Mumsnet #4

[Pinkii]

Not to derail the thread or start any arguments but its not hating on trans for wishing women’s spaces and rights to be protected and for people to be called ‘hateful’ for having such wishes is the problem

 

[HockyRorror]

I’ve mentioned it before but the funniest post I saw on Mumsnet was when a woman with a young daughter asked for ideas to earn money and someone suggested she played a tambourine busking on the street while her daughter danced and performed for passer-bys

 

[JarvisCockerSpaniel]

Yes, on a recent ‘what will you cut back on’ thread, a poster bravely stated that she would buy an Aldi candle in place of her usual Jo Malone. Apparently it is ‘almost as good’. What a brave, resourceful soul.

 

[Anasnake]

Someone has suggested a ‘middle class only’ thread. Don’t want the plebs commenting

 

[SpindleWhorl]

Anyone seen this? I mean come on, the most obvious troll ever and it doesn't get deleted but they keep up genuinely funny posts because they think it might be a troll

 

[justheretoread99]

Guys, everyone needs to read this ASAP. This is the craziest one I’ve read for a while.

Although I do feel a bit sorry for the OP as she can’t be well.

 

[DrtCrl]

It's like... find something that most people would enjoy and then try and take it down as miserably as you can. Almost an Olympic sport for some of them.

This happens on SO MANY threads and is probably my biggest mumsnet pet hate. Someone starts a nice jolly fun thread and within a few posts someone has come along and - I always think deliberately - given a miserable and extreme response which brings the thread down. Along the lines of ‘what’s your favourite colour?’ ‘I don’t have one because my entire family were killed in a freak Crayola accident and now I’m alone in the world’.
I think it’s actually really cruel.

 

[HockyRorror]

Anyone seen the one where the OP’s entire holiday is now “tainted” because her DH put their suitcase on their bed when they got home?

 

[Gym&Tonic]

There is currently a thread in AIBU asking about whether it would be a acceptable to order Dominos pizza for their wedding guests. Amazingly it taken four pages before someone has suggested they’d be better off making a massive chilli instead, now I’m just waiting for the suggestion of a roast chicken, crusty bread and a massive salad to complete MN bingo.

 

[Libitina]

And roast a chicken, will feed the family until a week on Wednesday x

Honestly I had a brief period of wondering why I couldn’t make a chicken stretch as long as a mythical Mumsnet chicken, but then realised it’s because we all eat normal sized portions.

Yeah, these are the people who stop at just one biscuit and don’t eat the whole packet in one sitting.

Fucking weirdos.

 

[Little Miss]

I was reading the thread where it was asked if you would be disappointed in your children and this was one of the replies

Seriously what is wrong with them on that site

 

[Griftymcgriftface]

I used to have a housemate who took 45 minute showers. This poster would probably have expired after that long.

The utility bill threads sometimes make me wonder if anyone actually bothers to check how much things really cost before getting themselves into a state about it. I shower for about 15-20 minutes a day and with my crappy electric shower that I run very hot it costs less than 15p - unless the OP is really having to budget every last pound in a month it doesn't seem worth fighting over. Granted showers probably vary in efficiency, but loads of posters will go on about how they won't be able to afford hot meals for example, when running an 800W microwave for five minutes costs less than 2p even with the new price cap. Using a gas hob or boiling a cup of water in the kettle is even cheaper. It really annoys me because it seems like most of these posters are exaggerating how much they're struggling for the drama - if they were actually having to count every penny they'd know these things!

My partner suffers from severe depression and also /physical disability. He had a 45 minute shower today. And I’m glad of it. To hear him playing his music on the speaker in the shower and actually hearing him sing along and sounding free is worth every penny to me. They need to get a fucking life.

 

[justheretoread99]

I can’t get over the whole “meal deal will last me for 2 lunches”. I’ve been known to go back into Tesco’s for my second meal deal of the day cause I’m still ravenous.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

No, kids are amazingly fat. I think it's because, as a nation, we are so fat we can no longer tell what a healthy body should look like. Foreigners are always shocked by how huge we are.


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That completely ignores ethnicity, both in the stats gathering and in 'foreigners are always shocked at how huge we are'. And quoting both the percentage of Overweight and Obese and then Obese alone creates the impression that it's even more, rather than duplication of some of the figures.

Another way of putting it would be that 72% of 4-5 year olds and 70% are not overweight or obese in terms of the ranges set for white bodies where the participants' ethnicity has been ignored.

I live and work in one of those places and can say anecdotally that one of the consequences of this is putting a significant number of black children into an inappropriate category when they are absolutely a perfect weight for their size, build and developmental stage. Yes, there are some who are undoubtedly overweight, but far more aren't - but they're being judged on a standard set with reference to white British children. Which also contributes to the adultification of black children - because their normal development and build is not the same as that of their white counterparts, they're assumed to be older.



Fundamentally though, there is nothing wrong with Pizza. It's bread (a carbohydrate), a healthy oil (olive), usually tomato (a fruit with very high levels of polyphenols), and usually cheese (a protein source). So it's a healthy food, as it contains all food groups and a huge range of nutrients. It's inexpensive, can be eaten hot or cold and can be infinitely varied to take advantage of small amounts of ingredients. To use something that is suitable for almost everybody (the Celiacs amongst us are rarer, but we can also be catered for) and presenting it in a way that makes it more healthy/nutritious, ie, as it was originally developed - proper bread,, olive oil, unsweetened tomato, vegetables, cheese, small amounts of meat for flavour and herbs - is targeting a popular and accessible, inexpensive, foodstuff and encouraging choices that mean the advantages of the meal are heightened. It's also a great vehicle for encouraging kids to accept other items and tastes - onion, garlic, anchovies, oregano, basil, peppers, chilli, spices (as many cultures have a standard dish that involves bread with toppings), mushrooms, spinach, stronger cheeses...because it's already a known and liked product.



It's typical Mumnet to criticise one of the healthiest, cheapest, most accessible and universally recognised foodstuffs worldwide - bread with toppings - from their position of demonising both the poor and those from other ethnicities.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Those what to buy from Aldi and Lidl threads that crop up all the time make me roll my eyes. They see them both as curious oddities that are only used by the poor, when the reality is the quality is so good the middle classes discovered it ions ago. The Aldi near me is always full of affluent looking pensioners rather than poor families.

I mean why do you need advice on what to buy from a fucking supermarket? Just go and have a look and pick up what you like the look of and if you don’t like it don’t buy it again. Funny how you never see a what to buy from Iceland or Farmfoods thread isn’t it though?

 

[SpindleWhorl]

There's a thread on there at the moment where the OP intentionally tricked her DP into getting pregnant by not taking her pill. Of course all the replies are super supportive and telling her "You've only done what you are biologically programmed to do". No one calling her a manipulative bastard or anything.

 

[Wackie Jeaver]

a meal deal - and sandwich, bag of crisps and a drink???? for gods sake some of you must just be absolute pigs, I could feed my adult children on that for a week and have left overs.

 

[maytoseptember]

You couldn’t make this shit up, could you?

Fed up of pizza being normalised!

Pizza
Being
Normalised

Tell me you have food issues without telling me you have food issues.

 

[JarvisCockerSpaniel]

Seafour breakdown for anyone interested. The bus was something dreamt up by over invested Mumsnet aunties so they could virtually stroke each other’s hair and gorge on mince pies in a safe space.

-was paralysed from a surfing accident (she didn’t notice at the time and went to the pub)

-can’t breath without a ‘breathing machine’ that unfortunately kept getting switched off by errant nurses in intensive care or her fat cleaner doing the hoovering and her ‘Fab PA’ would have to leap in to save her life

- died on an easyJet flight but no one noticed except her husband and he luckily revived her in time to enjoy their break in Copenhagen

-aspirated a prawn into her lungs that caused pneumonia

there’s loads more. It was honestly a wild bus ride of bullshit and Mumsnet let the entire thing stand.

 

[maytoseptember]

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OP is perfectly right and still there’s presumably white MN’ers coming on to say Karen is a slur, these people are unbelievable. Turns out ppl on mumsnet defended The original Central Park racist? The lady who called the cops on a man just because he was black anyway, I can’t believe these people

“Karen” used to mean a particular type of uppity woman (not that I liked that either) but let’s be honest, now it means any kind of “old” (35+) woman who dares to exist in public. I think it’s a misogynist slur.