Mumsnet #4

[Eenymeenyminymo]

OP asked about meal deals, this person makes theirs last 2 lunches?? A wrap, a smoothie and a snack bar it’s practically begging for attention

 

[JarvisCockerSpaniel]

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?

Same as ‘what shall I order from the Chinese/Indian takeaway?’

WHAT DO YOU LIKE YOU ABSOLUTE WET LETTUCE BELLEND

 

[cococookie]

Imagine if it was the other way around and she didn’t want a baby but her partner poked holes through a condom? It’s so wrong

 

[JarvisCockerSpaniel]

Thera’s a Mother’s Day woe is me thread at the moment where the woman is complaining that no restaurant has been booked and nothing planned.

the OP isTEN DAYS OVERDUE and they have a toddler. It’s no time to be dicking about in Toby Cavery.

 

[klarakluckbag]

Today’s post of “things that didn’t actually happen”..

So this MN poster wrangled an afternoon nap, AND her mother-in-law is coming to take care of the kids tomorrow? Now that's what I call a result! Cheers!

 

[JarvisCockerSpaniel]

Honestly the dilemmas these brave Mumsnetters are facing in the wake of rising living costs… my heart goes out to them, truly.

 

[witchofwestbyfleet]

I'm in my early 30s and I have noticed my memory not being so good lately. I put that down to the stress of trying to arrange a wedding, honeymoon, house move etc. but Mumsnet has shown me the light. Better go break it to my fiance that I'm sliding into dementia and he'll be spending our first wedding anniversary by my bedside at the nursing home

 

[Fledgling Psycho]

Why on earth would you bother with the "d" on cats?

 

[JarvisCockerSpaniel]

Zizzi you can get on a taste card 50% off
No way on God's green earth would I pay £75 for pizza
You can get a Chinese takeaway and wine for 4 for £75 and still be eating it for lunch/ breakfast and dinner the next day
I hate pizza . I'd rather starve

‘I hate pizza. I’d rather starve’ is such a Mumsnet thing to say though

 

[Traveler001]

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.

Similarly people not being allowed to complain eg ‘AIBU to ask my mum to call before she pops in as we’re TTC and she nearly caught us at it?’ ‘My mum is dead, what I wouldn’t give for her to come into my home unannounced, one day you’ll miss her doing that’.

That’s not the issue is it, unfortunately everyone will be dead one day, we’re still allowed to ask someone not to do something or be pissed off by someone!

 

[DCICassieStuart]

Someone needs to post this over there.

 

[Traveler001]

Yes exactly, that's why I found it unreal. There's a lot of idiots out there.

My favourite baby name threads are the ones where people say ‘I love classic names like Victoria and Marie but they’re already in use in my family, anyone have ideas for alternatives?’ And they get replies like ‘what about river-rain, Bailey-Rae or Dandelion’.

 

[maytoseptember]

In reality I know very few mums who still rear face their kids past the age of 2, yet EVERYONE on Mumsnet seems to until the age of 4
Yes I know it's much safer, I don't need lecturing on it.

What are you taking about, my kid is nearly as tall as me and is still rear facing! Sure, her knees are bunched up by her chin but you can’t be too careful. She will only be allowed to face forward when she’s driving the car herself!

 

[maytoseptember]

I am enjoying the thread that’s ‘things that are expensive but worth every penny on’

Happily ticking off the list of desperate show offs drawn like moths to a flame on there, all the usual suspects present and correct. I can’t imagine my sole validation in life being mumsnet money threads. I do love it when Londonmummy whips the wannabe lot in to the bushes though.

You just know the horses and dog set are secretly sneering at the shellac and Range Rover wannabes

I’m no stranger to fancy brands even if I can’t afford them, but I was flummoxed by someone naming a high end FRIDGE brand I’d never heard of. How the other half live.

Also enjoyed X*nia relishing the opportunity to brag about how she barely stops working to sleep and the usual guff about putting five kids through private school (at pains to point out from age 4-18 ) university and house deposits. That one has been spinning the same lines for years and years and years. Hard to believe that someone who works so hard has the free time to tell the Internet about it.

 

[Anasnake]

There’s a cracking post about covid vax and holidays at the moment. One anti vaxxer calling themselves a ‘pure blood’

 

[Anasnake]

Someone has complained to the BBC about an episode of Hancock’s half hour from 1958

 

[PrincessCharming]

My parents split when I was 5. Both of them had many long and short term partners. It was tedious for my brother and I. We were adults by the time they both remarried and they both divorced yet again, and the cycle repeated itself but this time they had new kids to mess up.

I feel very strongly that kids should not be introduced to new partners until quite far down the line and definitely not move in unless it’s a life partner.

 

[Pinkii]

Thats why are they are all so nasty! They are just hungry!!!

 

[PumpkinKing]

8 pages in and I still can't picture this....

If my neighbour told me not to open my own window I'd tell them to fuck off, and I'm a quiet person who hates confrontation!

 

[SpindleWhorl]

I wonder how many massive salads are being consumed in gardens up and down the land this evening