Mumsnet #2

[Brigitjonesbuttcheek]

The women on Mumsnet are judgemental and competetive with it though. Nobody would give a duck if they weren't going, "Oh, I couldn't possibly eat 1200 calories a day!" implying that others have no self restraint, when that's literally what you'd feed a toddler. I'm not saying people who don't eat because they're not hungry are joyless.

The whole world is judgemental of large people. People can like what they like, but I think competitive self-deprivation and one-upmanship when life is so short is the very definition of joyless.

I completely agree, but judging people for bragging about under eating by bragging about over eating, it's just doing the same thing backwards.

Thin people are judged too. Women are judged for their bodies no matter what shape. I think we need to stop talking about what we eat and how we look as if it's a competition. It shouldn't even be a taking point.

 

[Blurp]

Yet another load of judgement. How dare you lock your front door - from the people who won't answer their door unless you've given notice of your intention to visit a month in advance.

How dare she keep a man and his child waiting because he wasn't adult enough to take his keys and she was confined to bed and the loo?

 

[SqualorVictoria]

Mumsnetters are the *worst*. It's good sense to lock the door, surely? Also from an insurance point of view if you were burgled and the door was unlocked you'd be pretty screwed

 

[Blurp]

Mumsnetters are the *worst*. It's good sense to lock the door, surely? Also from an insurance point of view if you were burgled and the door was unlocked you'd be pretty screwed

I don't lock my door if I'm in during daylight hours but then I'm in a farm cottage with a pack of dogs that let me know if anyone is even thinking of approaching the gate. When I lived in a city, of course I bloody locked my door at all times.

 

[Kaylon8083]

They’d judge me for sure - my front door blows open if I just close it so I have to keep it locked.

These posters judging someone for locking the door are probably the ones who jump on to judge and berate, are those that are deliberately contrary for the sake of it. They probably never open their door unless they’ve got a visitor scheduled in advance.

And the macaroni cheese toastie sounds lovely but as I don’t like chips, I’d probably give them to my brother.

I’m always reminded of this sketch every time there’s a Deliveroo/Uber Eats/Just Eat takeaway thread and someone says they don’t understand the trend for takeaways.

 

[FrannyGallops]

I always lock the front door after someone walked into my mum’s house and stole her handbag out of the hall. But I live close to a town and a main road, if I was out in the sticks, it wouldn’t be so much of an issue.

Compare it to the threads where no one answers the door after 5pm in the evening, unless they’ve been emailed the date 2 months in advance and had a background check on every member of the knockers family. I suppose some of them just like to argue to the contrary whatever the subject is.

 

[Blond3g1rl]

My front door you can’t open from the outside even if it’s not locked, you still need to put the key in to open it. So it’s only ever locked at night time.
If I had a door that you could just open from the outside I would definitely lock it during the day, even though I live in what mumsnetters would call a ‘naice’ area.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

There’s currently a thread running on there about M&S Cafe now serving a macaroni cheese toastie with a side of chips and how disgustingly unhealthy this is because its ‘carbs, carbs and more carbs’, they then go onto say it’s no wonder there’s an obesity crisis, like people don’t have free will and shouldn’t be allowed an unhealthy treat once in a while. Whoever said on the previous thread that MN is effectively a pro Anna site isn’t far wrong.

It's not even unhealthy; it's one third of the average TDEE for an adult female. I suppose one could always team it with a Massive Salad, though.

But then again, this is a place that states 'Bananas are Mars Bars in yellow jackets'. So maybe the salad would be excessive, too?

 

[Becclo44]

People on mumsnet have the lamest most basic sense of humour. Someone posts something maybe slightly a little bit possibly ‘amusing’ and there are hundreds of calls for it to be in Classics within minutes, before the thread’s even gone anywhere!

 

[Captainmouse]

People on mumsnet have the lamest most basic sense of humour. Someone posts something maybe slightly a little bit possibly ‘amusing’ and there are hundreds of calls for it to be in Classics within minutes, before the thread’s even gone anywhere!

They would have to be stretchered out of here in that case

 

[Kaylon8083]

Things like snapped and farted were never funny. Neither was pen Beaker really that funny tbh.

 

[SpindleWhorl]

Things like snapped and farted were never funny. Neither was pen Beaker really that funny tbh.

Or "Penetration Man"

 

[Right on top of that rose]

Things like snapped and farted were never funny. Neither was pen Beaker really that funny tbh.

Ugh you’ve just reminded me of tuna bagel on babycentre wyoo. Not funny in the slightest!

 

[ElectricDreams]

When they have to put (lighthearted) in the thread title... You just know it's not going to be that!

 

[ElectileDysfunction]

Not read the full thread or its predecessor as I don't have time, but my experience, for what it's worth....

Overall i quite liked mumsnet back when I bothered with it. If you go in the right forums there is excellent solidarity and advice during pregnancy and I got some great reassurance when I had to go and be induced. There are also some genuinely funny posters on there. I do remember crying with laughter at one thread about what's the most ridiculous thing your toddler has ever had a tantrum about (honestly some of the answers were first rate, particularly the woman who described pulling her toddler home after she wouldn't let him jump in a stagnant pond who described him aa hanging off her arm flailing "like a monkey on acid"). I do get how the relentless middle class-ness of it can get annoying though.

For me the most annoying thing was/is the militant parents of ASD/LD children, who insist on jumping on every single post where someone complains about someone else's badly behaved children being badly behaved in a public place, with the parents doing nothing about it , and hijack it to say "but what if the child has special needs!" and somehow turn it into an attack on the original poster for being intolerant of non NT children. Honestly some of them manage to do it even where there are no signs whatsoever that the kid in question is ASD/non NT and where it is quite obvious from the original post that the issue was the parenting (or lack of), not the child! It's like some of them can't accept that sometimes kids are just badly behaved and soft parenting is the problem...

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Has anyone seen the thread about playgrounds being biased towards boys. Apparently councils should put things like fairy houses ‘and ares for dancing and imaginative play’ in parks to make things more equal. I’ve never read such guff in all my life. Firstly you don’t need any special equipment for imaginative play or dance, if you’ve got a good imagination you can do it anywhere. I used to make up dance routines on the local park with my friends with no problems. Secondly this kind of attitude just reinforces gender stereotypes, I was a tomboy child who was always dirty and would have loathed the idea of a bleeping fairy house!

Also @ElectileDysfunction I work with ASD/LD children and it’s just a myth that it makes them naughty. You have to make reasonable adjustments for them but they are perfectly capable of learning boundaries and good behaviour. That being said parents of children with additional needs are some of the most entitled I’ve ever met so I’m unsurprised by that attitude over there. In their minds the world really does revolve around them and their child’s needs. Newsflash, it doesn’t!

 

[NonDairyQueen]

Sometimes my Facebook feed reminds me of some rambling unfunny nonsense I posted 7, 10 and 13 years ago, and I think ' God why did I post this rambling unfunny nonsense?' before realising I was halfway through maternity leaves! Mumsnet is like that!

 

[Kaylon8083]

I’m beginning to wonder if the ones that want things like Christmas, flying abroad, don’t care about theatres, nightclubs and pubs closing etc are the ones who have had their fill of seeing their children filled with joy at Christmas, had lots of holidays abroad (maybe even had a gap year abroad) and spent weekends in their youth clubbing and going to pubs. Now they’ve stopped, they don’t want others to have the same opportunities.

The playground one sounds nuts. I wasn’t a tomboy as a child but I would have hated fairy houses. I’ve got two nieces who love playing on the rocket ship slide at their local park. I think they like to pretend they’re astronauts. Even when the term pink jobs and blue jobs was mentioned on there made me want to heave.

 

[Renegadedancer]

Today the huns are having a competition on who is worse off after the budget. I absolutely get that people are struggling financially, it’s not unique to mumsnet. But jeez why the constant race to the bottom and calling out of people that are slightly better off than themselves. The attitude of some of the posters sucks.

 

[NonDairyQueen]

Today the huns are having a competition on who is worse off after the budget. I absolutely get that people are struggling financially, it’s not unique to mumsnet. But jeez why the constant race to the bottom and calling out of people that are slightly better off than themselves. The attitude of some of the posters sucks.

A lot of the time it's things like ' What's the point in my DH running his hedge fund if 50% of his 3rd million is going to go on tax?' rather than people genuinely struggling.