Mumsnet is full of funsuckers?

I’ve never known anything like it. But I just think it’s the rise of individualism in general

How does not answering your door make you a funsucker? It's always been my experience that the people who just pop over without being invited are the ones ruining the door answerer's good time.

How about mumsnet and the greater world is full of people who think there is only one way to have fun. These people are biased and boring. They can’t see that there are a multitude of ways to embrace the rich opportunities the world has to offer.

I think it’s the nature of an internet forum to attract disproportionate numbers of misanthropes, moaners and the socially awkward.

@Screamingabdabz first time I've proper belly laughed at a comment on here. Well played.

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- why on earth would I spend money and my precious annual leave on things I dont enjoy doing? Life is way too short for that- I'd rather spend it on things I DO find fun and interesting, surely thats the entire point

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.

I find this somewhat baffling too- I couldn't care less if people answer their door or not, it doesnt affect me in the slightest. Maybe if I was a door to door sales person I might be miffed but I'm not, so who cares?

You have a point OP.

I have never encountered anyone like this elsewhere but these boards seem to have a lot of posters who talk about things like weddings, birthday parties etc as if they're just a major inconvenience and a drain on their precious resources. As if they think of these events primarily in terms of cost - financial and time. What a joyless way to go through life!

If you don't like doing these things then fair enough but all the harping on about being inconvenienced, using annual leave and spending XX amount, I don't get. That's what your money and free time is for... enjoying life!

I don't know why some Mumsnetters have such a bee in their bonnet about some people not wanting to answer the door.

Ditto. Who gives a shiny shit? Answer the door or don't answer the door as you see fit. It's your house.

My (entirely subjective) conclusions from this thread are that:

Women's football is better and more 'fun' than blokes'.
Surfing is a far more 'fun' international sport to follow. Especially since it's not funded to the ridiculous degree of international men's football and doesn't attract the same kind of spectator (which can only be a good thing).
Riding, swimming, hiking and surfing are a lot more 'fun' than sitting on your backside watching any sport.
Music gigs and live theatre are more 'fun' than boring, tedious, identikit weddings, hen weekends or baby showers.
Holidays and weekends away are more 'fun' than day trips.
Quality time shopping and holidaying with actual friends is more 'fun' than keeping up corporate appearances with colleagues.

PS.
Hot tubs and spa days FTW.
Answering the door does not, in anyone's language, qualify as 'fun'.
As to whether the Sex Board on MN is fun, this one can be left entirely to readers' own discretion ....

I don't think it is at all. Football is shit. Not only is it shit, but the pay is absolutely ridiculous for kicking a ball around a bit of grass. It's mind-numbingly boring and its fans are usually uneducated, drunken cretins. Weddings are very similar. Day trips are a pain in the arse for me as a disabled person and why would I want to socialise with my colleagues when I have my own friends and family who I actually want to spend time with? All my colleagues want to do is see how much they can drink without throwing up. Again, mind numbing.

As for answering the door... No. I won't make the effort to transfer into my wheelchair in the middle of working from home, then back again afterwards, if I'm not expecting someone. If someone wants help, they can knock on one of the other doors. I have my own problems to contend with.

I like
Hot weather
Football
Parties
Foreign holidays
Really high heels
Weddings
People coming over
Dogs
Surprises
Leopard print
And I always answer the door

Beginning to think I'm really weird 😂

Reminds me of a quote from one of Britain's most extraordinary eccentrics - Lt Col A D Wintle - "I am never bored when I am present".
Yes,probably a very difficult, opinionated, irascible and egocentric man, a real life 'boy's own' hero, huge integrity and sense of honour, patriotism and belief in justice and an extraordinary life story

Obviously I meant spending time with others.

Universe on its own that place..

I always thought I was introverted but I just don't relate to the kind of people that identify as introverts on here at all. For me it just means I need some alone time for downtime but still enjoy spending time with me.

Yeah, I DO have to go along with this one... It's set to go up 23/24 degrees Celsius in the UK this weekend. I'm waiting for the raft of threads saying, 'Oh my God, it's too hot. It's too warm. I'm boiling. I'm sweating. I feel ill. Why can't it be winter again? Roll on winter. I hate the summer. I love the autumn and the winter with all the cosy log fires and hot chocolate and snuggling upon the sofa and watching a movie and the dark nights cosy, cosy, cosy. Bring on the autumn and winter!'

Then when it drops below about 13 C, 'Oh my God. It's so cold! Have you got your heating on? I've got my heating on. I'm gonna have a massive heating bill. It's freezing. I'm cold and bitter. Why does it have to be so cold? Cold, cold, cold, cold. We need sun. We need it. We need it. We need it! OMG OMG!!! It's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooc COLD!'

This shit is waaaaay more annoying than people just saying they don't enjoy doing certain things!

Exactly. I'd rather open a six pack of tins of beans, and sit there counting how many beans are in the six tins. Would be more interesting than watching England play (the way they have been playing this tournament.)

It will be a miracle if England win.

I would bet my house that all the people who are so disparaging of 'baby showers' have never been invited to one.

I wonder why some people CBA to go out with work colleagues, when I read such shiny, positive life-affirming posts like yours. 🙄

To be honest after watching that dire match last night there are a lot more fun things that you could do than watch England play.

I gather you don't like them then? I don't have a problem with them, but so many MNers are so vocal about them.

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I love spas and hate football so I guess I could call YOU a fun sucker, OP, since spas are wonderfully relaxing- what's wrong with you? 😂

Weddings - depends on the wedding. I've been to some boring, joyless uptight weddings and I've been to some incredible, brilliant fun weddings so depends on the couple.

Work events- totally depends on what your colleagues are like surely? In my youth, most work events (NHS!) involved everyone getting absolutely pissed in the clubs and shagging each other afterwards so depends on whether thats "fun" for you or not.

Answering the door?- not really much fun when it's constantly sales people trying to flog stuff, charity collections, political parties, boring survey takers or religious groups. When it's my friends and we've arranged a meet up- definitely fun.

Therefore, YABU to generalise- "fun" very much depends on the activity, the company, and the general vibe of the thing you are talking about.