Things you find a bit odd about Mumsnet

[valerianroot]

Let me start by saying this is 100% lighthearted and fueled by being a bit bored in my last hour before weekend officially begins.

Anyway, I ventured onto the Royals board recently and found it a bit weird that people refer to Kate Middleton as Catherine. Now, I know that's her full first name (well I assume it is) but I've never heard anyone IRL refer to her as anything but Kate. Maybe I'm behind the times as my Royals knowledge isn't very up to date (as you'll notice by calling Kate Middleton.)

I'm sure I'll regret starting this but anyone else have anything?

[quote Exhausteddog]@Nomoreusernames1244

The hygiene obsession. And the absolute belief that they can pinpoint the last time somebody showered/washed their bra by smell alone in a public place.
Yes. 🙄
And the disregard of any home made food that work colleagues/friends give them because all people (apart from them) must have minging kitchens, no hygeine standards at all, and let cats roam the work surfaces and canaries shit on the stove.

The weight and under eating threads. “You may look absolutely fine at 5’4 and 7.5 stone, o/p, but i’m 5’7 and I’d just feel flabby”.

We've lost sight of what a normal weight is![/quote]
And the disregard of any home made food that work colleagues/friends give them becauseallpeople (apart from them) must have minging kitchens, no hygeine standards at all, and let cats roam the work surfaces and canaries shit on the stove

To be fair, although I do a lot of home baking, I do have , by MN reckoning, deplorable hygiene standards and the cats do roam on the work surfaces. (I do also have a cleaner- which makes standards slightly less deplorable once a week)

That you shouldn't expect anyone other than you and your partner to be in the slightest bit interested in your wedding or your pregnancy, labour and ensuing children, not even your own parents. Nobody cares.

In real life my friends and I are all late 50s early 60s and we're besotted with our grandchildren and heavily invested in our children's weddings/ relationships/pregnancies etc.

That people get upset when newspapers write a story on their thread.

I agree it’s odd that there isn’t an edit button and you can’t unbookmark.

I’m always surprised that people think that nice bedding/ flowers/ extra throws etc will make a difference to selling a house.

If you had a 'like' button you'd have no content.

Yes, it's old fashioned but it's clean and easy to use - hence being kept that way. Us old folks like the simpler things in life

Oh yes, folk like their houses cold overnight! Like 15°

Her given name is Catherine but they changed it to Katherine otherwise the initials would be WC (William Catherine)

😂😂 Hmmm that sounds totally made up

I've never ever seen her name spelled with a K it's always a C. Their initials gave been used numerous times and again always a C Her family & friends all call her Catherine (with a C) it's the media who started calling her Kate

@frankie001

That people get upset when newspapers write a story on their thread.

Ah but remember all you have to do at the start of your post is make it clear you don't give any media outlets permission to use your thread or call them a cunt.

Cant believe how often people believe that'll work 🙄

Every child on MN is either a genius, has SEN or both.

That according to mumsnet, any woman who has children with someone she isn’t married to is doomed!

The man definitely won’t marry her once she’s had children and then if/when he leaves her she will be left helpless and penniless.

Come on, in real life plenty of couples are unmarried in strong, healthy long term relationships, bringing up children in a happy home and plenty of women earn enough without their DP/DH or whoever to cope financially without them if they split.

@Legoisthebest

All the abriviations. DD DS DC DGC DGD DGS DSS DSD..... You have DH (husband) or DP (partner) but then some people put OH (other half) or SO (significant other).... honestly just write "my husband" (or whatever is relevant). It's gets so confusing. DF - is that father or friend? NC LC PFB NT BM CF and so on.... Just write the proper words. It's not like 90s text messages where you had to pay per letter

Christ yes. This with bells on.

I hate it. So twee.

Just read a little of this thread (which is interesting). I've read posts before saying that on MN people seem to express certain feelings e.g. being lonely or not having friends, having social/health anxiety, being scared of Covid etc WAY more than people IRL. Almost as if MN posters are an idiosyncratic, less resilient minority somehow not representative of society. I agree with the post upthread (there are no doubt others) which points out that the anonymity of the site means you are probably getting a truer picture than your perception of real life. There are many many things people IRL who feel too much shame to ever admit - even to those closest. Also, I guess if you don't have real-life connections you may be more likely to post on a forum. I don't know? (Am aware I'm likely stating the obvious here )

I’m not understanding the bookmarking angst?

And an edit button would be terrible.

Lots of posts being altered retrospectively when the AIBU didn’t work out for OP and they backtrack. Threads wouldn’t make sense.

For me it is the utter amazement that some people are different. For example the pyjama threads. The shock or horror that others do / don't wear knickers under their pj's.

Nawww, please don't put a like button.

It will obviously just attract lots of super wokie/ hugely empathetic / photo-posting needies.

How many women with school aged children who don’t work.

@Coffeeonmytoffee

How many women with school aged children who don’t work.

The number of women whose dh go off with another women and they haven’t had a job for years & have to start over again, for the sake of nursery fees.

The people who draft lengthy (or even short) email replies/letters. Do they genuinely think the OP will c&p it?

How seldom posters bathe.

How people that pay for the privilege can trawl through all your previous posts and find evidence that posters are lying about something, even if they have clearly just changed some details to protect their identity or their life has changed.

“Oh your SON did that, did they? Well on 12th March 2012 at 18.45 you clearly stated you have 2 daughters.”

The covid " murderer" hysteria
Why people care how often strangers wash their bath towels
Competitive over-parenting
Hatred for in laws
Hatred for the Royal family
Christmas eve boxes/ elf/ Easter decorations etc
There are some really odd people out there!

I only browse Active Threads occasionally, but every single time I end up in AIBU I'm more convinced that there's a small group of bored, lonely and angry name-changing keyboard warriors who fill their days answering YABU to everything. They seem to view it as a challenge to dream up the most outlandish replies.

"AIBU to be upset that my DS just kicked my dog in the face"
"YABU - Why weren't you controlling your dog?"

"AIBU I spent £100 on my friend's Xmas present and she only gave me a card"
"YABU and grabby. You don't give to receive."

Agree with two already mentioned here:

• The absolute obsession with class, I’ve never discussed class IRL but here there are weekly threads asking if manners / supermarkets / dogs make someone middle class
• The total hatred for standard social events and the complete offence at even being invited. Lots of people then piling on to say how “grabby” the bride is to even be invited and they’d go NC. It’s SO BIZARRE. In real life if a wedding is too far away / too expensive / you can’t get childcare you just politely decline.