Mumsnet #30 Six figure salary, never eats a calorie

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cat_follower said:
This is one of my least favourite things about mumsnet, and it happens on almost every post.
‘What’s your favourite snack?’
‘I don’t snack 😊’

Then DONT POST ON A THREAD ASKING ABOUT SNACKS, you dipshits! Your input is not necessary on this topic, no one cares how daintily you eat and how you’ve never been hungry in your life because you’re not a fat poor. Get out!
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What I can't stand is when they start declaring that not only do they not snack but they cannot understand why anyone would. Well maybe if you ate more, your brain would work properly and would be able to grasp concepts as simple as this one, you bleeping amoeba.
 
Serene Serena said:
Gosh, I hope they mean 84kg. No-one weighing 6 stone needs to lose weight!! Surely that's not an adult weight, even for a very petite woman.
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No it's not at all. I'm worried about my weight as it is as I think I may have dropped to 7 stone after a month's illness. This is not by choice and I am horrified by it.

Think surgery have a weighing machine near to entrance so I may go in, weigh, get out without getting cornered.

Edit my GP surgery is nearby and opposite the chemist. There is no chance they are slapping anorexic on me with gay abandon. My friends are keeping an eye on me to restart my appetite. If anyone asks me I'll say my name is bugs bunny.
 
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daisybrown said:
That high earner/ child care one seemed odd - lower earners should take the time off? Not always and also surely she has annual leave that she can use? No loss of pay there.
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we always used the simple logic that whoever had less on that day took the day off. Regardless of pay etc. ended up roughly equal so neither of us took the piss.

No need to ask mn.

mn though seems to think one half of the couple should completely sacrifice their career to support the man’s job. Those 5 years of early years childcare drain a lifetime of earnings don’t you know.
 
notanotherusername92 said:
we always used the simple logic that whoever had less on that day took the day off. Regardless of pay etc. ended up roughly equal so neither of us took the piss.

No need to ask mn.

mn though seems to think one half of the couple should completely sacrifice their career to support the man’s job. Those 5 years of early years childcare drain a lifetime of earnings don’t you know.
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That is the logical way and how we worked it. I probably did do more but that was just down to how our jobs worked at the time. I was the higher earner as well (higher not high!)
 
Millie2023 said:
Childcare when both parents are high earners…
With the hours wasted banging on about it on MN, the woman could have taken the kid for its chicken pox vaccine and probably had enough time for a night away. Or kicked OH’s arse into doing it 🤣
Also, she lost me at 170k, then denying it was a stealth boast.
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And she’s another one whose child changes from being a son to a daughter from thread to thread.
 
All the crappy threads at the moment about surrogacy/ivf/gamete donation...ugh. All the smug feckers who only needed to lie back and think of their husband's six figure salary to have as many strapping 6ft children as they wanted out in force to condemn anyone who needs any sort of assistance to conceive as selfish/greedy/should just adopt/should just accept you're not meant to be parents.

Most of their info is out of date or inaccurate so they're working themselves into a frothy lather of outrage over stuff that doesn't happen, eg nhs paying for loads of ivf. Infertility is not a lifestyle choice. It's not like choosing to go skiing and breaking a wrist. They'd be outraged if they were told that is a lifestyle choice so you need to pay thousands for treatment, or live with a bent arm. Maybe you weren't meant to be able to use your hand?

What happened to saying a silent prayer of gratitude that infertility was not an issue for you, and moving on to other threads where you can boast about public school housemasters and never allowing snacks?
 
bottlewrapper said:
All the crappy threads at the moment about surrogacy/ivf/gamete donation...ugh. All the smug feckers who only needed to lie back and think of their husband's six figure salary to have as many strapping 6ft children as they wanted out in force to condemn anyone who needs any sort of assistance to conceive as selfish/greedy/should just adopt/should just accept you're not meant to be parents.

Most of their info is out of date or inaccurate so they're working themselves into a frothy lather of outrage over stuff that doesn't happen, eg nhs paying for loads of ivf. Infertility is not a lifestyle choice. It's not like choosing to go skiing and breaking a wrist. They'd be outraged if they were told that is a lifestyle choice so you need to pay thousands for treatment, or live with a bent arm. Maybe you weren't meant to be able to use your hand?

What happened to saying a silent prayer of gratitude that infertility was not an issue for you, and moving on to other threads where you can boast about public school housemasters and never allowing snacks?
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I saw one about ivf which basically all started with ‘I have 2/3/4 children and didn’t need IVF but if I hadn’t been able to have them, I wouldn’t have had IVF as I don’t agree with it and I don’t think it should be available as it’s going against nature’. Ok.

There are lots of things I don’t personally agree with/agree with how it’s done or wouldn’t do myself eg the thought of a nose job makes me cringe, I can’t imagine it, I can’t see how (for cosmetic reasons) it’s ethical for a doctor to perform it. However it’s legal, it’s available, it’s not my nose it’s being done to and so I don’t get involved, I wouldn’t say it shouldn’t be allowed to tell people not to get it done or whatever, it’s not illegal, it’s not harming people, it’s not harming me and it’s someone else’s body. It’s also very easy for me, as a person who likes my nose, has had compliments about my nose and has never been bullied about my nose to say oh that shouldn’t be allowed when there’s people out there whose lives are very affected by their nose.
 
orangehead said:
I saw one about ivf which basically all started with ‘I have 2/3/4 children and didn’t need IVF but if I hadn’t been able to have them, I wouldn’t have had IVF as I don’t agree with it and I don’t think it should be available as it’s going against nature’. Ok.

There are lots of things I don’t personally agree with/agree with how it’s done or wouldn’t do myself eg the thought of a nose job makes me cringe, I can’t imagine it, I can’t see how (for cosmetic reasons) it’s ethical for a doctor to perform it. However it’s legal, it’s available, it’s not my nose it’s being done to and so I don’t get involved, I wouldn’t say it shouldn’t be allowed to tell people not to get it done or whatever, it’s not illegal, it’s not harming people, it’s not harming me and it’s someone else’s body. It’s also very easy for me, as a person who likes my nose, has had compliments about my nose and has never been bullied about my nose to say oh that shouldn’t be allowed when there’s people out there whose lives are very affected by their nose.
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Surely life support goes against nature if that is their argument? Or any manmade medical treatment?
 
daisybrown said:
Surely life support goes against nature if that is their argument? Or any manmade medical treatment?
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Exactly! Loads of stuff ‘goes against nature’ and just because you may not need or want something for yourself doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be allowed because it goes against nature! Apparently it can harm children and some other stuff so it’s terrible. I personally don’t need ivf and I don’t know anyone that’s had it so I know next to nothing about, however I’m sure that all medical professionals involved tell the parents involved all the ins and outs and if those people decide to go ahead then I’m sure it can’t be that high a risk/that high a risk compared to ‘natural conception’. They’re also not happy the nhs pays for it. Yeah, in an ideal world the nhs wouldn’t spend however much money funding ivf but in an ideal world everyone who wouldn’t children would convince quickly and healthily and carry to term but it’s not an ideal world and I really cannot bring myself to begrudge the tiny amount of money my household pays into the nhs for ivf.
 
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