Mumsnet

[Doobots]

My favourite thing about Mumsnet is how any life choice anyone seems to make, regardless of how big or small, is followed by a post telling them it will invalidate their home insurance.

 

[Anasnake]

‘Going to aldi/Lidl for the first time, what shall I buy’, what do they think it sells ?????

 

[Alansbigplate]

Hilarious title to the round robin email today - ‘what’s the most expensive thing you’ve ruined in the shortest period of time’, which in justine’s case is her business this week!

 

[Mardymermaid]

I actually agree it is cruel to let kids chase birds.

 

[Laur91]

Wow I’ve never really delved into Mumsnet before but I just checked out that AIBU thread and Jesus some of them are vile. Some poor woman is asking if it’s unreasonable to want her husband to check in with her and her 4 kids whilst he’s away abroad for the long weekend; the responses are essentially ‘yes you are being unreasonable, why should he be glued to his phone all the time?’

Just imagine loads of bitter old women sat at home not getting any and taking it out on a forum

 

[Basicbasic]

Yes the teacher threads! Unbelievable levels of martyr syndrome and smugness. There was a thread a few weeks ago where someone had said school might reopen at the end of August and cue the outrage from 'exhausted and mentally drained front line key workers teachers ' currently working from home and appalled that they might have to give up their current 10 week holiday. Teachers and doctors are the smuggest of the smug on mn. That is of course until the dadsnet crew turn up, tearing themselves away from the sex board.

The worst threads though are the education ones. Everyone's kid is expected 10 x level 9, Oxford knocking at the door, work experience with surgeons in 6 different countries and ask whilst volunteering with the poor and studying for 4 extra subjects. The most unbelievable aspect of Justine's plan of course is that she wants to charge users for their own content!

 

[Anasnake]

Everybody’s always shaking with anger, everyone’s kids are at oxbridge, no one poos in an en-suite, everyone has cf neighbours, 50k is not a good wage, men are all abusers, trans issues get shoe horned into every post and lots of ‘how could I possibly choose between Eton and Harrow ?’ Stealth bragging nonsense. It’s all bollocks and fantasists.

 

[AlanBanan]

They berated me over and over again for not thinking long term about the important life skills he was missing out on by not visiting a shop for a year. About a dozen posters literally told me my son wouldn’t understand what a shop was, how to use money

this is possibly the funniest thing I have ever read. Why should a baby even know how to use money? They’re so stupid and self involved and it shows how little of a life they have that they have to attack other peoples parenting.

I am convinced half of the people on Mumsnet are shitty parents neglecting their children’s needs because they’re scouring online forums telling people how to look After their kids whilst their kids are behind them asking for attention.

 

[Ineedmorecoffee]

Mumsnet have four stock replies to every thread:

1) Leave the bastard aka LTB

2) That looks like sepsis

3) Log it with 101

and finally, the one that really makes me grind my teeth:

"All money is family money"

You forgot the killer line:

‘You sound dreadful, OP’

 

[Pinkii]

Its hilarious how they think Tattle is bad! apparently we’re all a bunch of sad lonely housewives who bitch all day.

at least we bitch about people who put themselves in that position and we don’t attack posters for simple things.

they are a bunch of knobs on there and i enjoy reading their posts to see how crazy they are

 

[Bitofthebubbly]

I must be a terrible parent because I avoid taking my children to the shops at all costs unless they need to be with me to try on shoes or something 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 or even just from watching tv. Mumsnet users really will shit on anyone for the most ridiculous things

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.

 

[Lechat]

"Doctor here" "Teacher here" Naturally everyone was then expected to bow down to these almighty people.

I'm NOT saying there's anything wrong with being a teacher or doctor, but on MN they always felt the need to announce it. A lot.

oh god the teacher threads!! Thou must bow down. No other profession works as hard.

 

[FrannyGallops]

I can’t get my breath. To say they’re fond of the ‘this isn’t netmums’ claim to fame, some of the sycophants are coming across pretty netmums right now

It’s very interesting that the go to response to anyone who questions the nastiness or lack of support is ‘well that’s just how things are on here’ - clearly they do possess some empathy, it’s just a shame you have to be a well known member to receive it. If you’re not, then get ready for the flaming. Horrible.

Yeah, exactly. It’s not like AF doesn’t know how to dish it out, so for that particular thread/poster, I’m not too bothered about nastiness or lack of empathy.

It does make me larf that whenever there’s a thread on MN about Tattle, MNetters like to wade in with ‘Tattle is a cesspit’ and ‘everyone on Tattle is VILE’. Yeah, right, and MN is just a forum full of bubbles, laughter and sympathy, is it? There are some vile, well known posters on MN who just seem to wait around ready to jump on OP’s and tear them to shreds, no matter how desperate or in need of help they are.

 

[PrincessCharming]

With a diagram! Any parking posts have to have the accompanying diagram.

I will admit to starting that. Years ago someone new started a parking thread and I posted it was against the rules to post a parking thread without a diagram. I was only joking but it stuck. <proud>

 

[fastfairynnn]

There's a thread I still about, this young single mother fancied her plumber. The MNers goaded her into asking him out!! She texted him at midnight asking him for a drink and he never replied!!!! Agagagagag. Cringes me out so much. I mean can you even imagine getting a text like that from a client, let alone so late at night? Yet they still persisted to get the OP's hopes up, then said "oh don't worry it's still a massive confidence boost just to have got up the nerve to text him at all" !!! and said she should still get him round to fix her leaky taps and whatnot

A lot of them don't seem to have encountered human life before. The sex threads can be hilarious, they think getting oral sex is gross and masturbation is embarrassing and yucky

 

[Lechat]

my two pence worth on MN, having posted a few times.

AIBU - modern day gladiatorial arena. Expect to be savaged.
Any posts about a husband or partner - you’ll get told to leave even if the poster is just having a minor rant. Lots of unhelpful and frankly dangerous advice. A few times I’ve posted and offered the original poster a different solution (talk to your partner etc) and it gets ignored in favour of the extreme responses.
Style and Beauty - lots of underhand advertising “has anyone used beauty pie” and cue loads of positive responses....so obvious it’s a planted thread.
Politically left wing - nothing wrong with that but around brexit and elections it was clearly being used by certain posters and maybe certain organisations to start loads of extreme threads about how awful the Tories / brexit was and we would all die/be poor/go to hell if we voted for that. Any counter arguments of any other political persuasion are shot down. I know posters literally followed around the site and jumped on because they once posted a pro Tory post.
Moderation - bonkers, bizarre and again dangerous. Pull certain threads because posters report them repeatedly but let other nasty threads stand, it’s like school politics and they always moderate in favour of the bully. Apparently they pull suicide threads and just point the poster to Samaritans. Around Caroline flack‘s death time, it was pointed out how bad this was (like what if the poster cant get hold of them etc, surely better to let the thread run for support) and MN ignored the feedback.
The things you cannot mention - like moderation its based spurious reasoning. Maddie McCann, Jack Monroe, Clemmie Hooper, Hinch and most influencer threads get pulled on account of being ‘nasty’ ... yet they let AIBU run! Stop being pussies and let the debate run, clearly scared of legal action or something like that.

the site is also a mess. No editing, cannot quote other posters but people can @ you which send you an email which is so annoying when some one keeps doing it. Quite frankly it’s a cheek of MN to think they can charge for that shit show!!

 

[FrannyGallops]

the stealth boasting used to make me laugh, the we haven't had our heating on since 1983 and my kids packed lunches use homemade bread made by unicorns. I remember the days of the mn royalty, the old guard when I joined, cod when cod was cod and not icod.

The competitive lunchbox threads All the dcs were ‘tall and thin’ and either ate like a horse or survived on plain, home made yoghurt and half a foraged berry. And the MN chicken that would feed 8 people for 5 years (don’t forget to boil the bones for stock!).

 

[Inforapenny]

I went to a red brick Uni and can confirm there were so many private school kids, all Oxbridge rejects who were obnoxious and try hard.
I was really out of my depth in terms of my back ground it was miserable. The first question they'd ask would be which school did you go to?....

Anyway post grad I went to Cambridge and it was so much better. As a post grad it was just normal ppl who had worked hard to get to Oxbridge but absolutely no one was snobby or gave a shit about your social status. Ironic really

 

[FrannyGallops]

I see the mirror running another mumsnet post about a "snobby" mother giving out about the grandmother buying supermarket clothes for her precious offspring. Do they not still go nuts when the stories are lifted?

Yes, they do. My favourite ones are those who post a perfectly banal thread about washing powder or something with the disclaimer I DO NOT GIVE THE DAILY MAIL PERMISSION TO LIFT THIS THREAD.
As if the DM are going to be bothered about your washing powder preferences, Janice. Also, for the amount of posters who profess to loathe the DM and never read it, there sure are a huge amount of threads about it.

 

[AmberSpyglass]

Hi I’m a former mnetter.

I know everyone says it but it really isn’t the place it used to be.

Apart from the dullness and repetition ( I've done the babies, children, teenagers ) I got totally fucked off with the moderation and speed with which threads got zapped.

I like it here a lot , see you around .