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Gym&Tonic

Allegedly when one poster had no transport was struggling to get to work, she was asked why she didn’t just get the tube. She lived in rural Yorkshire...

The other day someone posted saying they desperately wanted to move due to nightmare neighbours, but were stuck because they lived in a housing association property and needed someone to swap with them. A poster replied asking why she didn’t just drop the asking price if she was that desperate. Because she lives in a HA property and doesn’t own it you dozy bint! There is a general assumption that everyone owns their homes on there, and an air of snobbery about renting. Especially social housing.
 
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Katnip

Absolutely!! Some seemed surprised we actually had running water in Wales. Well, not quite, but they did seem to assume we still lived in the dark ages.
 
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Anasnake

It’s ridiculously London centric, any ‘should I move north’ thread is always met with sneery comments. It’s all flat caps and whippets up here you see
 
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BigMavis

They don't like the underclass, I hate that term, sorry. There was one particular poster who got picked on something rotten.
 
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Gym&Tonic

And they all refer to their evening meal as ‘dinner’. My evening meal is tea, I’ve never met anyone who calls it dinner. Ever.
 
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BigMavis

Gym&Tonic said:
And they all refer to their evening meal as ‘dinner’. My evening meal is tea, I’ve never met anyone who calls it dinner. Ever.
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Yes dinner is dinner during the day, teatime is evening meal for us, but it differs around the country. I think the further north you go its probably tea, might be wrong.
Also I felt quite left out as in Ireland we don't have fucking waitrose.
 
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Fenella

yeah i live in a MN hated town and it really got me down for a while until I thought fuck them, there’s good and bad things about everywhere and if they don’t realise that then they must be stupid or in denial!
 
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LyraBalaqua

BigMavis said:
Yes dinner is dinner during the day, teatime is evening meal for us, but it differs around the country. I think the further north you go its probably tea, might be wrong.
Also I felt quite left out as in Ireland we don't have fucking waitrose.
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All of those ‘ are you middle class’ threads
 
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BigMavis

LyraBalaqua said:
All of those ‘ are you middle class’ threads
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That's the laugh I am! I'm also nearly ashamed to admit I am, but can confirm I have never stepped foot in a waitrose in my life, so by mumsnet standards I'm probably not.
I always found the what do you earn threads to be odd and possibly phishing or trying to out someone.
 

Gym&Tonic

Never mind Waitrose, it’s Booths they all go mad over. So many of them say the thing they like the best about going to the Lake District is being able to do some shopping in Booths.
 
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LyraBalaqua

No one should be made to feel ashamed and that’s Mumsnet’s core problem, it’s full of posters doing their best to pull up or put down posters depending on their post.
 
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BigMavis

Booths! Never heard of it I heard a lot about ocado but again we don't bloody have it. Or a John Lewis for that matter. I'm not doing much for my part of the world really. Mumsnet were nice enough to give us craicnet after years of pleading.
 
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LyraBalaqua

AIBU ; I’ve just had a Domino’s delivery .

*What class am I?

* just joking of course.
 
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Gym&Tonic

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Booths! Never heard of it I heard a lot about ocado but again we don't bloody have it. Or a John Lewis for that matter. I'm not doing much for my part of the world really. Mumsnet were nice enough to give us craicnet after years of pleading.
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Boots is a rather upmarket supermarket than only has branches in the North of England, it’s so posh it makes Waitrose look like Farmfoods.
 
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Renegadedancer

Lots of arseholes on mumsnet . I don’t post but I might start writing stuff just to stir it up a bit
 
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