Mumsnet #22 Are you strange generally?

[CrimsonCountess]

I work in an office so had my breakfast at my desk swiftly followed by my lunch which meant I had to buy a second lunch at actual lunchtime

I've done this so many times! the worst thing is that we have a food van that comes to our trading estate every morning selling hot sausage rolls, bacon baps, hot lunches, takeaway fry ups, brownies and cakes etc. Takes so much willpower to avoid it. There have been far too many occasions where I've bought second lunch from there just because I couldn't resist

 

[kendallroysdownfall]

duck all Sandra. Find something to do.

Do you think that butterfly cake tipped her over the edge? Like Mr Creosote?

 

[GirlWithThePearlEarhole]

Yesterday I started well with a bowl of sultana bran flakes mixed with granola

Then 3 slices of toast with lashings of butter and dairy lea, half a pack of malted milk biscuits and a 4 finger kit kat
2 greggs sausage rolls 4 lunch and because dh is home sick and can't each much I just had a bacon and egg baguette for dinner with another 4 finger kitkat and a rice pudding

I think thats probably a lot of calories but we only live once lol

Sounds like my kinda day!

 

[holasun]

I'm doing a very tit job of eating well at the moment. I'm gluten free and dairy free and I just am really not enjoying food at all. I'd probably be a mumsnet food saviour for my pathetic attempts at eating. Even though if I could just go grab a pizza i'd be the happiest girl in the world right now.
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I'm actually sat here really hungry. Oh yay, gluten free toast for breakfast
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Yesterday I was enjoying this thread in MN incompetence.
How does one get to a train station if you don't live in London?? How do you country people do it???

"We're not in Kansas anymore" - bleeping hell you've only moved to the Cotswolds, not the outer Hebrides!

 

[Miss Begotten]

Jesus.
The “ My twit of a husband didn’t pay the rent” thread is up to 23 pages. The OP hasn’t updated. So all the posts are “Are you OK OP”, “Please tell us everything is alright “. Absolute bleeping weirdos. They don’t care if she’s actually OK. They just want to know if she’s beaten her husband to death with a cafetière and buried him in the back garden.

 

[cowtastrophe]

I'm doing a very tit job of eating well at the moment. I'm gluten free and dairy free and I just am really not enjoying food at all. I'd probably be a mumsnet food saviour for my pathetic attempts at eating. Even though if I could just go grab a pizza i'd be the happiest girl in the world right now.
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I'm actually sat here really hungry. Oh yay, gluten free toast for breakfast
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Yesterday I was enjoying this thread in MN incompetence.
How does one get to a train station if you don't live in London?? How do you country people do it???

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"We're not in Kansas anymore" - bleeping hell you've only moved to the Cotswolds, not the outer Hebrides!

It’s the Cotswolds, dahling. One simply tells one’s staff to convey them to the station in the Bentley.

 

[Rags2Riches]

I saw a thread last night that got pulled, someone posted they thought Billie Eilish was pretty.

Cue lots of poster falling over themselves to say the most nastiness comments about her looks. Beauty is subjective but they just came across as bitter and would put any womans appearance down given the chance.

MN is likely full of Samantha Brick types.

 

[Perspicacia Tick]

It’s the Cotswolds, dahling. One simply tells one’s staff to convey them to the station in the Bentley.

Actually we all ride electric bicycles - but don't tell anyone. It's outing.

 

[JarvisCockerSpaniel]

I saw a thread last night that got pulled, someone posted they thought Billie Eilish was pretty.

Cue lots of poster falling over themselves to say the most nastiness comments about her looks. Beauty is subjective but they just came across as bitter and would put any womans appearance down given the chance.

MN is likely full of Samantha Brick types.

God they’re awful. I joked once on there that I looked like ‘a poor man’s Natalie Portman’ (I did a bit, in my youth, just less polished and nowhere near as beautiful or dainty. I was fine with this ) but they all tripped over themselves to say ‘don’t be ridiculous, I’m sure you are even better looking’, (really not, as hardly anyone is) ‘I thought she looked rough in V for Vendetta’ ‘she’s not all that, I think she’s actually quite plain’ etc. Like the woman the other day who said Margot Robbie’s face wasn’t actually that nice and she definitely had a much nicer one

I’d give anything to look like Poor Man’s Natalie Portman again, now it could probably just be shortened to ‘Poor’

They are a very strange bunch.

 

[jackssack]

I saw a thread last night that got pulled, someone posted they thought Billie Eilish was pretty.

Cue lots of poster falling over themselves to say the most nastiness comments about her looks. Beauty is subjective but they just came across as bitter and would put any womans appearance down given the chance.

MN is likely full of Samantha Brick types.

I always picture them as Shona Sibary types

 

[ChastityDingle]

I'm convinced that a lot of them are just one person posting under 100s of names.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

The latest eco thread is getting them suitably riled up.

Premise: if humans became more or less extinct, the planet would be fine. Maybe a few humans would survive in one of the more temperate regions where subsistence agriculture would be more likely to succeed without doing too much damage, but whether or not they did, The Planet would be OK.

Response: YOU'RE A FASCIST, YOU WANT TO MURDER AFRICAN BABIES WHY DON'T YOU COMMIT SUICIDE THEN?

 

[Affiliatemebaby]

I'm doing a very tit job of eating well at the moment. I'm gluten free and dairy free and I just am really not enjoying food at all. I'd probably be a mumsnet food saviour for my pathetic attempts at eating. Even though if I could just go grab a pizza i'd be the happiest girl in the world right now.
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I'm actually sat here really hungry. Oh yay, gluten free toast for breakfast
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Yesterday I was enjoying this thread in MN incompetence.
How does one get to a train station if you don't live in London?? How do you country people do it???

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"We're not in Kansas anymore" - bleeping hell you've only moved to the Cotswolds, not the outer Hebrides!

I hadn’t realised taxis had stopped serving the very wilds of the Cotswolds.

I hate the endless inheritance threads as they are always full of people feeling defensive about what they got saying ‘I’d give it all up to have them back - you are lucky to have your loved ones instead of your mortgage paid off’. And it never seems to strike them that a lot of people both lose their loved ones AND get no inheritance. I have no personal animus towards the people who inherit (it’s most people I know) - just massive irritation at the MN posters who miss the point Every. Single. Time.
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Out of boredom I just looked up Moreton-in-Marsh on Uber. I can get a cab in 5 minutes.

 

[CrimsonCountess]

I always picture them as Shona Sibary types

God I bleeping hate that woman! Surely she is definitely a mumsnetter
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Actually I'm surprised she doesn't have her own thread on here

 

[DENNISWEAVER]

An amazingly hysterical thread currently underway where a cat has swiped at the mailman’s hand and left a scratch. OP is now the worst person ever for letting the postman writhe in pain (or erm, walk off without a word) and for having not insured her violent animal. The postman now has sepsis, how will OP support his family after his death?

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

Wedding ring thread on AIBU;

Seems fair enough if you have jewellery that you'd be upset to lose.

A. Only when I'm in an area that contains lots of poor people a different colour to me.

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

Wedding ring thread on AIBU;

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Seems fair enough if you have jewellery that you'd be upset to lose.

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A. Only when I'm in an area that contains lot of poor people a different colour to me.

I knew that thread would quickly descend into ‘my engagement ring is worth more than your house, pleb’ and I’ve not been disappointed.

 

[CrimsonCountess]

Another 'how old do I look' thread from someone asking if she should get botox as she doesn't like the wrinkles on her forehead. Someone has actually responded with this

Whats worse, seeing an odd wrinkle or not being able to see at all ? Would that make you happier? My best friend died aged 10 years old, wrinkle free.

 

[holasun]

Wedding ring thread on AIBU;

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Seems fair enough if you have jewellery that you'd be upset to lose.

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A. Only when I'm in an area that contains lot of poor people a different colour to me.

The WHOLE of Africa. (it irritates me no end when people speak about Africa like it's a country not a whole continent).
Also probs takes it off in any place north of the M25 (so dangerous)

 

[Wackie Jeaver]

oh the cat and the postie thread is creasing me up! The drama!