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Recurring MN threads - rate your favourite...

96 replies

PuppyMonkey · 24/05/2019 10:10

You know the ones, they crop up every couple of weeks and yet I for one STILL feel compelled to take part. EVERY TIME. Here’s my personal top ten.

  1. The CF friend/neighbour - usually something childcare related or, even better, about giving someone a lift. Brilliant every time.
  1. Live parking row. With diagrams and, preferably, pictures - must be updated every ten minutes to avoid getting your audience too cross.
  1. Weddings and hen parties - doesn’t really matter what the issue is, I just want to know about them.
  1. How often do you change your bed sheets?
  1. How often do you have a shower?
  1. Things that irritate you. Where everyone comes on and says the same thing as if they just invented it, eg The X Factor, sniffing, people who say “should of and would of” etc.
  1. Workplace problem - from a smelly colleague to someone trying to take credit for your project. I cannot get enough of these.
  1. Something interesting happening in a cafe - preferably as it happens, involving bagging a table before queuing for food.
  1. What to buy at Aldi.
  1. How to pronounce Esme.

How about you?

OP posts:
Kettleison · 24/05/2019 13:43

It's a least favourite but an aibu that has been posted purely for attention and compliments, such as
AIBU for calling the dog off the road so it didn't get hit by a car

TheClitterati · 24/05/2019 13:46

Poo threads - from "help I'm constipated" to "how dare the builder who is working here all day do a shit in my loo".

Always hilarious and accompanied with assurances from op that they are not the "poo troll"

Grin
Kettleison · 24/05/2019 13:47

What happened to....

Softzilla, Korean gran etc etc

MN : they were trolls
Op: noooo I can't believe it

FFS

TheClitterati · 24/05/2019 13:49

YOU CAN NOT BE SERIOUS THAT KOREAN LADY WAS A TROLL!!!!!

ShockShockShockShockShock

FFS!

TheClitterati · 24/05/2019 13:50

And softzilla too?

Is this true? How did I miss this

Sparklingbrook · 24/05/2019 13:51

YY saying 'I am not the poo troll' immediately makes me think the poster is the poo troll TBH.

I think Penis Beaker was a work of fiction too. Because really a) why would you have one and b) why start an AIBU thread on MN about it?

ChihuahuaMummy1 · 24/05/2019 13:57

What's for dinner? threads

ThatCurlyGirl · 24/05/2019 14:00

One word. Boswell.

wanderings · 24/05/2019 14:00

Ones I really like:
Favourite small pleasures - I love these threads.
Childhood memories, and nostalgia threads.
Rituals between OP and DH.

The "outraged" ones I enjoy reading are:

Man near a primary school - log it with 101? Even though he might be a parent, or someone using the bus stop?

Noisy students: perhaps because I've had this problem sometimes, and unlike other noisy neighbours, they are accountable to somebody.

Not wanting children to visit a church, hear a Bible story, hold a minute's silence, or receive a Noah's Ark toy. Have bingo card ready for "indoctrinate", "sky fairy", "imaginary friend", "otherwise intelligent people".

MAMILs. 'Nuff said. Although recently there was one where many of the replies defended the MAMIL, because the OP wanted to tease and mock him.

I said I'd cancel my DC's birthday party - do I have to follow through? Replies are usually: if you don't, they won't respect you, but if you do, they will hate you for ever, and remember it for ever.

Dealing with tantrums: most of the replies are quite sensible, I enjoy reading those.

The ones I don't like (and don't bother to read, because they're too predictable) are:
Victorian safe or similar, which turns out to be empty.
Virtue signalling about not flying, not driving, not using plastic.
People who "don't drive".
Baptising children to get them into a school, when you don't believe.
Shoes on or off.
DH's "outing" hobby.
Cat poo.
Loo brushes.
Anything with "AIBU to be livid/fuming/fewmin?"

Kettleison · 24/05/2019 14:00

Oh what shall I buy from my local tesco metro?

ClashCityRocker · 24/05/2019 14:00

The why am I not losing weight threads.

Op, 5'6 and overweight, has been dieting for six weeks. posts a 'typical days' menu which will usually be:
Breakfast: One small slice of unbuttered wholemeal toast
Lunch: Chicken with lettuce, tomato and cucumber. No dressing.
Snack: A handful of grapes.
Tea: Grilled salmon, asparagus and wholemeal rice

And will be met with responses such as:

  • omg! You're eating too much sugar in the grapes.
  • You're having to many calories op. I never lose unless I drop down to 27 calories a day.
  • have eggs for breakfast. And lunch. And dinner.

Suggestions that OP may not be giving an entirely accurate representation of what a typical day actually is, or how often she has 'non-typical' days, plus she should probably see a doctor if she is not losing weight on 800 cals a day are most unwelcome.

Kettleison · 24/05/2019 14:01

@TheClitterati 😂

Kettleison · 24/05/2019 14:02

People advising how to write a text.

TheClitterati · 24/05/2019 14:06

@kettleison I'm not joking Shock Grin
I don't know what the fuck is going on anymore

PuppyMonkey · 24/05/2019 14:33

Yes to all of these - oh and another good one:

How to pronounce the letter H.

A thread on H will go on for pages and pages...Grin

OP posts:
WhatAGreatDay · 24/05/2019 15:50

The yearly Halloween "trick or treating is begging" threads and the Christmas "my 12 year old still believes in Santa and someone told him the truth. AIBU to devastated that my child is not 5 anymore and no longer believes my stupid lies?"

BarnabasTheMaineCoon · 24/05/2019 15:54

Someone smoked in my garden and killed me. Cue MN pile in about how all smokers deserve instant death.

People using their garden for anything besides reading in silence. They're all chavs who are antisocial, people should live in silence, report them to the council/landlord/God.

Any eating thread, full of orthorexic bollocks.

Intothe · 24/05/2019 16:00

I love the ones about the unruly delinquent children.

AIBU to think that the waitress was rude?
My 16 children and myself went into a cafe today for some lunch. My children are very well behaved and were just running around wreaking havoc as kids do. They were not crying, they were just excited.
AIBU to think the waitress asking us to leave was extremely rude?

Intothe · 24/05/2019 16:01

There's usually one a week about

AIBU not to let my dc travel in the car with my MIL as their child seats are not rear-facing?

Intothe · 24/05/2019 16:04

Wedding ones:

AIBU to not go to this wedding as children are not invited?

I'm still breastfeeding my 48 month old and my husband's SIL has said no children. WIBU to bring my 48 month old as it is discriminating against breastfeeding mothers? My 48 month old could not survive without booby.

Intothe · 24/05/2019 16:07

Then the random racism ones:

AIBU? Was this racism?

AIBU to think that my manager is racist? I'm a Mum so occasionally need to take time off with no notice as my children need me. I'm brilliant shit at my job despite this. Myself and a white girl went for a promotion and she got it and I didn't. AIBU to think it's because of my colour?

Intothe · 24/05/2019 16:09

Then the alcoholics.

AIBU to think my DH is an alcoholic?

So, DH went out with friends two years ago and didn't come home until 10pm. Now he has taken to having a can of beer every Saturday night. AIBU to think he's an alcoholic?

Sux2buthen · 24/05/2019 16:09

Step parent?
Well why didn't you say so, let's get 'em!

UrsulaPandress · 24/05/2019 16:11

P&C Parking
P&C v Disabled Parking
Why I hate MN

Intothe · 24/05/2019 16:12

Then the weight ones:

AIBU to think my MIL is a bitch?

So, I'm 5' 2 and weigh 22 stone. My husband is 6' 4" and weighs 14 stone. At Sunday lunch at MIL's, MIL gave my DH 4 roasties and gave me 3. AIBU to think that she's a bitch? I have as much of an appetite as my DH.