Mumsnet

[BethanyGilbert]

They are being such miseries over the roadmap. All saying we will be back in lockdown by September. Can't even have one evening of happiness.

 

[RedMagnolia]

These posh women are probably the same ones who salivate over the local builder/gardener/bricklayer, and write reams of self-indulgent twaddle about limerance.

 

[AlanBanan]

I must be a terrible parent because I avoid taking my children to the shops at all costs because it’s a pain and I usually just want to get in and out as fast as possible. Besides, it’s not exactly difficult to work out how shops work, you can teach toddlers that sort of thing from playing games at home.

Also last year wasn’t it advised to go shopping alone if you can? Obviously some people have no choice but not taking your kid to the supermarket in the middle of a pandemic if you can help it is probably a smart thing to do.

I don’t have kids myself but I have brought kids to the shops. And each time I have regretted it. They walk off, they throw tantrums, they keep asking for shit and generally they’re a nuisance and you keep losing your train of thought.

These people don’t understand not everything should be done with your children glued to your hip.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Lol I was reading that thread this morning. What a pity party. AF seems to crop up along on that site. Are they one of the ardent remainer group? Listening Quietly, DGRossetti and BigChocFrenzy were/are like a massive clique.

I don’t know anything about her politics, however I do know that she is bloody rude and is one of those people who uses the excuse of ‘saying it like it is’ to kick other posters when they are down. She’s part of the MN ‘inner circle’ though so gets away with it and is fawned over for it ‘oh AF I do love your straight talking’ etc. No she’s just nasty cow IMO.

I mean god, imagine having such a charmed life that you can get depressed about not going to your second home...

 

[Delia Smith]

And the assumption that everyone can afford a cleaner, go on ££££ holidays and send their children to private school.

 

[Apple In My Pie]

Was his name something like AverageGayLad or something? Reckoned he was 19 and terrified his parents would boot him out when they found out? Like parents don't already know
Cancel the cheque was funny because so many people read the OP then posted without reading the rest.
Who was penetration man?
Penis beaker was ridiculous and I'm pretty sure completely made up for shit and giggles.

Omg, averagegaylad! I actually ended up talking to him, me and him used mumsnet at the same time (i was/am the same age I just used the site as a surrogate parent and I guess because we were close in age we kind of grouped ) - omg. I saw him go through ban after ban and ended up getting inundated with tearful emails and PMs from him every time he got banned, asking for me to kick off on MN and request he be unbanned. And after a while he started to weird me out because in between his MN threads/his emails to me he would be talking about all the sex he was having in really squicky, minging detail Like - I don’t want to know, why would you want a bunch of women old enough to be your mother to know either?! - so I thought there was a fetishistic element to it. Eventually he got banned for good, then (because MN is shit at keeping out banned posters) managed to come back. So off I trotted to MNTrolls and warned everyone... he then found my post and started up the poor me act - I ended up getting hounded off of the sub as a result. But not before getting a PM from his supposed ex boyfriend telling me to stay away and that he was a troublemaking liar and all this.

 

[Niknak]

Haven't been on there for years, had to have a nose last night. There was a thread from someone who had opened a handwritten envelope addressed to her partner, within which was binded photocopies of passages from Robert Louis Stevenson novels. What followed was about 25 pages of replies - half were saying it was from Jehovah's Witnesses and the other half saying her partner was cheating on her It turned out that it was something to do with an eye test the lad was going for 25 pages of crap and accusations of cheating when the poster could have just asked her fella in the first place

At least I've been reminded why I don't go on that site

 

[RedMagnolia]

Seafour/C4 was a real treat. She would just breathlessly let it allllll pour out and regale her captive audience like nothing I've ever seen before. Creative as fook I'll give her that. Tripped up posting selfies of herself on other threads though when she had claimed her nose had been left basically a horrifically scarred nub and it was fine

I quite enjoyed her guided mediation: Imagine an ocean. A deep, blue ocean. A beach with white sand. A seagull flying over the sand. Pelicans chasing the current over the waves. The waves crashing on the beach. The white sand. The desert. Cactus in the desert. Blue sky. Blue, cloudless sky. Birds singing. A walled garden. Lush, green grass. Storm clouds. A cool breeze. The crack of thunder. The dark sky illuminated by lightning. A long, dirt road stretching toward the horizon. A grove of olive trees. A farmer. A woman pulling water from a well. Children playing in the distance. A tall tree, stretching up to the sky. Blue sky. Warm sun. Mountains in the distance, topped with snow. A farmhouse. A stable. Horses enclosed in a corral. Sunset. A flock of black birds in the sky. The hoot of an owl. The sounds of crickets. An old front porch with a swing. A glass of cold lemonade. A warm chair next to the fireplace. A gray cat curled on a small rug.

It was the posting from the back of the ambulance while the paramedics resuscitated her that made me doubt her story. 'Being blue lighted to hospital buslings, and I've just stopped breathing, be right back'

 

[Fenella]

I posted on Mumsnet for a while but didn't last long. The final straw was when they ripped apart a poor poster who was upset about not being able to see her partner at Christmas due to Covid restrictions and being in a long distance relationship. They all piled on telling her if they had a long distance relationship it wasn't real, they couldn't possibly love each other if neither of them were prepared to uproot and move to be with the other, how very date she suggest she was being hard done to etc. I was in a similar situation and it stung me to the core that they were being so vile.

I couldn't be done with all the DD, DS, DH, DDog etc, name changing because the post was "outing", and generally being very vague about where they lived (a small Northern town, handy for 2 nearby cities). Vagueness in general really, instead of giving actual examples they'd say things like "we gave our DD a traditional name, think Victoria Georgina" or the inability to talk about their DH hobbies (we all knew it was either golf or cycling but they could never admit it).

There were a few good wind up threads but some posters for far too invested in them.

so many times I’ve had to edit my posts here because I’ve put DH like some kind of stupid muscle memory!

 

[PinkFigs]

The threads on there that I find irritating are the ones where the OP says something like ‘Guess what I’ve just found in my loft’. Cue 10+ pages of saddos trying to guess, and the OP fucks off for days to then come back and reveal it was a box or something!

 

[RedMagnolia]

I've never been on digital spy, I've just heard they're as bad as mumsnet for deleting threads. For some reason I was under the impression it was a forum for TV viewers.

They delete any thread that might result in Hearst getting sued, I think. Any slanderous comments about showbiz people get zapped.

Has anyone seen the thread about what makes you posh, on Mumsnet? The snobbery is hilarious to read. I remember one similar thread where a poster claimed to be middle-class because she had a bean to cup coffee machine. You can buy them in Argos ffs, hardly Harrods
Then there was that horrifically sneery thread about rattan garden furniture and how chavvy it is to have a garden sofa. One should recline on a blanket under a tree, not all comfy on a settee with a can of lager glass of wine.

 

[MardiMi]

When someone on Mumsnet doesn't agree with you they often just call you stupid and unintelligent? Rather than seeing something is a complex issue with many valid viewpoints. Often with a silly comparison.

I'm done with that site and all the unpleasantness.

Baby boomers there are the worst, refusing to accept how lucky they are (as a generation) and acting as if they're the generation that has had it the hardest!

The David thing was dodgy, mn says it was real but the poster realeased a audio message that was clearly a guy pretending to be a woman

 

[wotdidijustwatch]

I've always had this feeling that some posters on there live very joyless lives. I stopped posting on there 2 years ago because a poster just pounced on me because she didn't believe something had happened to me and just wouldn't let it go.

I much prefer it on here - if anyone disagrees, no one is called thick or uneducated and no one asks for a source for any information.

I posted once on MN simply just asking advice if there may be any benefits that women on SMP may be entitled to. I got eaten alive and made out to be some massive work shy scrounger looking to claim stuff so I can sit on my arse and not work. Nob heads!

 

[Pinkblush]

No wonder they are nick named mumsnet mafia. The baby names thread is brutal. One pregnant woman said her husband didn't like her name preferences - jaden, beau, sienna, ava, and riley. She got laid into and was told they were 'too council'. Another woman said she had three boys barney, bertie, and baxter and was looking for a B name for a daughter she was expecting. A lot of them were mocking her sons names saying 'why have they got dogs names' and 'why don't you call her blossom or bella to carry on the pet name theme'.
The utter snobbery is beyond belief. Its also true what gym and tonic says above. If someones husband is having an affair they question the wife in a wsy that suggests it might be her fault 'did u take your eye off the ball' and ' have u let yourself go' or the oyher woman gets slated. They never blame the man.

 

[Lolly666]

I love the ridiculous mother's day threads! I was actually looking forward to today so I could read them, haha. Can not get over how much some people get in a twist over their husband not doing enough for them or whatever. You aren't your husband's mother though, surely?!

 

[KateESJ]

mumsnet is a bloody nightmare. I went through a lot of parenting sites but mumsnet was the worst. Someone called me selfish for putting my son through cancer treatment. Never went back after that.

Babycentre was alright but I never got into it as much. My birth board was pretty dramatic but I learned not to take it seriously.

 

[Yel]

They do seem to like to pull the “Oh we’re so sorry, it was a mistake, we’re just a small site of mums trying our best...” act a lot. Which is confusing when they’re then asking people to pay for the site.

What did everyone think of Justine’s claims of being swatted after the hack? I thought it was very very convenient timing for it to happen...

It's very much cake and eat it.

Justine goes off swanning around with her media career giving speeches as she's apparently one of the most successful business women in Europe

But whenever anything goes wrong they're very unprofessional and act like it's a few clueless people volunteering to run a charity bake sale.

That pure online business is fucking cheeky trying to grab cash when there's so many businesses that are run well and are genuinely struggling through no fault of their own.

Must be run in a total echo chamber to think a message board begging on Christmas Eve was ever a good idea.

 

[Rxt156]

I got banned from Mumsnet for speculating about celebrity affairs , they even sent me an email saying they'd let me back in if I apologised profusely and promised I'd never do it again. Fuck that, I would never lower myself to doing that. You can't even have a lighthearted gossip about celebs on there without a power hungry mod swinging the ban hammer. I remember a "rude celebrities you've met" thread got removed as well for not being in the spirit of the site. Literally the most un-fun, blandest forum ever.

Apologise profusely

Is this primary school!!!!

 

[Traveler001]

You don’t even need to be posting an issue about your husband for them to tell you to leave him We were having issues with my step daughter a couple of years ago and out of sheer desperation for an objective opinion I made a post there. Won’t make that mistake again

within an hour of posting it, id been told I was a cow, a horrible step mother, that my husband was a bad father, that he was probably still sleeping with his ex and that I should leave him because they thought he was a terrible father and that I should be reported to social services for allowing my kids to be around him

(FYI, all I posted was that his then 12yo daughter had stopped coming over when she was supposed to come for contact as she wanted to be with her mates at mums house instead and we were torn whether to leave her be, or try and be more proactive at getting her to come over!)

never went back on!

You’re a step mother? Then it doesn’t matter what you was posting about on MN - you’re wrong! You were in the queue at Tesco and a man came up and took something out of your trolley and then punched you when you said something? You probably deserved it for being so awful to your step children. Home wrecker!

 

[RedMagnolia]

I am really skeptical about them generally. I have known of one person who “found out” they were pregnant at that stage, but years later she admitted she’d really known longer and had just been in denial. They’re a fave made up topic, and if any of them are true, I think it’s far more likely to be that type of situation.

The last one I read, went from feeling something move, to seeing her GP and having the pregnancy confirmed, to labour and subsequent delivery of baby Delilah within a few days. She even posted a photo of baby Delilah's hand and I swear it was a picture nicked from reborn doll maker's forum!