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

[BruceAndNosh]

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?

This, for example.
Show me a thread where this is even the 50% opinion, let alone by all pps.

Why post comments like this that are patently not true?
We should have a report option for "blatant lie".

The idea that it is normal not to answer the door if you don't feel like it!

I've been on MN for years (I NC frequently) and I've never read anything about personalised number plates being bad. 

I've been on MN for years (I NC frequently) and I've never read anything about personalised number plates being bad.

Clearly, the OP has and has started a sort of TAAT, instead of responding directly, therefore disproving their last statement on their OP.

Ups, sorry. Not the last statement. The idea that they're not twats and own personalised plates.

That as soon as your children become teenagers you should stop cooking their meals, or washing their clothes, or making them a packed lunch despite doing it for everyone else in the house. If they want to go out they should make sure that they can get home without any help from their parents even if that means trekking 5 miles across fields and country lanes in the pitch black and pissing rain.

Some bright spark will always pipe up when I was 5 12 I was down the pit had a paper round, completely forgetting that hardly anyone reads a paper anymore because it's all online and the rules around employing children have changed.

It's batshit.

That a chicken should provide 5 meals and sandwiches

Gwenhwyfar I’m sure you’re right that not ALL offices are like that but there are quite a substantial percentage who do think that way and tbh sound quite officious when they talk about their workplaces. And I’ve worked in places where management sit around gossiping for ages, but that’s ok because they’re in a ‘meeting’ (I know because the door was open and I could hear what they were talking about) and then come round and stare at you for chatting for a couple of minutes, even though you always get your work done.

Cutie - there is something wrong with attitudes to work on MN. It seems to be full of workaholics or something.

A step parent isn’t allowed to say anything bad about their step child or they are deemed as a ‘evil step parent’ (the poor poor child) but your allowed to moan about your own child be a little shit and your told your not a bad parent and it’s totally reasonable to be angry with your own child.

I use a toilet brush (how else do you clean the toilet?).

I buy my kids more than 3 gifts for Christmas.

I have a personalised plate.

That no man must ever be forgiven for any transgression, depression or outbreak of bad mood but all women must be treated like goddesses despite chronic PMT, PND etc.

I hate that men must be saints in their behaviour and women are saints by definition. But hate most that no one should ever be forgiven or allowed a second chance.

It's infantile, emotionally, to assume you can get through a long marriage or parenting without some serious obstacles once in a while.

That "did you mean to be so rude" is the ultimate pithy comeback, that will leave the offending party in a quivering, sobbing heap.

@brizzledrizzle I will take my hat off to you if you find one serious website - or indeed any website - which links increased height with overeating. I have looked and drawn a total blank. Knowing some tall fat children doesn’t count 😉

That a chicken should provide 5 meals and sandwiches

Haven't you realised that's a MN in joke by now?

I have a toilet brush.
I answer my door and I never log anything with 101.
I've never eaten pom bears either.

I think it's getting more reasonable, when I first joined, there were posters who took a while to understand that the North and WC were actually real and not some made up fable
Yes I remember those days. It was very London centric at one point.

That a chicken can stretch to 25 good meals, with everyone eating oodles of meat in each one. That fruit is too sugary to be reasonably consumed.

I haven't seen anything about a steam mop for a while

That a size 12 isn't really a size 12 it's actually about a size 16 due to vanity sizing. Also, if you are a size 12 in Next or M&S you aren't really a size 12 so stop kidding yourself.

Why the obsession with a size 12 ????

Why the obsession with any size. It's nobodies business except the individuals.

"That a size 12 isn't really a size 12 it's actually about a size 16 due to vanity sizing. Also, if you are a size 12 in Next or M&S you aren't really a size 12 so stop kidding yourself. "

Well, this is true.

"Why the obsession with a size 12 ????"

I think it was seen as the medium size in shops. It's often based on the average size for a particular shop.

"It was very London centric at one point."

It's still very London and SE England centric. Assumptions that everyone suffers in the summer 'heat', that it's normal to have a long commute, etc.

Gwen you're just backing up my point totally. It's hilarious.

And untrue ! I am the same size in jeans in both Topshop and Next 

Something of a consensus on this thread of everyone wanting to be seen as maverick and different, when none of the opinions are that unusual!

Maybe my maverick and different opinion is that I don’t think I’m maverick and different!

What a paradox

Chap - vanity sizing is easily proven, not untrue. The fact that sizes are different in different shops is also true.