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[RedMagnolia]

Yankee candle fan turned into Aldi dupe of Jo Malone fan here. Why pay so much for a lump of wax you're going to burn? There's also the horrific assumption that if you have scented candles or room fragrances, then your house must stink.

I was writing a report for work the other day and realised I'd put next of kin with power of attorney for health is SIL. My colleague said 'who is SIL?' I internally rolled my eyes at my Mumsnetness and corrected it

 

[Katykatykaty]

I've just remembered a thread that was titled "sex in my garden" or something and allegedly there was this couple having sex in the hedge outside this woman's house! Anyone remember?

I remember the thread as that has happened to me before! When I still lived at my parents there was one couple that would meet behind my house a few mornings every week to do the deed then go their separate ways! We contacted the police but they never did anything about it. All very weird!

 

[ButtonDownTheHutches]

Urgh the amount of obvious troll parking threads at the minute are ridiculous.. I don’t know why people still fall for it So gullible.

The current multi-thread saga is very obviously complete shite. I despair for the simpletons who are falling for it, though I suspect the OP is socking prolifically to keep the excitement levels up.

Its the exact same format and writing style of many of the previous long-running troll threads. They’ve honed their craft, for sure.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Have you ever read such a load of fawning bullshit in all your life as this post from Beefcurtains79?


‘I’m going to say this in general rather than address individual posters who’ve bleated about fawning or crowning etc

AF is a regular yup.

She’s ‘known’ yup

She also puts way way way more than most of you will ever know. I don’t know ANY of you bleaters, you’ve probably contributed nothing of any value to anyone. Not paid in, not given back. Nothing.

So before you get all mean girls, bitter and jealous take a looong look in the mumsnet mirror.

Do you pm people asking them just how they are? Do you ask people going through hell if they’re ok? Or congratulate them on getting out of an abusive relationship? Offer them a manly punch on the shoulder and a chin up love?

No? Then pipe the fuck down.

Af can stand up for herself, absolutely but she’s kind and caring to others, struggling Internet strangers, and if she’s struggling, ffs.

Ask yourself if your mean little comments are of any help at all.

If you have nothing constructive to say, say nothing.

Wow. And just to clarify, it’s others who are ‘mean girls’?’


Which roughly translates as, yes AnyFucker is long term poster and part of the Mumsnet Hierarchy and inner circle, and therefore can do what she likes and you lot aren’t part of our gang so why don’t you fuck off.

 

[Fourcandles]

That, Mint Velvet and Uniqlo. MN is frumpsville basically.

I posted in style & beauty a couple of years ago asking for work dress recommendations as I work in commercial banking but have enormous boobs so always end up looking matronly or unprofessional. I got upwards of four recommendations for fat face wrap dresses with vest tops underneath. Not quite what I was going for.

 

[Inforapenny]

I really hate the cliché of women dragging other women down but MN seems a hive of jealous, unhappy women wanting to tear other women down.

When I gave birth back in Feb I joined Mumsnet as a place i thought I could get advice from other Mums

We were put in lockdown not long after I gave birth, my fella was working 12 hour days so if I had a problem I'd ask Mumsnet. I'm only 25, first baby, tired, just needing a bit of advice. I'd just ask about naps and his sleep etc really

Then one day I had a massive argument with my Mum over a footie shirt. Long story short- my Mum supports Liverpool, so do I, my fella supports Man United. Im not bothered about footie though and for my fellas first Fathers day I wanted to get him and the baby a matching top each. It werent really a present for the baby more for my fella. We had both even said to each other he can decide what team he likes when hes older, if he even likes football. So my Mum had a proper meltdown and told me she doesn't want to speak to me or the baby again if I got the shirt.

Anyway, I was upset after the argument and just wanted to vent. So I went on the "am I being unreasonable..." section.
Fuck me... I got some HORRIBLE answers. Telling me im council estate trash for wanting to get a football son for my child. Telling me I was after a story in the DM??? Telling me I shouldn't force a football team on my kid
Just basically ripping me a new arsehole for wanting to just do something nice for my fella
And other people were just calling me a liar. Saying I had made the entire thing up!?

Ok...

Anyway it all ended up in me getting BANNED. I emailed them curious as to why, my response was that an Admin had read my thread and she thought it 'didn't sound true' ok then

Foul place, glad I found Tattle

This is so sad but I can only imagine the judgement you'd get.

I did post on MN about lock down and getting married. We've had to postpone 3 times, there are much worse things going on in the world. However I wanted to get objective yes/no about my wedding going ahead next year as I'm going to have to once again postpone/cancel/do some admin
The shit I got in response has really really upset me. Telling me to get married asap which I said legally we did this year with 2 guests and it was a celebration as I've been very unwell, finally out of hospital. After disclosing that I got legally married
I got a barrage of crap from multiple responses telling me I was weird and completely out of order for wanting my original wedding and if they were a guest they wouldn't come to my wedding as it was an "anticlimax". I was shocked because seriously friends and family just want a happy celebration and the pandemic has made life pretty strange. Lost of responses putting me in my place and telling me off and also fucking virtue signaling saying how expensive their wedding was so don't bother so they get their wedding but I'm not allowed to
I only went on to ask if ppl thought the wedding would go ahead instead I was torn apart because I got legally married.
I can't face looking at all the responses but it feels like a real mean girl culture.

 

[Rxt156]

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

 

[Gym&Tonic]

That thread was an eye opener, if you never thought there was hierarchy on MN surely that changed your perspective? Some posters even claimed that it couldn’t have been AF and someone must have stolen her name

 

[Pinkii]

I would hate to have any of the posters as my parents, they are all so stingy and can’t wait to get rid of their kids at 18, apparently the day they turn 18 they are a full grown adult and should be paying for a mortage

 

[BeautifulTrauma]

I came here from Mumsnet.

After yet another thread on Jack Monroe was delete, yet thousands of horrid comments about Meghan and Harry are allowed to stay, I found out about Tattle after a random posted PM’d me about Jack and said to come here.

AIBU is an absolute cesspit. If you get your child more than an orange and a piece of coal for Christmas or birthdays you are grabby. If your husband swears in a queue of traffic you should LTB. If your child is a month slower than the national average in speaking they should be checked for autism. I used to see users like Bluntness100 and WeBuiltThisCityOnASausageRoll treated like royalty when in actual fact they were vile to people.
Posters in that forum think it’s acceptable to be vile to the OP because they don’t agree with them, a couple of times I’ve replied and called them all out on it, and surprisingly the abuse stopped when they take a step back and realise someone is on the end of it.

Well rid of Mumsnet TBH. I don’t miss it and it’s getting even worse, everything about it is backward. Forum design is 1980’s, moderation is backward deleting the posts that should be fine and allowing vile ones to stay, and posters who are horrid not being banned. It’s had it’s day.

 

[OtherMoon]

Not sure if she’s been mentioned on this thread but does anyone else remember LaQueen? The biggest bragger and snob known to mankind!

Ah yes I'm sure it was her that posted about her husband accidentally forgetting where he parked one of their Mercs for months. she was oh so cross. So many syscophants crowing that it was a MN classic.

 

[Lucille]

Mumsnet has had its day. It's full of trolls now. The worst thing to come out of it is that Reddit sub MNTrolls. A pack of nasty PBP trolls with bitterness oozing out of every pore.

 

[RedMagnolia]

A truly posh person wouldn't need to work out whether they were posh. There's an awful lot of posters claiming to have been privately educated and have RP accents. Bless them. Showing off is never classy.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

In the style and beauty section everyone seems OBSESSED with Seasalt. I'd never heard of it till Mumsnet, checked out the site and the clothes are the most banal, insipid, mumsy boring clothes you could imagine. Yet they all rave about it?

That, Mint Velvet and Uniqlo. MN is frumpsville basically.

 

[Chateau Marmont]

The AIBU to think Mumsnet isn’t any better than Tattle Life one!! Ohhhh the irony.

From what I've seen people on Tattle are so much nicer. I would never post on Mumnset. Not only do they ignore anyone not in the clique, they are just vicious all the time for no reason.

 

[SpindleWhorl]

Urgh the amount of obvious troll parking threads at the minute are ridiculous.. I don’t know why people still fall for it So gullible.

Were they all "settling in with popcorn"? I can see why trolls have started doing parking threads. Guaranteed to run at least 10 pages and provide entertainment all evening

 

[Belulah]

Ah yes I'm sure it was her that posted about her husband accidentally forgetting where he parked one of their Mercs for months. she was oh so cross. So many syscophants crowing that it was a MN classic.

Not sure why she felt the need to post about that, happens to me all the time!
seriously the “humble” brags on there are unreal!

 

[FrannyGallops]

I just think they hate men on there.
No matter what the thread is about the man is always the problem. He's definately cheating even if it's nothing to do with that at all, and he's definately abusive whatever is happening.
They think all men are abusers. It's the answer on most threads.
Yet if a woman is even admitting being abusive they still blame the man and say its his fault. If its a woman cheating then it's his fault somehow as well.
Its bizarre.

Interestingly, there’s been a couple of threads on there from the reverse in the past week. A woman grabbed her partner and pulled him off the sofa, then slapped his face and everyone was in support of her, saying they would have done the same and it’s ‘different’ when women do it to men. I’m as feminist as they come (and I probably do hate men lol) but violence is violence and inexcusable from both sides, imo. Then there’s a thread running at the moment where the OP is finding her partner repulsive because he’s put weight on over lockdown and is trying to get him to diet and posters are telling her it’s ok, it’s all about his ‘health’ and it’s fine if she finds him totally disgusting these days. Just imagine what the replies would have been if it had been a man posting about how his wife was now a fat mess. There would be uproar.

 

[Yel]

Opening to ask can anyone open this ODS file and see how much mumsnet limited claimed?

It seems to crash excel and google sheets for me although it's "only" 25mb, but I guess that's larger than most spreadsheets

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/991201/list_to_publish_DEC2020_to_MAR2021.ods

Edit, it finally opened after hanging for 15 mins.

Looks like they stopped claiming in Dec last year, probably because they knew it would become public. Shocking that they claimed for so long for their online buisness as it would have only been slightly affected in the first few weeks of covid before going back to normal and they begged for £5 a month from their millions of members.

 

[EleanorRigby]

Has anyone seen that thread where the OP is saying her ex boyfriend has been accused of rape? Bloody hell there’s so many posters on there who are stating incorrect facts about police procedures like it’s the truth, it really gets my goat because they are so confident about it and it could influence what the OP does. One of the most vocal as per usual is someone who is on every thread and always shooting her gob off about stuff she knows nothing about.

One of the many reasons I stopped posting on Mumsnet was gobshites telling me I was speaking shite when I was giving (free) advice in my professional field. You know, the one I'm qualified and experienced in? And actually know what I'm talking about?