Mumsnet thread MMXX

[pancreas]

Previous thread here:

https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=56859.0

So much has changed. Only 4 years ago, the likes of shiftwork2 was opining:

You can have quite a good read on Mumsnet.  Assumed it would have been full of gasbag horrors talking about how much brighter their child is than other children, how the Boden catalogue isn't what it was and using phrases like 'wine 'o' clock'.  Eye-opener.

and amnesiac was extolling

I used Mumsnet to get some absolutely stunning advice on how to get rid of the smell in my washing machine. Top, top burds there.

and imitationleather was wondering

Surely a 12 year old can buy their own vibrator with their prepaid VISA card.

And now, it's 'Prosecco Stormfront', 'Faschbook', 'Twimmler', 'Arbeit Macht Freibo'.

So what changed? Obviously the transphobia, but is that it? Does it remain a great place to get advice on ... I dunno ... defrosting?

[Sebastian Cobb]

I imagine the bits outside of am I being unreasonable are more reasonable and less funny.

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

All the mums are going on about their rasmus lengths again then, are they?

[Marner and Me]

Any fucking MILF action on there?

[pancreas]

I was rather hoping someone might have some up to date anecdotes.

[Rainbow Moses]

Seems much the same as it was. I don't think the problem is so much what's changed at their end.

[Pijlstaart]

Mummy is a nazi, hard bedtimes mummy nazi. Operation Ikarus, that's why mums go to Iceland! Kein Pfefferschwein, nur mumienwein!

[Jittlebags]

Are they still doing threads about post coitus douche receptacles ?

[Ferris]

Been a long-standing poster on there for years, great forum.

[holyzombiejesus]

Their sex forum can be quite funny/ bizzare/ frightening.  How sleazy is 'anotherblokelurking'?

https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/sex/3945778-MMF-so-many-questions

There's another thread where a woman complains that when she kissed her ex, she could never feel his hard on through his "trackies".

[flotemysost]

Also from the sex forum

Just testing the waters too see if anyone else has had the snake dreams, so I dreamt I took a pregnancy test & it came back positive but then a small red baby snake with tiny bits of white popped out my belly & I'm sure I killed it as I was scared. Does anyone know the meaning too this?

[holyzombiejesus]

As is this

My DP has the perfect penis for me (and I've had quite a lot). We were chatting about this the other day and I said it would be great to have a dildo which was a copy of his so I cut put it in my arse while we have PIV.

[bgmnts]

Brilliant!

What is DP and what is PIV?

It was a two on one blow job treat in return for me going to the shops early Sunday morning for milk and fags!

[holyzombiejesus]

Dear partner and penis in vagina.

[flotemysost]

Brilliant!

What is DP and what is PIV?

PIV I believe stands for 'penis in vagina' (specifically as opposed to anal or oral or some other type of sex).

DP I'm guessing in this case could mean 'Dear Partner', as DH is quite well documented as Mumsnet speak for 'Dear Husband/Hubby'.

(I'm not a poster there, just read about it enough over the years, and seen the term PIV used on sexual wellness type sites)

Edit: ah nevermind

It was a two on one blow job treat in return for me going to the shops early Sunday morning for milk and fags!

Yeah, that bit made me suspect that poster might be a self-published Kindle author himself.

[touchingcloth]

And now, it's 'Prosecco Stormfront', 'Faschbook', 'Twimmler', 'Arbeit Macht Freibo'.

So what changed? Obviously the transphobia, but is that it? Does it remain a great place to get advice on ... I dunno ... defrosting?

I don't think you can easily characterise Mumsnet as one thing. Even this place isn't a hive mind and there's fifty of us, but that place is enormous - instead of Milvertons, they've got subfora of Milvertons.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I have no idea if that's true but an army of Express-reading Julia Hartley-Brewer agreers is terrifying at a conceptual level.

[Ferris]

I have no idea if that's true but an army of Express-reading Julia Hartley-Brewer agreers is terrifying at a conceptual level.

...but enough about CaB!

[Flouncer]

I don't think you can easily characterise Mumsnet as one thing. Even this place isn't a hive mind and there's fifty of us, but that place is enormous - instead of Milvertons, they've got subfora of Milvertons.

MILFvertons, surely?

[Fambo Number Mive]

Dear partner and penis in vagina.

Unusual way to begin writing a letter

[Barry Admin]

:-D

[touchingcloth]

PIV I believe stands for 'penis in vagina' (specifically as opposed to anal or oral or some other type of sex).

DP I'm guessing in this case could mean 'Dear Partner', as DH is quite well documented as Mumsnet speak for 'Dear Husband/Hubby'.

I haven't looked on the site for ages, but I remember (like others have mentioned) assuming the site was going to be a tweefest, then seeing people using all of that Darling Twins bullshit and having my suspicions confirmed, and then the cognitive dissonance of seeing posters litter their writing with acronyms but otherwise using borderline CaB ribaldry and no other hint of twee. It's linguistically and anthropologically interesting to me too see something like Dear Partner which on face value is shit as fuck but which was birthed this Millennium[nb]Probably. I don't know, I haven't researched this post, you idiot.[/nb] but already its actual usage has become divorced from its original meaning. To my mind it's now a genuine shorthand way of saying "partner", which you can contrast with other acronyms of a similar vintage like "LOL" which I would say give you a small hint about a person's personality if they choose to use it in their writing.

[idunnosomename]

is it wine o clock yet

[touchingcloth]

DS and DD have been a nightmare today, mummy needs a ginterval.

[dissolute ocelot]

The authoritative Twitter https://twitter.com/mumsnet_madness seems to have recently woken from a gin-induced stupor; I'm not sure if the crazies are waking up again too.

[Cuellar]

In the Glinner thread (I think) someone posted a link to their thread about Stephen King, which went from tentative excitement that STEPHEN KING!!! might be all TERFy, to giddy elation that YES!! AND HE WON'T BACK DOWN!! TRY AND CANCEL STEPHEN FUCKING KING YOU WOKE IDIOTS!!!, only to turn on a dime to NEVER LIKED THE CUNT ANYWAY when he clarifies that no, he is not all TERFy after all.

I can't find the link now but it was good, trust me.

[touchingcloth]

In the Glinner thread (I think) someone posted a link to their thread about Stephen King, which went from tentative excitement that STEPHEN KING!!! might be all TERFy, to giddy elation that YES!! AND HE WON'T BACK DOWN!! TRY AND CANCEL STEPHEN FUCKING KING YOU WOKE IDIOTS!!!, only to turn on a dime to NEVER LIKED THE CUNT ANYWAY when he clarifies that no, he is not all TERFy after all.

I can't find the link now but it was good, trust me.

Not Mumsnet, Rowling:

It was a fucking brilliant moment, she was absolutely scundered. Linehan had been spunking all over the place on his silly Twitter clone vanity project too:

[Barry Admin]

This is what Cuellar is referencing: https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3952448-Stephen-King-retweets-JKR

Reactions to him "dropping the TWAW bomb" start on page 3.

[touchingcloth]

Not Rowling, Mumsnet. As you were.

[Sebastian Cobb]

The authoritative Twitter https://twitter.com/mumsnet_madness seems to have recently woken from a gin-induced stupor; I'm not sure if the crazies are waking up again too.

Lol the one blowing the lid on the big Irish entertainment conspiracy.