Is Mumsnet an English forum?

That's not ignorant, it's purely a numbers game.

Besides so many posts these days are clearly AI generated. Yes mom is used by some regionally but Mum is the norm, yet mom pops up very very frequently. Not sure how many genuine posters be theycEnglish or not are left.

Im sorry 🤗

I am aware of that. I expect the majority of posters to be in England. What I am commenting on is the tendency I notice for some English posters to presume everything everywhere is like England, which I not a tendency I notice in people from NI or Scotland.

Come on @queenmeadhbh and others. MN was started in London, it’s a mostly English website. It’s not a surprise or a secret

They did portray her as a stupid essex girl on x factor too. They often portrayed the frmale singers as totslly stupid. It wad quite sexist.

Yeah shes definitely intelligent

You're right, I've just corrected myself.

I don't watch them so can't tell the difference!

I dont think she was on love island? She was on X factor as a contestant

Stacey Solomon's made a whole career out of those kinds of shows. She doesn't come over as stupid at all. Strategic, l'd say.

To get exposure i guess.

The scientist who went on love island - she had a day job. But i think she also did social content on the side, and then she went on to write a book

If they are clever, why do they go on to Love Island.

I'm with you on thinking Britain shouldn't become isolationist but it isn't England on its own that is heading that way.

Did they realise Spain and England were separate entities? One would hope so.

Btw they're also chosen for their willingness to expose their flaws on TV. That's quite a particular demographic, not overly representative I think.

It's not as though they'll run out.

Looking at my post above, I just realised thst i've left every apostrophe out, as when I use apostrophes it takes me ages to type things on my phone. I was just thinking, why do we still have so many apostrophes in the English language? The words make sense without them. I feel that we use more apostrophes than any other language!

Theyre chosen for their good looks yes, but being good looking doesnt mean that you cant be brainy.

I remember they had a scientist on love island one year, and a doctor on it another year

You do know love islanders aren't chosen for their intellects right?

Some people are very rigid thinkers which could be nature or nurture. Hard to know how serious anonymous internet users are as the tone of posts isn't always obvious.
Best to let AIBU wash over you like water off a duck's back, unless you're in a bad mood and need to vent. Usually it's not personal it's the internet.....for most boards.

This reminds me of the Engish girl on Love Island who thought that Spain was part of the UK.

Island isolsation, brexit and the attitude that the UK is better than other countries is leading to some very insular attitudes, and a lack of awareness about the rest of the world.

A similiar thing i think happens in the USA. I was chatting to a woman from the USA recently.

She said that when they are children and teenagers they are taught to view the USA as the best country in the world. She said that they are taught very little about other countries. She said also when they become adults - ths US media primarily focuses on US news. It doesnt talk much about other countries. She said that a lot of people in the USA start to think of the USA as being the whole world.

Fair point!

Yes - the one I was thinking of was a similar thread where a commenter insisted “no school in the UK is on holiday right now”. Fair enough not to know when holidays are elsewhere but I can’t think of an explanation for such ungrounded confidence other than some sort of unthinking arrogance.

.....well let's not be arrogant and ignore all the people who home school, the beach is a very educational environment.....

The whole school holiday thing …

It’s reasonable that English posters might not know the school holiday schedule of other parts of the UK. Or anywhere else in the world. That’s fair enough. But often - very often in fact - someone starts a thread and mentions that something happened when they were at, say, the beach with their kids. Some poster invariably accuses them of making it all up because it’s not the school holidays. A dog couldn’t possibly have eaten your tuna sandwiches and run away with your strawberry cheesecake because why would you be at the beach at 11 o’clock on a Wednesday morning when all children are in school? You just hate dogs. Or whatever.

? I didn’t mention any “rules”?

It’s more annoying and arrogant to try to impose your own rules on people. Other forums are available.

Why are you being so dictatorial? Start your own forum with your own rules.

I didn’t say that they ARE, I said that that explains why I, and others, FIND IT to be self centred and ignorant. I’ve explained why I think it happens and also explained why it gets a negative reaction. It’s clearly not a personality defect, it’s cultural. Other cultures are still allowed to find it annoying.