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They can be really judgmental on there when it comes to the topic of childcare, to send or not send kid to nursery/pre-school/how many hours etc
You should have seen the replies when I mentioned my 7 year old had asked for jam sandwiches for packed lunch and I made them (her pal had them the day before, mother a teacher). I think if they knew my address Iâd have had social services at my door. It happened twice in seven years and my daughter has so far not suffered.
I was accused of child abuse for saying I let my then 8 year old watch the later Harry Potter movies
apparently he would be scarred for life... heâs almost 10 now and so far hasnât tried to kill anyone with magic.God yeah, it's a ridiculously privileged bunch of people. Or they pretend to be. I think my favourite recent thread was the one about whether being on 60k made you 'well off.' A surprising number of posters were actually insisting that they were poor because they didn't have that much disposable income after paying for school fees and their ÂŁ2000 mortgage payments, I kid you not.
I've flounced plenty of times, I always seem to manage to post something completely innocuous about family meals or something and then get singled out by some weird member who just goes on and on about how I'm messing my child up somehow. It's completely crazy over there at the moment so I would avoid. Pure hysteria and they're all just winding each other up and up and up!
I am studiously ignoring the covid section. It's full of people who can't or won't cope with it.
I once got accused of being a troll because I mentioned bus fare for a child. I had one âRoyaltyâ member insisting at me that kids are free on buses all over England followed by a load of her friends jumping in to insist the same and that kids oysters are free - they may well be, but you canât use an oyster in Lancashire and they charge for 7 year olds on the bus here. Definitely my weirdest personal experience.
Its very London centric, Apparently one time a poster who lived in rural Yorkshire was struggling to get into work and someone asked her why she didnât just use the tube. I donât think itâs goes that far North does it?
Ha ha! Yes, and on every thread about snoring husbands the majority of posters say 'can't you just sleep in the spare room?' What effing spare room?
I think it was quite london centric in the early days but I read recently they have over 100 million members now.Its very London centric, Apparently one time a poster who lived in rural Yorkshire was struggling to get into work and someone asked her why she didnât just use the tube. I donât think itâs goes that far North does it?
Yes, and so many of them have Au Pairs! I donât know anyone in real life who has one. âAIBU my Au Pair made a mess in my kitchen and didnât clean upâ. Well how about you employ a proper Nanny with proper child care qualifications and not a teenager little older than the kids sheâs looking after? Oh but then that youâd have to pay them the living wage wouldnât you and give them âpocket moneyâ.
I'm always utterly shocked and appalled at how vicious they all are on there. I've rarely seen a more toxic platform.
What's wrong with them? I don't get why anyone would want to spent their time being so horrible every day, or why they sit and take it from each other either.
What's wrong with them? I don't get why anyone would want to spent their time being so horrible every day, or why they sit and take it from each other either.
Stopping mumsnet was one of the most liberating things I did. Itâs a magnet for bullying and bullshitters. Itâs made up of trolls and idiots who twist the words of someone desperate asking for help then stick the knife in. I feel bad for anyone deluded enough to think theyâre in some kind of support network for mums.
The âMN royaltyâ posters are bitter, twisted and have too much time on their hands going by their presence on every thread.
The âMN royaltyâ posters are bitter, twisted and have too much time on their hands going by their presence on every thread.
I think it still can be, but a couple of the main âItâs done this way in London thus it is everywhere else tooâ royalty left and WorraLiberty, who used to be quite bad for it, has learnt that other places do things differently so you stand a much better chance of getting the thread started constructively rather than the London lot coming on to hijack it.
The same with school holidays being different in different countries, posters from Scotland used to constantly be called trolls at the point the holidays donât match with England, but recently it seems to have sunk in different places do things differently.
Thereâs a poster called âWorraLibertyâ who is one of the rudest people Iâve ever encountered anywhere on the internet, and yet because sheâs part of the âroyaltyâ everyone thinks sheâs wonderfulâ because she âtells it like it isâ. No, sheâs a bleeping rude witch who has been really unpleasant to lots of people who were just asking for advice. If you dare call her out on it though you will be on the receiving end of a pile on from other royalty members for daring to stand up to her.
It annoys me how cliquey it is too. All this
âOh hi boden_dress67!â
âHiiii *waves*â
Total derailing of the thread for people to show off how much they use the site
âOh hi boden_dress67!â
âHiiii *waves*â
Total derailing of the thread for people to show off how much they use the site
Another thing is whenever someone asks where they can buy nice clothes from them and they always say Mint Velvet. Have you seen the prices at Mint Velvet?! Itâs ÂŁ60,00 for a basic top or shirt!
Mn is also deleting threads on a random basis but also seems abit of censorship of dissenting views re covid going on .There was a thread asking nurses their current experiences of admissions etc, and most were saying things were busy..but I think a few sceptics were on it too..looked for it this morning and it had gone . Im not a sceptic but wanted to post about a woman on fb going round hospitals on the south coast filming empty wards and waiting rooms...just wanted refutations if possible but now no chance of open discussion .
Mint Velvet, Toast, Boden. The answer to âWhat basics do I need?â is always a Breton top
Once I expressed surprise that someone owned a ÂŁ3k sofa but didnât have any sort of kitchen or dining room table or breakfast bar to eat meals off and had a million people scream at me for being privileged and not knowing how poorer people live..
Honestly the people on there must wake up every morning with a stretching routine, otherwise how do they manage this sort of reeeeeeeeeeach
Honestly the people on there must wake up every morning with a stretching routine, otherwise how do they manage this sort of reeeeeeeeeeach
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