Being mugged off

I don't understand what you mean by 'mugged off', obieone. What is it?

'Mugged off' is not a term I am familiar with Obieone
Do you mean they are being duped ??

Me neither. Never had that turn of phrase. Please explain!

I only looked at this thread because I wondered what it meant to be mugged off.
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mugging+off
To answer your question OP I have never experienced being mugged off myself, nor noticed it happening to anyone else, so I don't know and don't care.

Gransnet can get quite perplexing. Shrug!

Well you live and learn, I had never encountered the expression.

On another website it said this means 'being taken advantage of'. Could be quite worrying on a forum I suppose.

New one to me.

I understood you obieone. Who are these people being taken advantage by?

They are being taken advantage of[not in a monetary way, and they are not particularly elderly] by others in the group. By someone who is acting on their behalf.
He is not doing it for money, he is doing it for control. Amd maybe power.

If you google the expression mugged off, it comes up precisely what I mean.

Just tell us what it means please rather than us all having to Google it!

There is a link above and the op has stated in the last post that it means 'being taken advantage of" mumof
Not an expression I was familiar with either, but I worked it out.

Definition, copied and pasted
To be mugged off means that you are being made a fool of by someone taking advantage of you. There are two different meaning to the word mug that comes into context with you use this phrase. to mug someone, is take something from someone by use of force. So in this context taking someone of their respect/street cred.

I understand the definition, what I can't understand is how it can work on a forum or group if as you say they are aware of it.
We would need the whole story to understand and obviously you are not going to give us that. Neither would we expect you too.

It is nothing to do with a forum, but to do with a voluntary group where someone is not reporting or misreporting things to Head Office.
I have noticed it going on for a while and told the others. They have been somewhat buring their heads in the sand, but are now becoming slowly more vocal.

Why are you mentioning it on here then if it isn't relevant to this forum ? If you want advice it is hard to see what people here can say when they are not in possession of the facts

Ok, I give up on this thread.
I was really talking in general.

Obieone I understood what you mean. I, like you, don't understand them either.

I feel I've been mugged off on this thread

From the urban slang link it seems to me like being "palmed off" with lies and excuses. Which is what politicians do (among others.)

Where are these other forums people go on? GN is the only one in my life. Thank the Lord.

I did go in a chat room once but nobody said much.

I don't chuckle often but that post from jing made me. It was so ???

Ah! Being fobbed off! I've never heard of mugged off before but the reference to the Urban Dictionary quoted by some other member here helped me know what it means.

It's down to the individual, isn't it? Some people are kind, approachable and helpful. Others like to take and not give, so fobbing you off may be a way of getting out of having to put some effort into it, when you're so used to taking.

I really cant see the point in being difficult or stand-offish but, unfortunately, some people can.