I want to hazard a guess that 80% of the twats on MN who don't like someone using Dr unless it's a medical Dr are saying it a) because they only got 5 O-Levels/GCSEs and have no concept of how hard people work for their higher education and b) are so bleeping s**d that they know it's also because they would get confused and keep forgetting that to have the Dr title does not mean you know how to lance their arse boils.
Mumsnet #38 imagine spending £100 on a notebook and writing 'bleach arsehole' in it
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Yes. And I absolutely guarantee that if Aloysius or Persephone managed to get a PhD they’d post page after page of how HARD it was, and they’d be Doctoring their arses off every chance they got.
Which PhDs are easy???
Um, I don’t use my Dr at all outside my professional life, apart from a failed attempt to get a higher credit limit on my credit card. It’s embarrassing and I’m also always vaguely worried someone will come and find me when someone collapses. It’s a bit like those people who get some random honour and then start signing off all the emails ‘Joe Bloggs OBE’.
This has genuinely just given me a flashback to a repressed memory of my first husband, who had an actual smoking jacket In 1970. With lapels and everything. It might have been quilted velvet.Have you seen the one about the OPs husband crying on the sofa in his ‘house coat’ because his lifestyle forum has been shut down?
the OP has responded she’d be upset if tattle got shut down but she’d get over it…. So random
Oh. My. God.
Oh god you just reminded me of some dick I used to deal with at the Department for Education. He would have regional Zoom/Teams calls and after he got an MBE he added it to his screen name, just to remind us.
I worked with someone whose initials were D R. He was at the boarding gate at the airport when the attendant said to him that it’s always reassuring to know there is a doctor on board. He explained he wasn’t a doctor but spent the flight petrified there would be a medical emergency.
Actually it has made me snicker a bit at these stories of non medical people being terrified of getting dragged into medical emergencies!
My DH is a joiner by profession but he does Johns Ambulance volunteering because of his niche but outing hobby of Kite surfing. He's pretty proficient in an accident at sea, to be fair, and knows what to do and why and how quickly, and has got a good reputation for being a top class first aider, bless him. When I am paddle boarding, it's reassuring to know I probably won't die.
@Serene Serena you outed a hobby??
Kite surfing is mumsnet version of golf, or table tennis, or watching hardcore porn,@Serene Serena you outed a hobby??
I was a travel agent very briefly. The global airline booking system, Galileo, can't take punctuation on names but it's also designed to reject names that it thinks are fake. D'Eath is a real French name but the system doesn't accept it. That was a nightmare...
I don’t use mine either. Unless I am asked for my title which is rare, and usually shuts the patronising “is it miss or Mrs” bloke up. Cos it’s always a bloke.
Titles should be done away with imo. No point in them except for the “proud to be a Mrs” brigade.
Mine does pop in unexpected places. It’s on my medical records because I used the uni GP for a while.
However anyone telling me I can’t use it will only be allowed to address me as Dr.
It’s always got me great credit though
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The system would probably explode if a Dr D’Eath tried to book
My brother is a doctor and was on a flight when a medical emergency occurred. Someone else volunteered to help before him and he was relieved to be able to continue on with his film and g&t.
My sister has a PhD and does use the title. She is always worried on flights they will ask her for help in a medical emergency and all she will be able to do is write a really great historical report on the situation
You think that's bad?? My childhood medical doctor got sent to prison. And was called Dr Payne.
My colleague has a PhD but we work at an education institution, think university, so they’re everywhere! We aren’t academics though.
He worked for it, he can call himself the honorific if he likes…
He worked for it, he can call himself the honorific if he likes…
This has probably been pointed out before, but some of them are SO bitter about people who work from home.
Same here.
I immediately adopted the maxim "What God's forgotten, stuff with cotton." (It was from a Doris Day film - I forget which. I saw it over half a century ago)
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Big pants are where it’s at - that was another stupid thing about yoof - g-strings ffs. These days unless they’re big enough to sail a galleon laden with Spanish gold across the Atlantic, I’m oot.
I'm with you there @50degreesnorth. - I've tried thongs (many years ago) and found them uncomfortable, unhygienic and unspeakably sordid - went back to Big Knickers*. A colleague who always wore thongs kept banging on about how freeing they were and you also got no visible pantie line. I di point out to her that when your drawers stretch from you knee to your armpits you don't get visible pantie line either.
*Ironically, in view of your post, autocarrot tried to change "knickers" to "knockers", but I caught it in time.
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Not just French - lots of English D'Eaths and D'Aeths. I think it's Middle English but I wouldn't put money on it.
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