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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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Rant46892 · 23/04/2023 13:01

i know who either have or don’t have toilet brushes. Never met anyone so vehemently bothered that others do or don’t or feel judged by it.

CheezePleeze · 23/04/2023 13:05

turnthebiglightoff · 23/04/2023 12:56

Competitive undereaters. The worst type of people.

Interesting though when the competitive overeaters turn up!

Florissant · 23/04/2023 13:05

People who think that punctuation and paragraph breaks are optional. People who start their original post, with "So,"

Bluekerfuffle · 23/04/2023 13:06

People who ponder over why someone did something or said something and what it all means and discuss it for days on end with a bunch of strangers rather than just ask the person in question.

WomanStanleyWoman2 · 23/04/2023 13:07

People who have a fit of the vapours if someone admits they did a bit of cash in hand cleaning/bar work/decorating and didn’t file a tax return. See also people who think you should drive halfway across town to return a bag of chips the takeaway put in by mistake because keeping them would be “what’s called stealing”.

Grown women using words like “horrid”, “gosh”, “goodness”, “oh my” etc.

People who would slate a pair of friends for taking two cars to the same event rather than sharing - “Don’t you care about the environment?!” - but in the same breath would call a third non-driver friend asking for a lift a “CF” who expects to be “ferried about”.

Florissant · 23/04/2023 13:07

Bluekerfuffle · 23/04/2023 13:06

People who ponder over why someone did something or said something and what it all means and discuss it for days on end with a bunch of strangers rather than just ask the person in question.

I agree! Instead of writing "What did s/he mean by this?" why not just ask the person in question? No one else is going to know.

ImAGoodPerson · 23/04/2023 13:08

NeatCompactSleeper · 23/04/2023 12:54

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.

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TBH I think most of the husbands I know probably don't do their fair share but do enough to not cause their wives to want to leave them and probably do stuff as and when asked wothout too much fuss (as opposed to genuinely taking on half the mental and physical burden). That's probably closer to my experience.

ImAGoodPerson · 23/04/2023 13:10

turnthebiglightoff · 23/04/2023 12:56

Competitive undereaters. The worst type of people.

Lol, my SIL comments loudly when people order desserts, I couldn't possibly eat a dessert after that huge meal, then orders a massive cheese board 😄

WomanStanleyWoman2 · 23/04/2023 13:11

Also, people who panic about a stranger they’ll never see again having “judged” them, and then post a thread on a public forum telling random strangers how judged they felt and pulling to bits whether the horrible person was right or wrong.

Florissant · 23/04/2023 13:14

I remember one thread by a poster needed a handhold to get over the trauma of stranger in a supermarket giving them an odd look.

DueyCheatemAndHow · 23/04/2023 13:16

People who moan about bank Holidays!

AlwaysGinPlease · 23/04/2023 13:16

People who are in senior positions, earn a fuck ton of money but still post on MN to ask for investment advice.

Frothing Anti Dog people. Thank god I don't meet them in real life.

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CurlewKate · 23/04/2023 13:16

@NeatCompactSleeper "Unless perhaps your idea of a 'fair share' is different to mine"

This I suspect. The couples where the woman does all the cooking, washing, cleaning, shopping and childcare, and the man pulls his weight by putting the bins out, mowing the lawn and putting oil in the car....

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Crikeyalmighty · 23/04/2023 13:18

@Cakencookieobsessed I have actually been known to make cottage pie using Idaho packet mash (rather good) !! Tastes great, no complaints from anyone.

Roussette · 23/04/2023 13:19

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!

People who boil wash towels if they have touched one square inch of skin 😂

SkyandSurf · 23/04/2023 13:21

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.

What utopia are you living in?

I can count on one hand the number of real life DHs I know who genuinely do anything like what their female counterparts do in terms of housekeeping, childcare and mental load. (Yes, even adjusted to account for the hours they spend at their important man job).

whathaveyoudonelately · 23/04/2023 13:22

SoftCoeur · 23/04/2023 10:55

People with six-foot-tall 12-year-olds. I don't doubt they exist, but I've never seen one, and they are two-a-penny on Mumsnet.

How would you know you've never seen a six foot 12 year old?

NotAnotherBathBomb · 23/04/2023 13:22

Floofydawg · 23/04/2023 10:32

People who love their stepchildren like their own.

Never seen one of these on MN. They're always mad their partner had a life before them and everything is an inconvenience

NotAnotherBathBomb · 23/04/2023 13:24

SoftCoeur · 23/04/2023 10:55

People with six-foot-tall 12-year-olds. I don't doubt they exist, but I've never seen one, and they are two-a-penny on Mumsnet.

They must all move to another country when they hit adulthood because as a 6 foot woman, a man at least as tall as me is rarer than gold dust

NotAnotherBathBomb · 23/04/2023 13:24

Throwncrumbs · 23/04/2023 11:03

People have twins, lots of people with twins, just twins!

CoughTrollCough

Crikeyalmighty · 23/04/2023 13:27

@lljkk Ha- I'm trying to lose weight at the moment so strayed onto a thread with the 800 a day Keto eaters. Now I'm not saying that the principle isn't good and it probably works but I do think some people are taking it way too far when they get obsessed about food to this extent and in many cases aren't exactly hugely overweight .

midsomermurderess · 23/04/2023 13:27

People who are incapable of summarising things.
people who wouldn’t recognise the correct pronoun in a sentence to save their lived
people who clearly have never seen a bit, a lot, as well etc written before.

Crikeyalmighty · 23/04/2023 13:27

@NowZeusHasLainWithLeda now that made me laugh- it's so true!!

whathaveyoudonelately · 23/04/2023 13:28

@NotAnotherBathBomb - kids are getting taller and taller! DS was over 6 foot at 12- wasn't the tallest at school. Were a few girls and boys taller.

NeatCompactSleeper · 23/04/2023 13:29

So many people whose DPs are apparently paying 'far more than they need to' in child maintenance.

Odd considering how many men are paying little to nothing to their exes.