What Mumsnet universally accepted "fact" do you disagree with?

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MN Law decrees that all owners of personalised numberplate on their car must be twats
They also have more money than sense and are quite likely to also be rubbish at driving, and park in Blue Badge spaces on Thursday afternoons.
I love my Plate, I like the fact that I've had the same number on various cars for over 20 years.

And...
I touch raw chicken without afterwards soaking my hands in strong bleach for 10 minutes.
I also have a loo brush.

Are you a MN sheep, or a goat?

-That you don’t need to iron anything, ever. Just ‘hang’ it right when drying rubbish
-That everyone does cocaine

Agree with the gender double standards -

Separated Mum does it - don't beat yourself up about it

Separated Dad does it - how awful of you

Stepmum does it - you deserve to rot

If someone posts about a schoolgirl being mean someone will always write "Girls are bitches" if a boy is mean, no one will generalise about their whole sex.
I went a girls' school and most girls there werent bitchy. My girls are teenagers and there big group of friends are lovely not bitchy

You’re all voicing opinions I see all the time on here

Their

The general hatred of boys and men is driving me to flounce!!
What nonsense. And quite insulting.

You must always have a totally sober adult in the presence of children, available to drive them to hospital.

The minute you leave a child alone the house will catch fire.

The MIL is the enemy.

Trick or treating is begging.

Towels need washing after one use.

Toilet brushes are the work of the devil and visitors should not poo in your toilet and workmen must certainly never use it!

The only thing I disagree with is that there is a hive mind.

People say that because they want to be seen as maverick purveyors of truth fighting against the mainstream sea of something.

But they are the mainstream.

I have recently discovered loo brushes after previously taking the MN line. This house has neat, wall-mounted loo brushes. The visible handle is chrome but the bristles and the handle inside are black! Loo brushes rock! I am slightly resentful of the loo brush-less years and am questioning all the other bits of internalised MN wisdom. What else am I missing out on? Perhaps I should get a personalised number plate next?

That for the first 12 months of your babies life (particularly when on ML) you are free to literally do nothing apart from sit on the sofa and cuddle your wain (but surf MN the whole time). Do nothing in the house, nothing at all, your DH can do all the rest, dinner, breakfast dishes etc. If your DH/DP even dares mention anything to do with dinner, washing, etc, he’s being unreasonable in the extreme and can do it all himself.

Utter bollox.

That the nhs BMI calculator is rubbish and everyone is actually an Olympic athlete.

"Yes...that size 12 is fat...fuck off.
It’s ‘fat’ if you have a slender, petite or willowy build by sheer good fortune and/or genetics. Other than that it’s an average, healthy size for a normal grown British woman to be. Shut up"

No need to swear, but I suppose you'll do it again when I point out that there's size inflation. A size 12 in a shop with big sizes is not really a size 12 and you definitely can be a 12 and fat. I was 2lbs away from being overweight by BMI and still able to fit into a 12.
This kind of denial doesn't help us as a society with an overweight and obese problem.

I think the personalised number plate being twattish is roughly.
Only very rich and famous people had them. Usually on a roller to show everyone it was them.
Whole industry grew up around it with various sad attempts to make names/statements etc. Ie wannabes.
I have never had one but can see why people do, would love to have the one that was on my parents vw beetle in the early 70s.

That people who work in HR are nasty, useless people.

Not true.

If your child’s packed lunch contains a penguin or packet of crisps, you are an appalling human being and if your child has not got rickets yet, it’s just a question of time.

"They won't take their husband surname coz they are fair too equal for that:

But have the biggest engagement ring
Must marry in a church (they've never stepped foot in)
Must marry in white"

Your name changes forever. The church thing is just being traditional for one day.

Erm has everyone missed the one from CottonTail on page 1?? How is no one else commenting on that?

"I don’t think people at work should have to be treated like children just because someone’s their boss. I believe in mutual respect provided people are doing their work. But that’s why I could never work in an office again."

Not all offices are like that. If you see the current thread about someone using her phone at work, you'll see there's a split between those who say employees can manage their own time, and those who seem to think we should all be treated like workhouse slaves or something.

You’re all voicing opinions I see all the time on here

This!!! These threads are always hilarious because people complain about things that aren't in any way a MN consensus.

It tells more about chips on shoulders than about MN, really.

As someone said earlier, it's the birthday ones that wind me up the most. When your parents/DH/DP give you nothing or might as well have given you nothing on your birthday, of course that's going to be upsetting, of course it's going to make you feel like crap. But you can guarantee that every single time some smug twat will pop up with how birthdays don't mean anything once you're an adult and you're being spoilt and princessy for wanting more than a poke in the eye. It drives me nuts.

I’ve never actually seen any reference before to people who have personalised number plates being twats, but now you come to mention it ..........

The need to 'instil a routine' pretty much from when the baby is still in utero.

The concept that letting slip to a child the truth about Santa/Father Christmas, or even just not going along with a particular version of the myth, is a) a crime of monstrous, innocence-robbing proportions and b) a heinous violation of parental rights.

I don't think there is an MN hive mind as such, but I do think group dynamics kick in - there's a substantial subset of posters who enjoy creating a sense of superiority, which can extend as far as a vicious putting-in-their-place of others. The manifestations of this range from the proliferation of DHs 'at the top of their game' in 'very senior' jobs and tall (always tall), skinny children who are 'very bright' and put away a 'huge salad' every day after school, to the 'that packed lunch isn't great, the fruit's too sugary'/'vanity sizing is ridiculous these days, you really are quite big at a 12'/'[dialect word] makes my teeth itch, so common'/condemnation of a stepmother who may have expressed herself, in a moment of frustration, in a less-than-flattering way about her dsc. I think the double standards for men and women come from a different place - an individual or collective sense of frustration that, as evinced by too many threads on here, men still get the much easier ride in life and society, and a desire to even the score a bit.

The idea that it is normal not to answer the door if you don't feel like it!
It might be the postman, a neighbour, Jehovah's witnesses or your long lost cousin. Who knows? What it almost certainly isn't, is a masked murderer.
I don't know anyone in real life who just randomly ignores the door, in broad daylight.
I actually think it's very damaging when people post things like, "the door just knocked and now I'm terrified" and get responses such as, "don't go, you never know who it might be, you're not obliged to answer it". When the real answer is, "it's 2 o'clock on a Sunday, you're a grown adult, this level of anxiety is worrying, please seek help."

Lweji, tbh, I've been the poster to throw in a completely different opinion, on page 2, because I've read it and thought "what fucking planet do you all live on"?

Me too.

Being the only voice against doesn't mean it's a nutter.

I was just pointing out that sooner or later diverse opinions do show up, even on sensible consensual threads.

cotton- I used to leave my sleeping baby alone in the house while I either sat in the garden on an evening, popped to the neighbour to for a quick 10 minutes chat or to give them a parcel etc., hung the washing out, I might have even popped to the shop for a pint of milk or posted a letter which is literally 2 mins walk from the house.