Mumsnet #2

[Traveler001]

There’s a thread on there at the moment about people you fancy but at ashamed of, and someone has posted that they really fancy a young Adolf Hitler and sometimes fantasise about him when shagging their husband. Somehow I think that poster is trolling them

Definitely trolling. No one on mn shags their husband.

 

[Traveler001]

It did sound like jack, she used to spend a lot of time on mumsnet, even did an AMA, claims to be poor, even sold her lightbulbs, claims to be a writer, wears designer clothes, but claims they were found in a skip or gifts, ditto all her gadgets and tech, has 3 smeg fridge freezers and a gazillion Cotswold sideboards, but can’t afford butter.

She...sold her light bulbs? She sold them? She genuinely thought that was a good idea? And there was another person who bought them? In real life? In the world I have to live in with them? Just walking around, allowed to vote? OK. I would like the see the diagram where people who sell their lightbulbs intersects with people who stop at the top of escalators, because I bet there's a huge overlap there.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

There’s a thread on there at the moment about people you fancy but at ashamed of, and someone has posted that they really fancy a young Adolf Hitler and sometimes fantasise about him when shagging their husband. Somehow I think that poster is trolling them

 

[maytoseptember]

HarryToby - you’ve just reminded me of the one time I was foolish enough to start an advice thread!

I remember posting about some concerns I had about my 6yo being unable to entertain herself at home. I was really perplexed by this, because no child I’d ever encountered before was so resistant to sitting down with a toy or a puzzle or some colouring pencils and just getting on with it. I wondered if anyone else had a child like this and what did they do about it?

Someone piped up: did I take her to the park often?

To this day I do not know why that question was relevant to my dilemma.

I replied no, not really. My then-toddler was a total disaster in parks and had to be closely followed to make sure he didn’t seriously injure himself falling off a slide/walking in front of swings etc. Which meant that my older child got neglected and would stand there screaming at me to push her on the swings when I physically couldn’t. I said I found it FAR too stressful and basically couldn’t supervise two kids at the park by myself.

I got slaughtered. A massive pile on started. Post after post berating me for not taking my kids to the park. What was wrong with me, making excuses like that? Did I need help with my anxiety issues or something? It’s no wonder my child couldn’t sit down and amuse herself with toys or crafts if I didn’t take her to play outside!

I was made to feel like the shittiest parent on the planet. They spotted a chink in my armour and just attacked. I changed my username and never went back to the thread. To this day I don’t even understand how taking my kids to the park was supposed to be the answer to all my problems.

And guess what? Both of my kids were diagnosed with autism several years later. The toddler with no sense of danger? Autistic. The 6yo who couldn’t play by herself? Autistic. I wasn’t a shit parent. It wasn’t my fault.

 

[Traveler001]

Saw this and thought of mumsnet

 

[Traveler001]

Ah you poor thing! My sister doesn’t want children and is constantly asked why she hates children! Must be so bloody annoying! Apparently one of her neighbours recently said to her she’s weird because having children is all what she was put on this planet for - as a seasoned Mumsnetter would say, neighbour needs to give her head a wobble!

I don’t know about the MIL thing though, there’s a rather eye opening thread on here (unless they’re mumsnetters taking over!).

I understand some mil are crazy but on mn they're like 'mil is staying overnight and ate the last of the jam, how do I sort out this situation?' And then loads of people using the following phrases

You have a dh problem not a mil problem
She sounds like a narc
Unbelievably selfish
Could she have early onset dementia
I'd have left and booked into a hotel - then someone quotes it and says THIS and pay for it on dh credit card - then someone else quotes it and says this. NOW.
Why is your mil staying over? Send her to a hotel
Ltb
Divorce isn't he only answer sorry op - then someone quotes it saying this. You need your ducks in a row, put all important paperwork in the boot of your car and book your free half an hour with a shit hot lawyer.

Then someone comes on and ventures that maybe everyone is being slightly hysterical over jam. This is met with links to academic papers about how hysterical is a misogynistic term. People saying that poster is a doormat and other saying jam is just the start or the OP has been putting up with 'narc behaviour' for years and the jam is the straw that broke the camels back. One person will use the phrase 'cool wife' in an incorrect way and others will latch on and keep using it.

Op will come back and say all sorted dh bought more jam and she's staying I'm her marriage. Lots of posts of 'more Fool you' 'see you back here when you finally realise' interspersed with posts telling the OP how to sort the situation out (using formal language and/or passive aggressive remarks) as they haven't read the thread.

 

[Traveler001]

MNers are the most crashing snobs when it comes to things like clothing brands. But conversely, you also get the anti-snobs who get a fit of the vapours during a thread about expensive bags: “I bought a rucksack 25 years ago and use it daily! I can’t imagine having a fancy bag! What a waste of money!”

They just argue against whatever the OP says basically.

I want a designer bag - get cheap designer is a waste of money
Can someone recommend a 30 quid bag - you need to spend at least 500 or you're responsible for human slavery and it won't last anyway

I don't think I want kids - have them NOW! you never know love until you do and your life will be meaningless
I want a second kid dh doesn't- don't do it, kids ruin your life and marriage

My kids eat this super healthy diet - how damaging, give them carbs
How many pizzas Shall I get from dominos for a sleepover - pizza! Do you want to sink the NHS, give them salad

They should rename it from mumsnet to Mary Mary quite contrary.

 

[freda19]

Only visited once, and to be honest I didn't regret it (lots of shame but no regret).
After all, who could resist the lure of someone seriously asking if anyone else keeps a glass of water by the conjugal bed for their male partner to dip his dick in to rinse it off after sex ?
The OP was quite offended at the responses.

So weird but so funny.

 

[Youre a wizard Harry]

There is a thread in the AIBU section by a woman who is annoyed because her husband changed the letters on her “let it snow” sticker in her window to “melon tits”

 

[FrannyGallops]

They do get quite emotional at the scene where she opens the Joni Mitchell CD and has a private cry.

There was a lovely thread one Christmas where a poster took delivery of a Tiffany package and posters were convinced the husband was cheating on her and one nastily said she would be getting a Joni Mitchell CD. On Christmas Day, the poster revealed that she’d lost both her parents and the Tiffany package was indeed hers, it was a necklace was from her MIL to remind her that she wasn’t alone and she would always be a part of her in-laws’ family and the necklace had the family’s names engraved on it.

I’m sure some were salivating at the thought of a RL Love Actually moment.

Aw, that’s actually really lovely!

They’re so quick with the accusations of cheating on there.

‘My DH has lost one of his socks and we can’t find it anywhere’
‘It’s the other woman who’s messing with your mind, OP. Get your ducks in a row!’

‘I asked DH to take the bins out but he forgot’
‘LTB! Does he have another woman? He’s probably preoccupied with her and couldn’t concentrate’

‘My DH woke up this morning and breathed’
‘HE’S CHEATING!!’

 

[Traveler001]

I was banhammered there during the hysteria when one poster decided there HAD to be a Black Mumsnetters section.

Mumsnet seems to me a place where an awful lot of projection of subconscious guilt is going on.

For instance why are people so obsessed with what other people’s’ kids are eating? For a while the food conversations always made me feel bad as I’ve always had a real struggle feeding my son. Things are better but we are still a thousand miles away from carrot sticks and hummus. He lived off cereal at one point which apparently is “shit in a box”. I’m glad to say that having discovered tattle I never go there now.

Yeah, they're all 'fed is best' until you give your kids shreddies for breakfast, a ham sandwich for lunch and macaroni cheese for dinner. Then they 'hope someone who knows you steps in NOW'.

 

[maytoseptember]

People would post saying they were upset their families hadn’t remembered their birthday or they’d only got a card from their husband and no gift and the replies would be trying to outdo themselves with how much they didn’t care about their own birthday.

Oh, I love it when people try to outdo each other when it comes to being cheap or not caring about things people usually care about. Weddings is another. They always start competing over who had the most low key wedding or cheapest ring.

“We only had 30 guests and had the reception in our local pub. I can’t imagine spending loads of money on a wedding”.

“Well WE only had 15 guests and didn’t have a reception at all. We just had a meal in a restaurant and came home”.

“You had a meal in a restaurant? Hubby and I got married on a Tuesday morning, grabbed two witnesses off the street, then did our weekly shop in Lidl”.

 

[FrannyGallops]

They also tell people to Get Rid of a cheating spouse, and don’t worry about money and how you will manage, you can always take in ironing

I fucking hate ironing. I’d rather stay married to a cheater than iron for a living They can do what they like and in return, just don’t make me iron!

Someone once told a poster who was worried about money and feeding her kids that she could forage wild berries at the side of the road. Same energy.

 

[Kaylon8083]

Even during the pandemic, they were watching their neighbours comings and goings and posting how many times their neighbours were going out.

Some of them were wanting a hard lockdown similar to China with the army patrolling the streets and how the UK was the worst country handling the pandemic. I think a lot of them on there enjoyed the drama of the pandemic and thrived because they live such miserable lives and were glad everyone else was miserable too.

All the people I know in real life, just got on with things as best they could.

 

[SqualorVictoria]

I had a look over there today and someone dared to post “pregnant people” and omg the way they were all kicking off in the thread was insane.

The OP was baffled, said she hadn’t meant it like that and they still came snarling after them.

Only women get pregnant. You might think it's 'insane' to be annoyed at women getting erased out of language but you clearly have no idea how bad it is

 

[maytoseptember]

I was reading a thread the other day about a mum who was perturbed that her husband wanted to bugger off to an overseas wedding for 4-5 days, leaving her with a (not yet born) two weekold baby and a three year old. AND she was having a c section AND it wasn’t a close friend.

I just knew that the thread would soon descend into a Four Yorkshireman style competitive misfortune thread. I wasn’t disappointed. Plenty of terse comments along the lines of “well what makes you think you won’t manage?” and “single parents have no choice!” but the best ones were like “I had to look after seven kids under five while my husband worked away Monday-Friday and I had no other family or friends within a 1500mile radius to lend a hand so suck it up you fucking wimp”.

Thankfully, there were some voices of sanity who said “Somehow I don’t think your husband would like it if you disappeared on a non-essential jolly abroad, leaving him with a newborn, a three year old, and recent major abdominal surgery”.

The shit women are expected to put up with, honestly…

 

[grimaldi]

They are so woke, until anything to do with trans issues rears it’s head and they show their true colours. They are so disgustingly transphobic. I have my own issues with gender identity and people identifying as either male or female without going through proper transitioning, but trans people are still human beings and deserve to be treated with kindness and respect. This all stems from the hatred of men that’s is so prevalent on there, and trans women on account of them having been born male are a soft target for their bile.

I’ve never seen anything transphobic and if something does already it’s whipped away quickly.

The only good board is the the Feminist one. All the rest are full of trolls and the most disgusting treatment of posters. It’s a cesspool.

 

[Nonnymouse]

It's one of my guilty pleasures @Pinkii - I love reading the post and then taking bets (umm, with myself) on the first few responses / how long until someone says LTB / how long until misogyny comes into it and how soon before the OP gets the hump

What's that? Why yes, yes I do have a sad life...

 

[SqualorVictoria]

sorry op but you are doing the ‘pick me dance’ and this won’t end well. Do you have ANY self esteem.

Yeah OP, my husband earns £500k plus bonuses a year and still finds the time to pick up his socks, cook dinner, do the dishes, sort out the laundry, mow the lawn, sort out the weeds in the garden and run me a bath. Every night. Don't settle for less

 

[Gym&Tonic]

The snobbery towards tradesmen really grinds my goat. They are actually the new middle class. Have you ever met a poor plumber or electrician? I haven’t. Most of the men in my family are in trade so this really fucks me off actually.