Mumsnet #49 Knock knock! Who’s there? No idea, I’m a mumsnetter.

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bread-pitt said:
Yes! I mean, we speak English here. Why do they think that is? Could it be that this country was settled by people from Great Britain? They’re not the brightest, those MNers.
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They alternate between being insistent that America is tit and Britain is so amazing we shouldn't do anything Americans do incase we end up tit too, and saying Britain is so tit they're in tears daily and want to move to another country.

Heaven forbid we all accept their are ways every country is tit and ways it's amazing and everyone will have a different opinion on what those things are.

I personally would not like to live in America for certain reasons (which I'm prepared to admit I am wrong about) but there are so many things I love about America.

The same as the UK, I'm so glad I live here but there's things I don't love about it, I just have to get on with it though, I don't start Mumsnet threads about it and cry-type about the government on the daily.
 
So the mumsnet 6 figure high earners that are very important, those that work from home apparently don’t do much work, well they do but obviously bake, go to the gym, have a bath, clean the house etc. But as long as they get their super important jobs sorted at some point some employers are ‘cool with it.’No wonder staff are being called back to the office. My partner works from home he seems to work pretty solidly. Don’t people also have strict log in rules, some even monitored?
 
Louby@21 said:
So the mumsnet 6 figure high earners that are very important, those that work from home apparently don’t do much work, well they do but obviously bake, go to the gym, have a bath, clean the house etc. But as long as they get their super important jobs sorted at some point some employers are ‘cool with it.’No wonder staff are being called back to the office. My partner works from home he seems to work pretty solidly. Don’t people also have strict log in rules, some even monitored?
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They're too important to be monitored or have strict rules, obviously your husband is just a lowly worker and not very important *tinkly laugh*.
 
On thread in AIBU "to think it isn't 'attention-seeking' not to drink tea or coffee?"

Gosh, they're a strange bunch.
 

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Cinnabun said:
On thread in AIBU "to think it isn't 'attention-seeking' not to drink tea or coffee?"

Gosh, they're a strange bunch.
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Absolute weirdo. I just offer people 'a drink' and loads of people say something other than tea or coffee and some say I don't drink hot drinks do you have something cold or whatever, I don't give it a second thought. I certainly don't think it's awkward!
 
I’m here (not having read that thread) to tell you that some people treat you like you’ve got no head if you don’t like tea, let alone liking neither. I’ve had people be positively offended when I’ve refused the offer of a cup of tea. Particularly the woman who was trying to force me to drink a cup of sweet tea just after I’d had a bereavement.
 
Affiliatemebaby said:
I’m here (not having read that thread) to tell you that some people treat you like you’ve got no head if you don’t like tea, let alone liking neither. I’ve had people be positively offended when I’ve refused the offer of a cup of tea. Particularly the woman who was trying to force me to drink a cup of sweet tea just after I’d had a bereavement.
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Who knew the world was full of Mrs Doyle's!
 
Affiliatemebaby said:
I’m here (not having read that thread) to tell you that some people treat you like you’ve got no head if you don’t like tea, let alone liking neither. I’ve had people be positively offended when I’ve refused the offer of a cup of tea. Particularly the woman who was trying to force me to drink a cup of sweet tea just after I’d had a bereavement.
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Why is it always “a nice cup of tea?”
Would you offer someone a horrid one?
 
Oh man alive! The thread about the OP choosing for her kid to be vegetarian is a wild ride. MNers are sooooooo weird about their “meat and 2 veg diet”. They always kick off about vegetarian weddings and parties and stuff. I’m a meat and fish eater but I can see a veggie diet can be really healthy and wholesome. For six figure earners who went to Oxbridge, they’re not very bright.
 
Affiliatemebaby said:
I’m here (not having read that thread) to tell you that some people treat you like you’ve got no head if you don’t like tea, let alone liking neither. I’ve had people be positively offended when I’ve refused the offer of a cup of tea. Particularly the woman who was trying to force me to drink a cup of sweet tea just after I’d had a bereavement.
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I only drink tea in my own house if I feel like I'm on deaths door aka very very rarely. However I always have tea at my big cousins house when I visit
 
HotDawg said:
Oh man alive! The thread about the OP choosing for her kid to be vegetarian is a wild ride. MNers are sooooooo weird about their “meat and 2 veg diet”. They always kick off about vegetarian weddings and parties and stuff. I’m a meat and fish eater but I can see a veggie diet can be really healthy and wholesome. For six figure earners who went to Oxbridge, they’re not very bright.
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I can’t imagine the amount of times MN has discussed whether a ‘meat eater’ can possibly be expected to eat a whole meal without it. I realise this makes me sound as MN as they come, but I just don’t get it. I eat meat, I like it, but I don’t care if I eat a nice meal without it either. I could happily spend a week eating veggie food and not miss meat that much - I wouldn’t regard it as any deprivation. Nice food is nice food!
 
Affiliatemebaby said:
I can’t imagine the amount of times MN has discussed whether a ‘meat eater’ can possibly be expected to eat a whole meal without it. I realise this makes me sound as MN as they come, but I just don’t get it. I eat meat, I like it, but I don’t care if I eat a nice meal without it either. I could happily spend a week eating veggie food and not miss meat that much - I wouldn’t regard it as any deprivation. Nice food is nice food!
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My friend’s granddaughter is a vegan. For her 18th I offered to take her to a local vegan restaurant, new, but with a great reputation.
My friend ( now an ex friend, long story) decided she was coming but wasn’t sure there was anything she could eat. She asked if she brought a steak, would they cook it for her?
Fortunately Covid arrived…
 
Louby@21 said:
So the mumsnet 6 figure high earners that are very important, those that work from home apparently don’t do much work, well they do but obviously bake, go to the gym, have a bath, clean the house etc. But as long as they get their super important jobs sorted at some point some employers are ‘cool with it.’No wonder staff are being called back to the office. My partner works from home he seems to work pretty solidly. Don’t people also have strict log in rules, some even monitored?
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My DH works from home full time, I do a day a week from home. We have very different job roles, he can’t be away for more than 5 minutes without it flagging with only his lunch as an exception, whereas I feel like sometimes I could spend the whole day in the bath baking pies and nobody would notice. But I would then have to do the work eventually so I just tend to do it in the hours I’m paid to work, although I definitely don’t work as hard as the Mumsnet martyrs claim to.
 
They absolutely are lunatics about tea and coffee, look at this OP!

Just wondering how did you start your dc on tea or coffee. DS refuses to try either ! It doesn't matter but I feel bad for him that he never has a hot drink . Maybe I didn't push it on him early enough . DD used to spend time at my parents and she always wanted tea if they had it so they'd give her a weak milky cup. I think she started on mochas and gradually started to like coffee.
 
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