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[Gym&Tonic]

The HATE you would get if you mentioned the environmental damage of those god awful balloon releases....

"My kid tragically died. LETS KILL A FEW INNOCENT BIRDS AND HORSES DOWN WITH IT!!! And dont u DARE say anything because MY CHILD IS DEAD!!!! I simply MUST have the spectacle of a few balloons disappearing into the sky as a fitting tribute. LITTER AND DEAD ANIMALS YAY"

Paraphrasing, obvs.

From my lurking, I've seen that you can at least mention the damage they cause nowadays more without being screeched at by said brigade of MN Royalty.

Don’t forget road side shrines. Anyone who suggests that they are dangerous and distract other drivers, potentially causing another accident in the same spot is subjected to a pile on.

 

[Fenella]

I’m an ex-mumsnetter and I am embarrassed how much I have defended in the past with how it is now.

The modding became ridiculous, with both what they took away and what they allowed to stand and relying on volunteers overnight for a site that large seemed silly.

Thé IT situation was appalling and I don’t know how people still trust them after all the fuck ups they’ve allowed.

However I did have a few fun days out from them ( The best was when I did one of the cruise ship days that Royal Caribbean sometimes did as focus groups/advertising - that one was really good, day on the ship, amazing food, overnight in a lovely hotel room and a nice goody bag! ) and a tumble dryer and fancy iron from MN insights so I did get something good from it!

 

[Opheliasweeds]

They’re bitching about it being cruel to let kids or dogs chase birds now. Batshit.

 

[Roarquaver]

Mumsnet have four stock replies to every thread:

1) Leave the bastard aka LTB

2) That looks like sepsis

3) Log it with 101

and finally, the one that really makes me grind my teeth:

"All money is family money"

What does all money is family money mean? I've never heard it! Sorry if its extremely obvious my brain is fried by kids x

 

[ColaMonster]

Didn’t MN infiltrate the government at one point?

 

[Chunkeylaydee]

It’s under her latest username - not sure if I can post it here or if it would count as doxxing?

it’s an AIBU about a ‘garden supper’

Found it

 

[witchofwestbyfleet]

I don't know why but all the "AIBU" and so on threads seem obsessed with bodily functions, not for the squeamish

 

[Anasnake]

There’s currently an active packed lunch thread !

 

[Gym&Tonic]

The posh thread is laughable. So many posters falling over themselves to tell everyone how they were called posh growing up because they talked properly. Fuck off. Posh means the aristocracy, Lords and Lady’s, Duke, Earls etc.

 

[Lulu Goss]

I’ve just posted on the one where a members mother comes round for lunch and most of the time , including today , proceeds to get lunch there and deliberately rubs it into the carpet with her feet and laughing , today’s offering for the carpet was pork pie ... the thread was pulled but it was called ‘shall I make her pay for carpet cleaner ‘ .. she’s been doing this regularly apparently she’s 63 ... fucking hell , never mind carpet cleaner this is been going on for donkeys ... she needs mental health assessment and the daughter was more concerned about wether to charge for carpet cleaner ! Oh and proceeded to state it was autistic traits . Jesus fucking wept
I don’t believe this is true .. fucking mental

That has to be made up Now I’m off to have a read...

 

[ScorpioMoon]

Gosh haven't heard the word moldie in such a long time

 

[HockyRorror]

I hate when people buy expensive shit just to brag about it. My friend bought a £220 designer snow globe what the actual fuck. Who cares

My friend, god bless him, is like this. Not in a bragging way, but will tell me that he bought something that cost X amount of money because of the brand name and thinks I’ll be impressed. I straight up tell him I think he’s a twat to part with that much when you can get the same product with a less known brand name for far less. He calls me a stingy cheapskate in retaliation

 

[PrincessCharming]

Damsels went the same way after a few years. Damsella wanted to make money from the site and it went tits up. She did a reasonably good job up until that point though. I suppose at the time she looked at how Mumsnet and Netmums were growing exponentially and wanted a piece of the action. Damsels probably pre-dated Mumsnet but Justine was the one who got lucky.

 

[BethanyGilbert]

Anyone remember Crumbs / Cherry pavlova

 

[AngryBird101]

There was also a thread about women that have kids to men knowing full well that they are useless and that these women are wreckless and irresponsible to bring children into that sort of relationship, and only a few women had the guts to admit that they knew their partner was worse than useless yet had a baby anyway but the amount of women that said they were using condoms AND the pill yet they still got pregnant, and I call absolute Bullshit on that! Just hold your fucking hands up and admit that you were silly and naive, don’t pretend you took all the precautions in the world yet still fell pregnant and some even said that they had gotten pregnant more than once from using double contraception! My fucking arse you lying wenches!!

Women’s bad behaviour gets excused a lot, if a woman is jealous, possessive, controlling etc then she was obviously abused as a child and has poor esteem (the go to excuse for female bad behaviour) and needs counselling and gets a shit load of sympathy, yet if a man acts the same way then you have to LTB immediately and he ‘won’t change’ etc etc,they don’t like men as much as they won’t admit it, not all MN of course but lots of them.

 

[Booington]

I have put too much thought into biscuits in my time, and club to me are the rare biscuit than are nicer now than in my childhood, I think due to the chocolate improvement.

yeah they changed it to real choc at some point didn’t they? Wagon wheels are still not real chocolate though, I loved them when I was pregnant!

 

[Girlinabubble]

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

Me too Sven - I was shocked at how challenging the job was - the pressures managing the expectations of patients and doctors - primary care is hard!

 

[SpiceWeasel]

And you're drug addled scum that doesn't deserve their children it you did a few lines in your 20s

I often thought if I was to mention stuff I got up to when I was younger they’d probably wonder how I was still alive

 

[PinkFigs]

Was it her who posted that her husband had lied about some sort of professional qualification and ended up having everything deleted as people had worked out who she was and could have ruined him, or am I getting my (fake) royalty mixed up?

Omg yes I remember that now!

 

[Gym&Tonic]

And where in the UK are they? It's been raining non-stop here. No tutu-wearing kids dancing around the fields. No bum shuffling babies looking cute. I am glad MNHQ removed the disablist terminology she used though.

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