Mumsnet

[Gym&Tonic]

Never mind Waitrose, it’s Booths they all go mad over. So many of them say the thing they like the best about going to the Lake District is being able to do some shopping in Booths.

 

[Pinkgreywhite]

I found this place after reading a Philip Schofield thread on MN and it linked to the thread about him on here.
MN is so bitchy and full of do gooders. It’s like a breath of fresh air here. I don’t post a lot and I love reading the Celeb forum. I haven’t ventured in to many of the other areas on here yet.

 

[Anasnake]

And the snobbery about schools is off the scale. If you don’t go private then you obviously don’t care about your kids

 

[memoii11]

I enjoyed it in 2011 and a couple of years after but then it got full of trolls and over moderated

 

[AngryBird101]

Sorry I’m a bit late to the party here. It always stuck out to me how many people on MN had cleaners, not that there’s anything wrong with that if you can afford one, but they were constantly accusing them of stealing, it was awful! The final straw for me was when someone posted saying a brand new bottle of pink gin had suddenly become half empty and it HAD to be the cleaner, not her teenage son or husband who she later disclosed had previously been an alcoholic

People from a working class background are as a rule the most kind and generous and give you the shirt off their back. Back in my barmaid days I would get tipped every drink off working class men/women, then your high day and holiday middle class customer would order a ton of drinks, talk to you like you’re a moron, not say please or thank you and not leave any tip!

I could also never get over how naive some people on MN come across, like they have never lived in the real world, dealt with normal folk or ever been in any kind of real life sketchy situation (not that that’s a bad thing!) oh and you’re an alcoholic if you have a drink any other time than on Christmas and no more than a glass of champagne then at that

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!!

 

[Purples]

Anyone else get a begging email from Mumsnet on Christmas Eve? I wouldn't mind but they banned me after I posted wanted some help getting out of a toxic relationship! But still ask me for money?! Fuck right off! Their site provides little worth other than for people to be unpleasant to people and for trolls to post crap. Of all the businesses shouldn't a website be doing well in covid 19?! I hope they go bankrupt.

 

[bellinibobble]

Ah but don't you just love it when someone recently asks (property board) if having £2600 monthly after the mortgage payment was enough to live on as a single person.

Yes!! Or the people who spend £300 a week on their grocery shopping

 

[no-no]

The people on there sound a lot like those on MSE. I have never known a bigger snake pit outside of twitter! You could go on for some innocuous advice and get accused of all sorts. “Oh, you want to change broadband providers? Is that because you’re leaving Sky without paying your final bill!!!”. Jesus Christ. And a lot think they ‘know’ Martin personally

I had a mumsnet account because they used to have some good competitions, but I never won anything. Can’t believe they’re charging!

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

Or when the poster posts for advice. It’s something traumatic and/or sensitive. Posters give advice but many also reply asking for updates as if it’s a soap and they need the next instalment. They then get huffy when the OP quite rightly disappears.

Fucking ghouls.

Often the poster can’t win. If they don’t provide any update, they are assumed to have been a troll, but if they give updates or haven’t done exactly what MN Royalty thought they should, they’re also called a troll (not meaning the soap opera style near constant updates which are indeed a troll sign).

 

[50sGirl]

Oh yes, not immediately, but after several pages of pleading posts asking for one.

Okay, I’ll await the pleading posts! But I’ll still not post one!

 

[FrannyGallops]

She is still on there. CherryPavlova

Is she?! Oh excellent!

ETA: I’ve just looked up some of her posts. Yep, she’s still got it. Couldn’t live solely off a two grand a month disposable income for the rest of her life, and talking about her boat and husband jetting off to Hong Kong.

Marvellous.

 

[ChampagneBox]

I’ve only ever been on mumnset after hours of late night googling led me to things like ‘could I be pregnant’ and read peoples pregnancy symptoms as vague as mine (only ever had scares, never actually been pregnant haha) but I’d be fascinated to know the psychology of sites like that and this one! Like WHY people especially women use them, the things discussed etc, I think it’s fascinating

 

[RedMagnolia]

Its been posted so many times its hard to know who it really belongs to.

Wikipedia Legends of Savernake Forest

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

When did they stop doing Penguin bars? I've not seen them for years.

They still do them! I’m occasionally tempted when they go on offer but they’re just not as good as I remember

 

[HockyRorror]

Wtf does that mean?!

“Oh do fuck off, dear”

 

[Yel]

There's a long running thread on mums chat about mumsnet which is quite interesting. This asking for money for their 350k a month wage bill after they've made millions in profit for years from selling data and advertising is the cherry on the top.

Justine Roberts and Mumsnet

A collection on of the information on Justine Roberts I've been having a poke around - all of this is publicly available information, by the way, but bringing it all together may help shed some light on the change of tone many people have noticed from MNHQ in recent months. I've been an...

mums.chat

 

[Miss Havisham]

I made the mistake of registering on mumsnet a few years back. I de-registered within 24 hours.
A nest of vipers - vile, hideous man hating oddballs.
I get the slagging off, of any individual - when they do something horrendous, but LTB, if he wants to go to the pub once a week?
Most of them are online all day, but it appears that they have perfect lives - fantastic jobs and four toddlers to bring up.

I made a comment, that I felt distressed at seeing images from dog meat markets in China. I was told that I was clearly privileged - to hold such a view. I didn’t bother to try and argue my case - but thought it best to get out of there.

 

[rainbowlemon]

What does this mean?

Pooping would stink up the main bedroom.

 

[Yel]

Looks like they "accidentally" sent out their spammy begging Christmas Eve email to every single email address they have so millions?

Apparently it's been fixed, err that's not how emails work. All that spam has gone out and can't just be fixed like that their internal processes are always a shit show. Micheal again said on the 26th don't worry its all been fixed now . People claim it's been sent out to email addresses that were supposed to have been wiped years ago and removed from their database.

 

[House of Tea]

I saw one where it was a man specific health problem, so a poster saying “I’m a man” was actually completely relevant to the topic and they turned on him. Blew my mind.

I have seen that too.