Why is everyone such a wet lettuce?

The fridge threads cheer me up as I'd always imagined everyone else having beautifully curated fridges full of sophisticated goodies...
Instead, everyone has everything crammed in higgledy piggledy and you can see that the last pack of butter, or whatever, would have to be shoved in and the door slammed quickly before it fell out...
Just like mine!

Literally threads of people posting pictures of the festive food in their fridges.

Generally peaceful enough although the 2020 one had plenty of miserable virtue signaling.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/christmas/4113150-show-me-your-christmas-fridges

The inability to decline an invitation to an overseas child free wedding without lots of angst just baffles me.

I think DH and I probably project the "don't try and guilt trip me because it wouldn't work" too well.

Honestly the complete and utter inability of some people to deal with anything of even the most minor issues baffles me at times. So yes, I’m with you!

It’s the posts which ask “Is this offensive?” Which depress me.

Where to start?? Aarrrggghhh…

’Offensive’ is a totally subjective concept. Only the OP in these threads can say whether something is offensive TO THEM. But they ask MN.

I laughed so much I spat out my wine

This is the funniest thing I've read for a while. My daughter even came into my room to find out what had happened to make me burst into laughter.

That comment is so true.

@EasternEcho I hope Florida lady doesn't Google duck willies. That is trauma!

Oh the being offended at being invited to things you don’t fancy /can’t afford.

just say “no thank you”. People aren’t being rude to invite you to things. You can say no without being annoyed about being asked in the first place.

😂😂

I hear you. A mother at ds’s school wrote to the board of management because her son didn’t start the other day for the school football team.

Yes, that's how it starts, it's just fridges at Christmas packed with festive food.

And then in swoop the guilt monkeys with their pointing finger to complain that such flagrant displays of conspicuous consumption in a cost of living crisis and climate emergency are enough to make them weep for all the sadness in the world. Merry Christmas. You're Welcome.

I am here for years, most days,, but I have never seen a ‘Christmas fridge’ thread.

Can anyone explain what this is? Is it photos of fridges packed with loads of food for Christmas? I don’t think I would like that at all. I hate fridges with too many things in them.

or are people decorating the fridges?

I'm afraid that this morning I opened the curtains so badly that when I glanced back at the house as we left, it looks like someone raided a crack den. Oh well. I'm not going back.

🤣🤣

I bet you haven't even got the Halloween decorations up yet, and I know there isn't an autumnal wreath on your door. Sort yourself out!

DH can't open the living room curtains properly to save his life. He somehow always leaves them uneven and dishevelled 😂

It takes a second to gently pull them straight. I've shown him loads of times but he just can't see it.

I haven’t seen the video but I do my own version of this! I hate winter and have to break it up and pack it full with things to look forward to or it’s just too depressing, particularly January/February. Especially because where I live, winter is five fucking months at a minimum (Nov-March).

God, yes.

I so want an invitation to an expensive hen do and an overseas wedding so that I can say "No, it's too expensive".

All my friends and family are far too reasonable to pull a stunt like that though.

I also despair at the amount of MNetters who don't seem to understand the difference between 'confrontation' and basic communication.

"Hi neighbour, do you think you could stop parking across my drive please, as it causes issues when I need to get in/out?"

That ^^ is basic communication.

"Oi you, why the fuck do you keep parking across my drive and blocking me in? Just stop it FFS!"

That ^^ is confrontation.

I'm an outlier.

I answer the phone
I make phone calls to perfect strangers
I answer the door
I drive on all types of road
I don't hate shopping
I don't want all pubs to close down
I like my family
I like going out and meeting friends
I consider some of my workmates as friends and socialise with them
I didn't cry when DD went to university
I don't wear pyjamas all day
I don't find bras uncomfortable

And I LOVE summer

I am noticing an increasing the world needs to change, there is a long list of things that shouldn't be there because I don't want to change myself I just expect everything to change around me and these people raise children

Was this the lady hosting a relative for christmas lunch who could only have a liquid diet for medical reasons?

I was just saying this to my DH the other day. We took a long train journey and could barely get a conversation going as we were constantly interrupted by announcements;

• be careful in case the platform is wet
• watch out for people moving about the platform
• watch out for motorised platform buggies
• please note the train doors will close 30 seconds before departure
• don’t forget your belongings
• place your bags carefully in the overhead racks
• take care when moving about the train
• don’t get up until the train comes to a complete stop
• take care when stepping onto the platform
• check you have everything with you before you leave the train

Its pathetic!

I'm definitely going to need details.
Reddit transgender threads are all about the wet lettuce too, because they have to show how womanly and pathetic they are.
They never got the memo about women holding the world together.