Things you thought were normal/harmless until joining mumsnet

[Antsinyourpanta]

(Lighthearted )
lots of things that I thought were quite normal /fine/harmless before I joined MM seem to be quite abhorrent to a large percentage of posters. I often find myself wondering about whether my perceived normal is actually the minority. Some examples

Home made food or cakes - I bloody love home made cakes and think they are always nicer than shop bought - my first thoughts when offered one is usually yum, a cake! I've never given a moments thought to whether the person owns cats or dogs or has a hygeine certificate.

Ensuite bathrooms - I've got an ensuite bathroom. It's used for any instance where you may need a toilet. Apparently this is very very wrong.

Eating carbs

Bayliss and Harding toiletries - I would not be offended by this as a gift unless it was from my husband

(I'm with you on Thorntons though - they are nasty)

Answering the door to someone - if I see ex criminals selling stuff door to door, I dont answer, otherwise I dont have a problem with answering the door, and i get on with all of my neighbours.

Speaking to and socialising with work colleagues - i speak to, socialise (outside of work) and am friends with most of my work colleagues. I'd count many of them as friends. We buy each other birthday cards and presents and sometimes bring in cakes. (See point 1)

What are the things you've been educated on since joining MN?

Farts aren't funny either. That's juvenile.

Farting in your own home

Haha great minds thinking alike @dead

Fair enough, I wouldnt have thought of that @ThumbWitchesAbroad. Our garden hose is normally at the end of the garden and I'm too lazy to go out there every time the cats bowls need doing. I tend to leave them til ive done the human washing up and then do in the same water but with a different cloth, but sometimes they do get washed with our stuff.(but with the "cat" cloth)

@DeadButDelicious
🤣🤣🤣

It does come across that for some posters MN is the first time they come across different people, or possibly just other people

What I find the big difference is between MN and real life people, or even other social websites, is how much people boast about what domestic goddesses they are, how often they wash their towels and bed linen and how many meals they can get out of a chicken. Also with parenting! In real life and even elsewhere on the net I find people are much more self-deprecating and laugh at how bad they are at cleaning and share their lapses of judgement in parenting also.

I tend to take a lot of what I read on MN with a pinch of salt. Many posters seem to be very literal. I think there is a knack to reading between the lines regarding posting styles, a wry sense of humour or not, etc.
I love it for the variety of ways that people can view things.
The madder views do come out on AIBU. There are some hidden gems and some very insightful and intelligent discussions across all the boards.
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I’m intrigued! What’s wrong with a look brush 😂😂

Not having a daily shower

Loo brushes

You can't fart now?!

@Nothing7

I’m intrigued! What’s wrong with a look brush 😂😂

Who knew, right?! Never occurred to me that they were such terrible things. I'm pretty certain every loo I have been in has one.

@Mothership4two

You can't fart now?!

Have you not read the farting threads? There was one only last week! We have a little rule in our house that we try not to fart in the car or while eating but other than that it's game on.

@Mothership4two

You can't fart now?!

Nope. No one, especially your partner must ever know that you pass wind.

'Accidental' (like when you bend over) farts aren't allowed either. It denotes a lack of control and you must immediately visit your GP for your obvious bowel condition if you can't stop one slipping through.

And if you snicker at a particularly tuneful one then you are the WORST SORT OF PERSON. Farts are very, very serious business and a source of eternal shame.

Pretty sure that MN would have hated every single aspect of our wedding day, and leave it at that. I don’t think the honeymoon would have gone down too well either - we took our dog with us. That’s the dog that I’m apparently too much of a dog welfare disregarding numpty to have owned, according to another poster on another thread… which is another thing MN hates, buying puppies rather than waiting ten years to be allowed to rescue a dog, regardless of how suitable your home may be. If you aren’t willing to jump through every hoop under the sun and put up with whatever the rescue centre deigns you throw at you, you clearly aren’t serious about having a dog, you dog-hating cretin. 🙄

That being on time for a social visit is a bad thing!

Loo brushes; hotel kettles, both spawn if the devil not to be used. Apparently the kettles are used to ‘wee’ in, not sure if this is true. Toilet brush I get the hygiene argument, but not clear on what else is expected from the zealous anti-loo brush types

If you leave your washing out overnight it gets damp and needs redoing. This I understand.

Have you not read the farting threads? There was one only last week!
We have a little rule in our house that we try not to fart in the car or while eating but other than that it's game on.

I'm sad I missed the farting thread last week. I enjoy reading how uptight and superior people get about farting!🤣

I am not especially windy (unlike Dh and DS!) but I cant get outraged about it. and have quite a childish sense of humour

I haven't read the whole thread but I'm in agreement with a lot of what you've said but wrt the home made cake thing I was like that before I even knew MN existed. I can't eat cakes bought into the office from colleagues because as you point out I just don't know about their cleanliness.

Not being married to the man you live with.

And god forbid if you have children.. that make any sort of noise!

Ahh good ol' mumsnet! 😂

Having an unplanned pregnancy

Especially if you are not married/do not have finances so you can make the choice on returning to work/can afford childcare without it being an issue

@Antsinyourpanta

Have you not read the farting threads? There was one only last week! We have a little rule in our house that we try not to fart in the car or while eating but other than that it's game on.

I'm sad I missed the farting thread last week. I enjoy reading how uptight and superior people get about farting!🤣

I am not especially windy (unlike Dh and DS!) but I cant get outraged about it. and have quite a childish sense of humour

We love a good fart in our house. DH is very windy but oddly enough not smelly. Just noisy. I get up before he does and I know he's awake when I hear the dawn chorus 🤣

@pomers

Loo brushes; hotel kettles, both spawn if the devil not to be used. Apparently the kettles are used to ‘wee’ in, not sure if this is true. Toilet brush I get the hygiene argument, but not clear on what else is expected from the zealous anti-loo brush types

If you leave your washing out overnight it gets damp and needs redoing. This I understand.

😂😂 pomers

"Loo brushes; hotel kettles, both spawn if the devil not to be used."
I've now actually got hotel kettle anxiety thanks to MN! I take Fairy liquid and boil the kettle in a solution of it prior to having a cuppa just in case the "wee" thing is for real. Also wash the crocks.

My complaint about hotel kettles is that they take about half an hour to (very noisily) boil a teacup ful of water. I dont even drink tea so if we go away for a weekend (v rarely) its v annoying when DH turns the kettle on around 7am (he hates to lie in) and I have to listen to it thundering away for ages boiling the wee water for 1 cup of tea!

Love a bit of boiled wee