comments but the mods wouldn’t do anything. One rule for one and all that !

 

[Beverley Macker]

18 champagne flutes? I don’t even have 18 assorted glasses. How annoying that must have been! I’d chuck one in the fire after I use it.
Except it would just bounce back off the gas bars.

 

[PrincessCharming]

I love when my pup does head tilts. I have to make cat noises to make her do it though.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

They are all feminists aren’t they? Until someone starts a thread about her husband having an affair and then the other woman is automatically the devil incarnate. It’s never the husbands fault, he obviously has no free will and the other woman forced him to have an affair with her. That’s not a very feminist is it? They have a very black and white mindset with regards to marriage and relationships, but no one is perfect, marriages are complicated. People are complicated. Also people happy in their relationships don’t have affairs, there is usually something missing somewhere.

 

[AmberSpyglass]

I still have a look every now and then, it’s such a huge site that I look in chat , s&b and AIBU.

I only posted in AIBU a couple of times and it was generally frothy , nothing serious , usually about my cats.

I did get very good advice in teens when I was worried about one of my children and needed to vent , the less used boards are friendlier..... unless it’s The Doghouse and God forbid you ask the wrong sort of question

 

[RedMagnolia]

I used to go on and use it literally as it was set up for but could never make head nor tail of what all the beef was about and even when explained, it seemed like nothing really. So I backed away slowly will still pop back on especially if I spot an obvious troll on MN but am not invested enough to try and understand the in-dramas and disagree with a lot of what is posted.

I'm just being nosy but there was a regular poster on there who kept flouncing - she always had Orange in her username - who posted a thread on Mumsnet about wanting to get pregnant without the consent of the man in question (I think!). Anyway, the thread was highlighted on MNTrolls and she got really upset because of course, she's not a troll. Next thing, she's pregnant, no answers as to who the babydaddy is, and she's completely disappeared. I want to know if she had the baby or was she even pregnant in the first place

Yeah I know, lockdown is addling my brain

 

[Renegadedancer]

ODFOD ( oh do fuck off dear)