Why is everyone such a wet lettuce?

😂😂😂 oh god I can vividly remember the tiny water fountains in school that every single person stuck their gob round kids today would need it bleaching before they took a drink us we didn’t give a monkeys we just wanted a drink. Don’t get me started on those ridiculous massive bottles of water they have to walk round with permanently stuck in their hands like their life depends on it because walking to the end of the road is going to have them dying of thirst.

I don't think this is anything new. There's always been people that do crazy things like this. It's just that it's all recorded and documented now and then widly shared with massive audiences for entertainment.

Years ago, it would have been nothing more than a funny story told locally.

And then AI is going to replace 90% of our jobs in the next 2,5,10 years depending on what you read, then we really will have something to moan about! 💀

The amount of people who can't make very mundane decisions amazes me. Or who need to know silly things like how often others wash their towels.

How do they function?

Everyone gets ignored on Mumsnet unless 1. someone wants to argue with you or 2. you've composed a story so pitiful that the gullible kind posters want to sympathise or 3. you are the OP with a question which has actual answers and the people who respond on your thread are answering.

Very few posters get involved in cosy chats or are acknowledged in any way. You need to get used to the idea of posting into a void - I found this odd when I joined in 2006!

God I agree OP.
People are utter drips nowadays. Feeble women allowing men to walk all over them and treat them like rubbish, coloured badges at work, bin issues that needn’t be issues…
I seriously worry about society.

The natural habitat of the MAMIL. 🤣🤣🤣

I agree with a lot of these posts, but Seasonal Affective Disorder, or seasonal depression is a real thing.

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/seasonal-affective-disorder-sad/overview/

I saw a video yesterday about how to get mentally prepared for winter. Splitting out the weeks into zones and what needs to be done in those to get through mentally.
Or you could….go about your life as usual with a coat and hat and turn the lights on earlier.

ahhhhh how cute

"I don't know what to say because I don't like confrontation"

"My neighbour asked if 7 of her family members could camp in our garden for a party for the weekend, and they are still there 5 weeks later . Can anyone help me word a way of asking her to gently suggest that they might leave? I don't like confrontation"
A: "could you say it is against your insurance?" "tell them you need to mow the grass and offer to pay for a hotel" "put a passive aggressive post on your neighbours Facebook page saying has anyone noticed any noise during the night in nearby gardens?". ANYTHING other than just ASK them to leave.

Yep, too much angst over things ideological rather than face that everyday things are basically shit overall for many right now. Yet most still can find their little rainbows of pleasure, their reasons to live and the possibilities of a positive future amongst all the durst and strang they hear from the 'voices collectiv'.

Just like the green shoots that beckon spring and the birds that sing - better days are always ahead. The only function of wet lettuce is to chuck it in a stir fry for a bit of green.

Because they think they're special. I work in the NHS and we literally cannot employ anyone else with adjustments. We can barely keep the team going.

People I know don't want to talk to me IRL. Political, religious, parenting views differ ...whatever. Online I just see a post and thing " wtf!" Or " ooh someone new to tell about my shitty life" and comment. I largely get ignored on here too though 😂 it's all good. Some I do get bored with an just move on. Don't feel the need to be a CUNext Tuesday to people just because I don't agree with them.

😂😂

I stop functioning properly from about May to the middle of October. Barely anything but the basics gets done in my house during spring and summer because I simply can’t be arsed. I could cry with happiness that first day of the clocks changing in October when I drive home in the dark. However, mumsnet seem to think that it’s because I want to ‘put a lamp on’ or ‘get snuggled’.

Absolutely!

I do take breaks to answer the door though

😂😂 what would they have done during WW2 and rationing? These snowflakes wouldn’t have survived a day back then😂

I see your Christmas fridge outrage and raise you designer handbag threads. “I want a good work bag, must fit a laptop, no more than £2k” If you see that, get a brew and some biscuits, set your bets if you will see “get a bag for life and a mini break” or “cotton tote and donate the rest to a foodbank” first.

Bonus points if the wet lettuces turn up to say they’d be too scared to use any bag that cost that much.

When I first joined MN about 14 years ago, one of the first threads I read was from a woman whose neighbour had been (probably mistakenly) using her bin for 4 months.

She wanted to know if she would be unreasonable to point out it was hers 🙄🤷‍♂️

Me too....😂🤣

But only because you mentioned it and I wanted to see how high the level of pettiness is.... She wins!!

😂😂

😂 You have a point.

And my personal ick, when somebody posts about something that clearly isn’t ok and ends with ‘…and that’s okay’

It clearly fucking isn’t if you’ve done a social media post about it complete with a sad selfie and foreboding orchestra music

Yes but are they all shaking, crying and being too stunned and gobsmacked to simply communicate with people? 😳🤣

I broke my wrist and hip falling over in my fucking kitchen, so that's put paid to that one! But yeah, all the whinge bags can mope off into the gloom together to wallow in mutual misery.