Mumsnet #30 Six figure salary, never eats a calorie

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My Grandma on my mum's side was just "Grandma" (with the "D" elided - I actually believed it was spelled "Granma" until I was in secondary school!) She did a lot of nursery and childcare work and was known informally as "Aunty Pop-pop" due to her uncontrollable wind 😂 MNers would have had themselves shaking and sobbing at her farting in front of their little Tarquins and Appolonias.

My grandmother on the other side was definitely a proto-MNer, incredibly class-conscious and very racist. She insisted on being called "Nana", but with the emphasis on the last syllable, so it was said "Nuh-naaahhhh". I have no idea how she came up with it and have never met anyone else who pronounced it that way.
 
FeloniousMonk said:
My grandmother on the other side was definitely a proto-MNer, incredibly class-conscious and very racist. She insisted on being called "Nana", but with the emphasis on the last syllable, so it was said "Nuh-naaahhhh". I have no idea how she came up with it and have never met anyone else who pronounced it that way.
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I have an aunty who insists her grandchildren call her Nanny, with significant emphasis on the last syllable (Na-NEEEE). She thought grandma & granny were too old sounding whilst Nan & Nanna were too common and chavvy 🤣
 
I had an Oma and Opa - isn' it funny how no-one wants to appropriate the germanic grandparent names!

And my mum did insist that she didn't want to be "Nanny" as it sounded like a name for a goat - so she's now Grandma.
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I was browsing MN a min ago and accidentally clicked on the "premium" sign up button. I didn't know there was such a thing as MN premium but also looking at the cost (£50 a year or £5 a month), and the "benefits" you get for that price, I can't see why anyone would want to pay for that?! Even the most devout MNers can't be that bothered about it surely??
 
holasun said:
I had an Oma and Opa - isn' it funny how no-one wants to appropriate the germanic grandparent names!

And my mum did insist that she didn't want to be "Nanny" as it sounded like a name for a goat - so she's now Grandma.
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I was browsing MN a min ago and accidentally clicked on the "premium" sign up button. I didn't know there was such a thing as MN premium but also looking at the cost (£50 a year or £5 a month), and the "benefits" you get for that price, I can't see why anyone would want to pay for that?! Even the most devout MNers can't be that bothered about it surely??
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Perhaps it makes you immune from getting banned? Might explain why they're perfectly happy with all the racists on there.
 
Rambler20 said:
There’s an ongoing saga about a poster who has just recently stopped giving a colleague lifts to and from work. It started ok but she’s really over egging it now with lots of 😂 about how frosty said colleague is now being with her.
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I think it's real because it seems to be a total non event. I don't know how it's trending. She'd given the colleague lifts for ages, colleague was ungrateful, she's stopped and now colleague is saying "hi" in a slightly off tone. I wondered what was going on when she rallied everyone on Sunday evening to get ready for the update, but if this is all that's happening, yeah, it probably is real and it probably is that boring!
 
HoGi said:
Mumsnetters make everything a bloody competition. So we have competitive undereating, competitive youthfulness and now drumroll...how long carpets last!

There are posters who honestly reckon their 25 year old carpet looks as good as the day it was laid
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Ours is 20 years old and in desperate need of replacement but we're a bit skint for that. It really does not look pristine!
 
HoGi said:
Mumsnetters make everything a bloody competition. So we have competitive undereating, competitive youthfulness and now drumroll...how long carpets last!

There are posters who honestly reckon their 25 year old carpet looks as good as the day it was laid
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There was a thread a while back where someone decided they didn't like their year-old rug and asked how often mumsnetters replaced theirs. Cue hundreds of comments of "never!! How wastegul! Why don't you just clean it?" and frothing about "the environment" (do you think about the environment when you're pouring gallons of zoflora into the ecosystem) and "well I inherited some 300 year old persian rugs and they're still going strong after 20 years of my giant six foot sons walking on them. Perhaps you should invest in one of those?"
 
As if mumsnetters didn't already panic and lose their minds about enough pointless tit, apparently everybody should be keeping their GCSE certificates in a fireproof box

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Rodeodown said:
Late to the party but I updated the photo on my passport a couple of years back when renewing, took it myself on my phone and uploaded to the website. Applied a very subtle beauty filter to the photo to allow me to look less hagrid-esque and it was accepted 😇
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Aren’t you worried that when you go to the airport with your real face, they won’t let you through security because you’ve allowed yourself and by extension your passport photo to be contaminated by the patriarchy? *head tilt*
 
There is a thread on AIBU called harassed on a walk, about a woman walking along a tow path with her off lead dog and baby in a pushchair. She claims that there was this woman was jogging along, who then started walking alongside her filming her saying about if her crappy nosed dog so much as touched her, she would basically punt him into the river.

I have questions about this post
1. What is a mnetter doing outside her house?
2. Why isn't she doing her 6 figure senior job?
3. Why does this frankly quite unbelievable tit happen to these women, seemingly on a daily basis?

I think my answer is, it is absolute bullshit.
 
Kikini Bamalam said:
There is a thread on AIBU called harassed on a walk, about a woman walking along a tow path with her off lead dog and baby in a pushchair. She claims that there was this woman was jogging along, who then started walking alongside her filming her saying about if her crappy nosed dog so much as touched her, she would basically punt him into the river.

I have questions about this post
1. What is a mnetter doing outside her house?
2. Why isn't she doing her 6 figure senior job?
3. Why does this frankly quite unbelievable tit happen to these women, seemingly on a daily basis?

I think my answer is, it is absolute bullshit.
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4. Why had a mnetter got a dog? They hate dogs.
 
CrimsonCountess said:
As if mumsnetters didn't already panic and lose their minds about enough pointless tit, apparently everybody should be keeping their GCSE certificates in a fireproof box

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God they have no sense of proportion whatsoever.
I thought fireproof boxes were where you kept your biscuits and your nice chocolate so that your giant feral children didn’t steal them.
 
I don’t even know when my GCSE were lost - but given I was in the first 3 years to do them, it’s probably some decades ago.

Any potential employer who asked to see them would get a genuine “lol” from me. Why are they so desperate to obey authority and yet are always banging on about tugging forelocks.

cunts.

I can also well believe the woman’s dog was threatened - but the title of her post should’ve been a wet “an open letter to the woman out running this morning”.

They are the sort of cunts who write open letters.

actually I might do one here.

An open letter to Michelle Obama… do you think she reads here?
 
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