Mumsnet #27 If you're only coming to goad, you're not getting our bleeping codes

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Wackie Jeaver said:
Top trolling this morning!

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Why does she do this??

She has a lovely figure. From what little we've seen, I think she also has a lovely face. I think when it's dried and styled properly, her hair would also be lovely (beautiful waves). And clearly she loves clothes. And it's commendable that she only buys second hand. Really, it is.

But why does she do this???? How can someone who obviously is interested in clothes come up with this kind of thing???
 
Lucy and Yak isn't my thing but you know what, it's an aesthetic. It's a clear and distinct style and if you wear it, you've obviously gone for a certain look and you have achieved it. Like a block fringe with huge glasses; it's an aesthetic, you've successfully created it. It's you, own it and love it. That kind of thing is simply a matter of preference and nobody can please everyone or should want to. And L&Y is a winner for ethics and responsibility, which is really rare these days.

But her stuff isn't an aesthetic. There's no purpose to it other than to wear second hand, which is fine...but it's literally "found it in a charity shop, wear it". There's no thought, style or art (I know I sound pretentious but I can't think of another way of putting it). It's not "I wanted a black and red outfit second hand, found this" or whatever. It's just...might as well get dressed in the dark!
 
ShopTilYouSlop said:
Lucy and Yak isn't my thing but you know what, it's an aesthetic. It's a clear and distinct style and if you wear it, you've obviously gone for a certain look and you have achieved it. Like a block fringe with huge glasses; it's an aesthetic, you've successfully created it. It's you, own it and love it. That kind of thing is simply a matter of preference and nobody can please everyone or should want to. And L&Y is a winner for ethics and responsibility, which is really rare these days.

But her stuff isn't an aesthetic. There's no purpose to it other than to wear second hand, which is fine...but it's literally "found it in a charity shop, wear it". There's no thought, style or art (I know I sound pretentious but I can't think of another way of putting it). It's not "I wanted a black and red outfit second hand, found this" or whatever. It's just...might as well get dressed in the dark!
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Are you spying on me? I've got a fringe and big glasses🧐😆 but that's mainly because I have a massive forehead
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That healthy diet thread is actually going quite differently to how I expected and I'm pleasantly surprised. There are a few people demonising carbs as always but actually a lot of them are being quite sensible
 
raspberryjuice said:
Someone has posted a pic of their prolapse on the pregnancy board 😐 is nothing off limits?!
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Fffffffucking hell 🤦‍♀️

You know, if you were worried that you had a prolapse and wanted to find out more, instead of uploading a photo of your actual vagina on the World Wide Web, you could Google and find medical images and diagrams?

Or, I dunno, see a doctor?

Taking a photo of your vagina and putting it on Mumsnet is very low down on the list of sensible things to do.

Sometimes I think the internet was a mistake.
 
If I had a mission to wear nothing but second hand stuff, I think I'd keep it very simple with the odd "statement" piece. It's not hard to find black so I'd get a black piece of everything (trousers, skirt, dress, top, jumper) and then work around that. Might add another neutral base wardrobe, so maybe everything in grey or something. And then I'd look out for "fun" stuff that would go with the neutral base pieces. So I'd be wearing my base pieces all the time but switching them up with other stuff.

It wouldn't be the most exciting wardrobe in the world but it seems to be the way to go when your priority is second hand.
 
There’s a thread about tit lip filler ATM, and like every other thread about lip filler, there are posters saying that their lip filler is so subtle and so skilfully done (by an expensive doctor and not a local beautician who did a one day training course in injectables) that no one would EVER guess they had it, complete with photos.

But that’s not the funny bit. Someone has posted her university age SON’s mouth to show how full it is, complete with a photo of a Victorian ancestor to prove that full lips run in their family 🤣

And just now someone’s posted a photo of their mouth saying “My lips are really full, I hope no-one thinks I’ve had filler! <tinkly laugh>”

Doesn’t it take a special kind of narcissist to take a thread about lip filler and turn it into a compliment mining exercise about your own pretty face?
 
maytoseptember said:
The ones I really bleeping hate are “If you’re slim tell me what you eat in a day”
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I am always tempted to post this on those threads:

I have a full English every morning with fried bread and black pudding, and four rounds of white bread toast with butter and marmalade. Mid morning I'll have a Krispy Kreme doughnut or two and a hot chocolate with marshmallows and whipped cream. Lunch is a light one, usually fish and chips and mushy peas, or a couple of Big Mac meals and a McFlurry. In the evening we usually have a Chinese banquet for six (there are two of us) or takeaway pizza, garlic bread and fries. At bed time I'll have cocoa made with full fat milk and half a packet of Hobnobs, to stave off the hunger pangs. I'll snack on Tony's chocolate and packets of cheese and onion crisps throughout the day and I'll usually eat a sharing pack of Maltesers while watching TV on the evening.

Then I'd finish up, to provide maximum angst, by telling them I am a size 6 - 8, I weigh 120lbs and am 5ft 9. People mistake me for Claudia Schiffer ALL THE TIME. Jennifer Aniston asks me for advice of skin care and Angelina Jolie asked my hairdresser for top tips.
 
maytoseptember said:
The ones I really bleeping hate are “If you’re slim tell me what you eat in a day”
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And the answers always range from "I'm 7st and eat 5kg of chips every day washed down with dairy milk, I don't know why I'm so skinny" *tinkly laugh* to "I have to work hard to stay slim, I exercise for 2 hours per day and the last thing I ate was 1g of lettuce in 1997"
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uberoblique said:
Some daft poster has admitted her husband earns £800k and that she’s missing her career as she’s taken time out to raise their children.

Naturally all people can focus on is their wealth, not the issue.
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I'm calling bullshit on that thread TBH.
 
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