Only on MN ...

[cathf]

Not a TAAT as such, but inspired by a response on a thread running at the moment.
It got me thinking of the differences between MN and my RL friends and acquaintances, and things that are accepted wisdom on MN that no-one I know in real life cares about at all.
I will start off:

1. Little girls who wear pink clothing, and gendered clothing in general;
   
2. Scented sanitary towels;
   
3. Fruit Shoots
   
4. People cuddling/touching/talking to your child;
   

The amount of threads and angst over these topics is staggering, yet no-one I know would even think any of the above were worth discussing, never mind getting worked up about.
Anymore?

[cardibach]

You d9nt get worked up about scented sanitary towels?
They make you smell like an old lady’s scent drawer and irritate your bits. They are diabolical. Everyone I know gets cross about them! (Well,the women, anyway...).
There are lots of odd MN things though, like
Toilet brushes
Free bars at weddings
Not calling at friend’s/famil6’s houses without an appointment.

[Tobuyornot99]

Doing a separate towel and bedding wash at 90 degrees
Needing to be in constant touch with DH when he is on a night out
Hatred for MIL

[cathf]

Nope, don't get worked up about them at all.
Presumably if everyone hates them, the manufacturers would stop making them?

[BuntyII]

What's wrong with fruit shoots

[cathf]

Bunty, you might as well give your child neat him(apparently)

[Mynamesblurryface]

The only place ive even seen on the internet where giving your kid fruit/fruit juice/smoothie is a bad thing because of the sugar 😂 IRL people just eat these things as normal and would think you were bonkers if you came out with claptrap like that especially raw vegans/ health fanatics who consume a lot of fruit

[YouCantStopTheSignal]

What's wrong with fruit shoots

Fruit flavoured toxic slurry, apparently.

[mistermagpie]

There are people on here who claim that they can smell a scented sanitary towel through a person's clothes to the extent that it gives them a headache. Bullshit. The person might be wearing horrible perfume or deodorant or something!

[Mynamesblurryface]

Even thought the label says spring water and fruit juice these MNers don't like to read labels on food do they

[Tallzarathegreat]

Have you ever thought that people don't talk about any of these things in real life, but it doesn't mean they're not thinking it?

I hate scented sanitary towels, but I don't go around making that known or discussing it with anyone.

[Mynamesblurryface]

I can actually smell the scent of a sanitary towel when a woman wafts past me. A colleague of mine doesn't wear perfume or deodorant and when she's on her period you can smell the sanitary towel stench on her too kind to say anything as she probably doesn't know

[cathf]

Maybe Tallzara, but if I was as outraged as some people claim to be over these 'issues', I wouldn't be able to keep it to myself!

[Tallzarathegreat]

Also hate seeing little girls dressed up like dolls so they are uncomfortable and can't even play, again I would not say anything as it's not my business.

[gamerchick]

Well you've never seen me sniffing my way round the feminine hygiene aisle then

[AlwaysFuckingTired]

Inviting a kid who bullies your kid to their birthday party. I don't know anyone irl who would actually do that.

[NotUmbongoUnchained]

Pretty much every major issue I read about on mumsnet that gets everyone crazy and goes on for 20 people, no one I know in real life cares about at all. It really is a parallel universe to me.

[AuntieStella]

It's the great strength of MN. It shows you views held beyond your family/friends.

The people who care about those things will care about them both online and in RL. Just because you have different views doesn't invalidate those of other people. And if reading them makes you conclude 'they' must be outraged all the time, because you wouid be, then perhaps it's time to have a break from MN

[iamawoman]

Omg , you can smell a scented sanitary towel on another person!! I have never tried them and now I never will

[NotUmbongoUnchained]

20 pages*

[HelpmeobiMN]

People acting like having anyone outside your ‘little family’ (i.e. parents and baby) visit said baby in the first month post birth is basically the equivalent of giving up on parental bonding and throwing your baby into the wilderness to be raised by rabid badgers.

[53rdWay]

'Only on MN' is an odd conclusion to draw though, isn't it? More like MN is a bigger and more varied group of people than your immediate friends and family? I don't know anyone in real life who plans to put their children in private schools, but I don't think private schools are something made up on Mumsnet that Real People don't care about.

That said I will raise some serious eyebrow to the people who say stuff like 'but SURELY you can throw together a simple three-course meal for the in-laws right after giving birth, I was sweeping the kitchen before the placenta was delivered!'

[TillyTadpole]

Inviting a kid who bullies your kid to their birthday party. I don't know anyone irl who would actually do that

Me neither

[SleepingInYourFlowerbed]

Even thought the label says spring water and fruit juice hmm these MNers don't like to read labels on food do they

That's a Fruit Shoot Juiced...

[Mayra1367]

Only on MN the answer to relationship problems is to LTB without knowing the other side of the story, very dangerous advice.

[Sparklingbrook]

I have noticed there's been a spate of threads about things that apparently happened when out and about that if they happened to me I would have forgotten about immediately.

But scented sanitary towels are bleurgh, I always wash my towels at 95 degrees and didn't want any visitors post baby until I was ready.

I have never known so much angst about P&C parking in RL, possibly because my small town doesn't have any of those spaces. And I live for the day I see an argument on a bus.