How has Mumsnet ruined you?

[lemonsandgingerbeer]

Sat down to watch some Netflix with DP.

I asked him : "What are you watching?"

He replied: "It's called Mind of Aaron Hernandez"

Cue me spluttering with laughter because all I can think about is "Good afternoon, I'm Angela Hernandez". "No, I"M Angela Hernandez"

Given that the documentary is about some quite gruesome murders, DP was.... bemused, to say the least.

What has Mumsnet ruined for you?

What will you never look at / hear in the same way again?

Toilet brushes.

Washing up bowls and bog brushes.

Everything in my house. I do everything wrong!

It’s made me a lot more aware of quite petty things that no one in the real world actually cares about. I used to walk my dog across literally 20m of private woodland to avoid walking on a busy windy road with no pavement. It’s not near a house or any crops yet if I walk through there now (

Men.

Nothing! I’m too old to care about other peoples opinions of me! It’s very liberating….

This has actually ruined me. Beans.
More specifically the odd bean that gets left in the can. Since someone posted about not being able to leave a lonely one in the can I've had to check every bloody can and rescue the stragglers .

Not ruined but my blinkers have been well and truly removed to the reality of men.
(Not all men, of course).
I doubt I'll ever be in a relationship ever again, it's like I can't unsee/unread all the stories, and I can see guys coming a mile of now. So kinda ruined but also wiser thanks to all the women on here!

Center Parcs

I used to be able to hear someone say 'pardon' when they had not heard and have no reaction. Now I have to stop myself screaming "it's what, not pardon!"

I used to think that women in the UK had largely achieved equality. Mumsnet has removed my blinkers and highlighted all the ways in which we are not equal and are in fact going backwards. Awareness is good, but on a purely selfish level I miss my blinkered, but happier, view of the world.

It's introduced me to various demographics and their views which I had known about but didn't really have anyone in my life with those views. So it helped to explain some things to me. I still can only manage in small doses but it's a completely different insight into how some people live/think.

Fabric softener, apparently its vile smelly stuff that nobody uses! Often think about it as i slosh a generous amount of it into my washing machine drawer.

I now suffer from Roast Chicken Inadequacy

From many years ago;the penis dunking mug;if you know;you know.

Parenting. According to mumsnets standards my kids should probably be in care 😆

It’s opened my eyes to many many things. Made me realise that there is a whole other cohort of society that thankfully I never need to spend any time with in real life…... although I’m genuinely pleased that I now know these crazy people exist. But mostly just fuelled my phone addiction in a bad way.

I once posted to express my mild irritation that DH had left his dirty socks on the bathroom floor rather than placing them in the laundry basket provided. I immediately followed the MN advice: got my paperwork in order, hid the children's passports, took in ironing to supplement my income, and LTB - or rather, changed the locks to prevent him returning home that night.
It was obvious to me from the advice given on my thread that he was a controlling, adulterous misogynist and that the fact he bought me a bunch of flowers on my first birthday after we met was a clear red flag or example of love-bombing.
Sometimes I think back to the loving, sweet, hard working husband and father I believed he was - until other MN posters opened my eyes of course.

No bunch of mums on a social media platform can nor should “ruin anyone” but this is an absolutely unbelievable eye opener in terms of the (toxic) feminist stuff along with countless new sexual identity mental gymnastics I never imagined possible nor previously existed. It’s an online learning curve but in the real world life is normal bar Covid.

According to MN I dress incorrectly , do household chores incorrectly and cook incorrectly and socialise incorrectly basically I’m a total failure at adulting on this forum

Whilst I’m on the subject of cooking how does anyone really make a chicken last for several meals are you sure your not confusing then with turkeys

Fat balls for the birds will be forever known as artisan scotch eggs in our house.

My time and my house - too much sodding about on MN

Leaving washing out overnight

@Crockof

This has actually ruined me. Beans. More specifically the odd bean that gets left in the can. Since someone posted about not being able to leave a lonely one in the can I've had to check every bloody can and rescue the stragglers .

Omg saaaame hahaha poor bean 🤣🤣

Mumsnet trans peaked me. I had no idea before.