Troll/s at work on Mumsnet

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What just happened? I was reading the post above from HQ when my screen went black and a message popped up saying BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

Has this happened to anyone else or am I having a funny turn?

The power and influence of trolls

Why s my message been removed ? I didn’t speculate, I wrote what had happened

I didn’t speculate either, I expressed ???!

Oh rats! I've been hanging about on here all day, turned my back for a minute and something's happened . Isn't that always the way?

Quokka

What just happened? I was reading the post above from HQ when my screen went black and a message popped up saying BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

Has this happened to anyone else or am I having a funny turn?

My phone line keeps cutting off if I talk about politics or the Royal family. It's either that or my Mother is lying about putting the phone down on me

Indeed ixion.

Quokka you may have a virus

ixion

The power and influence of trolls

I have some of those in the attic, DD used to collect them ?
Are they dangerous?

I used to have one stuck on the end of my pencil Callistemon, perhaps that explains my exam results.

Thank you I finally understand what a troll is . It's someone with a pencil up their bottom.?

my brother, a grown-up, previous rocker, motorbikes etc, used to collect trolls.
i asked him why. he said, it's company isn't it.
i thought they were hideous.
those pictures above reminded me. he had loads.

They are hideous.

DD loved them when she was quite young!

Whiff

Thank you I finally understand what a troll is . It's someone with a pencil up their bottom.?

That's the beauty of the virtual world Whiff.
You can stick pencils up their bottoms to your heart's content - and feel all the better for it!

I’ve got one with ginger coloured hair on a shelf. My little bit of Norway, he’s lovely. We used to read the Billy Goats Gruff to our children and the troll under the bridge always fascinated them. Just when you least expect it- there they are.

Have to say, as an aside, mumsnet sounds deeply horrid, I won’t be going there.

It’s not really - it’s just different. You do get some improbable threads, but the sheer size and scale of MN means that posters are anonymous even as user names, if that makes sense. This means that people are less likely to irritate one another on a personal level so individuals don’t get targeted as they can on here.

Some of the more ‘imaginative’ threads are hilarious. One of my favourites was when someone asked how to make her home welcoming to visitors and got told to hide the tv, make the house smell of bleach and offer hot towels to guests on arrival (amongst other things - the thread ran for many pages of bonkers suggestions). It was funnier than it sounds, honestly .

I agree it's not horrid, there are less likely to be individual arguments than on GN, and it is often very funny.

That’s the gist of a troll Whiff.

I agree, nanna8 it’s not really horrid at all. It’s very easy to ignore the nasty stuff, unlike here, where you have to put the effort in to avoid it.
My favourite thread was the one about ugly house plants.
It’s in Classics.
MN is a good read, whereas here is good for a chat.