Do we have a MN Christmas threads full house yet?

Best thread I've read on MN. Some of the shite posted in AIBU recently is pathetic. Not to mention the endless whining about crap gifts / no gifts / too expensive to use gifts.

gestational handbag

😂🤣

OH reckons it's all my fault too that would be another thread

My "near miss" AIBU involved taking all the candles/nice glasses and other festive bits off the table and putting them away.

Crisis averted though - I have gin, my first ever yorkshire puds are rising and the table is restored to its festive glory.

I hate it when I follow through - especially at the Christmas dinner table

Had a “bingo” moment tonight! I saw “you’ve said it, you have to follow through”. 🥔

That thread seems to have vanished without trace. I guess it all got ugly very fast.

Alsohuman
I've not seen that one yet.

But I do love the obviously unreasonable and selfish ones about not visiting or inviting elderly relatives or family (especially in laws) over the festive season because it's an inconvenience. It's only so long before a dozen posters point out that there's probably good reason to leave elderly relatives alone if the OP is considering it, maybe they were narcs or abusive, maybe the OP is better going non contact with their relatives because any guilt they're feeling is probably due to being conditioned to please the manipulative relative.etc. etc. Etc.

Meanwhile in the real world most people know that it's fairly shitty to leave someone alone over Christmas in most situations.

They Research images of using Google scholar to find new washing machines

Yes. I never know if people mean that they ran a literature search, tried out something in a lab, talked to relevant people or read a dodgy link/some Amazon reviews/a Which? report.

I see we now have the “is it OK not to visit frail, housebound, elderly FiL on Christmas Day?” thread. Of course it isn’t fucking OK - and she knows it. Some bright spark - who will quite rightly get roasted as a turkey - maintains old people don’t care about Christmas because they’ve had loads of them. Where do these people come from?

Writing to The Old Codgers maybe? shows age

I think there is a very new thing called Facebook. I believe the standards of fact-checking and basic research on there are quite high.

@SmuggyMcKnobson that is true......which begs the question - if they aren't researching so,etching by googling it......how, in 2019, are they researching it

They don't just Google things either.

Surely they don't ever Google things. Why spends ages looking stuff up when someone on MN will be kind daft enough to do it for you.

People on MN never just buy things. They source them.

They don't just Google things either. They Research images of using Google scholar to find new washing machines

@crockodilfrock
We are kindred spirits

I could rant for hours about the MN fruit and carrot sticks 'offer', @CrocodileFrock.

After school I offer my DC crudités and fresh hummus with pomegranate seeds They don't fucking eat it though because they swapped their 'lost' school blazer for burger and chips at lunch time with the kid from round the corner whose mum's niece walks your dog.

"{runs off to tip fruit in brown bin, we all know it ends up there anyway it's only for show}"

I used to feel guilty at our complete lack of fruit bowls as everyone else on MN seemed to have children who devoured fruit by the crate.

Then one wise MNer pointed out that if you pay close attention to such threads, people only ever say "I offered DD/DS some fruit." There's never any mention of the offspring actually accepting it and eating it.

Reader, I felt slightly less lacking in both awareness and fruit bowls.

DH has promise he would do the washing up Christmas Day but now it’s 31st December and things are still soaking. AIBU?

tbh, you sound like hard work. Are you always this controlling?*

*I should note at this point that I once had a business trip that turned into almost 12 weeks away from home. When I got back I was impressed to see that DH had been cooking (dirty pans waiting to be washed but - food prep felt like progress). It was only when I saw it was the same meal that I'd cooked just before leaving (and he'd been supposed to wash up) that I realised...If I'd posted on AIBU, I'd fully expect to have been told that I was controlling etc.

WIBU to not give little Tommy any Christmas presents this year as he only got A- on his maths test?

Saga over if Santa brings just stockings one big gift or everything.

How can I hid I'm 7h pregnant when we are going out to a party and I can’t drink. How about I’m on antibiotics no one will ever guess!

I went over for xmas dinner and I was made to keep my shoes on/ take my shoes off. I was appalled.

DH has promise he would do the washing up Christmas Day but now it’s 31st December and things are still soaking. AIBU?

AIBU to open the door to the Ocado delivery in my PJs and Santa hat? I am absolutely knackered (I actually have done a lot today ) and put my (clean!) PJs back on before I remembered the shop was coming. I am wrapping presents so the Wearing Of The Santa Hat is none negotiable. Is this a terrible social faux pas? I'm actually really tempted to start a proper AIBU thread to ask this. Imagine!

OP, answer the door wearing only your Santa hat.

I will ignore the door and then start a thread on MN to ask who would be ringing my doorbell at 6pm on a Monday.

Shall there be a separate thread complaining:

*the courier left my order by the bins;
*the courier left my order by the door and the foxes have eaten my turkey;
*the courier left it with the neighbours but I don't open the door to them because blood feud?

I had to take the bin out in my dressing gown today as I forget they were coming a day early this week. The bin man didn't bat an eyelid.