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People you only meet on Mumsnet...

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CurlewKate · 23/04/2023 10:18

People who never answer their door/phone.
People who get really stroppy about taking in parcels for neighbours.
People who can feed a family of four for a week on one chicken.
People who wash mince (one for the oldies, there.)
People who resent giving somebody a lift to a place they were going anyway.
Fee free to add your own!

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Catshaveiteasy · 23/04/2023 12:00

tectonicplates · 23/04/2023 11:55

People who never use public toilets and apparently go for ten hours out of the house without even having a pee.

People who think it’s normal to only use public loos or workplace loos for a pee, and that a poo should only be done at home.

People who can’t even use a loo at home in case their DH hears.

People who think it’s normal to hover above a loo seat instead of sitting down.

I understand that some people have toilet phobias, but there’s an unusually high number of them on Mumsnet for some reason. If you have a personal thing about loos then fine, just stop talking about your behaviour as if it’s normal or expected.

Actually I think those things are quite common irl. Not me but I have known quite a few people who do / don't do some of those. But maybe most people don't talk about such things with friends or colleagues the way they might on MN?

MmaRra · 23/04/2023 12:03

coodawoodashooda · 23/04/2023 11:15

People who wash their bedcovers everyday

Or wash their towels after one use and their pyjamas after one wear.

MmaRra · 23/04/2023 12:07

Ohow · 23/04/2023 10:53

People who think it's required to have a daily bath or shower

People who think babies and children must be bathed every day.

LaDamaDeElche · 23/04/2023 12:16

People who just say "that doesn't work for me" to everything they don't want to do with no other reason given, yet still have friends.

lljkk · 23/04/2023 12:16

High earners... with ponies, very naice foreign holidays, kids+ in expensive schools, London bubble, etc. That's not completely true, but it's mostly true. Not my neighbours, social or work circle. I don't mind their existence. We don't have much in common, is all.

People who are heavy (fat) because they eat too little, or "it's all muscle" or because they eat the "wrong types of calories" rather than too many calories.

Anyone on keto diet, or who thinks carbs are evil and evangelises that saturated fats are definitely harmless. My brother was an evangelical foody, actually, his thing was raw foods. Honestly, knowing even one person like that, ever, IRL, is enough !!

Militant evangelical Vegans : honestly. I know loads of people call themselves vegan. They don't care what you eat. I even know one person on Facebook & IRL who isn't at all vegan but thinks it's a lovely ideal so posts vegan memes sometimes.

Women who see every man as potential predator. Dissonance about their own sons.

People who hate other people's woodburners.

People convinced all dogs are highly dangerous.

MmaRra · 23/04/2023 12:16

KezzaMucklowe · 23/04/2023 11:35

I think there is generally a lot more twins now days aren’t there..
Possibly to do with better maternity care.
Theres obviously the make believe troll twins too.
I have some myself.

Possibly to do with the rise in IVF.

NowZeusHasLainWithLeda · 23/04/2023 12:21

People who are that obsessed with Meghan Markle they literally cannot get on with their lives but spend all day on here wanging on about her.

The strange "fastest finger" people who rush to salivate over the latest dead celebrity. (I mean, in real life, do they all run onto the street to shout "hear ye, hear ye, the bloke off EastEnders episode 4 in 1987 has died"

The even stranger people who only get sad about horrific things happening "now I'm a mother" (cos before it was so hilarious to think about child abuse etc)

LaDamaDeElche · 23/04/2023 12:21

Also people who think after the age of 10 you are a needy and immature if you want to celebrate/anyone to acknowledge your birthday.

People who think that it's weird to be upset if grandparents don't want to be actively involved in their grandchildren's lives and that if they look after their own grandchildren for an hour a year, parents should be endlessly grateful that they even did that.

NowZeusHasLainWithLeda · 23/04/2023 12:23

MmaRra · 23/04/2023 12:03

Or wash their towels after one use and their pyjamas after one wear.

I don't think they're as rare or weird as the ones who, if believed, have a hair wash once a fortnight and wash their lav every year but only if it's a leap year.
Competitive filth and minging is much more common on MN than competitive hygiene.

LaDamaDeElche · 23/04/2023 12:23

MeinKraft · 23/04/2023 10:19

People who only feed their children supernoodles once a year in an emergency scenario.

😂😂

Florissant · 23/04/2023 12:24

People who can diagnose autism without ever meeting the person in question or being qualified to carry out assessments.

Florissant · 23/04/2023 12:26

WandaWonder · 23/04/2023 11:22

People who see drama in every single thing and also hear a story about someone and know exactly how the person is thinking and acting just by that one story

I encountered that on another forum, which is one of the reasons I left.

girljulian · 23/04/2023 12:33

People who tick "other" rather than "female" or "woman" on forms because the word "gender" rather than "sex" was used, with the result that the presumed non-binary population is going to go through the roof.

Bluevelvetsofa · 23/04/2023 12:34

I accept OP didn’t intend ‘oldies’ in the way it was interpreted, but castigating everyone over the age of 60 as a selfish person who should be downsizing and living in a tiny cottage, so that others can have the benefit of their larger house is annoying.

In laws are the work of the devil and grandparents are only welcome if they’re prepared to take on child care. To be fair, a lot of posters disagree too.

MmaRra · 23/04/2023 12:43

People who rush to correct the grammar, spelling and punctuation of posters who are going through difficult life events:

Yes, Doris, I'm sorry your DM has died, your DH has run off, your child has been excluded, your house has flooded and your dog has been stolen all in one day, but please note it is 'with whom', 'and I', double n and no apostrophe. HTH.

ShagratandGorbag4ever · 23/04/2023 12:46

People who can't raise an issue with the person who is causing it.

daisymoonlight · 23/04/2023 12:49

The weird obsession with "be kind" no matter how rude, cheeky or downright rude other people have been to you with apparently no expectation that they should reciprocate that attitude.

Eg. "my neighbour stole my wedding ring"- "BE KIND, she may be in poverty- you should give her the rest of your jewellery so she doesnt starve to death"

"My best friend stabbed me in the back and slept with my husband!"- BE KIND, she probably has depression/MH issues, is lonely etc- forgive her and lend her your husband every weekend"

"My tenants havent paid the rent for 6 months, how can I get them out?"- "BE KIND, its not easy renting, you should give them the house"

There is always one weirdo who comes out with this rubbish but I always suspect that they dont practice what they preach.

nobody190 · 23/04/2023 12:50

People who give their kids Rice Krispies as a treat for breakfast.

Kranke · 23/04/2023 12:51

Women who have completely useless husbands. In real life I don’t know anyone whose husband doesn’t do their fair share of housework/childcare/mental load.

QueefQueen80s · 23/04/2023 12:52

People who never go to Mcdonalds

NeatCompactSleeper · 23/04/2023 12:54

Kranke · 23/04/2023 12:51

Women who have completely useless husbands. In real life I don’t know anyone whose husband doesn’t do their fair share of housework/childcare/mental load.

To be fair, I'd say that makes you quite unusual if you don't know anyone with a husband like that.

Unless perhaps your idea of a 'fair share' is different to mine.

traintraveller · 23/04/2023 12:54

People who can't understand that anyone could have a different opinion or likes and dislikes. They are all over MN, from things they deem others not angry enough about, to calling posters cool wives or telling women who like heeled shoes they're so dated and should be wearing white trainers. It's nuts.

EustaceTheMonk · 23/04/2023 12:56

People prepaerd to take the most life shattering action (life shattering for someone else that is) on a piece of second hand hearsay.

turnthebiglightoff · 23/04/2023 12:56

Competitive undereaters. The worst type of people.

Blanketpolicy · 23/04/2023 12:56

People who expect money from parents when they are/would be independent adults, or expect regular childcare from their parents.
People who would threaten to disown their parents in their old age if they don't.