If Radio 1 do play that wretched song.....

If we never smiled again each time someone in this world dies through man's cruelty or neglect, we would never smile again. Do you really think that no one has died in Africa, Syria, and the like, in the last twentyfour hours. I'm not seeking to diminish the tragedy of what has happened in Boston. I feel it deeply. But we have to survive.

I don't want to have an argument with anyone over this, but I have to defend myself when it comes to my morals being called into question.

Tegan that is a lie. And an insult.

C'mon; the remark was in extremely bad taste at this moment in time. And the poster was aware of that even when posting.

Sel How dare you accuse me of scoring points?

There is nothing innocuous in a remark – a joke apparently – about someone being blown up, particularly so when people have just been blown up. The so-called joke is tasteless and contemptible, not my comment.

If people look hard enough I'm sure they could find something that would offend someone in the most innocuous remark. Don't let it get to you jo8

Thank you Sel.

Just ignore it j08. Using a tragedy to score points is quite contemptible

It's just not worth being on here. There is always someone ready to put the boot in.

Sad.

That remark was beyond contempt.

Everyone has compartments in this their daily thinking. We would go mad otherwise.

Oh, don't. That's a horrible remark to make.

Disgusted now!

In the light of recent events in Boston it wasn't particularly funny.

Absent that was a joke!

I'd better add a to that. In case he gets blown up tomorrow.

(Wasn't me Guv)

Oh!!!!!

Where does he live?

He is the chap who started the campaign to promote the song "Ding Dong"

I joined MN after I joined GN and have a completely different name. I don't go there very often and post extremely rarely.

jingle I kept my MN name when GN started.

This thread has the here we go again feel about it.

Who Mark Biddiss is – I was already having trouble with the number of is's.

I don't know Mark Biddiss is or what he did? Should I care?

I think it is a bit rich for Mark Biddiss to complain of "vile abuse " on the internet .
What he did , IMO was "Vile"

That's odd Marmadoit. I'm sure I started off on here with my Mumsnet name - jangly. (Not that it matters at all! )

I do sometimes wonder if I am talking to someone on here that I have talked to before on MN, but with a different name now! Perhaps we should all state our previous MN incarnations if we have one. (not really)

This has become like the classic definition of an argument, which is a sweeping statement, followed by a direct contradiction, followed by personal abuse, and followed by physical violence.

Thank god the physical violence is not possible online, or a lot of people would be sporting scratched eyes and torn hair.

It has been established that some people think that other people appear to prescribe what can be said on these threads, and other people think that some people go too far in their attacks. Could we talk about something different now, please?

There are a lot of new members joining at the moment and they will not be encouraged to post when they see the amount of flak that flies around. Neither will some established members.

I think she should apologise too. It really isn't on to keep making unspecific complaints and saying "you know who you are".

No.

You have to say who you mean if you want to complain about someone. I daresay you don't want to do that, so please stop saying vague accusatory stuff like that. It's horrible; it's unkind; it troubles even innocent people; it's akin to bullying.

And, god knows, you of all people have complained enough about bullying!