How PistonHeads became a male version of Mumsnet

How PistonHeads became a male version of Mumsnet

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trashbat

6,005 posts

152 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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Pretty well mannered my arse.

tts.

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

210 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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LordGrover said:
Do you spend much time there, d_m_n?
I have read a few of their posts from time to time. I've asked the odd serious question and had a fair smattering of replies from very helpful to angry and spiteful. Takes all sorts.

LordGrover

33,532 posts

211 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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Are childless men allowed? YouTube

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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lukefreeman said:
Do Mumsnet have threads on there made about PH?
Yes. Often, because someone on here has gone on there, then started a thread taking the piss out of it. Other times, there's been active trolling by some people on here over there.

I think mumsnet is remarkably similar to here - just a place for people to come and divert from day to day reality / fill time / be bitter online. They have the "LTB" team in Relationships, we have Blindswelledrat on any topic regarding humour. They have penis beaker lady; we have council baby and Matt777. IMO PH just has a 1 sided view on MN because of the "relationships" sub forum - I'm sure if people judged PH on just the Watches forum they'd think every PHer was some mental snob; SP+L only would look very argumentative. The Lounge? Bipolar at least.

Oh, and if you do go across to Mumsnet for kid advice, remember the medical advice there is as completely baseless as much of the advice in SP+L - i.e completely wrong!

DanielSan

18,748 posts

166 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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218,000 posts in the food forum, of which 217,546 are Gallardoguy posting pictures of his epic takeaways hehe

KarlMac

4,457 posts

140 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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DanielSan said:
218,000 posts in the food forum, of which 217,546 are Gallardoguy posting pictures of his epic takeaways hehe
Thats a pretty conservative estimate laugh

Sheets Tabuer

18,900 posts

214 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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At least it wasn't in the sun, could you imagine the influx of van drivers.

djfaulkner

1,103 posts

217 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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marshalla said:
Don't click the link!

It looks like the telegraph site has just been hacked by someone claiming to be "The Syrian Electronic Army" and may become a malware risk.
Just about to post the same thing

DanielSan

18,748 posts

166 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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KarlMac said:
Thats a pretty conservative estimate laugh
Give or take 453 posts. biggrin

blindswelledrat

25,257 posts

231 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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JonRB said:
is like comparing the Telegraph to the Daily Mail.
I suspect you don't read the Telegraph very much?
The Telegraph is very much like the Daily Mail nowadays and is quoted in our NP&E section as often as the DM, but also with a smug air of "Well it's in the Telegraph so you can't even dismiss it as the Mail"

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

227 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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marshalla said:
Don't click the link!

It looks like the telegraph site has just been hacked by someone claiming to be "The Syrian Electronic Army" and may become a malware risk.
What AV software do you use?

marshalla

15,902 posts

200 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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funkyrobot said:
What AV software do you use?
Depends on the job I'm working on, but this (dirty internet connection) machine is on MacOS with ClamXAV running monitor all the time.

Given that the site had a pop-up claiming the hack, followed by a redirect, however - it didn't need the AV to tell me that something wasn't right.

It seems to have been cleaned up now.

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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A platform used to provide comments on articles has had its DNS entry hacked to redirect requests to - a pop-up. Doesn't look as if it does anything more interesting than that.

Pints

18,444 posts

193 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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I thought we got here first. confused

Surely Mumsnet is PH for women.

GreenDog

2,261 posts

191 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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I's surprised there are only 9000 posts a day - it seems like more smile

Silverbullet767

10,680 posts

205 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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tobinen said:
Daily Telegraph article said:
All of these are subsections of a much bigger haunt known as The Pie And Piston, PistonHeads’ virtual pub. It’s a lively, friendly place where members tend to watch each other’s backs.
scratchchin
"Nice back mate, what's mine looking like?"

andy_s

19,397 posts

258 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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tobinen said:
Daily Telegraph article said:
All of these are subsections of a much bigger haunt known as The Pie And Piston, PistonHeads’ virtual pub. It’s a lively, friendly place where members tend to watch each other’s backs.
scratchchin
A pat on the back is just a recce...

soad

32,829 posts

175 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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Pints said:
I thought we got here first. confused

Surely Mumsnet is PH for women.
We did, by a year.

Indeedy.

Major Fallout

5,278 posts

230 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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The comments are quite ghastly! Since when have we been racist?

Racers yes.

Zod

35,295 posts

257 months

Thursday 27th November 2014
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Major Fallout said:
The comments are quite ghastly! Since when have we been racist?

The vast majority of us have not.

They have, however, picked up that total arse, XJ Flyer's, posts about repatriation of immigrants.