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Board for high earners

309 replies

BellesAndGraces · 08/10/2024 19:53

I see that the other thread was started by an OP who wasn’t engaging in good faith. I certainly am so, Mumsnet, can we please have a separate board for high earners? It would be helpful for these threads to be in one place and to avoid them being high jacked by the inevitable “small violin” and “diamond shoes” comments.

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MechanicalDancingDoll · 08/10/2024 20:43

Hoppinggreen · 08/10/2024 20:42

Nope, thats not butter, its an abomination

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I’d be up for a ‘LURPAK IS AN ABOMINATION, ALL HAIL KERRYGOLD’ board.

Or a ‘BAN FLAVOURED YOGHURT’ board.

WindsurfingDreams · 08/10/2024 20:43

Mysterian · 08/10/2024 20:42

I would like to look at that board. Not contribute or anything. I know my place. I'd just like to bathe in the glory of my betters once in a while.

The lurpak one or the "I self-identify as rich" one?

Mysterian · 08/10/2024 20:42

I would like to look at that board. Not contribute or anything. I know my place. I'd just like to bathe in the glory of my betters once in a while.

Starlightstarbright3 · 08/10/2024 20:42

Oh gosh please do we can laugh at the pompous nonsense who don’t understand the real world.

i think you should also have a subsection you can complain about Vat at private schools .. that would clear the mess up.

oakleaffy · 08/10/2024 20:42

BeatrizBoniface · 08/10/2024 20:10

Perhaps a whole one devoted to the issue of VAT on private schools?

Children academically able enough don’t even need to have parents who pay VAT as they get full bursaries.

Hoppinggreen · 08/10/2024 20:42

BeatrizBoniface · 08/10/2024 20:40

Spreadable.
Right to the very corners of the bread.

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Nope, thats not butter, its an abomination

BeatrizBoniface · 08/10/2024 20:40

Hoppinggreen · 08/10/2024 20:39

The block or the spreadable?

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Spreadable.
Right to the very corners of the bread.

Hoppinggreen · 08/10/2024 20:39

BeatrizBoniface · 08/10/2024 20:36

I would like a special board for those of us who eat Lurpak every day.

The block or the spreadable?

JesusOnAYamaha · 08/10/2024 20:39

Flapearedknave · 08/10/2024 20:38

What if my GP is called Phil?

Ltb

BeatrizBoniface · 08/10/2024 20:39

Flapearedknave · 08/10/2024 20:38

What if my GP is called Phil?

Grandparent or General Practitioner?

FKAT · 08/10/2024 20:39

Among the community of high earning women, I'm pretty sure there are hundreds of tech and marketing entrepreneurs who could easily create an exclusive internet forum for their cohort to discuss issues with inheritance tax / VAT on schools / how to jump the waiting list for a Birkin bag.

But they won't because it wouldn't make a single penny and the kind of people who would join are the kind of people the founders wouldn't want.

They need us more than we need them. They want an audience bless them.

BringTheWine · 08/10/2024 20:39

For those that don't agree with the board, do you feel a mum should be able to ask a question about private school without getting snarky replies? Or do you think that mum gets what she deserves by daring to ask a question?

A friend of mine asked a question about private school and finances very politely. At least a third of the replies were sarcastic or nasty. Why shouldn't she be able to post a question? Her thread was deleted because she asked for it to be removed. What posters didn't know was that her husband had just died by suicide and she was worrying about everything. Mumsnetters made her feel like shit, 'Making parents lives easier' and 'for parents by parents' eh.

Posters don't want these questions asked on any existing board but then are against a separate board. So again, when mumsnet is for everyone, where can they post on here?

Littleoldme12 · 08/10/2024 20:38

settingz · 08/10/2024 20:12

Why not rename all of the rest of the boards with the prefix ‘Peasant’ while you’re at it. So ‘Peasant Style & Beauty’ ‘Peasant Chat’, and so on.

Love this. Make sure folk know their place.

RampantIvy · 08/10/2024 20:38

NinetyNineOrangeBalloons · 08/10/2024 19:58

Good idea. You could call it “Considerably Richer Than You”

I really don’t think this demographic is underrepresented on Mumsnet

Grin
Flapearedknave · 08/10/2024 20:38

What if my GP is called Phil?

NunyaBeeswax · 08/10/2024 20:38

PronounsBaby · 08/10/2024 20:11

Id like a board for ugly, poor, dickheads please

I would, however, support this and become the boards most prolific poster..

🫠

Scottishday · 08/10/2024 20:38

Hahaha get my popcorn back out now🍿

JesusOnAYamaha · 08/10/2024 20:37

KingOfPoundbury · 08/10/2024 20:36

...and one for those who wear Crowns and hold that ball thingy.

Again with the DPhils. Man, this place ...

BeatrizBoniface · 08/10/2024 20:37

JesusOnAYamaha · 08/10/2024 20:35

but it has to be yours, ‘DH’s’ doesn’t count

Ahem. I think you'll find that's " DPhil's doesn't count"

Has DPhil got a DPhil, or just a run of the mill PhD?

MoralOrLegal · 08/10/2024 20:37

All these years I thought people were talking about their daughters, but in fact MN is flooded with Doctors of Divinity!

Radionowhere · 08/10/2024 20:36

The comments did not disappoint Grin

MargaretBetts · 08/10/2024 20:36

JesusOnAYamaha · 08/10/2024 20:35

but it has to be yours, ‘DH’s’ doesn’t count

Ahem. I think you'll find that's " DPhil's doesn't count"

🙏, I have neither so am clearly ignorant 😂.

KingOfPoundbury · 08/10/2024 20:36

...and one for those who wear Crowns and hold that ball thingy.

BeatrizBoniface · 08/10/2024 20:36

I would like a special board for those of us who eat Lurpak every day.

JesusOnAYamaha · 08/10/2024 20:35

but it has to be yours, ‘DH’s’ doesn’t count

Ahem. I think you'll find that's " DPhil's doesn't count"

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