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Post by susan on Aug 20, 2012 21:08:27 GMT
So, so unfair Stumpy. What a truly horrible person she must be to do that to women who need help and support, you were a pleasure to be around on that forum I'm sure you had never had a cross word with anyone. I definately had tingling in my finger tips, feet, hands etc when I was peri, it's such a weird symptom. xxxx
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Post by Robyn on Aug 21, 2012 1:54:25 GMT
Hi Susan
I’m so happy that you’ve decided to join us. I was so upset when I saw how you were being treated on MM, and then to totally have your whole account deleted was just too much.
Compared to a lot of people I haven’t been treated too badly by MM, but after two suspensions (the second being punishment for setting up my own forum – how dare I do that….) I’d had enough, and I told “Emma” that he/she could stick his/her suspension up his/her arse…lol… and I deleted my own account. I then took one final swipe at them a little later with a second account I had (meno madness) and I deleted that one too. So I’m probably one of the few who actually had the satisfaction of deleting my own accounts.
However, I now have MM totally out of my system. I check in as a guest on odd occasions, but basically they are a complete waste of good cyberspace. They are offering no real help to women who are suffering. It’s just made up of a load of old harpies who just want to sit around in a tea and biscuit group.
We have tried the forceful approach in getting our message to the other members of MM, but that has proved to be fairly pointless, because all that happens is more people get deleted and those who need to take notice (ie Dr Currie) don’t. No one will ever change the minds of the loyal harpies, so what’s the point in trying, and while we on their territory MM and Emma will always have the last word.
As the saying goes “the best revenge is living well”. So our best revenge is to build this forum to a point where people won’t even think about MM anymore.
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Post by stumpy on Aug 21, 2012 5:41:16 GMT
Hi Susan
I asked where silverlady was & how much I missed her etc...and CKLD jumped in and spoke to me like a child I told her not to, so that went down like a lead balloon. The I got some nasty PM's. This & the PM from emma about would i like to leave all happened within a few mins of joining this forum.
I deleted my own account on there as women who i thought were nice & even maybe like a friend, turned out to be nothing of the kind.
I just didnt want to be where I had trusted people & they werent what i though they were.
I havent been back to look as a guest or anything since, not worth it.
Ladies here seem nice & I know some from MM. Hopefully this forum will go from strength to stength.
Stumpy xx
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Post by susan on Aug 21, 2012 13:20:09 GMT
Hi Susan I’m so happy that you’ve decided to join us. I was so upset when I saw how you were being treated on MM, and then to totally have your whole account deleted was just too much. Compared to a lot of people I haven’t been treated too badly by MM, but after two suspensions (the second being punishment for setting up my own forum – how dare I do that….) I’d had enough, and I told “Emma” that he/she could stick his/her suspension up his/her arse…lol… and I deleted my own account. I then took one final swipe at them a little later with a second account I had (meno madness) and I deleted that one too. So I’m probably one of the few who actually had the satisfaction of deleting my own accounts. However, I now have MM totally out of my system. I check in as a guest on odd occasions, but basically they are a complete waste of good cyberspace. They are offering no real help to women who are suffering. It’s just made up of a load of old harpies who just want to sit around in a tea and biscuit group. We have tried the forceful approach in getting our message to the other members of MM, but that has proved to be fairly pointless, because all that happens is more people get deleted and those who need to take notice (ie Dr Currie) don’t. No one will ever change the minds of the loyal harpies, so what’s the point in trying, and while we on their territory MM and Emma will always have the last word. As the saying goes “the best revenge is living well”. So our best revenge is to build this forum to a point where people won’t even think about MM anymore. Hi Robyn Thank you so much for the welcome. To be honest I may have joined you sooner but I knew they were looking for a reason to ban me & joining here would have been enough. How dare they ban people just for joining another support network that's despicable. I didn't find out about Menopause Support until I game back from a week abroad to find a few members of MM missing. Think it was mid-July. It just goes to show what liars they are as I up till then didn't even know another forum existed and hadn't been in anyway encouraged to join, so there is no way you could have been accused of trying to take there membership over. I shot off panicky emails to a couple of members who had kindly given me their addys over the years. Still feels a bit raw but I think you are doing a great job with thing going from strength to strength. I will try not to wallow, but a bit pissed off that all 5000 of my posts were deleted as they may have been helpful to some newbies but then again at least they were read at the time so not a complete waste of effort. MM obviously doesn't really care about menopausal women it is a forum of rhetoric with no substance. Did a sad thing yesterday though, went on and tried to count how many new posts there were on there ( hard to do when you are not a member) and how many we had on here. It seemed like we had just as many. Funny the things that cheer you up a bit when you are trying not to let the barstewards grind you down. I hope you are getting on top of your sleep issues, sadly I am still on the zopiclone only one a night, needs must and all that. My sleep has always been rubbish though so I didn't really expect HRT to sort it for me. I think if it has come on as part of menopause you have a much better change of getting HRT to solve it once you find the right one. Fingers crossed for you in that respect. xxxx
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Post by susan on Aug 21, 2012 13:23:52 GMT
Hi Susan I asked where silverlady was & how much I missed her etc...and CKLD jumped in and spoke to me like a child I told her not to, so that went down like a lead balloon. The I got some nasty PM's. This & the PM from emma about would i like to leave all happened within a few mins of joining this forum. I deleted my own account on there as women who i thought were nice & even maybe like a friend, turned out to be nothing of the kind. I just didnt want to be where I had trusted people & they werent what i though they were. I havent been back to look as a guest or anything since, not worth it. Ladies here seem nice & I know some from MM. Hopefully this forum will go from strength to stength. Stumpy xx Hi Stumpy I am sure you are better of over here anyway Hun, you will still get the support you need and there are many here with knowledge and can recount from their own experiences, I think we have enough resources to answer most questions and/or come up with suggestions for women to try. It's all a bit trial and error anyway with the menopause maze. xxxx
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Post by stumpy on Aug 21, 2012 14:06:20 GMT
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Post by Robyn on Aug 22, 2012 6:46:10 GMT
I shot off panicky emails to a couple of members who had kindly given me their addys over the years. xxxx Yes that was a panicky day for me too...lol.. I think that was when I made my one final parting swipe at them as meno-madness (a play on MM - but I doubt any of them got that). In a dramatic flourish I informed them that I was deleting my account, and then just after I did I saw a post from you and I thought "crap - I can't PM her now to give her the link to MS". So I sent an email to Candy to see if she knew of anyone who was still a member of MM who could send you a PM, but by that time she had received an email from you - so it all worked out okay in the end....phew....
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Post by susan on Aug 22, 2012 7:51:35 GMT
Yes there were certain members here who did star turns for me. I think I will put under the Admin section the problems I had joining. I suspect it may have been something to do with America-on-line, but am not 100% certain. Could just have been me being a numpty. But if there are any guests viewing who are using AOL and want to join it will reassure them that they will be able to set up an account in the end. My parting shot on Meno Madness, was me posting along with maybe (?) Gelis, or one of the other ladies that was banned that day in the three word game. We were putting things up like, one by one,the net closes, around those watched,feeling paranoid nowCan't really remember the actual wording but you get my drift, it was classic stuff Such a shame it was deleted as we had only done about 4, I could have happily carried on all day xxxx
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Post by susan on Aug 22, 2012 9:40:50 GMT
Hi Pinky [/IMG] I loved it, sad cow that I am, it was like the shutters were closing in on me, they were desperate to be rid, despite the time I had devoted to answering newbie and VA questions when they couldn't be ar$ed and wanted to get on with the tea and biccies. Also I didn't have a clue which ones of you were over here and still on there, as I had only found out about MSI a couple of weeks before, but I threw myself into it 100% [/IMG] [/IMG] [/IMG] xxxx
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Post by susan on Aug 22, 2012 18:56:40 GMT
Hi Bella The thing that really hurts is I was kind of prepared to put up with all the crap so that I could join in (how sad does that make me) and maybe help a bit. I think we had similar troubles, mine started when I went ballistic when they banned Candy. I wasn't a great one for joining in the 'how are you today stuff' but I tried and was ignored by a certain group of people. First of all I thought it was just by accident ( im always looking for the best in folk) anybody can miss the odd post or two now and again on a busy forum. But i monitored it for a few months and it was deliberate by a few posters. But what of course was funny was that most on the thread didn't know they were supposed to ignore me and that I was persona non grata for sticking up for someone I felt was unjustly banned. xxxx
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Post by stumpy on Aug 23, 2012 6:34:44 GMT
Still cant get my head around the request for me to leave.
The only thing i did was tell CLKD not to speak to me like a child.
Stumpy xx
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Post by susan on Aug 23, 2012 7:51:08 GMT
Still cant get my head around the request for me to leave. The only thing i did was tell CLKD not to speak to me like a child. Stumpy xx I cant either Stumpy. I think I even put up a post of protest along the lines of why has Stumpy been deleted that women didn't have a malicious bone in her body. Needless to say even my post of protest has now been deleted. Dont forget **** has had an empathy bypass, every single reply she puts up, is really just about herself and how bad her own life has been. She rarely responds to the actual poster. Amazing that you can put up over 25,000 posts about yourself, that is some serious self indulgence. xxxx
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Post by Gelis on Aug 23, 2012 8:18:05 GMT
It is creative, that's for sure. I wouldn't have the energy to turn around every other person's post to put "my" experience of it!
I don't think I've ever come across anyone quite so self centred, and I've met a few ego-maniacs in my time.
Gxx
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Post by susan on Aug 23, 2012 8:43:05 GMT
It is creative, that's for sure. I wouldn't have the energy to turn around every other person's post to put "my" experience of it! I don't think I've ever come across anyone quite so self centred, and I've met a few ego-maniacs in my time. Gxx Me neither Gelis. Surely it's just easier to actually answer the poster who is probably a bit desperate having only just found the site and try and give a bit of help and empathy. xxx
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Post by beaglelady on Aug 23, 2012 21:30:09 GMT
Susan your comments about a certain person made me smile. She made a very patronising comment when I posted about seeing my osteopath. She suggested I was incapable of checking a medical persons credentials. I responded bluntly telling her I used to work for a medical regulator so I know exactly what to check. I think she is condescending.
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Post by susan on Aug 24, 2012 9:06:53 GMT
Susan your comments about a certain person made me smile. She made a very patronising comment when I posted about seeing my osteopath. She suggested I was incapable of checking a medical persons credentials. I responded bluntly telling her I used to work for a medical regulator so I know exactly what to check. I think she is condescending. Sorry you had such a rough ride on the Mother Ship beaglelady I used to let her posts wash over me so I could be there. Are you certain you are deleted only I had a quick read as a guest before coming on here which of course means you can't interrogate the site properly but and I am sure a few people are still responding to your posts, if you have gone they don't seem to realise it. In view of the work you are doing for The Daisy Network, maybe they have decided to leave you on. It's not like you have done anything wrong and you are actually trying to do something good and supportive. One would have thought you would have been exactly the kind of member they wished to encourage and support. xxxx
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