Things you think people get too obsessed with?

[BeckyRac]

Money I would say

*conform.

@somuchlaundrytowash

Being an 'eco mummy' second hand everything. Saving the world one cloth nappy at a time this doesn't save the world due to electricity and water use to wash and dry them.

An oft-repeated myth. It is definitely better for the environment not to use disposable nappies. You don't have to be "eco" to do it, mothers have been using was able nappies for decades. Just as people used to compost food scraps and make their own food instead of buying things in packets, it's just marketed as "eco" now.

Themselves

Not using the NHS

Crusty bread. You can't just have soup and bread. You have to have homemade leek and potato soup with crusty bread. Where the fuck are you buying this crusty bread? It's not like you've a boulangerie at every corner? After 12 hours your crusty bread is stale honey.

Breakfast. Has to be yoghurt, a banana, cereal, toast and 2 poached eggs with avocado. Who the fuck could eat all that for breakfast?

Alcohol and diagnosing anyone who has ever got drunk as being an alcoholic.

WFH and lockdown. I fucking hate the isolation. Hate, hate, hate, hate it.

Cars, flights and global warming. Until it comes to their threads about flying to Barbados and their 4x4.

Walks in the countryside. Hikes.

Their neighbours and what they are doing. My neighbour turned on their outside light. Should I call 101?

Being pompous twats basically.

Being ignored in media if you live north of Hertfordshire apparently.

Obeying obscure laws.

Cats, dogs and only ever ever rescuing them, while displaying your own pure bred kitten 3 months earlier.

Spotting trolls. I swear some must have their finger on the report button half the day.

Annoying me. Annoying the fucking IBS shit out of me.

And snacks!

Pretending not to understand things that they don't agree with

@Embracingthechaos

Pretending not to understand things that they don't agree with

I don't think they are pretending!

Oh and advising everyone who has any trouble in their marriage to get divorced while they smugly tell you that their DH would NEVER look crooked at them. Smugness.

Food.

From what I've read on MN only, this is the typical diet of a MNer

Breakfast. Has to be yoghurt, a banana, cereal, toast and 2 poached eggs with avocado. Who the fuck could eat all that for breakfast? Carton of orange juice and a Skinny latte with 3 sugars.

Snack. Packet of peanuts

Lunch. Two poached salmon fillets with a mound of leafy green salad. No dressing. Ok, maybe half a bottle of Caesar salad dressing. Crusty bread. 2 slices only. No butter.

Snack. A bowl of soup

Snack. Packet of Walkers ready salted.

Snack. Apple

Snack. Ten coffees, 30 sugars and a Red Bull

Dinner. A steamed chicken fillet, steamed long stem broccoli, steamed freshly sliced carrots (from the allotment/Waitrose - they're the same really).

Dessert. Strawberries. Fat free natural yoghurt

Later. Pizza from Dominos, 1 sharing pack of Mint Aeros, Coca Cola

Later. A thimble of white wine/1 bottle of wine + some Ben and Jerry's icecream

And sleep..........

Now I'm hungry!

I actually want the steamed broccoli and carrots and chicken and I've a delivery coming today and I'm too late to amend it!

@BusterGonad I imagine that there are a lot more important things to think about in Myanmar at the moment.

@ForwardRanger

Thank you. You've confirmed my point reg the cloth nappy police.

@Therewereroses, don't forget whilst eating their way through all of that they are busting a gut on the Peleton bike and doing 15 classes of yoga with adrienne to maintain their weight.....they have never been bigger than a size 8 and just cannot fathom how people get to a size 12!

Soaps

What other people do or have.

I'm generally pleased for people doing well. Sad for them when things go to shit. Beyond that, no fucks to give.

Some people are obsessed with what others have. There is a group of dhs friends I refuse to visit during summer and the round of BBQs as all they talk about is who is buying what house/car/holiday/had a promotion/been made redundant etc.

It's particularly bad with 30/40 something year olds. Don't notice it as much with younger or older people.

Well DH has played 4 rounds of 18 holes in 8 days and has been glued to The Masters the rest of the time, since Wednesday. 😂

A new one I've noticed.

How could you not know how to drive? If he can't drive, dump him!

Why are you driving everywhere? Get public transport! Nobody should own a car except me

Showering.
Whats wrong with a good old-fashioned bath? And showering more than once a day.

Punishing and micromanaging their children over homework and activities.

Careers and high-earnings. And losing any life balance to squirrel away untold thousands into a pension you may never enjoy, but living in frugality through your younger years to achieve this. Despite working all hours in a stressy career.

Gadgets, buying everything new and buying loads of stuff on credit from TV to sofas etc

I won't buy something if I can't afford it, if we want it we save up for it and we get a much cheaper/free second hand until we have the money to spend.

[quote somuchlaundrytowash]@ForwardRanger

Thank you. You've confirmed my point reg the cloth nappy police. [/quote]
That doesn't actually make any more sense than your first post. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Cleaning and excessive hygiene, as in disinfecting everything and washing things that aren’t remotely dirty or sweaty, just because they’ve been used or worn once.