Mumsnet #40 I sit on my throne of potatoes and I laugh

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CrimsonCountess said:
I'm not sure Richi? Sunak actually sits and reads mumsnet does he?
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Whilst I have genuine sympathy for the financial situation many are in in the UK, and think the Tories are a lot to blame. This does smack a bit of "I walked 5 miles to school in the snow uphill both ways with only a teaspoon to clear the path".
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Iceache said:
I might be being stupid here but how does she walk to school in shoes she leaves in school?
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I guess she means she has "walking" shoes and then "work" shoes which she doesn't want to wear down by walking?
But I don't think her approach would be unusual anyway as who wants to walk 5 miles in smart shoes?
 
No wonder those french women are all so thin if this is what they eat!

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yessenia_d said:
I mean, looking at the way it's going for him I'd not be surprised if he's sitting at home, with the curtains drawn, mainlining Coca Cola, face down in bargain trifle, scrolling through mumsnet. The bloke's definitely in dejected FML self-sabotage territory.
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Yeah. Well. He should be in FML territory.

However, such territory is solely populated by people who have sentience enough to make the move there. The likes of Sunak, not so much.

Anyway, I wonder if the Hovis-vibe letter-writer was inundated with offers of shoes, energy vouchers etc. from the very naice charitable poshos on MN?
 
CrimsonCountess said:
This poor woman, I feel so sorry for her I just don't know how she copes. She is soo teeny tiny that she can't use her bath properly:cry:

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Wait, have I been doing baths all wrong? Are they meant to be exactly the right size to sort of wedge you in there? Then where does the water go? What happens if you gain weight, do you need a new bath? My husband is bigger than me, is he meant to have a separate one? So many questions.... 😒 🤔
 
Welcome to my world @EleanorAbernathy. Until I joined MN, I believed my adulting was of a fully functional, relatively sane, fairly assertive nature.

Not so.

As an example, I do not start from the default position of going in 'all guns blazing' without affording anyone the opportunity to explain what's happening, happened or will happen.

On there, it's as though aggression is the default when they want something/anything they believe is being withheld from them.

To up my adulting game, I've started taking testosterone supplements, and practicing hurling vitriolic abuse at myself in the mirror.

I'm doing well. I'll be ready to rejoin when they'll have me. ;)
 
CrimsonCountess said:
I'm not sure Richi? Sunak actually sits and reads mumsnet does he?
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Top end of Main Scale from all the years she's done the job will be at least £41k. She may well have gone over threshold many years ago as she's been HoD, which would take her to between £43k and £46k. Presumably she's lost any TLR, which means she's waved bye-bye to another £600-16K.

She would have had a significantly better salary than most for the majority of the last 30 years and at top of main scale, she's still better off than pretty much every member of support staff, other than the school business manager.

Her asthma can't be that bad if she's not used an inhaler up in a decade. And a pound a week for 2 and a half months - the length of school holidays (so times when she wouldn't need to find bus fare, lunches or replace/wash work clothes) - would pay for a new prescription. As would the cost of not replacing one of those cats, as she's clearly not going to have had the same ones for thirty years, saving her on cat food.

In short, it's either bollocks or she's a crap teacher incapable of functioning as an adult and balancing her budget.
 
TheDragonWithAFlagon said:
Top end of Main Scale from all the years she's done the job will be at least £41k. She may well have gone over threshold many years ago as she's been HoD, which would take her to between £43k and £46k. Presumably she's lost any TLR, which means she's waved bye-bye to another £600-16K.

She would have had a significantly better salary than most for the majority of the last 30 years and at top of main scale, she's still better off than pretty much every member of support staff, other than the school business manager.

Her asthma can't be that bad if she's not used an inhaler up in a decade. And a pound a week for 2 and a half months - the length of school holidays (so times when she wouldn't need to find bus fare, lunches or replace/wash work clothes) - would pay for a new prescription. As would the cost of not replacing one of those cats, as she's clearly not going to have had the same ones for thirty years, saving her on cat food.

In short, it's either bollocks or she's a crap teacher incapable of functioning as an adult and balancing her budget.
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Her asthma can't be that bad if she's not used an inhaler up in a decade.

Do inhalers even last a decade? My son (DS aka "You little bugger") used to have one and I'm sure they have to be replaced after a certain length of time even if they sit unused in a drawer. They expire. I don't know whether it's the contents, the "propellant"(for want of a better word) or what, but archeologists certainly wouldn't be picking one out of Tutenkhamun's tomb saying "Wow - he had asthma, and this inhaler is still as good as new!"
 
Girl#7 said:
It's a real situation she's in, that teacher.

She's stupid, doesn't realise she's stupid, and expects everyone to be even more stupid than her.

MN is hoaching with that sort of moron.
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<whispers> so are schools.

They're the people who are completely oblivious to the next-to-duck-all that Support have to live on. 'Poor me, I only have four times the income of other people working their arses off have to manage with, that have far inferior terms and conditions, worse pension, far fewer employment rights, no right to progression or even review each year, no right to training, worse sick pay, worse maternity rights and nothing like the job security that being a teacher confers. Send me money.'
 
cat_follower said:
‘Colleague has said I'm vain a few times’ on AIBU has attracted an impressive swarm of some of the cuntiest specimens mumsnet has to offer. Wringing their hands to smithereens because op puts a bit of makeup on in the break room. Multiple cat-bum faces have called her common. And then we have this absolute foreskin parcel 🙄 View attachment 2990193 q
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Oh God.

We're going to have competitive mirror avoidance now, aren't we?

And others saying "What? You only brush your hair once a day? You must look like a haystack" etc
 
TheMiceInTheShed said:
Her asthma can't be that bad if she's not used an inhaler up in a decade.

Do inhalers even last a decade? My son (DS aka "You little bugger") used to have one and I'm sure they have to be replaced after a certain length of time even if they sit unused in a drawer. They expire. I don't know whether it's the contents, the "propellant"(for want of a better word) or what, but archeologists certainly wouldn't be picking one out of Tutenkhamun's tomb saying "Wow - he had asthma, and this inhaler is still as good as new!"
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No. It wouldn't do any good had she actually needed to use it.
 
TheMiceInTheShed said:
Oh God.

We're going to have competitive mirror avoidance now, aren't we?

And others saying "What? You only brush your hair once a day? You must look like a haystack" etc
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Ah. See. I may well have missed out on the lifelong teeny tiny gene. (FTR, I did)

HOWEVER! I was blessed (as are both sides of my family) with the FABULOUS HAIR gene. :cool: <flex, flex,FLEX!!>

I can literally sleep the night, get out of bed and have no need to brush or comb my hair. It is exactly as it was when I went to bed. I use no products beyond shampoo and conditioner.

It's the only feature that draws positive comments from others i.e. I am never seen with a hair out of place!! Even when I go swimming, get out of the shower, or am caught in the rain .... it still looks FABULOUS.

Obvs, I ignored the entire Sex-Hat chat on the other place and when it drifted over here. 😁
 
ZanzibarDreaming said:
Has anyone seen the “what holiday would be a complete nightmare for you” thread? They basically hate anything that resembles fun, or where they might risk bumping into someone they think is poor.
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TBF, I deeply resent bumping into anybody on holiday. Especially a Mumsnetter with her gaggle of 'spirited' little shits and her knob of a husband. Unfortunately, Mr D's origins mean his old stomping ground is bleeping infested with them from when the private schools kick out for summer.
 
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