Things people on MN don't like/do that seems popular in real life!

[MidwifeyForLifey]

Well, I say real life, I mean in person.

I'll start

Eat excessive amounts of food without considering the calories

Let their DC off school for holidays

Wear leggings or Uggs

Let their children play 18+ games in Year 6/7

Not sure where I fit as I have bathroom bins plus loo brushes and I am quite happy for people to ring my doorbell at all hours or for friends to drop in when they like.

On the other hand, I've never taken my kids to a McDonalds (other than in a motorway service station on a long journey) and I've never been in a Greggs. Not out of snobbishness, just I don't like McDonalds food and I don't think my town has a Greggs.

I once got flamed on here for posting lightheartedly about my teenage son eating a whole pizza as an after-school snack and then being starving again by dinner time - the amount of posters who told me that I should have given him an apple instead. By which I concluded that no other Mumsnetters had ever parented a sporty, growing teenage boy.

Say 'did you mean to be so rude?'

Or come out with a paragraph long pre-prepared script of absolute bullshit, which is apparently meant to be the ultimate in withering put-downs. In reality you'd just bore them to death.

Wear leggings or Uggs

You're joking. Half of the threads on S&B are about leggings.

I’m sure this Sky News presenter tvnewsroom.org/biography-images/sam-washington-39259/ must be a Mumsnetter. Last week she was discussing Gregg’s increase in sales thought due to the vegan sausage roll. “I’m not a sausage roll kind of girl myself but it looks like SOME of you are” she sneered condescendingly down the camera.

My kids eat McDonalds. Greggs is well posh. Pound bakery is more my income level 😁

I clean my own house. I cannot fathom how people survive without toilet brushes. How do they clean their toilets then? Or are they so perfect they don't actually shit?!

By which I concluded that no other Mumsnetters had ever parented a sporty, growing teenage boy

Oh they do. You see the comments on threads about subjects such as 'help my DH/DS is eating me out of house and home, threatening to bankrupt me in the process' there are always comments about how teens 'inhale' cheese, fruit, ham, bread, cereal etc etc and how the answer to evaporating food stocks is to just 'buy more' because everyone has unlimited money to buy enough food to fill a bottomless pit don't they?

I agree teenage boys are to be well fed on mumsnet I am sure they have tardis cupboards teenage girls are not allowed to inhale the food though they can have the apples

Not see every female on their partners side of the family as a rival.

Not take every passing comment as a slight or veiled insult.

Everybody on mumsnet seems to have anxiety and autistic children

Actually that is me. But then Im friends with loads of other auty parents in RL.

What is wrong with a bathroom bin? I’m baffled. Where else do you chuck used sanpro?!

You toddle out to the wheelie bin to dispose of bathroom rubbish

People on MN seem to earn enormous salaries. Who are all these people? I earn 20k and consider myself quite well paid .

I also use a lot of bleach as I have a huge phobia of vomit so splash it around liberally.

There are people who make a point of not putting a bin in the bathroom? OK, I have heard it all now. Are female guests supposed to walk through to the kitchen bin with bloody tampaxes in their hands....?

Use feminine hygiene products 🙋🏼‍♀️
I love a nice PH balanced scrub of the fan!

Baby showers - huge nono on MN, it’s very tacky & grabby - 100% YABU in attending, arranging or even allowing time to think about said baby shower

Revealing you are having a baby on Social Media - again very tacky and one comment I’ve recently seen re: a scan photo “why would you want to share your insides (or something of that effect) to strangers. I don’t have any words anymore.

I’m too baffled about toilet bins!! I wont be storming around the house with my used tampons in my hand?! No thanks

Also lol @ the what are steak bakes, I’ve seen a few times too

Care if DDs class get kept in at break, miss out on fun time etc.
I actually trust DDs teacher to make the right call.

Leave moggie cat unspayed to have multiple litters.

Lijkk - that is probably the norm where I live. It's very much a middle class versus working class/deprived area divide.

Ha, this is funny

I do use a mooncup, meal plan, wear Fatface and Boden occasionally, regularly ignore phone and doorbell, wash towels very regularly, make sure DC read and visit library regularly.

On the other hand, however, my DH is great and I did love my MIL when she was still with us, I'm proudly state educated and happy for DC to be too, I'm lax about kids' bedtime at weekends and let them have quite a bit of (supervised) screen/TV time, will happily go away alone or just with DH/friends, regularly drink when DC are in bed, don't change bedding that often, use a loo brush, eat vast quantities of crisps and love a Maccy Ds now and then.

Why do you wash towels regualty but bedding infrequently?

I have never phoned 101, let alone "just logged" various crimes against my person such as someone walking past me with a dog.

I have had many children's parties and I have never encountered any child with "food preferences" ; they have all seemed entirely happy to pile into crap.

I don't see every man as a vile misogynist, simmering with hatred about all women. I like some blokes, don't like others.

More food ones!
If I have a nice box of chocolates I share them with my dd. If she has an Easter Egg she might share it with me. On MN everyone seems to have a secret stash of chocolate that the kids can't eat and woooooooah if they do, well it's a 1000 post aibu about the rights of adults to eat food items in secret and isn't a screeed up attitude to food at all (much )

I also give my teenagers more than half a carrot and 2 cherry tomatoes in their lunchbox and if the teacher pointed out gently that that might not be enough I'd think they had a point.

Mil was not the nicest of people, but going "NC" would have upset everyone, including dh, and I certainly wouldn't have gone NC if mil had dared to give the dcs a chocolate advent calendar, telling her "You've had your turn. You're not part of our family (although my family is)."

stealth

Path of least resistance, I'm ashamed to say ... towels are easy to bung in washer, bedding involves remaking beds so is a lot more faff!

I've got a hot tub...and ya know it's not a floating pool of Chlamydia because it's only me and DP that go in there and we test levels and put in chemicals as required.

My children both went to adequate state schools and both have science degrees now.

Keira Knightley.