The weird world of MN…

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I am frequent visitor on MN but sometimes it feels like another world, examples include

• being told to LTB because he ate the kids chocolate, comments included selfish, abuser and narcissist
• you are not allowed to ask grandparents for childcare but equally fume silently when they don’t offer *everyone earns £100k per year
• everyone kids are in a vast amount of out of school activities. Screen time is frowned upon *parents give them a vast amount of money for house deposits *you are expected to pay for your kids until they are way into adulthood but don’t expect them to visit you in old age
• There is a huge amount of children with SEN and ASD even though they amount to only 1% of children in the population (this is not a judgement/criticism, more of an observation) *Many husbands work FT and are high earners but still should share 50% of the housework, if not LTB *husbands have a secret ‘hobby’ *all kids should have their own room and should not be expected to share.

I may need to visit with some more 😂

If your mum wants a glass of red wine on your wedding then she must be raging alcoholic because no one needs alcohol.

Madness.

It's so British too. Which often means eccentric

Also don't forget...

Fuck hot tubs.
Fuck artificial lawn.
Fuck the Tories.
Fuck Brexit.
Fuck the Royal family.
Teachers are the hardest working people in the whole of society and are under appreciated and underpaid more than anybody else.

Did I mention fuck the Tories?

I'm going to say the following and leave ...

Harry and Meghan.

( Ducks...)

Everyone complains about their MIL and yet doesn’t ask or expect their DH to deal with them

All of it sounds horrendous.

My first Boyfriend was a total dickhead and could have scarred me for life but I've been quite lucky it seems to know some lovely men.

I've known some very strange women too.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The only one I got involved in was the one recently when the poster's street had been blocked for roadworks, lots of prior notice given and yet people had left their cars in their usual spots. We had a live commentary on cars being towed, road workers, people returning to find their cars gone.
One woman told the OP to fuck off when she was warned to move her car before heading out for the night. We were then all cheering when her car was towed.

CFs especially about childcare.
Like I'd help anybody out but it's so obvious when people are on the make.

Especially if they have never spoken to you before.
Now they want you to collect and mind their kids everyday without paying of some sort.

I was going to say this also.

I loved that thread. Especially the dog with it's own bedroom.

The clothes thing is unreasonable if the child is sent to GP with changes of clothes. Why would the GP send the child home in different clothes? Or make them wear different clothes in their house??

In that thread I mentioned a friend having to do this because her DIL kicks off if there's the slightest mark on DGDs clothing after friend's had her for childcare. So it's far less stressful if friend puts her in different clothes and then puts the originals back on at the end of the day.

The Covid threads really brought home how bonkers people are on this site. Post after post of people judging others for exercising more than an hour a day or buying non essential food in the supermarket. Can't imagine meeting anyone like that in real life

Anyone who has ever taken recreational drugs is an addict who needs to go to rehab immediately. Same with anyone who drinks more than a thimble full of wine.

Parents who know the minutiae of their kids schooling including not just their book band but that of half the class. And refer to school places as 'we got into x school', no you didn't your kid did.

"We are pregnant"

NO we aren't. You are. Men can't get pregnant.

The Covid threads were really bonkers. The lockdown lovers were particularly scary. I gave MN up for about 3 months when it got that bad.

There were a few who tried to resurrect the fear when there was talk of monkeypox. For a few days there were such scaremongering posts as “there’s a 10% mortality rate,” and “my children or me are going to be permanently scarred from this. I am terrified.” Without actually paying any attention to any of the facts.

There was even some talk of potentially going back into lockdown.

Honestly we need a

Yes, I remember someone screeching that another poster was a murdering cunt for buying chocolate from the supermarket or something equally insane. There’s definitely a touch of collective hysteria about this place sometimes.

Wasn't there someone who said we should be putting cheese in coffee instead of going our to buy milk? I can't believe all of these were genuine, tbh.

It was a scary time and devastated a lot of people. We didn't know what was going to happen. I wouldn't judge people too harshly two years on. But there definitely was a subset of people who seemed to enjoy the idea that everything was going to come crashing down. I think the Germans have a word for this desire for disaster, but I can't remember what it is.

Oh no, apparently the cheese in the coffee didn't happen. Just a Mumsnet myth. Sorry.

schadenfreude

No, that's happiness in other people's misfortune. I'm thinking of a word for the desire to be struck by a crisis. Might not be German but there's a language that does have it.

That's fair enough @saraclara, if it's actually true. I would counter that DGM in that case is probably exaggerating and that the truth is actually somewhere in the middle.

@VWBZ You'd lose that money because you clearly haven't heard of Incels or of Mens Rights Activist Facebook pages or 'Meninist' forums where they do indeed discuss such things. Welcome to 2022.

Rene not sure of the word but there’s definitely a group who fit it on here