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.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 fucking 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.
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 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.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’.
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.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.
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 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.
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.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’.
The system would probably explode if a Dr D’Eath tried to bookI 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...
You think that's bad?? My childhood medical doctor got sent to prison. And was called Dr Payne.The system would probably explode if a Dr D’Eath tried to book
Same here.Most of my friends have recalibrated their bra size in the new way of measuring and now have huge cup sizes. Even I have a C cup now and I was once told by an M&S bra fitter that my breasts were too small to feature on their sizing chart.
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.You’d think with all the size walmarts in the US that bra sizes would extend upwards - but I remember going to Lane Bryant (US Evans) and being shocked that the largest size was a DDD or something. If there’s one thing MN does do right, then it’s a bra intervention.
Perhaps if I’d worn a 34F in my yoof instead of a 42C, my knockers wouldn’t currently been knocking on my navel.
*autocarrot said my knickers were knocking on my navel. This is also true. 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.
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.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...
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