Mumsnet #35 we’ve lost sight of what a crucifixion looks like

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NoddyFromToytown said:
Toilet slippers are very Japanese so I’m surprised the mumsnetters haven’t jumped at the chance to be like the teeny tinies over there!

Went to Japan last year and hated all the shoes off stuff, had to even leave them in reception in the hostel! (Yes a bleeping hostel). Also I felt absolute massive over there 😂
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Toilet slippers exist in Vietnam too, and that's a shoes off country and I also felt like an enormous beast over there :D If you, teeny tiny that you are, felt massive, imagine how I felt :D :D Vietnamese are all very petite.
 
Itchy of Itchington said:
I am quite a middle class wanker these days and one of my daughter's first sentences was "more olives mummy". However I don't read poetry to them at dinner time. That's just pretentious. I make them recite chemical formulae and solve simultaneous equations. Darlings, they can't do an Arts degree not even a DOxbridge f they want to earn a six figure salary.

(She really did say that. Worse we were in an organic cafe in Hebden Bridge. I actually wanted to curl up and die with the how wanky it felt. I only feed them UPFs now to cancel it out)
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My grandad used to teach us rhymes at tea time. Unfortunately, in the mid-60’s a lisping 4 year old regaling their new teacher with a nursery rhyme consisting of ‘wee’, ‘poo’ and ‘bum’ meant a morning stood on a chair. Next memory is mum shouting across the playground - nothing your grandad has taught you.
 
If my mum had started reciting poetry while we were eating our meals, I would have wondered if Jeremy beadle was gonna leap out of the larder.
Imagine getting stuck into your bangers and mash, when your mum starts reciting Pam Ayers to you!

Oh sweet child of mine
Come and eat your tea
And if you dare leave any
I'll put you across my knee
 
Wackie Jeaver said:
I'm proud to be on the H&M threads (no, not the shop...) lovely bunch of people and very funny!
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It was those threads that brought me to Tattle because back then, everyone was gushing over the Empress’s new clothes.
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50degreesnorth said:
It was those threads that brought me to Tattle because back then, everyone was gushing over the Empress’s new clothes.
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Regarding toilet shoes. I am now 30 years past back-packing years and so anywhere requiring me to wear shoes and squat in a hut hosting the cockroach global HQ is a no. I’d take an Imodium until I got back to Heathrow and obviously due to my age, I could just piss myself/clothes and everyone would just assume dementia.
 
Affiliatemebaby said:
One of regular (but enjoyable) threads about 70s and 80s food has had its also regular (and tedious) posts about how much thinner everyone was back then because food was so much better. It’s like the thin police can’t bear people having fun.
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You see this everywhere online. A black and white photo of people on the beach, and one of the first comments will be "Look - no fat people". It's like a wilful blindness, as though there aren't endless images of chubby Victorians and morbidly obese monarchs.
 
Geetbo said:
I could listen to Glaswegians saying bleep on a loop for a week.
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Married to one. The sweary rants are a thing of beauty 😆
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Affiliatemebaby said:
One of regular (but enjoyable) threads about 70s and 80s food has had its also regular (and tedious) posts about how much thinner everyone was back then because food was so much better. It’s like the thin police can’t bear people having fun.
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Fray Bentos pies and Findus Crispy Pancakes?
 
Affiliatemebaby said:
One of regular (but enjoyable) threads about 70s and 80s food has had its also regular (and tedious) posts about how much thinner everyone was back then because food was so much better. It’s like the thin police can’t bear people having fun.
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I was a child in the 70s and a teen/young adult in the 80s. Yes we had loads of healthy and homegrown food. My dad was a keen gardener and a fantastic cook but we also had Vesta chow mein, crispy pancakes, deep fried everything, pot noodles when those were invented, Fray bentos etc.

My mum was always on diets and I started dieting really young (1000 cals a day, Slimming Magazine Club) to try and get to a weight that my body was never designed to reach thus setting me up for a lifetime of yo-yo diets and disordered eating. Looking back at photos I was a slinky babe who didn't need to go near a slimming club or live on Lean Cuisine ready meals and air.

It was not a halcyon time of wall to wall teeny tinies, people have always struggled with their weight.

Here endeth my rant.
 
Affiliatemebaby said:
One of regular (but enjoyable) threads about 70s and 80s food has had its also regular (and tedious) posts about how much thinner everyone was back then because food was so much better. It’s like the thin police can’t bear people having fun.
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I grew up in the 70s. The food was tasteless shite. Boiled mince, boiled carrots, boiled potatoes. Every vegetable boiled to the point it had long surrendered any vitamins. No herb that couldn't be grown in an english garden and stuffed up a chicken's bum (to quote Terry Pratchett.) No garlic, no ginger, no olives, no lime, NO JOY.
 
Same, @LilyPond . We ate loads of fresh veg etc, but my mother had - in retrospect - tremendous issues around food. Being FAT was an outrage to her and one of the ways she managed her diet was by being a heavy smoker. She ended up with COPD and died much too young, but hey, her waist was teeny-tiny so that was absolutely fine.

She'd have bloody loved Mumsnet.
 
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