Mumsnet #8 Give us a diagram, you CF.
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Ratherbeskiing
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Me! I do post on there, but I tend to roll my eyes and stay away from commenting on the batshit threads (though they're entertaining). I'm a regular on a couple of long running threads and one particular board which are no-drama.
I'm perfectly normal I assure you, and to be fair, I think Tattle is excellent, so please let me stay.
I'm perfectly normal I assure you, and to be fair, I think Tattle is excellent, so please let me stay.
Tangent Tiger
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Did you lose your phone? No recourse with PMs?
MediumLoad
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We hadn't really spoken on MN so I couldn't remember what they called themselves.
The email I had for them was the one they'd used on the old site and they never answered me so I assumed thay'd stopped using it when they'd left the site.
Perhaps they saw it as an opportunity to ghost me.
My phone died and took my address book with it. Once I got a new phone, I spent the next couple of weeks asking each text and caller "Are you X?"
I wish them well anyway.
Axatogrind
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When I was facing a particular challenge with one of my children (health related), my own mother suggested I post on Mumsnet. My reply was along the lines of "you must be bloody joking!"
It's never been mentioned again
It's never been mentioned again
WeHadFunRight
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Sounds similar to how much do you have saved for childcare or whatever posts where people explain they’re sitting on absolutely ginormous mountains of cash that they’ve carefully put aside for when they start their family… but find it necessary to post on Mumsnet “is 175k enough? DH and I worried sick, it’s taken us 6 months to save” - I ffound these posts utterly depressing since I never considered how bloody expensive kids are before it was too late - and I’d spent my money on Adults Only holidays which I found boring once I was on them anyway
still, you live and learn..
raspberryjuice
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I’m confused by some of their maths
“we pay £3k a month but will have paid off the remaining £100k+ in a year” 
Aussie
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Though they are all full of tit & wouldn't have saved anything!Sounds similar to how much do you have saved for childcare or whatever posts where people explain they’re sitting on absolutely ginormous mountains of cash that they’ve carefully put aside for when they start their family… but find it necessary to post on Mumsnet “is 175k enough? DH and I worried sick, it’s taken us 6 months to save” - I ffound these posts utterly depressing since I never considered how bloody expensive kids are before it was too late - and I’d spent my money on Adults Only holidays which I found boring once I was on them anyway
EffingDust
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yeah I do, though I don’t know her account.
total balloon knot, wouldn’t have anything to do with her if she wasn’t married to someone I’m related to.
exhibits a lot of the typical MN phrases, but it’s all show, e.g. she’ll be all wide eyed like “what’s a Big Mac / I couldn’t possible eat breakfast every day, so many calories / we don’t buy chocolate on our house” but she is also really really fat. (I’m not Naomi Campbell but this girl is big).
She makes a huge show of not working full time so she can be wife and mother and that women “shouldn’t try to have it all” but her house is filthy, her kids are filthy with that kind of ingrained weeks-worth of dirt in skin creases, and she spends as much time as possible avoiding parenting by being on her phone, reading or going out with her equally scabby friends.
one time she fell out with one of her mates over some inane nonsense and tried to do a malicious social services report about her
PrincessCharming
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I’m confused by some of their maths
Yes, I thought the same last night when I saw that thread. You need a calculator to hand in order to tell plausible money lies, it seems!
Pebbleybeach
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Wedding ones are my favourites. People seem to lose all sense of reality
Here's a "helpful" scripted message today for someone who hasn't received an invitation to a wedding in their friendship group.
Imagine advising someone to say they're "totally rocking the cool and mature attitude" to being left out
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melonpane
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Call me cynical but such thread titles harvest a LOT of views and traction. My guess is that MN start them or friends of MN (press).
Aussie
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Good point!
justheretoread99
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Thread about “which city break did you NOT enjoy” and the boasters are out in force. “Oh I hated Dublin and Warsaw but absolutely LOVED Monte Carlo and (not a city) Maldives 
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Nobody asked about all the extravagant places you loved we wanna know what you hated!!
“Nobody asked about all the extravagant places you loved we wanna know what you hated!!
This thread made me laugh, the OP asked for whats ‘in’ atm and someone suggest sketchers
Also any threads on trainers you get the ‘veja is soOoO over’ and no one over 30 wears them yet the same ones bang on about the dead stan smith trainers they all love which again is not worn by anyone under 30!
nicalibres
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My stan smiths are about 6 years old and are now my take the rubbish out trainersThis thread made me laugh, the OP asked for whats ‘in’ atm and someone suggest sketchers
Also any threads on trainers you get the ‘veja is soOoO over’ and no one over 30 wears them yet the same ones bang on about the dead stan smith trainers they all love which again is not worn by anyone under 30!
. Don’t get me wrong, I’m defo not a slave to trends but it’s the way they really think they know what’s ‘in’.Another thing that irritates me on there is the SAHP/working parent debate because you literally can't win. SAHP and you are betraying feminism and ensuring that when your DH inevitably leaves you for another woman that you will have no money and no skills. Working parent and you are leaving your poor neglected DC to be brought up by a nursery.
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