Mumsnet

[rainbowlemon]

How much does it cost to run Tattle in comparison?

I'd donate if you started selling a #strongtattleclub T shirt in leopard print of course.

 

[non binary coat]

I once did an AIBU about my neighbour playing the radio all day in the garden loudly (even when going out to the shops). I was pretty much called a selfish cunt for not wanting to hear his music and have a quiet garden "get earplug princess", "go live in the middle of no where bitch!", "have you heard of noise cancelling headphones, get some and shut up" and "entitled much, why does your liking of quiet override his love of music?!", because a lover of music just plays heart from a tinny little shity radio and leaves it on all day. So many perfectly normal AIBU questions go crazy.

 

[sixdinnersid83]

I actually agree it is cruel to let kids chase birds.

So do I, I asked some thicko parents to stop letting their toddler chase a duck who was so exhausted it couldn’t get back over the wall to the river. They were feeding the ducks to encourage them and then letting their child chase them.

Horrible ,respect for birds/animals starts from the early years.

 

[Pinkii]

It’s Mother’s Day and of course over on Mumsnet we have the usual threads complaining about lack of effort from children and husbands or partners. Most of the time they have very unrealistic expectations of what to expect and sound so fucking ungrateful. One poster is moaning that she only got a card and small potted plant from her toddler. I feel they’ve totally forgotten what Mothers Day is about, it’s a religious festival not Christmas mark 2. What do they want or expect?

Posters are making threads at 8am moaning about not having had messages or effort.

jesus let the country wake up and have their coffee first!

i blame social media as well, everyone constantly posting what they have got etc, will make others feel bad about perhaps a more modest effort. everything has to be done on a grand scale!

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Another thing is whenever someone asks where they can buy nice clothes from them and they always say Mint Velvet. Have you seen the prices at Mint Velvet?! It’s £60,00 for a basic top or shirt!

 

[PrincessCharming]

Stopping mumsnet was one of the most liberating things I did. It’s a magnet for bullying and bullshitters. It’s made up of trolls and idiots who twist the words of someone desperate asking for help then stick the knife in. I feel bad for anyone deluded enough to think they’re in some kind of support network for mums.

The “MN royalty” posters are bitter, twisted and have too much time on their hands going by their presence on every thread.

 

[HeeeeyDuggee]

Ooh, I'm on a roll now, so frustrated by the bloody place. The absolute worst for me is when someone starts a thread asking for positive experiences of having an only child, often because they're unable to have anymore and inevitably a number of posters insist on going on and on about how miserable they were as an only and how they'd do absolutely anything to make sure their child had a sibling. It's so unbelievably unkind.

 

[DCICassieStuart]

I had an account there a few years ago, deleted it after the data breach. I had a look when the Jack Monroe threads were up, fooking hell, what a mess.

"Ambulance, NOW."

Erm, alright then?

Plus, the chances of being a troll seems to be in direct proportion with how many fetuses a person claims to be pregnant with

"Doctor here" "Teacher here" Naturally everyone was then expected to bow down to these almighty people.

I'm NOT saying there's anything wrong with being a teacher or doctor, but on MN they always felt the need to announce it. A lot.

 

[Wirral Rabbit]

I called Victoria Beckham sourfaced and banhammer a few minutes later. It's a bonkers place. People are allowed to say they'd punch Boris Johnson but joking about a women's expression is not in the spirit of the site? That's not feminism or progressive

Us women should not have an opinion on another woman unless it's nice

 

[rainbowlemon]

It’s a sanpro day, time for some salty nibbles and choc to ease those iffy cravings. DH brought DC to the park whilst I relax after doing nothing all day besides watch morning tv, internet shop and belittle and bully other mothers online. Might treat myself to a big bowl of hearty soup and crusty bread with lashings of good butter or will make Spag Bol for the kids. I hate my husband.

my life is so hard and challenging.

LTB and get your ducks in a row.

 

[Ekkwhine]

I will admit to starting that. Years ago someone new started a parking thread and I posted it was against the rules to post a parking thread without a diagram. I was only joking but it stuck. <proud>

awesome

Just makes me laugh with the whole “name changed, can’t tell you the time of day as may be outing, can’t tell you what hobby we were going to attend, but here, have a diagram of the entire layout of mine and my neighbours house, complete with boundaries and fences”

 

[memoii11]

Mumsnet are already pleading going broke and asking users for £4.99 a month or £49.99 a year.

It's just a fucking message board, hardly that expensive to run like a newspaper with quality journalism. They've been coining in an absolute fortune for years after years. Just Lidl alone they had a 6 figure deal with to sell user data to and use their message board for adverts. Even with the ad rate falls just the ad's alone on the site will be making them a fortune, but not as much of a vast fortune as before. They're fucking cheeky.

Fuck. That.

 

[Furnessian]

Was interested to see that my mumsnet bully is still, many years later, doing the same over on twitter. I never knew what she looked like on Mumsnet but she is constantly posting selfies there. Amusingly, she looks like a Bo Selecta version of Joan Collins.

 

[PrincessCharming]

It was me who started that, many years ago.

I posted something like “the rules are on here you must post a diagram on parking threads” on a parking thread and the OP apologised and posted a quickly drawn one. The rest is history.

And yes, I was taking the piss

 

[PrincessCharming]

It is a shit show.

I wonder if some posters are allowed out of the house unaccompanied. Many of them should not be in charge of children.

MNHQ are disgusting. I used to post and asked for my posts to be deleted following a security breach and they refused.

One member used to follow me around accusing me of being Nicola Sturgeon which was amusing and a massive compliment to me!

I’d not be sorry if it disappeared.

 

[Lolly666]

Makes me laugh on Mumsnet when someone spots something in an OP that doesn't quite add up (in their opinion) and then they post about it with such glee. You can just imagine someone beaming from ear to ear thinking they are being so clever!

 

[Fin]

I joined Mumsnet years ago but it has degenerated to the point of being unreadable. I only recently logged back in and saw the plea for money in way of a subscription service, no way would I pay to subscribe to something that is full of trolls and holier than thou keyboard warriors. However I do have to give it credit for doing me the courtesy of sending me to Tattle! They can harp on all they want about how dreadful Tattle is but from my first post on here I was welcomed with open arms and find it a really nice, friendly forum. Thank you @Helen for giving us this space.

 

[Pinkii]

How can we forget the husbands hobby which they can never name because its so outing

 

[Itsallaboutmememe]

I posted once about dv
I woke up the next morning to find my account had been blocked and my thread taken down ‘and they where taking a look behind the scenes’
not one of them got in touch to see if I was ok-in fact they denied blocking me!
im welcome back now but they can go to hell if they think I’ll make another account
i could have been in real danger and I was very vulnerable but they didn’t give a fuck
it’s full of man hating oddballs who get kicks from other women’s downfalls and if you post asking for advice they attack/report you!

 

[PrincessCharming]

But you didn’t honestly expect to take him into Waitrose in those rags, did you?!

Joined for all of a week, and then couldn’t be hooped with the place. The snobbery and folk trying to pretend they’re something they aren’t did my tits in and the holier than thou parenting...

I nearly got banned for ‘trolling’ because I baited a thread about dinners and told them I’d just served McDonalds to my 6 month old as his first weaning food. Chips are just potatoes, right? Didn’t go down well... or did, depending on what you were looking for

My health visitor told me stories of a client whizzing up a McDonalds with a hand blender to give to their baby.

I’ve said it before but Mumsnet use is a form of self abuse. The amount of jealousy on there is staggering.

The people I can’t stand most are the ones who post on threads where a mum is suffering abuse at the hands her partner and needs advice. Someone always posts “What were you doing having kids with that man?”. Judgemental and spectacularly unhelpful unless the OP has a working time machine at her disposal.