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

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Oh the HORROR!
You can actually HEAR snot according to the replies!
 

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They're competing in gormless gullibility over there as well.

Air BnB owner has a Christmas rental for a group (so the most expensive period of the entire year). Refuses to say how she knows, but she's been informed that the person who made the booking is terminally ill, but she isn't allowed to mention this to the person, so she wants all the headpats and suggestions about how she can be the bestest AirBnB host that's completely destroying rural communities country wide for this person's 'Last Ever Christmas'.


Hundreds of posts saying how wonderful she is, with suggestions such as give them the entire holiday free, book a private chef, give them hampers and alcohol and biscuits and a taxi service, free cameras to take the last ever Christmas photos, maid service, and the OP doing all the shopping, cooking and cleaning for them.


It's as though nobody has ever scammed a dim but fairly wealthy person ever before.
 
50degreesnorth said:
Without wishing to sound like NatashaDancing - our jumble sale addled exhibitionist needs to learn the difference between style and fashion.
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She needs to be honest with herself that she has a shopping addiction, and just because everything costs so little (and the money goes to charity) it doesn’t mean it’s not a bad habit.

I’ve been guilty of doing similar in the past, channelling my boredom/feeling drab about myself, scouring eBay for bargains. All it gave me was a mountain of clothes I ended up sending to the charity shop.

The problem is, she’s buying stuff because it’s cheap, not because it’s a nice garment/it looks nice on her. Today’s outfit is the worst yet. I can tell she’s trying really hard to feel good about herself, and maybe she does feel good in what she wears… but she still looks like she’s been dragged through a jumble sale backwards 😩
 
TheDragonWithAFlagon said:
They're competing in gormless gullibility over there as well.

Air BnB owner has a Christmas rental for a group (so the most expensive period of the entire year). Refuses to say how she knows, but she's been informed that the person who made the booking is terminally ill, but she isn't allowed to mention this to the person, so she wants all the headpats and suggestions about how she can be the bestest AirBnB host that's completely destroying rural communities country wide for this person's 'Last Ever Christmas'.


Hundreds of posts saying how wonderful she is, with suggestions such as give them the entire holiday free, book a private chef, give them hampers and alcohol and biscuits and a taxi service, free cameras to take the last ever Christmas photos, maid service, and the OP doing all the shopping, cooking and cleaning for them.


It's as though nobody has ever scammed a dim but fairly wealthy person ever before.
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Clearly I’m just a stingy bleep, I’d leave a bottle of bubbles and exclude myself from the narrative 😂
 
I remember when we did a huge shindig for my stepdad’s dad who reckoned he was on his death bed, he wanted one last piss up party. We went mega. He loves Blackpool, but lives in Suffolk, and we had people dress up as donkeys ffs. We hired a local hall and got a set designer to build a pier. I gifted him a taxidermied bleeping seagull.

That was 10 years ago. Notice I still talk about him in the present tense. Scammy old bugger.
 
Serene Serena said:
I'm wearing black leggings, black t-shirt, big bright pink floor length fluffy cardigan and slipper boots today. Once again, I think you'll agree, I am a style icon and Natasha Dancing would be green with envy if she could see me. I have accessorised my look with a plastic bag on my head cooking the Clairol hairdye underneath. I also have a streak of hairdye on my left cheek, making me look as if I have been punched in the face.

I am wonderful, delightful, adorable, I love myself, I am incredible. What happened to that poster who was having a passionate love affair with herself? She used to post pouting selfies with long grey hair and tell everyone how utterly marvellous she was :D :D
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Maybe she has early onset and she has forgotten she has eaten? Concerned head tilt
 
i was a bit disappointed with the terminal Airbnb - I’d opened it hoping to read about some selfish bleep choosing to die in their “hollowing out rural communities” abode and how selfish it was for them to die in her cash-machine.
Dozy fucker. Hope it’s an eol pact and the place gets closed down for months.
 
Someone I know has let out their entire house as an Airbnb and she has bookings right up to the end of next summer. She, her husband and 3 children are living in a static caravan. The house is delightful, an olde worlde cottage in Snowdonia with a hot tub in the garden and amazing views. She reckons they will be able to pay the mortgage off within 3 or 4 years by renting it out as a holiday home. I would rather take longer to pay off my mortgage than live in a static caravan over the winter, with a gaggle of kids and all that that entails. Each to their own though.
 
The depth and breadth of topics they can be dementors on is outstanding. Someone's written a cute little thread about the fantasy coffee shop they'd run. On literally any other forum on the internet it would continue to be a cute fantasy coffee shop thread. Because it's Mumsnet, it's people falling over themselves describing the horrors of small business ownership.
 
maytoseptember said:
To be fair, if you’d ever heard my husband blow his nose, you’d be able to hear the snot cascading out of his sinuses. It’s awful. Some days I think about burying him under the patio.
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Sneezing here. Both children when newborns would jerk their arms in terror just when I’d got them settled and sleeping after a massive AWHOOOSHHOOOOO from DH. Why can’t they do anything quietly??
 
Good God.

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I really hope there's a New Year post saying 'I've just seen my AirBnB property on Instagram. I was told it was a family get together for their Nana's Last Christmas, so I naturally gave it them for free and spent £500 on a Fortnum and Mason hamper and some Jo Malone toiletries, but all I can see are people with strange names like SarahAkwiscum, a woman with dodgy tattoos and even dodgier haircut who nobody seems to know the name of crying in the corner when not shouting about Red Cars, a posh woman in a souped up electric wheelchair doing donuts on the front lawn shouting Tally Ho Fuckers, another apparently filming for Only Fans, one doing an unboxing of the food that's supposed to be prepared by Gordon Ramsey's , dog's, brother's cousin's personal chefand saying it's tit, at least five women in scrunch butt leggings filming themselves going up and down the lovingly decorated stairs, another's filming Sally Higgins who works in Lidl in town and screaming something about vouchers - and somebody called Missle or Mizzle or Miffle going round trying to get into the neighbours' houses and take their presents. AIBU to think that this is unfair on their Grandma, who I haven't even seen yet - especially as I've got His Holiness Pope Francis I booked to come round for 4pm?'
 
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