That always reminds me of that Guardian problem page article.The "help, my adult daughter got a tattoo" thread is horrendous.
Normally at least the OP may be batshit but there'll be a decent ratio of sensible to ridiculous from other posters. Not here. So much hand-wringing about creating perfect humans with perfect skin and them destroying it with tattoos...
This thread is something else. One poster claiming that people getting tattoos could be because they have a controlling partner forcing them to. They are actually unhinged.The "help, my adult daughter got a tattoo" thread is horrendous.
Normally at least the OP may be batshit but there'll be a decent ratio of sensible to ridiculous from other posters. Not here. So much hand-wringing about creating perfect humans with perfect skin and them destroying it with tattoos...
Jesus christ, what an awful woman.That always reminds me of that Guardian problem page article.
Found it: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/11/devastated-by-my-sons-tattoo
Will be surprised if no-one on the thread has mentioned it.
Never ever discuss tattoos on Mumsnet. Suddenly it turns into the 1950s. People swooning and appalled at a bit of ink. They make you look cheap and nasty, don’t they? Did you know they last FOREVER?The "help, my adult daughter got a tattoo" thread is horrendous.
Normally at least the OP may be batshit but there'll be a decent ratio of sensible to ridiculous from other posters. Not here. So much hand-wringing about creating perfect humans with perfect skin and them destroying it with tattoos...
Just come here to post about that … “ruining her beloved body”The "help, my adult daughter got a tattoo" thread is horrendous.
Normally at least the OP may be batshit but there'll be a decent ratio of sensible to ridiculous from other posters. Not here. So much hand-wringing about creating perfect humans with perfect skin and them destroying it with tattoos...
The wedding dress or the valentines dress and the boots she wants to wear with it?!The style and beauty threads kill me.
There's one at the moment, everyone falling over themselves to rave about an item the OP has posted which really isn't very nice at all. They're such an echo chamber though, the first poster says that's lovely and they all follow suit. Ditto if it's something they don't like. Ugh.
I made the mistake of posting for outfit suggestions once. Never again!
I’ll always remember a thread someone posted on there asking for advice about doing her make up. She posted a few photos of herself and everyone was falling over themselves to say ‘oooh you are stunning’ and ‘oh you‘re so pretty’, but without sounding unkind she was neither stunning nor ‘so pretty’. She was just a very ordinary looking, if slightly frumpy, woman. Nothing wrong with that, but instead of commenting on her skin or hair and tell her what she could do feel better about herself, they just kept telling her how beautiful she was. It was fucking weird, and I felt like I’d fallen into a parallel dimension or something.The style and beauty threads kill me.
There's one at the moment, everyone falling over themselves to rave about an item the OP has posted which really isn't very nice at all. They're such an echo chamber though, the first poster says that's lovely and they all follow suit. Ditto if it's something they don't like. Ugh.
I made the mistake of posting for outfit suggestions once. Never again!
I saw that one and deliberately steered clear as I knew it would likely to be ridiculous, sounds like it was the right choice toThe "help, my adult daughter got a tattoo" thread is horrendous.
Normally at least the OP may be batshit but there'll be a decent ratio of sensible to ridiculous from other posters. Not here. So much hand-wringing about creating perfect humans with perfect skin and them destroying it with tattoos...
i think it’s some sort of superiority complex/possible guilt? I don’t mean people say it in a nasty or mocking way either. But like when people fall over themselves to leave comment on a pic of a middle aged or elderly man whose hairline has massively receded and has a few strands of wispy longish hair dressed in a dress and heels and lipstick “omg, you’re gorgeous” and “wow, wish I could look that good”. It’s false, I think, but I don’t think in a nasty way, but from a superior point of view like “I better say this to make them feel better even though I don’t truly think so”. If that makes sense?? I know what I mean, lol.I’ll always remember a thread someone posted on there asking for advice about doing her make up. She posted a few photos of herself and everyone was falling over themselves to say ‘oooh you are stunning’ and ‘oh you‘re so pretty’, but without sounding unkind she was neither stunning nor ‘so pretty’. She was just a very ordinary looking, if slightly frumpy, woman. Nothing wrong with that, but instead of commenting on her skin or hair and tell her what she could do feel better about herself, they just kept telling her how beautiful she was. It was fucking weird, and I felt like I’d fallen into a parallel dimension or something.
Oh, that poor boy. Imagine coming home and realising that your mother is a demented harpy, who thinks that you're one of her posessions, just because she took you to the dentist when you were a kidThat always reminds me of that Guardian problem page article.
Found it: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/11/devastated-by-my-sons-tattoo
Will be surprised if no-one on the thread has mentioned it.
The envelope one was hilarious. In our houses it would have beenI read one earlier about the useless husband who forgot to get an envelope from work to post a letter and sent it to the admin building instead of a specific person.
The newborn ones really annoy me and I don’t know anyone in real life who said no visitors after the birth and not letting anyone but the mother hold the baby. I agree that it’s always the evil in laws who demand drinks, hog the baby and the OP’s mother who is saintly and does all the housework and cooks a meal while she’s visiting.
OK, so disclaimer, I haven’t seen the thread, but weaponised incompetence is real.The envelope one was hilarious. In our houses it would have been
Me. Did you post the letter and address it to Ms Specific in Specific department?
Husband shit, no
Me. Knobhead, oh well, it will get there
Then move on. On that thread, her husband is practically abusive and gaslighting her and she needs to get her ducks on a row and hide money and ltb!!
fancy writing a post on the internet because your husband wrote the wrong name on an envelopeOK, so disclaimer, I haven’t seen the thread, but weaponised incompetence is real.
Would a man at work (especially a white collar six figure salary job that all MN husbands do) get away with half arsing everything all the time? Not being bothered to address a letter to the correct person?
That’s probably why the thread blew up. All these posters projecting about their own husbands who resent having to do wifework and so do a deliberately shitty job of it.
Now me personally, I wouldn't assume my Husband is abusing me or showing abusive behaviour because he didn't put a name on the envelope. Neither would I be "furious" and start a post about it on a random parenting site.OK, so disclaimer, I haven’t seen the thread, but weaponised incompetence is real.
Would a man at work (especially a white collar six figure salary job that all MN husbands do) get away with half arsing everything all the time? Not being bothered to address a letter to the correct person?
That’s probably why the thread blew up. All these posters projecting about their own husbands who resent having to do wifework and so do a deliberately shitty job of it.
Yup, this! All teachers are saints, but all midwives are terribly cruel, don’t care and their baby could have died because no one would listen.There seems to be a really odd defence of ALL teachers on mumsnet . like there can be bad lawyers, bad binmen, bad doctors, bad husbands etc but god forbid anyone say a teacher is bad. You know straight away that the responses are it’s either the parent or the child at fault. Having worked in a school and having 2 children going through different stages of education I can honestly say that not all teachers are made the same (how could they be).
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