Mumsnet is full of funsuckers?

I agree, it’s quite depressing reading some of the stuff on here. Don’t dare ring someone or god forbid knock on their door.

Anything that somebody tells me will be 'fun' immediately makes me think,nope,it definitely won't be. 😂

It's mind-numbingly boring and its fans are usually uneducated, drunken cretins. Weddings are very similar.

What kind of weddings have you been to?! And what a way to describe your family and friends.

Btw ‘cretin’ is an unpleasant word derived from cretinism, a disorder with mental and physical disabilities due to thyroid issues. I would never use it. Maybe this makes me a fun sponge 🤷🏼‍♀️

I hate going out with work and I like my colleagues. However we spent 40 hours a week together, I probably see them more than my kids.
Sorry when I leave work I want to be with my family not the people I've spent most of the week with.
I do love days out and weddings though. I'm also able to answer the door, I'd never even heard of this as a thing until I joined MN.

There actually is one in my village and I'm nearly 60. A couple of my neighbours have said 'oooh you'll be able to start coming soon.' I think 'I don't fucking think so!'

I laughed aloud at that!

Yeah, I have little enough in common with most of the over 70s I know, even at the knitting groups. It's endless talk about their grandkids, who I don't know, and I don't care for children anyway. Same at the village (a retirement village). The topics of conversation don't really appeal. Nice people, but "Hi how are you, lovely weather" is enough to be going on with for the most part.

Yeah, I've had this in my village. Several times I've been asked to join the 'village walking group' because I like to go for walks (four or five 2-mile walks a week on my own/occasionally with DH.

That's it. I like to go on my own, not with 17 to 20 other people all walking at different speeds. And I don't want to walk along their route. I don't want to spend all my walk talking to people. I want to stop and take photos when I want. I want to speed walk when I want and walk slowly when I want and change route when I want. And not do what someone else wants.

I've always been a bit of a free spirit and don't very much like group activities at all. I certainly wouldn't be joining any over 60s club. There actually is one in my village and I'm nearly 60. A couple of my neighbours have said 'oooh you'll be able to start coming soon.' I think 'I don't fucking think so!'

I get on much better with people 15 to 25 years younger than me than 15 to 25 years older. I have literally got nothing in common with people 15 to 25 years older but quite a lot in common with people up to 15-25 years younger. Most people in the over 60s group (around 40 of them) are 70 to 85. I have literally nothing in common with them.

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Your opinion. I agree football is boring to watch but very fun to play. I lobe weddings. Food, friends, drinks, celebration, dancing... I like all these things

@RedYellowPinkGreenPurpleOrangeBlue nailed it!

I'm out most days socialising at knitting groups. When I'm at home I want to be left in peace. I was asked recently to join the village social group "because they need younger members" (I'm 60). No way, they don't have any activities I enjoy and unlike OP and some others on this thread, I don't expect them to change their activities to accommodate me.

Yep. The kind of people who say “smile love it might never happen”.

Well cunt, for all you know it already did and I’m living through the aftermath.

@brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · Today 15:46

I think at the end there you answered your own question - as you said, free time is for enjoying life. If you don’t enjoy weddings, birthdays and all that annoying stuff then you’d prefer your free time for doing things which actually are fun and interesting.

Exactly this. I despair for humanity at the posters on here banging on about how 'wrong' other people are for not wanting to go to work parties, big weddings, and baby showers etc, or not wanting to answer the door when they're not expecting anyone. And how 'right' THEY are because they are buzzing little social butterflies who just love to mix with everyone and let everyone in their home, and think 'the more the merrier...' vom!🙄 And they act like people who don't want to do what they do are sooooooo miserable and borrrrrrrrrring!

They go buzzing around, sticking their beak in, goading and nagging at people to come out, and go with the flow. (Go with the flow = do what the fuck the bossy, bolshy people demand - and fuck what YOU want to do!)

And these same people call you miserable, funsponge, boring and other rude and nasty names. And they actually wonder - literally WONDER why some people don't want to be with them and socialise with them or answer the door to them. You could not make this shit up! 😆 The sheer breathtaking irony!

Your dull formulaic wedding / pedestrian birthday celebration is actively unpleasant to me. It’ll still go ahead without me so you do you.

What an attitude! Life isn't just about the individual.

Of course we all like to do things we find enjoyable in our free time - but there are also times when we have to put ourselves out for other people. Anyone would think the occasional wedding, birthday, meeing up with friends/colleagues took 100% of people's free time. Ditto that such occasions were akin to being sent down a salt mine for the weekend!

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I agree OP, and in my almost 65 years on this earth have never met anyone with such a long list of things they hate as posters on MN. Also there are many oh so serious types who don't seem to have much fun in their lives.

I am far from the most sociable being on earth - but compared to many some on here I am a real social butterfly 😅

Yup, we out there (or in here)

Which, ironically, is what OP did with this thread - looking down on people who say they don't like the things she does, and using a sneery little term ("funsuckers") for them.

But surely you can see that there's a difference between "No, not my cup of tea, I really don't fancy it" type of posts and "Urgh, why would anyone go to Disney World? Only morons go there."

Or " I tried abseiling once- never again, I nearly peed my pants I was so scared" and "I don't like baby showers- they're chavvy."

Some posters manage to put across their point eloquently and with grace. Others...not so much.

Or maybe, they don't 'look down' on it at all, they just don't want to do it themselves. Would that be a possibility for you at all rather than labelling it as snobbery?

I don't care that posters like or dislike any number of activities. Some of those I've tried and might want to do again myself, or I've not tried them and have no wish to. Does that make me a 'funsponge' or 'buzzkill' or whatever moronic insult pops into your head?

Live and let live. Do what you like as long as it doesn't impact other people. You don't need validation or a round of applause for it, do you? Nobody cares about your hobbies and events other than you.

It is snobbery. They look down on certain kinds of fun as it is seen as lower class.

Well surely that's the point, people don't want to use their annual leave and spend XX amount on going to weddings etc. when it's their free time and their money they are using up to go to said wedding.
Plus a lot of the examples people come on here to moan about are things like destination weddings or very expensive spa day hen dos where the OP is going to end up having to spend hundreds of pounds on something they don't really want to go to and often it's not that close a relative or friend's wedding.

The obsession with annual leave 😭

Christ, this shite again.

Why do other peoples preferences bother some people so much.

So what if some people are 'socially awkward' Labelling people who are like that miserable, moaning misanthropes is just nasty though.

Each to their own.