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

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Oh mention of Boden has triggered a memory for me. About nine years ago (scarily long time) I volunteered to help with reading at my kids' primary school. Some other mums did it and we had to do a morning training course which was fine. One of the other mums didn't like me for some strange reason (as I'm very lovable lol) and she was having a Boden sale in her house and handed out fliers to everyone, laughing and chatting, and then when she got to me her face dropped, she almost visibly shuddered and then grudgingly gave me a flier. It was so bizarre. I didn't go obviously.

I wonder if she is a mumsnetter.

If I posted this story on there I'd be ripped apart and told I had no right to be treated politely, that I was overthinking this and no-one owes anyone even basic friendliness, head tilt, tinkly laugh (unless you're a postman pissing in the garden, in which case you should have a shelter built for you to piss in), and the unfriendly Boden woman was autistic and adhd and peri menopausal with early onset dementia.
 
elderflowerrose said:
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??
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Someone on MN said it’s male socialisation that makes them sneeze so loudly (mine does too - my son does a great impression of it actually 😂) and it’s so bloody true!
 
Shimmering said:
Oh mention of Boden has triggered a memory for me. About nine years ago (scarily long time) I volunteered to help with reading at my kids' primary school. Some other mums did it and we had to do a morning training course which was fine. One of the other mums didn't like me for some strange reason (as I'm very lovable lol) and she was having a Boden sale in her house and handed out fliers to everyone, laughing and chatting, and then when she got to me her face dropped, she almost visibly shuddered and then grudgingly gave me a flier. It was so bizarre. I didn't go obviously.

I wonder if she is a mumsnetter.

If I posted this story on there I'd be ripped apart and told I had no right to be treated politely, that I was overthinking this and no-one owes anyone even basic friendliness, head tilt, tinkly laugh (unless you're a postman pissing in the garden, in which case you should have a shelter built for you to piss in), and the unfriendly Boden woman was autistic and adhd and peri menopausal with early onset dementia.
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I remember when my daughter was in Reception. One afternoon I walked into the area outside her classroom at pick up time and one of the mums who was already there turned around to see who’d arrived. She looked at me, I smiled at her and she actually grimaced 🤣

Over the course of that year, about a third of the mums had got less and less friendly. A clique developed, and there would literally be two groups standing chatting as we waited for the bell to ring. The clique on one side, a massive gulf, then the mums who didn’t make the grade. I was in the latter group obviously. It really used to piss me off when they kissed each other’s arses on FB and hashtagged all their photos #theschoolcrew (this wasn’t quite the hashtag they used but it was similar!)

But like you say, if you tell a story like that on MN you get people telling you it’s all in your head, and if it isn’t, well maybe you deserve it anyway because you give off unfriendly vibes. Aren’t people allowed to TALK with their FRIENDS without being accused of being cliquey?

I don’t follow the Unmumsy Mum anymore but she once posted photos of a get together with her school mums, and they were so obviously the popular clique. They were all slim, pretty and blonde 😅 IIRC she got a few comments saying they were obviously the cliquey mums at her kids’ school, and she got similarly defensive about “these are just friends I’ve made at school, why can’t we have friends?” Every time said friends appeared in photos after that she’d be a bit snarky about it.

Phew, that was long. I still carry a lot of clique related trauma obviously.

holasun said:
Like they're showing their dominance by sneezing like a foghorn?
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More like they aren’t conditioned to sneeze quietly and daintily and not make such a fuss. because that’s the ladylike thing to do.
 
The cliquey mums were rife at my kids’ school. They tried to out-designer each other every morning for the playground. It was actually comical. I formed two close friendships with a mum from each of my kids’ years. Genuine friends I wouldn’t swap for anything. Cliques are naff but it’s also really hurtful if you’re the outcast. It happened to me with the nursery mums and it stung. I later realised that I was too “together” for them. They enjoyed preying on each others’ weaknesses and bad mouthing their own (awful but wealthy) husbands. I didn’t fall into the same patterns as them, so was dumped 🤣
 
JarvisCockerSpaniel said:
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.
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I'm sorry but the taxidermied seagull killed me off :ROFLMAO:
 
CrimsonCountess said:
Has anyone read 'my life has just been flipped on its head' in aibu? I just get a feeling it's made up for drama and will end up being one of those long running sagas where OP is distraught but managing to update mumsnet every 10 minutes. There's already been a lot of people recommending OP initiates the duck protocol
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Of course he is a 'screamer/shouter' as well. I think my favourite response is the one about Maltese gangsters as appar the time the OPs husband moved to London was the time a load of gangsters did as well 😂
 
I love this thread - when I was a young mum, I thought there was something wrong with me, whereas now I realise mumsnet is truly toxic.

It’s a shame that a ‘female space’ like that - one which should be supportive, informative, entertaining and nurturing - is actually just a representation of the worst traits associated with women: competitive, judgemental, unsupportive, status-driven, bullying, bitchy, materialistic, superficial…
 
CrimsonCountess said:
Has anyone read 'my life has just been flipped on its head' in aibu? I just get a feeling it's made up for drama and will end up being one of those long running sagas where OP is distraught but managing to update mumsnet every 10 minutes. There's already been a lot of people recommending OP initiates the duck protocol
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Yeah I was thinking the same. For me it was a combination of:
5 previous kids - making 7 soon to be 8 in total
Currently pregnant
Posted in AIBU rather than Relationships

There are of course people who suddenly discover their partner has a whole hidden past, including children. But it's not a lot of people. It's a rarity, to the point that if you personally know someone it happened to, it's a story you recount to others. So to be also pregnant? That's a very tiny subset of people.
 
I know sometimes people question their judgement and maybe need some reassurance, but duck me they take it to another level on there. Someone has asked whether their childs car seat needs replacing after the car hit a pheasant. Some of the replies are great though

Did you panic, swerve and hit a tree after hitting the pheasant? Assuming you didn't the seat will be fine

Did you mean to say peasant? This is MN afterall. If it was a pheasant, unless you hit it with the car seat at 38mph, you'll be fine.

Unless said child seat was cable tied to the front of you car at the time of hitting a pheasant you’re being ridiculous.
 
pommobear said:
I swear one of the biggest (unintentional) advantages of homeschooling is avoidance of school mum cliques.

Unfortunately you do get homeschool parent cliques too, which I'm also not welcome in as my kids' names are not things like Ocean or Nefertiti and we're not vegan. So I don't fit in there either 😂
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You might get on with a homeschooling relative of mine; they’re not vegan and the kids aren’t called Gaia, Winterstorm or Vorschprungdurchtechnik 😉
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GBNI said:
I'm sorry but the taxidermied seagull killed me off :ROFLMAO:
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It was meant to have that effect on grandad though! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
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