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

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Welll my 18 year is at college ,but once he,s e working yes ,I would l.expect him to pay board ,what blows my minds is that posters can't see past their own personal circumstances,and not realise that not all.families can afford ,to.have an adult child living at home rent free

As well as teaching them responsibility, fairness and that it's not a massive shock when they are on their own paying their way

I wasn’t able to shower when my baby was awake because she simply didn’t want to be put down. She would scream her head off the entire time, and I would get completely overwhelmed. Once I tried, and even got out mid-shampoo!

That’s part of why I only had one. I couldn’t handle two+

I love hearing about the healthy AGRs. Thanks for sharing

My dad was 32 years older than my mum! They met when she was 27. They had a great marriage and were together for 29 years before he passed away. It wasn't without its difficulties - mainly due to his health, but in terms of the strength of their relationship and love for each other, it was plain sailing.

Don't forget modelling for Louis Vuitton in their spare time. 😉

That's because they are always extremely athletic and play rugby at national level, not to mention also being academically ,gifted and expected to go.to.Oxbridge.

6’9 teen boys who eat you out house and home on circa 10k calories a day but are rake stick thin.

see also checking a child to see their ribs

only on MN

These are my favourites on the benefit bashing threads 😁 “my friend/cousin/neighbour/randomer gets high rate DLA for her children and a free Mercedes SUV. Her child isn’t actually disabled, they just get too much screen time but she went on a Facebook group that coached her and was able to hoodwink the paediatrician into diagnosing him. She then exaggerated on the DLA forms. She spends all the money on manicures and tat from home bargains and nothing for her child. She’s planning to have another baby and repeat the process so she can double her earnings.”

like how do you know all this??? Who goes round telling people ‘oh I lied on my benefit forms’ in such great detail 😭😭

This. You're made to feel like an awful parent for daring to charge your own child rent. No nuance at all in that one.

I know bacon sandwich eaters who claim they are vegan and fish and poultry eaters who claim to be vegetarian. I worked in several offices where being claiming to be an omnivore was unusual but in practise not unusual. The meat eating vegans and veggies were often called out for it but still continued to claim the title, all very bizarre.

I agree. Said it before and I’ll say it again, should be some kind of emotional intelligence test when you sign up. The poster, especially if they are some kind of people pleaser type then feels compelled to waste their time justifying themselves answering the stupid posts, therefore diluting the sound advice.

People wouldn’t tell you they have these batshit thoughts though in real life. A lot of people have bonkers thoughts and also think they have to put up with anything , often due to upbringing. It’s the very cornerstone of how abusive relationships are so effective for the abuser.

My mum never irons well hasn’t for a lot of years but she’s not going to work. She also has never used the oven in her house in the seven years she’s lived there . That must be unusual? She’s mobile and of sound mind I must stress it’s not because she’s incapable.

I agree though , It’s unusual I think not to iron if you are working are and have children.

The lady who does my names calls her granddaughter 'sexy' and I really don't like it.

I have been at a wedding which was adult only but the bride's mother invited some friends including their 4 year old who came in a bridesmaid's dress.

This one is all me. Doh stole our meatball sandwiches we had just bought, I get mistaken for a teen but I don’t really look young, it’s laziness because I’m small and people can’t be arsed to look properly at my old face. And my best friend who is vegan has bacon at my house 😂

And all the physic people 'a person looked at me in the supermarket s i have decided theyhave picked something to judge me on and they spend all their time not focused on their own lives but thinking about me and other people and spend all their day secretly plotting to judge' and they are all well versed on what school 'mums' think of them

Who has time for all this?

Friendship groups that are anything but friendly. Only on Mumsnet is there so much drama involved - bitching, backbiting, passive aggression, overt aggression, "wendying", deliberate exclusion, flakiness, drunken arguments... I wonder sometimes why the hell anyone bothers. What the hell do you get out of a group that makes you so consistently unhappy?

I'm 66 and I don't feel invisible - and I can assure you I'm not good looking, primped and styled, far from it.

The media influences attitudes in society. There are many, many older women in the spotlight. The idea that you get erased as a woman once you hit 40 or 50 is a very dated idea. TV, cinema, high fashion etc. is wall to wall older women these days. I didn’t deny your lived experience and what have you, or say that no woman feels invisible, I was just pointing out how much more visible older women are nowadays than they used to be.

Michelle Pfeiffer....famous actress, good looking, primped and styled, and me, 52 year old nobody ......yeah thats the same.

I am sure if I was a famous actress with the stylists etc at my command that she has, I wouldnt be invisible either. But I am not, so I am.

How old are you?

The ‘older women are invisible’ claim is complete nonsense. I walked past the YSL store today and there were HUGE billboards outside with Michelle Pfeiffer - 67, ageing gracefully - posing in various tailored suits, as the new face of the brand.

My daughter-in-law has won Gold at this sport since I've known her, it's very draining. I don't know how my son puts up with it.

The 18 meal Mumsnet chicken!

With the catch-all MASSIVE SALAD doing the heavy lifting also!

Or where she’s actually forgotten whereabouts she’s mislaid the 4th baby in the house, as the poor bugger just has to get in with it!

These sort of posts make me laugh where a baby has to be welded to the mother to show what a 'good mother' she is! Later she will be wondering why said child has 'attachment issues'.