Mumsnet #3

[Chunkeylaydee]

My SIL in 2020 text me to ask how we were surviving the pandemic financially. I pointed out that my husband was still working and I was working the the hubs that our council was running.
She told me she was upper class and struggling and how were the lower classes coping?

I couldn’t stop laughing. She didn’t find it funny. She’s as working class as me and her in-laws.

 

[WeHadFunRight]

Has anyone seen the thread about drag queens? MN getting their big knickers in a twist about drag queens being grotesque, scary and against womanhood.
Absolutely certain none of them have ever met or seen a drag queen in person.
If you're scared of a drag queen it shows you haven't got enough to do in your life.

They have loads to do:
- Obsess over being middle class (untold number of activities here but ALL filed under trying to assure people you’re superior.)
- Have a passive aggressive fight with neighbour over parking (post hand drawn diagram to forum)
- Warn poster of their DH’s red flags, LTB, cancel the cheque, keep your powder dry, get your ducks in a row.
- dress up bullying as “straight talk/no frills advice”
- give yourself a Mumsnet haircut
- talk about how you don’t understand why people say they’re poor and can’t afford to feed their children because you regularly forage for berries and mushrooms every couple of days and eggs from your own chickens are free so what exactly is their problem…
- cook a Mumsnet chicken, feed a village for a fortnight
- change your name, assure people you’ve been here since this was all fields, go into a personal but ultimately mundane and extremely vague issue that no one really cares about after all…

 

[Wackie Jeaver]

They are all pretty weird really... it used to be fun/amusing in places and there are some good people on some threads, but AIBU is a cess pit with no exit (is there an exit from a cess pit? I have no idea!) But the aggression is quite scary at times, at least on here - although Tattle is also described as a cess pit in the media - people seem to be able to agree to disagree for the most part.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

I’ve never come across as many people obsessed with class as the users of MN. I think that’s probably down to the demographic supposedly being ‘middle class’ and allegedly more educated (or so they’d like to think even though they’re desperate for reassurance all the time). They were very in competition with Netmums at one point, which was seen to be a bit more lower class and full of huns than MN, although the lines have blurred in recent years.

It makes me laugh how much they look down on trade though. Most tradesmen I know earn an absolute wedge, but the women on MN wouldn’t even deign to let them use the cloakroom toilet in their new build.

They have such a chip on their shoulder about tradespeople. Probably because they are the new middle classes and haven’t been anywhere near a six form college let alone Uni. I’ve never met a poor plumber or electrician because people will always need them! and a savvy one can have a really profitable and successful business. You also to be quite academically able to even get a place or a course or apprenticeship these days, it’s very competitive and most colleges require minimum grade GCSE’s. Remember that plumbers are working with gas and electricians with, well electric lol. Both things that can cause fires and explosions! They days when tradespeople were those who were too thick to do anything else are long gone. I don’t have kids but if I did I’d sooner they went into trade rather than go to a sodding Russell Group Uni and saddled with god knows how much debt.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

Fucking hell. If that's even remotely grounded in truth, she needs professional intervention.

Although somebody saying they'd heard the same story from a poster with the same name on fucking Freecycle - that must have been a bit of a surprise when they were hoping to pick up a second hand IKEA wardrobe.

Tl;dr - OP writes incredibly long and pompous post about how she had an awful childhood and her male friend helped her through it. She's now self publishing writing a book about her suffering and wanted him to write a chapter of it. She's also told him she loves him and they are meant to be together. He's said 'um, no' and not written the chapter in her book probably because none of it is true and she's furious that he is rejecting her on the grounds of being married, as she says he clearly loves her, too - and that she would understand it perfectly and give graceful permission if she were his wife and he wanted to fuck another woman on the side.

If there is any truth in it, chances are that bloke has been nice to her because he felt a bit sorry for her.

Serious weirdness.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Has anyone else seen the ‘Show me your Christmas fridge’ thread? Lots of photos of their Christmas fridges rammed full of mostly Waitrose stuff. No awareness of their privilege at all!

 

[AlanBanan]

But if you shave it all off are you working class or upper class? Equally if you have a big 70s growler what class are you?

These women don’t touch their bits never mind look at them, the gasps of even allowing your husband or boyfriend to see your fanjo never mind looking at it yourself.

I bet money that their fannies all look like they’ve got Ken Dodd in a leglock.

 

[AlanBanan]

The first one is inexcusable for them not to take it down tbh. You’ve got regular midwife contact for the first however many weeks of baby’s life, you don’t need showing twice do you. Absolute shithole allowing that carry on.

I changed my first nappy at around 10 years of age with no help - no grown adult needs explanation on how to change a baby’s nappy, they should nip it in the bud on that site and anyone asking such questions should be banned immediately.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

I will just never get bored of the new and creative ways the shoe horn in to any old post how much they earn, and how successful they are!

One thread the other week was something like ‘I struggle with online job applications anyone else?’ and within a few posts someone was going on about ‘my very intelligent and high earning husband has a similar problem…’ I mean eye roll!

Someone being a high earner is included as a detail in the most unrelated posts!

Always a ‘high earner’ on a ‘six figure salary’ who works in a ‘niche industry’. Whoever knew there so many high earning jobs in niche industries?

 

[FrannyGallops]

Somebody with the user name of PrettyPissyPants has started a thread about wetting themselves after falling off a swing and wants to know if it’s ever happened to anyone else. Cue replies of ‘on the off chance you’re not a troll…here’s my story about the time I pissed myself’.

Ffs.

 

[April89]

Mentioning McDonalds on any thread sends out the bat signal! They rush into talk about how sick it makes them and how they never eat it!

 

[Phoenix Lazarus]

I've found a winner. Someone who managed to show horn hating men AND the working class in one post.

"Working-class clothes"!? What does that even mean: a blinkin' flat cap an' fingerless mittens, guv'nor!?

 

[FrannyGallops]

Has anyone seen the ‘who earns a six figure salary and what do you do’ thread? A couple of posters are trying to frame it as inspirational in a patronising kind of ‘we did it and if you just knuckle down, work hard and pretend you don’t have kids, you can do it too!’ way. I mean I don’t believe even half of them on that thread earn that much because there are some familiar names on there who are on every thread, and if you have a job earning over £100,000 it’s unlikely you’d be spending 15 hours of the day on MN It’s quite astonishing, nay almost unbelievable, how many high earning women use MN

 

[CyanideKiss]

Yeah changing nappies is really straight forward. It’s nothing like Three Men and a Baby where they make it look like rocket science.

Well, quite. After having my DCs I reckon I could have successfully changed a nappy, blindfolded, whilst suspended by one leg from the ceiling. Still nowhere near as adept as my Mum though, who could efficiently change my DD's nappy, ON HER LAP, whilst simultaneously drinking a cup of tea and smoking a fag.

 

[Peachsquish]

Some people are crackers honestly. This was a response under the ‘ Things you do without’ thread

Surely that's a wind-up

 

[Gym&Tonic]

They’re all armchair psychologists on there. They throw words like ‘gaslighting’, ‘narcissistic’, and ‘emotional abuse’ around with gay abandon and they’re able to diagnose whether someone’s autistic from a single post. Imagine how much money and time the NHS could save if they employed some of them.

If someone ever starts a thread complaining about badly behaved children you will almost immediately get a response saying something like ’they may have ASD/ADHD/ADD/Conduct Disorder etc’ to justify it, when in fact nine times out of ten these kids are just bloody naughty!

 

[sixdinnersid83]

Crumbs is bizarre to me, I know who she is in RL (no I am not going to divulge details or hint etc). Some things she says are complete lies, others are true. I am surprised that she has not got in a serious amount of trouble with her employer though. Her desperate attempts at trying to appear upper class are where she embarrasses herself, plus the bedroom and house fibs.

I also know who another serial fantasist is and cringe at how she portrays her life on mumsnet. Kind of fascinating though.

 

[JustAnotherFollower]

I joined this thread recently and have been enjoying the tales so I did a bit of googling of mumsnet and could not believe what I stumbled across! haha there was an OP posting about 'her husband leaving poo crumbs everywhere' (yes it was the first I heard of this too) but the responses were priceless... Google mumsnet and poo crumbs and I promise you won't be dissapointed... I def think it was a troll but many of the responders were very serious in true mumsnet fashion! hilarious!!

 

[Lurker527]

Why whenever food is mentioned on there is it always a 'small snack' or a 'light snack' why need to mention the word small? Someone the other day was saying they had a movie night with a 'small bag of popcorn each' what about a fuck load of sweets popcorn and crisps for treat night

 

[maytoseptember]

I went to school with a JW and she missed out on so much. No Christmas, no birthdays, having to sit out of every single assembly throughout primary school… not even a single school trip.

Because your parents had to sign a permission form for medical treatment in the event of an emergency, didn’t they? Her parents couldn’t risk a terrible accident happening that might end with a teacher giving permission for a blood transfusion. So no school trips, ever.