Mumsnet #3

[Gym&Tonic]

Their holidays must be as boring as fuck sat in some tent on a campsite in the South of France. I know where I’d rather go!

 

[Gloria Rostron]

I'm howling at this reply!

 

[FrannyGallops]

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!

And tbf, it’s quite offensive ascribing bad behaviour to a disorder or autism. And they do it with adults too.


‘My next door neighbour has just thrown a brick through my bedroom for no reason at all’

‘He may be autistic, OP. Please show him some compassion’.

Er, no. He’s probably just a cunt. Firstly, not all people with autism are badly behaved, just like NT people, and even if he is, it doesn’t excuse him throwing a brick through the window, and secondly, some people are just cunts.

 

[Fledgling Psycho]

I was ruminating this morning on a possible MN post.

My DH (narcissist) and DMIL (BPD) keep saying I'm not doing enough around the house. They both suffer with OCD. I have PTSD, BPD, ASC & ADD. Our two DC are ASD & ADHD with multiple allergies. My DH says if I'm not going to do the housework I should find a job. He is on a six figure salary and has a time consuming hobby. Be too outing to say what. Now I'm really fearful of developing OCD on top of my PTSD and multiple other syndromes. Is he BU?

Answer: LTB he's abusive & there's probably another woman. Block the MIL she sounds a complete witch.

 

[ChampagneBox]

I’ve got an ex JW in the family and it might sound daft, but not celebrating Christmas or your birthday does affect little kids (other religions like Islam or Judaism have their own celebrations, so I’m not talking about those who don’t celebrate Christmas specifically, obvs. JW don’t really celebrate anything, except Easter and even then it’s not a big family get together type thing).

The fact that the guy has left the Witnesses but still won’t celebrate Christmas tells me he really has some deep down issues that are affecting him. It sounds a bit like he’s still hedging his bets and could maybe do with that de-programming type counselling that is specific to ex cult members. My family member, who is ex JW, has gone the other way and makes a huge deal out of birthdays and Christmas, and really spoils his kids. He’s still close to his JW family as he wasn’t baptised (or their version of it) so he wasn’t dis fellowshipped, although his sister was and the rest of the family won’t talk to her. and he still resents his mother a bit for what she put him through as a kid.

As the daughter of a JW Christmas was always horrible even though my dad (not JW) tried to make it nice for us, it does leave deep emotional trauma so i did feel sorry for her partner It’s not as easy as just suddenly enjoying it when you’ve been told your whole life Christmas is literally the devil and pagan and everything else and your mum sits there with a face like a slapped ass all day

 

[Gym&Tonic]

If your ‘DH‘ has an ambiguous ‘hobby’ that he does on the weekend then he is not pulling his weight and ’checking out of family life’. However if ’DH’ shares similar concerns about his wife’s hobby then he is a controlling and abusive twat and you must call Women’s Aid and LTB immediately.

If you are struggling to find affordable childcare and don’t have any family available nearby then you should just magically create a spare bedroom and employ an Au Pair who you can then post endless threads about how they don’t pull their weight etc.

You mustn’t live any closer than 20 miles away from your in laws and they must not phone or attempt to visit you without making an appointment at least a month in advance.

If your ‘DH‘ wishes to shag another a woman then he should end the marriage first rather than embark on an affair , until he actually does in which case he is the scum of the earth.

 

[merlot]

There's a post on the "am I being unreasonable " bit about how your choice of chocolate determines your class.... And of course there are so many that wouldn't eat anything other than Prestat & even charbonnel & walker are a bit rough now as they sell in tkMaxx ..
Theyre absolute fucking weirdos!

Im not a fan of Cadburys tbh as I'm clearly not scum & better than anyone who likes a twirl.
nah, it's just nasty since they got taken over by Kraft & it's now waxy palm oily shite, bastards.

 

[SharkAttack]

The five year old who might become sexist and drunk if he played rugby was vintage MN crap. I couldn't believe my eyes with that post.

 

[FrannyGallops]

I did mean Lily Savage!

Fucking hell

 

[Gym&Tonic]

They have such an obsession with ‘friendship groups’ on there. I’ve not been in a friendship group since I was school! I have friends but they are part of a much wider circle of people rather than one group, I’d imagine it’s a bloody nightmare to navigate and the amount of times you see threads on there from women complaining about being excluded or frozen out proves that. They need to grow up.

 

[Blond3g1rl]

Grief wankers I call them.

Some of the threads about murdered or missing kids and women are over the top ghoulish and dead celeb threads are mawkish. There are some sick minds going about.

People who ‘sob all day’ about someone they don’t know totally weirds me out

 

[Aussie]

Somebody wants to return their MOONCUP (that they’ve attempted to insert) to Boots?! These people are insane.

Thank goodness though the thread hasn’t gone in their favour, so that’s something!

I had to go & read it...wow!!!

 

[Renegadedancer]

Surely that's a wind-up

You’d hope so. It would take me forever and a day and an electric shock to dry a days worth of crockery with a hairdryer.

 

[Hunsgraveyard]

Omg the production value of this screenshot thank you! How did you get it all in one?!

Android screenshot allows you to create a scrollshot! Amazing for keeping receipts on influencers, scammers and just plain old wierdos like this one

 

[Becclo44]

Anyone seen that thread where the OP hadn’t seen their neighbour in a while (and somehow knew they’d left their heating on... )? Omg the amount of posters literally gagging for the family to have all been dead or murdered in a brutal way. You could sense the disappointment when it turned out they’d just moved on.

That lot love to make anything into a theatrical drama.

 

[Samf2020]

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!

Nowhere else would anyone describe themselves as a high earner.
How much do you have to be taking home to your rural home with no en suites and endless chicken dinners and giant sons and teeny tiny daughters anyway?

 

[FrannyGallops]

So glad I found this thread.

I went on Mumsnet once about a year ago to ask for advice on my (at the time) stepdaughter. Nobody actually gave me any advice, I just seemed to attract all the bitter baby mothers who just slagged off the fact I was with a man who already had kids.

They all (wrongly) assumed I was the ‘other woman’ and the ‘home wrecker’ and were completely and utterly vile.

I’d mentioned in my post that I was pregnant and that my stepdaughter was really struggling to come to terms with it and was asking what I could do to try and help her. One of them said ( this is direct quote) ‘I don’t know if it’s your pregnancy hormones, but you sound like a complete fucking twat’. That was it, nothing else.

I reported it to the mods and they did fuck all so I started arguing back with them. 15 minutes later, I was banned.

It’s an absolute cesspool of nastiness. Yet we are the ones who get the bad rep

They really hate stepmothers on MN. If you’re treating the stepchildren well ‘YOU ARE NOT THEIR MOTHER, THEY ALREADY HAVE ONE’ and you’re overstepping boundaries and if you leave the children well alone ‘WHAT SORT OF MONSTER ARE YOU?! YOU KNEW HE HAD KIDS WHEN YOU GOT TOGETHER’.

Never seen anything like it. The only thing MN hates more than men, is stepmothers.

 

[YoungHollywood]

So depressing

Spoiler: eating disorder

 

[CyanideKiss]

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

The only acceptable portion size for popcorn is for it to be served in a bucket big enough to bath in.

 

[SpindleWhorl]

Jesus Christ. How incredibly low must your self esteem bar be, if a sixth former wearing a lanyard makes you feel inferior?

There was that MNer that posted the other week about how she hates it when people wear their work lanyard in the supermarket so lanyard-phobia must be a thing