People you only meet on Mumsnet...

[CurlewKate]

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!

In response to the bathing kids every day thing, last week my children's infant school sent an email home informing us they are currently promoting hygiene in class and children should have a shower or bath every day!

The evangelical food puritans in any form. Often keto fans. Giving odd food advice or judgement on health threads, often contrary to what actual medical advice would be.

But the worst are the ones that think giving kids fruit is a sin. Like it's equivalent to sweets!

People who assume something they’ve never heard of doesn’t exist. E.g. if someone says something is a Yorkshire/Midlands/West Country expression, someone else will invariably pipe up with “Well I’m from Yorkshire/The Midlands/the West Country and I have NEVER heard that expression”.

Fair enough if you’re from a two-street hamlet and know everyone there, so know very well that “Don’t look at me like my left tit’s hanging out” isn’t a common expression there at all. But Yorkshire covers a huge area; the Midlands encompasses everything from the country’s second biggest city to tiny villages. How do these people not understand that they haven’t experienced everything that goes on within a major region just because they live in part of it?

People who can’t understand why you wouldn’t be friends with people at work

People who don’t believe that kids can just be little shits and there doesn’t always have to be SEN involved

Not liking dogs is perfectly ok and I don’t care how “friendly” they are

People who have about 5 showers a day with clean clothes and a fresh towel each time

People who change their bedding every hour especially if they've put outdoor clothes within two feet of it

People who drivel on in flowery language about what a treat very ordinary food is. “I cannot believe these heathens that put brown sauce on the heavenly indulgent treat that is cheese on toast”. Cheese on toast is a can’t be arsed, 17p a portion lunch.

But odd means pretty much the same, so what is odd about it?

People who never argue or get really narked with their DH/P - they sit down and calmly discuss every single difference of opinion (if indeed they ever have a difference of opinion)

People who think their parents moving a 45 minute driving away is awful and they will never have a relationship with their DGC as a result

People who can’t understand that others can’t afford a cleaner/gardener/paid place at private nursery to get a well needed break

😂😂😂

This made me roar, howl and literally scream with laughter!

I've woken babies sleeping on the other side of the world.

It was actually very funny though

“17p? I could make cheese on toast for my entire family of 25 for 17p”

People who question the price of everything and can ALWAYS do it cheaper.

Did you know I heated my entire home for £6 this year? It would have been £5.97 but DH STBXH opened a window when it he took a shit on November 19th.

People who like to point out you coud get a stately home where they live, for the price of your 2 bed flat, as though you are completely oblivious to the regional difference in house prices and you can just up sticks without a second thought.

@NeatCompactSleeper I’ve just clocked your username. 😂😂 Are you THE neat compact sleeper??

People who would take back a tissue that was stuck to their foot to a public toilet because technically it's stealing

Sooo many trans phobic people

People that car what strangers name their babies

People whose children misbehave so they assume they have autism or adhd

People who think it's ok to park in a disabled bay as they are technically disabled as they broke an eyelash last week

People who think it's parental alienation when a parent stops their children from seeing their abusive parent

People who think it's ok that grandparents never want to look after their grandchildren.

Oh, I forgot people who put everything down to jealousy. You know, like people say to comfort children who are being bullied. "They only do it because they're jealous." Such a terrible message!

People who are quite happy to be staggeringly rude to you online, but would never dare to do it face to face.

People who genuinely believe that there is such a thing as a really fast-growing screening plant that will magically stop growing at the height you want, and requires no maintenance whatever.

I actually have one of those. It’s called my “fence”. Haven’t watered it since it went in.

People who take days to answer a text. I have never met anyone like that other than on mumsnet

The people who never answer the door

People who hide themselves away after having a baby, god forbid any of the baby's family want to meet the new family member. Of course this only applies to the fathers side of the family.

They then are very confused when at 2+ years they have no baby sitters and no one cares about their toddler.

See also people who never go out without their children and stay in for 18 years then their marriage falls apart when the kids go to uni and they've got nothing to talk to their husband about

OMG no! 😂

I flail my arms and legs around so much, I'm afraid I'm going to end up next door!

YABU for not sharing a diagram of this.

@ssd People who pretend they've never been to McDonald's with the kids

We've never taken the kids to Macdonald's or Burger King etc. DS is 20. To be fair we live in the sticks and the only fast food is an awesome chippy van on a Tuesday a Thai van on a Thursday and Sri Lankan beech cafe in the summer.

People who think asking family ie grandparents for help with childcare is a fate worse than death.

the amount of threads I’ve seen by burnt out mums despairing that their own parents don’t help but could and the disgusting pile on from MNs who think anything other than paid childcare is acceptable- just unreal.

People who forget their parents or parents in law have raised babies (them)! So send their child with a 30 page a4 document on how to care for said child