Mumsnet #8 Give us a diagram, you CF.

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Yeah that's a very common mumsnet response on those my DH came home at 4am steaming drunk and puked in the bed and is now asleep in the bath, what shall I do? "Get up and go out for the day, OP and get your hair done and leave him looking after HIS children!"
I mean, who would really do that, just flounce off and not be worried about the kids at all being left with someone who is still hammered and face down in their own sick? Yes, I'm sure he'll be grand to look after the three children including a baby. Not saying the DH isn't an arse but in what world is that tbe best thing to do?

Also I can't stand the faux horror and astonishment if they find out that married people have separate bank accounts.
 
Lolly666 said:
Yeah that's a very common mumsnet response on those my DH came home at 4am steaming drunk and puked in the bed and is now asleep in the bath, what shall I do? "Get up and go out for the day, OP and get your hair done and leave him looking after HIS children!"
I mean, who would really do that, just flounce off and not be worried about the kids at all being left with someone who is still hammered and face down in their own sick? Yes, I'm sure he'll be grand to look after the three children including a baby. Not saying the DH isn't an arse but in what world is that tbe best thing to do?

Also I can't stand the faux horror and astonishment if they find out that married people have separate bank accounts.
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Yeah surely you just bank it as a day in lieu for you to go footloose and fancy free.
 
camotea said:
What I detest about MN is the ‘just’. Just LTB, just earn more money, just stop cooking and cleaning, just go NC with your family, just tell her, just tell him, just X,Y & Z. And always in response to impossibly complicated scenarios that require a bit of nuance, at the very least. I have literally stopped saying it IRL as it’s such a mad and jarring reply to anything anyone asks your opinion about.
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Agreed, a lot of those "cut and dried" magic solutions also involve significant amounts of money when often the OP is already clearly struggling.

Get a lawyer, get a nanny, get a night nanny, rent a home working space, spend random nights at a hotel, have a spa day, book a holiday, get a taxi (for a 70 mile trip), retrain for a career change, and my personal favourite.... "can you just move house?"
 
AIBUwatch!

"Parents DO have a favourite child!" - you can imagine the typical one-upmanship this provoked in comments

"AIBU to think a fictional character from a work set during WWII would be struck off today for prescribing children sedatives?"

A driver deliberately behaved aggressively towards OP who is a cyclist, the post finishes off with "this is why you shouldn't be mean about cyclists online!" WTF does that have to do with it? They've no evidence the driver was motivated by online posts about cyclists (it appears the driver has something personal against OP, as they often see each other on their morning route) and being a cyclist doesn't excuse dangerous behaviour on the road

Amusing story about how, when OP was 14, she had a row with her mother and stepfather so hitchhiked to Heathrow and bought a plane ticket at 3am to fly to family in another country. Asks if they were being unreasonable to sell her a ticket. Reaction divided, some commenters don't believe this story as they don't think the desk would be open at 3am. Others point out that a 14-year-old is considered old enough to fly by themselves (under 14 they are "unaccompanied minors" and have to be escorted by cabin crew), and this was 20 years ago when there was less concern about trafficking

Poster who talks about being violently abused at home, deliberately phrases the story to sound like relationship violence and then theatrically "reveals" it was her six-year-old son. I'm not questioning the truth of this story but still, that is a pretty tactless way to phrase it

"AIBU to tell my prestigious job to do one" the title made me lol
 
Axatogrind said:
Agreed, a lot of those "cut and dried" magic solutions also involve significant amounts of money when often the OP is already clearly struggling.

Get a lawyer, get a nanny, get a night nanny, rent a home working space, spend random nights at a hotel, have a spa day, book a holiday, get a taxi (for a 70 mile trip), retrain for a career change, and my personal favourite.... "can you just move house?"
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I remember years ago when there was a “nursery/childcare = evil child prisons” thread saying not everyone can afford to give up work. To be told of course they can, they can just downsize to a smaller house!
 
I just settled in for a quite enjoyable thread about a prize at a Christmas fair that has gone awol, and literally page 2 we get “
There's a war in Ukraine, we are in the middle of a profound cost of living crisis and you want a beleaguered volunteer to magic up a few sweets she almost certainly doesn't have any more.

Perspective?”
I want to award extra sanctimony points for over the top vocabulary. Top work.

I’d also like to draw your attention to the fact that the OP took the advice of Mumsnetters and quoted lottery laws at the organisers of the fair in order to claim a jar of sweets.

Howling and spitting my tea out here.
 
notanotherusername92 said:
I remember years ago when there was a “nursery/childcare = evil child prisons” thread saying not everyone can afford to give up work. To be told of course they can, they can just downsize to a smaller house!
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“Let them call someone else mummy!” The childcare/SAHM issue is just the worst discussion to have in the world.

Slight Me-rail but I worked with a woman who had 4 children, her mum had always looked after them in the hours that she worked… but had had to stop as the grandmother was ill. The colleague kept chirping “WHAT AM I MEANT TO DO WITH MY CHILDREN?!!” When someone suggested they go to nursery she snapped “I’m not putting my children in an INSTITUTION!”

And then looked at me… someone whose child had been in nursery since 5.5 months old because strangely enough my mum isn’t around to look after all my children for free while I do a really poor attempt at passing for work. (she was literally never at her desk and one of our directors almost fell off her chair when she found out this woman was full time).

ANYWAY, as I said, very controversial topic 😂
 
WeHadFunRight said:
“Let them call someone else mummy!” The childcare/SAHM issue is just the worst discussion to have in the world.

Slight Me-rail but I worked with a woman who had 4 children, her mum had always looked after them in the hours that she worked… but had had to stop as the grandmother was ill. The colleague kept chirping “WHAT AM I MEANT TO DO WITH MY CHILDREN?!!” When someone suggested they go to nursery she snapped “I’m not putting my children in an INSTITUTION!”

And then looked at me… someone whose child had been in nursery since 5.5 months old because strangely enough my mum isn’t around to look after all my children for free while I do a really poor attempt at passing for work. (she was literally never at her desk and one of our directors almost fell off her chair when she found out this woman was full time).

ANYWAY, as I said, very controversial topic 😂
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An institution?! 😂😂😂 That woman needed a seriously sizeable box of grips. What a twit.
 
Et0n-Mess said:
I just settled in for a quite enjoyable thread about a prize at a Christmas fair that has gone awol, and literally page 2 we get “
There's a war in Ukraine, we are in the middle of a profound cost of living crisis and you want a beleaguered volunteer to magic up a few sweets she almost certainly doesn't have any more.

Perspective?”
I want to award extra sanctimony points for over the top vocabulary. Top work.

I’d also like to draw your attention to the fact that the OP took the advice of Mumsnetters and quoted lottery laws at the organisers of the fair in order to claim a jar of sweets.

Howling and spitting my tea out here.
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There was a thread last week about houses on Rightmove.

Barely halfway down page one was a free-form diatribe about their father passing away and the hassle of sorting out his estate and selling the family home and how the OP should be ashamed of themselves for judging other people's houses. :rolleyes:
 
Et0n-Mess said:
I just settled in for a quite enjoyable thread about a prize at a Christmas fair that has gone awol, and literally page 2 we get “
There's a war in Ukraine, we are in the middle of a profound cost of living crisis and you want a beleaguered volunteer to magic up a few sweets she almost certainly doesn't have any more.

Perspective?”
I want to award extra sanctimony points for over the top vocabulary. Top work.

I’d also like to draw your attention to the fact that the OP took the advice of Mumsnetters and quoted lottery laws at the organisers of the fair in order to claim a jar of sweets.

Howling and spitting my tea out here.
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well I’m pissed off I didn't win the works Christmas jumper and be as festive as you can Teams call this morning. A fat Santa won.

bloody fix.

I am sure that the witchfinder generals over there would tar and feather me.
 
Et0n-Mess said:
I just settled in for a quite enjoyable thread about a prize at a Christmas fair that has gone awol, and literally page 2 we get “
There's a war in Ukraine, we are in the middle of a profound cost of living crisis and you want a beleaguered volunteer to magic up a few sweets she almost certainly doesn't have any more.

Perspective?”
I want to award extra sanctimony points for over the top vocabulary. Top work.

I’d also like to draw your attention to the fact that the OP took the advice of Mumsnetters and quoted lottery laws at the organisers of the fair in order to claim a jar of sweets.

Howling and spitting my tea out here.
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This is why I don’t volunteer for tit 😂
Just let me make a donation in peace without having to deal with people like this
 
Serene Serena said:
I've just been reading the thread entitled what does a middle class Christmas look like, and it's full of fantasists describing their idyllic plans, including rosy cheeked children frolicking in the snow, singing carols, playing board games, going to the theatre, staying in a spa hotel and so on and on and on.

No-one admits to having anything other than a Channel 5 afternoon movie style Christmas. Bless them. Oh and apparently going to Norfolk for Christmas is what posh folk do.
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I was just laughing about this and waiting for Xenia and LeQueen to rock up. It’s so comforting that they did. Nothing changes.
 
Sw4 said:
Does anyone know a MNer in real life? Please elaborate on what they are like...
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I knew one of the ones who used to be very prolific. I assumed she was local as her username referenced the area, but it wasn't until she posted about a unique family situation that I realised she was my downstairs neighbour. She was a pretty average person IRL - not in an insulting way, in a 'not a salad-obsessed loon who's always on the phone to 101' way - and I looked back through her posts a bit to see if there was anything scandalous, like secret racism or an online fantasy life, but sadly not. She was a single mum to an adopted toddler at the time so was probably just posting a lot for support and adult conversation.
 
Sglodion said:
I knew one of the ones who used to be very prolific. I assumed she was local as her username referenced the area, but it wasn't until she posted about a unique family situation that I realised she was my downstairs neighbour. She was a pretty average person IRL - not in an insulting way, in a 'not a salad-obsessed loon who's always on the phone to 101' way - and I looked back through her posts a bit to see if there was anything scandalous, like secret racism or an online fantasy life, but sadly not. She was a single mum to an adopted toddler at the time so was probably just posting a lot for support and adult conversation.
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Blimey, that is close to home 😂
 
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