To ask for things that happen on MN that you’ve never seen happen IRL

When you give someone (even a baby or child) a present, putting the receipt in with the present and encouraging them to return it or sell it if they don’t want it.

Hmm, the snaffling type thing happened to me twice, albeit not too sneakily.

1. We were hosting a BBQ (with other bits and pieces) and I made a special effort to prepare a number of vegan dishes for a girlfriend of one of our guests who we hadn’t yet met. When she arrived the first thing she had was a beefburger 🤣

2. A close friend of mine who had become vegetarian was coming for dinner with her DP. I made a variety of dishes and she chowed down on the ribs and chicken!

I like to make a variety of bits when hosting a number of people so the first experience didn’t annoy me at all, but the second time I had to raise an eyebrow!

Imagine. Things happen that you are not always around to see! Like the OP who has never seen anyone asleep on a park bench, happens a lot in London and most big cities.

My mum had sepsis in the early 90’s after an emergency c section with my brother.

a friend also had sepsis a few years ago after an appendectomy.

I’m sure there are plenty of people on here who’ve never had sepsis, but they’re not posting on discussion about sepsis because they have nothing to add. If loads of people commented on discussion about sepsis just to say that they’ve never had it it would clog up the thread with loads of completely pointless posts and frankly be annoying to the people actually trying to contribute something useful. People commenting in a discussion about sepsis are not going to be a properly random representative sample of the general population, they’ll be a biased sample of the general population, with that bias being very much towards people who have experience of sepsis.

the comparison is made because they are living beings with free will being taken into spaces where the accompanying adult is responsible for their behaviour.

I am in no way saying dogs and children are the same.

I have never seen a dog take a shit in a café so I'll count myself lucky.

Lake District is full of dogs, dog owners specifically go there to go on holiday as very dog friendly. Loads of terrible behaviour from dogs and their owners. Especially around sheep and livestock. There’s a centre parcs up the road that is the main employer for local people. Never heard anyone complain about the kids but the dogs pissing/ shitting in cafes and shops is a thing. I don’t really understand why folk always bring up children when talking about dogs as believe it or not, they are not the same thing but yes, I’m sure you do get badly behaved kids but that wasn’t what I was replying to.

There seems to be no 'average' children, those who are middle of the road. Children are generally super intelligent or struggling due to neuro diversity.

Woah! 😳 See I assumed they’d all be very boring like fishing. Not essentially joining a cult- how’d you feel about it? Did he rejoin?

I don’t think i’d be having it personally, just the whole secretive, ritualistic boys club thing is not our vibe.

It's the level of LTB I struggle with, marriage and partnership is difficult and we only ever have one account here.
People seem so uptight, taking offence at the slightest thing and there's a general lack of resilience where people seem to not cope with normal life.
I posted on a thread where I , tongue in cheek, mentioned my untidy husband and actually got a reply along the lines of I was putting up with a terrible existence, though I didn't mention all the things he does do. People are so quick to judge
People going over a posters previous threads to catch them out, it can be a vindictive place sometimes.
I also have never heard people using the word hobby as a catch all, saying football is not outing.

My Mum and DH were with me.

Some people I know, had multiple different people through the birth.

Doubt they can answer, if they did…

My husband decided when I was pregnant with my youngest that he was going to rejoin the freemasons! He was a member 11 years ago.

But you wouldn’t use the word in real life you’d make a vomiting sound. It only works written down.

I have and I’m certain the person read it on here before using it on me. It’s such a condescending phrase. There are far better ways to say you don’t want to do something.

Oh god you are lucky. I work with a few.

No I don't. I am in various cafés all over five out of seven days though.

Perhaps the Lake District has a special microcosm of bad dog behaviour....

A bit like Center Parcs with children. I see utterly shocking behaviour from kids in restaurants specifically at Center Parcs that I have never witnessed anywhere else (and I would never have believed without seeing)

I have never been to the Lake District, but perhaps the same kind of thing happens there that happens at Center Parcs....

Omg true, my father played golf growing up, huge red flag. I think male cyclists too. My DH bless him said his hobby is me which feels very accurate 😭.

Guessing was fun to begin with but now im sick of seeing the word, apparently every middle aged man is dedicated to theirs.

Same here...including 2 of my sons and the school think my 11 year old daughter is on the spectrum so is going to be assessed. I guess I'd best keep an eye on my newborn

Many people won't know they had sepsis - it depends what language we use when describing the diagnosis . It would be very very common to say that someone had pneumonia or a chest infection for example but much less common to say to a layperson that they had a respiratory sepsis. There'll be many people who will go home knowing they had an operation for a kidney stone that made them pretty sick but who wouldn't describe it as obstructive urosepsis, or gram negative septic shock, or any one of the other ways medical professionals might describe it. Doesn't mean they didn't have sepsis.

I do agree there is an over-focus on sepsis which unfortunately has led to missing other major diagnoses. I've seen cardiac failure very very commonly misdiagnosed as sepsis acutely. The sepsis campaign has been very successful, but is it but one amongst many possible diagnoses. It will eventually reach a tipping point at which the public campaign will be suggesting people ask 'is it really sepsis though' when they receive that diagnosis.

You don’t work in a cafe in the Lake District then.

My SIL had both her mother and mil in the delivery room! Fuck that! My sister had my mum too. When I had my 1st child my fil offered for mil to come with us when they arrived to look after the stepkids when I was in labour, I politely declined. My mum was a bit arsey and after nipping in to see me in the early stages she was all like "well, seeing as you don't want me as your birthing partner ill go home now!" I was like "my husband is my birth partner, why do I need another?" Also my mum was never particularly emotionally available to me as a kid so bollox

have never seen dogs in cafés slobbering on food on tables, going around barking and licking other people and wiping shit all over the furniture.

they're usually under the table/chair sleeping. Sometimes they're sitting staring at their owner.

As long as DH is not hanging around the house annoying me his hobby could be playing in traffic just gives me the remote as he leaves, it leaves me in peace

I had it aged 8 from a dog scratch to my ankle, it got horribly infected and my mum didn't notice as she was working all the time. A day or so after spending all night delirious she saw my infected pussy ankle and took me to a&e, I thought it was a huge overreaction for a gross rash. I ended up hooked up to drips and all sorts