"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.
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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.
And my favourite: "Man here"
OH THANK GOD, please regale and humble us with your intellect
I HATE that, I imagine a booming voice announcing the plebs must stand down.
oh god the teacher threads!! Thou must bow down. No other profession works as hard.
God help you if you admit to being a doctor's receptionist, they are the rudest people on this planet! I really quite like mine, they are all lovely.
Yes the teacher threads! Unbelievable levels of martyr syndrome and smugness. There was a thread a few weeks ago where someone had said school might reopen at the end of August and cue the outrage from 'exhausted and mentally drained front line key workers teachers ' currently working from home and appalled that they might have to give up their current 10 week holiday. Teachers and doctors are the smuggest of the smug on mn. That is of course until the dadsnet crew turn up, tearing themselves away from the sex board.
The worst threads though are the education ones. Everyone's kid is expected 10 x level 9, Oxford knocking at the door, work experience with surgeons in 6 different countries and ask whilst volunteering with the poor and studying for 4 extra subjects. The most unbelievable aspect of Justine's plan of course is that she wants to charge users for their own content!
The worst threads though are the education ones. Everyone's kid is expected 10 x level 9, Oxford knocking at the door, work experience with surgeons in 6 different countries and ask whilst volunteering with the poor and studying for 4 extra subjects. The most unbelievable aspect of Justine's plan of course is that she wants to charge users for their own content!
I could just launch mums.life in half an hour, it would be far far better than Mumsnet and just need people to move over. Not sure if it's worth saving though 
I joined mn years ago
was very happy at the time with it-a few oddballs but some women can be bitchy so just ignored them-others where wonderful and supportive
then-I posted about how the hell i was meant to get out of dv
well!thatopened a few floodgates-I was 100% honest and was crying out for advice and help
i did get a few nice answers but 90% where bitchy kick-you-while your-down comments
i managed to get my head down at a friends house that night-woke up and checked my thread
it had not only been deleted and a ‘we’re taking a look behind the scenes’ message but I also found my account had been deleted and I was blocked for ‘trolling’
i didn’t even get an email to check I was ok
i was 100% genuine and if I’d been a weaker person that could have tipped me over the edge
i joined tattle a week later
so Justine-if your reading this-I would have been happy a year ago to pay
now however I wouldn’t use your site to wipe my arse on-I hope you fold and you sink with it
was very happy at the time with it-a few oddballs but some women can be bitchy so just ignored them-others where wonderful and supportive
then-I posted about how the hell i was meant to get out of dv
well!thatopened a few floodgates-I was 100% honest and was crying out for advice and help
i did get a few nice answers but 90% where bitchy kick-you-while your-down comments
i managed to get my head down at a friends house that night-woke up and checked my thread
it had not only been deleted and a ‘we’re taking a look behind the scenes’ message but I also found my account had been deleted and I was blocked for ‘trolling’
i didn’t even get an email to check I was ok
i was 100% genuine and if I’d been a weaker person that could have tipped me over the edge
i joined tattle a week later
so Justine-if your reading this-I would have been happy a year ago to pay
now however I wouldn’t use your site to wipe my arse on-I hope you fold and you sink with it
We used to have a battleaxe one.
A few years ago my husband was having a heart attack at the check in desk in the surgery and she told me I should ring 999 for chest pains!
Thankfully she’s not there anymore.
But afterwards polite, little me thanked the doc, nurses and useless receptionist for all their help. I think the shock made me include her when really I should have complained.
Lovely ones now, though.
Going by the quality of posts, trolling, viciousness and cliques I'd say not at the moment but it might be worth nabbing the domain for the futureI could just launch mums.life in half an hour, it would be far far better than Mumsnet and just need people to move over. Not sure if it's worth saving though
Apparently JR has sent out an email asking for people to pay for a subscription. I guess the post she put up didn't yield the results she was hoping for. I don't have sight of the email as I deleted my account yesterday.
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My favourite thing about Mumsnet is how any life choice anyone seems to make, regardless of how big or small, is followed by a post telling them it will invalidate their home insurance.
I think the major problem is there are so many trolls on the site the people genuinely asking for advice either get lost in the system or are treated as a troll. @Itsallaboutmememe's post above is example of how dreadfully the powers that be treat people.
I also find the AIBU thread fascinating. People get such terrible responses on there, responses can be horrifically argumentative but then people ask for advice about some really ridiculous things.
My favourite is when some says something like, ‘I was in a queue in Lidl with my huge trolley of shopping and a chap asked to go in front if me of me because he only had a bottle of wine. I said no, he can queue like the rest of us.’ AIBU.
The thread then descends into a baffling argument of no you weren’t being unreasonable, he is clearly a raging alcoholic and he shouldn’t have been allowed to buy the wine as he was so desperate to pay for it that he couldn’t wait, did he open it and get a straw out. V It takes me three hours to pay for my shopping in Lidl because I let everyone with less items go in front of me.
Oh boy, Mumsnet. I joined when I was pregnant, many years ago. It was (or felt like) a lovely supportive place back then although that may just have been the threads I was on.
I think it started going downhill when they introduced AIBU and has continued on a downward trajectory ever since. How they have the nerve to ask for subscriptions I do not know.
I think it started going downhill when they introduced AIBU and has continued on a downward trajectory ever since. How they have the nerve to ask for subscriptions I do not know.
It is a tit 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.
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.
I used to read the Daily Mail online (another hotbed of nastiness imo) and they would often run articles on questions posed on MN. I’m not on MN but I got the vibe that they trawled it to find questions that were quite ‘out there’ and wrote about it. Now if even 10% of the people who read about it on DM were inclined to troll, there would be nothing to stop them signing up and contributing to what’s been described in this thread
I have registered, I still post on mumsnet and in all honesty, can’t get that het up about Justine trying her luck but the moderation is bound to be better.
There are a few well know and loved posters on there that troll and seem to get away with it.
There are a few well know and loved posters on there that troll and seem to get away with it.
Some of the posters are treated like royalty despite being really nasty pieces of work. All posters are equal but some are more equal than others.
Another thing that pissed me off is some threads/forums are completely closed to new posters. They treat it like a private member's club and either ignore you or bully you until you go away. It's horrible and allowed to happen by the so-called mods.
Whereas whenever a new poster joins a thread here I've only seen lovely, welcoming messages, apart from when the new poster is obviously only joining to troll us.
I used to be a regular contributor to MN and gave a lot of my specialist knowledge gratis. No longer after Justine's begging email, though. Not paying when I provided your content, you numpty.
This link isn't working for meHonestly I'm disgusted at Justine and the mismanagement of Mumsnet for years and it rounds it off the begging email. I'm starting something to do everything it should be doing. Who knows if it will take off. But at least I tried. There's no need to ask people for £50 when you've been making millions a year. It's fleecing lots of people that cant afford it.
Does this link work for anyone here? Please do signup if it does!
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