Mumsnet #5 Cancel the cheque

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ElectricDreams said:
I've just been reading the thread where they're all discussing which Motherland character they identify with. Lots of Anne's and the occasional Julia but not one of them admitted to being an Amanda!
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15% I’m crying 😭😭😭😭😭
 

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PumpkinKing said:
Reading an interesting thread about the cost of appliance usage and someone pops on to say they’ve told their daughter there will be no hair dryer in winter! And apparently the daughter’s hair is really long.
One of the tightest things I’ve read on there!
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It's not as bad as the woman who gives her children frozen cucumbers instead of ice lollies. My mind is still boggling over that one.
 
PrincessCharming said:
My husband said there’d be no tumble drier after October. Think again, matey.
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How do you dry clothes in the winter without one though?

Regarding the "What is my dress size" post and it's toxic sister "How old do I look?" Someone admitted on MN that they posted a picture of someone they didn't like on there pretending to be them asking how old they looked and it was full of vicious replies.
 
As if a headteacher has time for 1 to 1 lessons. Also not sure what being a child genius means, as it's no guarantee of success or happiness in life. We had two lads at my college destined for oxbridge, super smart. Boy 1 parents got ill and he had to become their carer. Boy 2 was found walking on the motorway, had to be rescued and escorted home by the police. One of the most successful& smartest people I ever met didn't get past their GCSEs.
 
Kurrikawari said:
As if a headteacher has time for 1 to 1 lessons. Also not sure what being a child genius means, as it's no guarantee of success or happiness in life. We had two lads at my college destined for oxbridge, super smart. Boy 1 parents got ill and he had to become their carer. Boy 2 was found walking on the motorway, had to be rescued and escorted home by the police. One of the most successful& smartest people I ever met didn't get past their GCSEs.
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Parents of “gifted” kids are some of the most smug, superior parents I’ve ever come across. Most of the time these kids are neurodivergent (usually autistic) but will they accept that? Nope. All of their social awkwardness, inability to form friendships etc is just because they have a superior intellect and therefore can’t relate to their peers 🙄

It’s actually really sad, because that’s why these kids burn out and have mental health crises when they get older.
 
PrincessCharming said:
Yes, someone will have the job of clearing it up. But that’s okay. They are a bunch of idiots on there.
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When a tragedy occurs, the community feel a bit helpless as they can't really do much to help those grieving. These memorials are their way of showing support. And just maybe this gives the grieving family some sort of comfort. How would these twunts feel if they were in same situation.
I do completely get that someone will need to clear it up like you say. Mumsnet gives me rage somedays!
 
ToxicPony said:
They really do compete to see who can be the most joyless and miserable. There's a thread going with a poster asking why we bother to celebrate marriages as some people get divorced.
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I saw that one.

Don’t know about anyone else but I just enjoy getting dressed up and having a knees up, often with friends or family I’ve not seen for a while. I’m grateful when I’m invited and it never crosses my mind (other than one occasion when I was correct) that it might end in a split, let alone begrudge the couple their big day on that basis.
 
There was a lad in his 20s that died a year and his friends still come to the spot he died to lay flowers and stand in quiet reflection, I always think its extremely sweet that they remember their friend. They always take the old flowers with them.

Ironic that MN users have issue with "waste" there was a thread once where they were all showing off about how they have a weekly delivery of Freddies flowers every WEEK just for themselves.
 
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