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What has Mumsnet taught you you've been doing wrong all of your adult life without realising?!

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harriethoyle · 24/09/2024 11:17

Inspired by a recent thread, in which I read multiple posters saying you shouldn't wear mascara on your bottom lashes (which I have been doing for the last 30 years 😂) what has Mumsnet told or taught you you've been doing wrong?

The irritating thing is then I made one eye up as usual and made one up without mascara on the bottom lashes and DH preferred the without eye! Don't even get me started on my inability to make a chicken last a week...

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the80sweregreat · 01/10/2024 06:47

Never been able to do a bra up at the back and also get in a muddle with and bikini tops which tend to have clips rather than hooks. Have to do 'the swivel '.
Not sure it matters and nobody has ever noticed that I do it 'wrong !'

rainfallpurevividcat · 01/10/2024 06:10

Incessant rain every day this week - not so much common as stupid to put clothes outside. I use the "outdoor tumble drier" when it's available.

FatOaf · 01/10/2024 06:07

I'm not washing anything enough. Apparently I should have six showers a day where I scrub every inch of myself raw. Also should be washing bedding/towels etc hourly.

Nobody - not even Jeremy Clarkson - hates the environment as much as Mumsnetters do.

Have we got onto the view yet that it's "common" to hang your washing out to dry instead of using an electricity-guzzling tumble dryer? Honestly, anyone who describes someone else (or their actions) as "common" is just demonstrating their own objectionableness.

Aroastdinnerisnotahumanright · 01/10/2024 05:44

This intolerance for regional accents is disturbing. Such small minds on display here.

IainTorontoNSW · 30/09/2024 23:48

Here in Australia, back when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, the clear divide on AITCH or HAITCH was whether you were educated in the Catholic parish school system (nearly all 'aitch' sayers) or the public/state schools (very much users of 'haitch' ... except for the many public schools in charge of teaching gifted and talented children and youths).

Catholics over 45yo and the very brightest ex-public students say AITCH as though it's doctrine. I still say AITCH myself but I became more tolerant of HAITCH infidels about 20 years ago when I found that some of them were more interesting in other ways! :-) :-) :-)

PedantScorner · 30/09/2024 18:35

@BirthdayRainbow , I hold it in my hand, so I can target different body parts.Smile

BirthdayRainbow · 30/09/2024 18:25

You're making fun of people you chat with, while exaggerating the odd unusual for you comment. Can't help wondering why you have so much disdain you're still here.

BirthdayRainbow · 30/09/2024 18:17

PedantScorner · 24/09/2024 15:04

I do that, otherwise it just rinses the stuff away before it does anything.
It also means I only use about half the water.

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Or you just lower the shower to below head height..

BernardBlacksBreakfastWine · 30/09/2024 18:13

Slidesclipsandbobbins · 30/09/2024 17:00

Of course they do.

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Fair enough. I’ve heard plenty of people say ‘haitch’, of course. But never in ‘NHS’ 🤷‍♀️

Lentilweaver · 30/09/2024 18:09

I am still scared to admit on here that I get measured for bras at M and S because apparently that is WRONG and I will wear the wrong sized bra for ever!

sharpclawedkitten · 30/09/2024 18:07

moonshinepoursthroughmywindow · 30/09/2024 17:33

Mumsnet has taught me that there is more than one way of doing most things and whatever you do, someone will think you're doing it wrong. I'm not convinced I'm objectively doing anything wrong.

I think that's true. The bra thing really made me laugh (for those who don't want to scroll back through the thread - if you do your bra up at the front and swivel it sound, you are really weird and childish because you've had [insert number] years to do it "properly" (ie do it up at the back).

sharpclawedkitten · 30/09/2024 18:06

Slidesclipsandbobbins · 30/09/2024 13:57

Maybe because of the assertation that there is one, and only one, right way to say the letter and that there always has been - and that anyone who says it differently is ignorant.

And this following a discussion which made it clear that haitch is the standard pronunciation in some places, in Ireland for example.

It's a shocking attitude, made even more shocking by the fact that some people seemingly can't see that.

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It's not about class, it is just about arrogance and "my way is right".

But then I don't believe in "class" anyway, it's all about how much money you have generally.

Some people are just sanctimonious. They may or may not be comfortably off.

sharpclawedkitten · 30/09/2024 18:04

Slidesclipsandbobbins · 30/09/2024 13:17

It's the letter name that's in question not its pronunciation - so the name you give to the letter H when saying NHS for example.

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I guess after N you would hear it more.

But when it starts a word (like haitch) you don't really hear it in the same way.

In my opinion.

Certainly not worth taking over a whole thread about!

The way round it with NHS is to say November-Hotel-Sierra :)

moonshinepoursthroughmywindow · 30/09/2024 17:33

Mumsnet has taught me that there is more than one way of doing most things and whatever you do, someone will think you're doing it wrong. I'm not convinced I'm objectively doing anything wrong.

CagneyAndLazy · 30/09/2024 17:13

Discombobble · 30/09/2024 17:06

Answering the door to people I don’t know

Yes, this is a really odd one to me, too, but apparently not to a lot of MN.

I didn't know you were supposed to completely ignore any knock at the door unless you were specifically expecting someone.

Discombobble · 30/09/2024 17:06

Answering the door to people I don’t know

HaddyAbrams · 30/09/2024 17:06

BernardBlacksBreakfastWine · 30/09/2024 16:40

To be fair no one says ‘En-Haitch-Ess’… do they?!

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I don't. But I do spell the start of my name as see haitch.

Slidesclipsandbobbins · 30/09/2024 17:00

BernardBlacksBreakfastWine · 30/09/2024 16:40

To be fair no one says ‘En-Haitch-Ess’… do they?!

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Of course they do.

Elliebox · 30/09/2024 16:50

NowyouhaveDunnett · 24/09/2024 11:30

I'm not washing anything enough. Apparently I should have six showers a day where I scrub every inch of myself raw. Also should be washing bedding/towels etc hourly.

This made me LOL🤣

CagneyAndLazy · 30/09/2024 16:47

BernardBlacksBreakfastWine · 30/09/2024 16:40

To be fair no one says ‘En-Haitch-Ess’… do they?!

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Edit!

I wouldn't, no.

BarbaraHoward · 30/09/2024 16:43

BernardBlacksBreakfastWine · 30/09/2024 16:40

To be fair no one says ‘En-Haitch-Ess’… do they?!

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I do. Smile

BernardBlacksBreakfastWine · 30/09/2024 16:40

Slidesclipsandbobbins · 30/09/2024 13:17

It's the letter name that's in question not its pronunciation - so the name you give to the letter H when saying NHS for example.

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To be fair no one says ‘En-Haitch-Ess’… do they?!

Insidenumber09 · 30/09/2024 16:00

thomasinacat · 24/09/2024 12:48

Handy with a saucepan are they?

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🤣🤣🤣🤣

HaddyAbrams · 30/09/2024 15:02

We had a teacher at school who always told us off for pronouncing H wrong
However I can't remember if she used to say "it's not aaaaitch it's haaaaitch" or the other way around. She used a really long a sound. She was Scottish, this was in Home counties.
As a result I don't actually know how I used to/should say it.

BarbaraHoward · 30/09/2024 14:30

Gosh. We haven't done haitch in weeks.

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