The Patients Are Running the Asylum....

I have a theory that every forum that deals with certain subjects that are touchy or have them incorporated end up with a bunch of loons or just generally sensitive or insensitive people. Add that to the lack of tone/inflection and you have a recipe for a headache.

They're coming to take me away, ha ha!
They're coming to take me away, ha ha, ho ho, he he
To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats
And they're coming to take me away HA HA!!!

BWHAHAH! I thought the same thing.

Funny you mention bananas..... that flat belly diet is flashing all over my screen and flashing bananas at me!!!!




BANANAAAAS!!!! AHHHH THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!!!

I have a theory that every forum that deals with certain subjects that are touchy or have them incorporated end up with a bunch of loons or just generally sensitive or insensitive people. Add that to the lack of tone/inflection and you have a recipe for a headache.

Publish that theory and I think you'll be rich!

I probably would. Common sense in book form tends to be popular.

I'm doing "THE ASYLUM" workout programme at the moment, does that count??? LOL Yes, I have mental issues that I deal with daily but these other people make ME feel normal and that is defo saying something!!!

No. This is business as usual, and the usual business here is really tame compared to the rest of the web.

If you really want to see forum brutality I suggest you check out Baby Center. Seriously.

MFP is about as hearts and flowers as you'll find. If you think it's rough here I suggest a thicker skin and some perspective.

:flowerforyou:

Try CafeMom. HOLY SHIZ, moms are brutal to each other.

Both of these. And don't dare mention circumcision

But, but...I'm a youngster

....Old people ruined MySpace

Bwahhhh?

No. This is business as usual, and the usual business here is really tame compared to the rest of the web.

If you really want to see forum brutality I suggest you check out Baby Center. Seriously.

MFP is about as hearts and flowers as you'll find. If you think it's rough here I suggest a thicker skin and some perspective.

:flowerforyou:

Try CafeMom. HOLY SHIZ, moms are brutal to each other.

Not to sound sexist to my own gender, but places like that and a relationship forum I used to frequent heavily that tend to have more or exclusively female members tend to get a lot nastier. Lot of guys can shrug off stuff or know not to get in the middle of something, but plenty of women don't or just don't care. It's places where you're generally supposed to get in someone's business a little bit (such as here with what we eat/how much we eat) and the opportunity of voicing an opinion knowing it's a generally accepted thing to do that you find people willing to abuse the anonymity of the internet regardless of what the topic's really about. Case in point, I was given a 10 day ban from the aforementioned forum because the owner/admin (a woman) thought I had told her boyfriend to shut up when we were discussing a fight that had broken out and I mentioned some of the people needed to shut up before they posted because they weren't obviously reading what they were replying to.

It happens, which is generally why I try to avoid them, though sometimes I'm just as dumb and try to be the voice of reason or I just call someone dumb for being dumb.

I'm not gonna lie...
I've only been here about... 2 weeks tops, and this is by far the most immature forum I've ever seen.

We have people in their 30s and 40s acting like teenagers.
And extremely close-minded people.
There is WAY too much fighting and complaining going on here.
It's as bad as YouTube.

In fact, I'm only writing this in the hopes that I don't have to write it again.

And you know what is really bad (at least in my eyes)?
People will give their opinion , and if it's not popular with a reader, they will flame them about their food diary.

Such silliness.