Serene Serena
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Please, for the sake of the entire planet, don't ever utter the words 'want Trump to win' again
Mumsnet #48 Cherchez la spunk splatter
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50degreesnorth
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I’m very rural (think no Oyster cards) and not only do we not lock our doors - but we leave the key in the ignition in case someone needs to move it or the postie sees your car out and about and leaves the mail on the passenger seat.
Nobody, but nobody in this parish has CCTV or Ring doorbells. You just march straight in.
Nobody, but nobody in this parish has CCTV or Ring doorbells. You just march straight in.
Serene Serena
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Pretty much the same where I live, think not zone 1, 2, 3 or even 4. We have got a railway station though
We are a nice friendly little community, and fortunately too far from that there London for the majority of Mumsnetters to even consider buying property here. No-one locks their doors, no-one locks their cars, crime rate is almost zero and when there is crime, it's usually a combination of incomers, alcohol and a certain caravan park.
There are also no designer shops unless you go to Cheshire on Sea, otherwise known as Abersoch, and they are all closed now the holiday season is over.
I do spot the occasional mumsnetter out and about though, and I'm pretty sure some of the daily group of wild sea swimmers are Mumsnetters because they are all very posh.
holasun
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We once left our patio doors wide open all day. All that came in was some wildlife. However I do have a ring camera. Mostly so I know if the post has been delivered (there is a porch constantly left unlocked and they dump stuff in there without ringing) - and also to get nighttime videos of deer, owls and cats in the garden 
marjorytrashheap
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Honestly I think AIBU and most of Chat is just fanfiction. IME the small quiet forums are for real, and full of average people who seem to live ordinary lives. It's the same on Reddit - AITA is wall-to-wall bollocks.
Girl#7
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Apropos JWs knocking on the door.
Those bastards ruined my mid-teens. They came a-knocking on a very rare occasion I was home alone aged 13/14. I listened and took the wee newsletter they offered i.e. The Watchtower for my parents to consider.
So far, so standard. As an avid reader (think back of cereal boxes, instruction notices on doors, information inserts in aspirin boxes etc.), I read their publication.
In amongst other information was the FACT my recently discovered hobby of exploring my genitalia was a sin. A BIG SIN. A BIG, MASSIVE SIN.
As I said, bastards.
Maybe MNs have it right after all i.e. no good can come from answering the door?
Those bastards ruined my mid-teens. They came a-knocking on a very rare occasion I was home alone aged 13/14. I listened and took the wee newsletter they offered i.e. The Watchtower for my parents to consider.
So far, so standard. As an avid reader (think back of cereal boxes, instruction notices on doors, information inserts in aspirin boxes etc.), I read their publication.
In amongst other information was the FACT my recently discovered hobby of exploring my genitalia was a sin. A BIG SIN. A BIG, MASSIVE SIN.
As I said, bastards.Maybe MNs have it right after all i.e. no good can come from answering the door?
Tretps29
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I absolutely hate them. They’re an evil cult.Apropos JWs knocking on the door.
Those bastards ruined my mid-teens. They came a-knocking on a very rare occasion I was home alone aged 13/14. I listened and took the wee newsletter they offered i.e. The Watchtower for my parents to consider.
So far, so standard. As an avid reader (think back of cereal boxes, instruction notices on doors, information inserts in aspirin boxes etc.), I read their publication.
In amongst other information was the FACT my recently discovered hobby of exploring my genitalia was a sin. A BIG SIN. A BIG, MASSIVE SIN.
Maybe MNs have it right after all i.e. no good can come from answering the door?
move had a couple of run ins with them.
I always tell them I’m catholic Jewish and see how they squirm.
Iamthebosun
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I’m never going in the bathroom alone again
AIBU to think my husband should accompany me when I need to do my lady poos in case a man hiding behind my bathroom mirror murders me? I am slim if that makes a difference.
Tretps29
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In other news I’m amazed that all these 6 figure salary high flying corporate lawyers and CEOs of large international conglomerates have time to give a tit about the colour of fairy lights.
im just waiting for someone to pipe up saying white fairy lights = lower middle class, blue fairy lights = working class.
I have some lovely blue lights I use for our chrimbo tree, it doubles up as emergency lights for ambulances
there is also a shoe horn in of a tradesman liking blue lights. Very working class [head tilt, tinkly little laugh]
im just waiting for someone to pipe up saying white fairy lights = lower middle class, blue fairy lights = working class.
I have some lovely blue lights I use for our chrimbo tree, it doubles up as emergency lights for ambulances
there is also a shoe horn in of a tradesman liking blue lights. Very working class [head tilt, tinkly little laugh]
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Miss Begotten
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In other news I’m amazed that all these 6 figure salary high flying corporate lawyers and CEOs of large international conglomerates have time to give a tit about the colour of fairy lights.
im just waiting for someone to pipe up saying white fairy lights = lower middle class, blue fairy lights = working class.
I have some lovely blue lights I use for our chrimbo tree, it doubles up as emergency lights for ambulances
there is also a shoe horn in of a tradesman liking blue lights. Very working class [head tilt, tinkly little laugh]
Ooh we’ve got some white lights which have been alive since the 1990s! Fancy me being lower middle class.
*sticks nose in the air and adds focaccia and avocados to my Tesco shopping list *
Miss Begotten
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I'm gonna have to report myself to someone.
I totally get where this poster is coming from ....
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Oh good god, mine don’t flash, they twinkle. I’m not a complete chav.
Mr B uses them to decorate my big bush. ( The one in my front garden).
Serene Serena
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It would have been me, except I would have added 'plus a giant inflatable snowman on the porch and Santa on the roof in an inflatable sleigh with all of the reindeers'Fess up who replied with this gem?
next thread title?
sistersofpercy
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I'm gonna have to report myself to someone.
I totally get where this poster is coming from ....
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I agree. They look like there is a large police presence and in certain areas round here that’s not a good thing
cat_follower
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My neighbour absolutely bedecks their front garden in those flashing blue lights, I had to get a blackout blind because my bedroom was lit up like a shite police rave until January. I could have had a 20 page post on AIBU about the trauma I endured 
Cinnabun
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Maybe that's why Mumsnetters don't clean theirs.
ShopTilYouSlop
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It's got to be warm white fairy lights, I think, if memory serves. Definitely not multicoloured, I know that.
bread-pitt
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Lentil dhal every night of the week. If I never see another lentil in my life it will be too soon.
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He’s not a dangerous dog. Any carnivorous animal has the capacity to kill if necessary. Even people have the capacity to kill. It’s how meat-eating creatures have survived thus far. But I digress. No, euthanasia would not have been the best thing for him just as it’s not the best thing for a person who has done no wrong just because they might one day murder someone in the future. He’s been with us almost three years and he’s the biggest softie in the world. Whether a dog is dangerous or not is nothing to do with the breed but everything to do with how they are kept and trained.
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