PLEASE summarize the FBR and Grrly thing

[LoveTrains]

NOOOO grrly and lalalisa were not the same person.

Lalalisa lived in the DC area. She had a dalmation in her sig pic, and for years it was a picture of the dalmation with pink cherry blossoms I believe.

Grrly lives outside of Boston. She and I used to commute on the same train together into Boston. I personally liked grrly (and still do!) but she rubbed some people the wrong way.

[cjeanette]

Grrly- Didn't go to college but had a nice career as a consultant. I think she was military before? Loved to get in debates on education since she didn't go to college and still made lots of money.

Lalalisa- Took everything literally - once got mad at a poster who said she wanted to slap another poster and ranted about physical violence, baby ate her brain.

[Kore]

It was a fight over education & minorities (or something) that went on for multiple days. They are stubborn women! Neither would back down.

I side with FBR. She never unjustly accused posters of being pedophiles.

[cjeanette]

Nov 27, 2012 20:17:35 GMT -5 @msstarry said:

Grrly also had a problem with gypsy, right? Was there a big incident there?

Yes! How it started I don't know.

[bunch]

Grrrly v lily on healthcare was also epic.

[KaraOrNot]

Did FBR and Grrly have a issue? I took a nest break for a while and missed a lot of Grrly stuff when I was gone.

ETA: Nevermind, I see this was answered.

[LoveTrains]

Yes Grrly was in the marines, I believe. Or the navy.

[SusanBAnthony]

Why did grrly finally disappear?

I liked her fine, but omg it was like a cult of everyone loving grrly. That majorly turned me off.

[bunch]

And didn't go to college, but it didn't matter, she was smarter than everybody - right?

[Deleted]

Nov 27, 2012 20:18:30 GMT -5 cjeanette said:

Nov 27, 2012 20:17:35 GMT -5 @msstarry said:

Grrly also had a problem with gypsy, right? Was there a big incident there?

Yes! How it started I don't know.

Oh I totally forgot about this but yes there was some bad blood. I never knew what started it.

[CloudBee]

FBR and I are FB friends. She was always direct, but kind. I really like her.

Grrly was always saying "I don't have a degree, don't diss me, you can be amazing without a degree" completely out of the blue and out of context. She alllways talked about how she owned a home, and was very open about her pro-welfare stance, often attacking people who weren't anti-welfare but didn't word their views "her way". She was nicer off board. Put on a total mean girl front on board.

Lalalisa was pretty snarky, but I genuinely liked her. She stepped away from the Nest within a year or so of having her kiddo. She also compared her fetus to fruit, and I wouldn't be surprised if she was the Nest's inspiration for their fruit vs. fetal growth comparison tiker.

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Nov 27, 2012 20:21:20 GMT -5 SusanBAnthony said:

I liked her fine, but omg it was like a cult of everyone loving grrly.

:Y: Seriously.

[Kore]

Nov 27, 2012 20:21:20 GMT -5 SusanBAnthony said:

Why did grrly finally disappear?

I liked her fine, but omg it was like a cult of everyone loving grrly. That majorly turned me off.

The baby ate her brain & she got irrationally nuts. The masses turned against her.

[Kore]

Nov 27, 2012 20:22:33 GMT -5 @barefootbarista said:

Okay, short synopsis? Or can anyone find it?

It really wasn't very memorable. It was more of a "Holy shit. It's been THREE DAYS and y'all are still debating this?!" sort of thing. I think it was deleted.

[Deleted]

Nov 27, 2012 20:23:17 GMT -5 Kore said:

Nov 27, 2012 20:21:20 GMT -5 SusanBAnthony said:

Why did grrly finally disappear?

I liked her fine, but omg it was like a cult of everyone loving grrly. That majorly turned me off.

The baby ate her brain & she got irrationally nuts. The masses turned against her.

I feel like this happened with LaLa too, or maybe I am confusing them.

[mellymel]

Grrly's blog is still active. Too lazy to link but you can google msmoneypenny and find it. Last I checked a month or so ago it was still there. Not many posts lately.

[Kore]

Nov 27, 2012 20:24:48 GMT -5 @carmensandiego said:

Nov 27, 2012 20:23:17 GMT -5 Kore said:

The baby ate her brain & she got irrationally nuts. The masses turned against her.

I feel like this happened with LaLa too, or maybe I am confusing them.

No, totally.

[Kore]

FBR bought one of those lean cuisine breast cancer lunch totes from me after I was stupid & ordered 5 of them. lol. I get sucked into every MM trend

[cjeanette]

Nov 27, 2012 20:29:35 GMT -5 Kore said:

FBR bought one of those lean cuisine breast cancer lunch totes from me after I was stupid & ordered 5 of them. lol. I get sucked into every MM trend

How did I miss this trend :-(

MM has come a long way in our shopping habits.

[CloudBee]

FIVE?

[bronxgirl]

Nov 27, 2012 20:29:34 GMT -5 jenny1980 said:

Lala and Grrrly occasionally would have at it as well. Grrrly told Lisa that she was too much of a MM "den mother" and that really pissed her off.

Lisa annoyed the crap out of me a lot, but I legitimately could picture Grrrly knifing someone.

Oh, and I was the one Lisa told "needed serious help" because I said I wanted to smack someone. Apparently I was "threatening violence" or some shit. She got super weird post baby.

Jenny, the thought of you as a violent person with anger problems cracks me up!

[mellymel]

Nov 27, 2012 20:29:09 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

Nov 27, 2012 20:26:07 GMT -5 mellymel said:

Grrly's blog is still active. Too lazy to link but you can google msmoneypenny and find it. Last I checked a month or so ago it was still there. Not many posts lately.

This is awful. Who's she think is reading this?

I know. So awful! But someone mentioned grrly a while back and it prompted me to seek out the craptastic blog again.

[Kore]

Nov 27, 2012 20:32:06 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

Nov 27, 2012 20:29:35 GMT -5 Kore said:

FBR bought one of those lean cuisine breast cancer lunch totes from me after I was stupid & ordered 5 of them. lol. I get sucked into every MM trend

Why did you need five? LoL

In my defense, I ordered them in October & planned to include them in gifts. But effing LC lost my order (even though they charged me), and I didn't get them til January.

Stupid lunch bags.

[ESF]

Nov 27, 2012 20:21:40 GMT -5 CloudBee said:

Lalalisa was pretty snarky, but I genuinely liked her. She stepped away from the Nest within a year or so of having her kiddo. She also compared her fetus to fruit, and I wouldn't be surprised if she was the Nest's inspiration for their fruit vs. fetal growth comparison tiker.

I think you are right about this because I've thought it too. I know her off the boards, and when she first changed her sig to a fruit, she emailed a couple of us offline to ask if we knew what the grapefruit or whatever it was in her sig meant. I had no idea as there was nobody at the time on any of the boards I was on that was doing that.

[bunch]

I just spent way too much time searching, and couldn't find any good examples. This is the closest it got:

community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/1/19189516/ShowThread.aspx

What I did learn from my search- we used to have a lot more intelligent conversation. And more intelligent humor. And we were a lot meaner. And I miss volenti.

[SusanBAnthony]

Was her blog always like that?

I shouldn't say mean things, but I am thinking them.

[Deleted]

Nov 27, 2012 20:43:53 GMT -5 ESF said:

Nov 27, 2012 20:21:40 GMT -5 CloudBee said:

Lalalisa was pretty snarky, but I genuinely liked her. She stepped away from the Nest within a year or so of having her kiddo. She also compared her fetus to fruit, and I wouldn't be surprised if she was the Nest's inspiration for their fruit vs. fetal growth comparison tiker.

I think you are right about this because I've thought it too. I know her off the boards, and when she first changed her sig to a fruit, she emailed a couple of us offline to ask if we knew what the grapefruit or whatever it was in her sig meant. I had no idea as there was nobody at the time on any of the boards I was on that was doing that.

The fruit sizes are in the What to Expect book. I have several friends who have never heard of The Nest who would tell me what fruit week they were on during pregnancy thanks to What to Expect.

[womet]

I don't miss grrly or Lala, but they sure did make for some interesting threads. I do miss FBR and volenti.

[chia]

Nov 27, 2012 21:02:16 GMT -5 @gypsy said:

Nov 27, 2012 20:48:59 GMT -5 SusanBAnthony said:

And lala making a screenname and posting as baby lisa was all too much. We get it. You had a baby. You carried that baby, you are woman, HEAR YOUR ROAR. Your experience was life-changing. We cannot understand. We are all too immature. She was an OG of recommending counseling and feeling sorry for husbands.

Part of lala's exit from the boards followed a big blowout on the local board. Someone created an AE they called BabyBlahBlah - it was big dramz. She stayed on MM for a while longer... but, not much longer.

[ESF]

Nov 27, 2012 21:18:23 GMT -5 @carmensandiego said:

Nov 27, 2012 20:43:53 GMT -5 ESF said:

I think you are right about this because I've thought it too. I know her off the boards, and when she first changed her sig to a fruit, she emailed a couple of us offline to ask if we knew what the grapefruit or whatever it was in her sig meant. I had no idea as there was nobody at the time on any of the boards I was on that was doing that.

The fruit sizes are in the What to Expect book. I have several friends who have never heard of The Nest who would tell me what fruit week they were on during pregnancy thanks to What to Expect.

Yes. She said in her email to me that she was getting the fruits from the book. I know she didn't figure out the fruits all on her own. But I do know that for me, it was the first time I saw them as tickers on the nest. I think that's also what CloudBee meant.