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The most shocking thing you've read on Mumsnet..

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PricklyPear1234 · 19/12/2023 00:00

Just that really.. (Kind of lighthearted/maybe not!)

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Startyabastard · 19/12/2023 16:21

When a lady had been medicating her dog/s over the years with paracetamol and saying it was fine.
It appeared that it might have killed them in the end. I can't be sure but I think she said it was approved by a vet.

porridgeisbae · 19/12/2023 16:21

I’m always shocked by people asking should they go to a and e for things that definitely need to be checked out, and posters telling them maybe they should wait and go to their gp, hospitals in Ireland are packed, but it’s still seen as it’s better to go and be told there’s nothing wrong than not!

@stayathomer In the past people did use to go for like, a tiny cut on their thumb or something that really didn't warrant it. So there was rightly a push by the NHS for people not to do things like that. I think people do that less nowadays.

GonksAreNotJustForChristmas · 19/12/2023 16:27

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 16:20

Not seeing any hate on here.

But if by 'basically hate any woman who are not exactly like them' you mean that many mumnetters do not believe that trans women are women because they are male, then I'm not sure what's shocking about that, it's basic biology.

I knew exactly what @ManateeFair was saying and it's nothing to do with trans women.

You've not seen the pile ons and bitchy comments?

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 16:28

GonksAreNotJustForChristmas · 19/12/2023 16:27

I knew exactly what @ManateeFair was saying and it's nothing to do with trans women.

You've not seen the pile ons and bitchy comments?

On this thread?

Sexlivesofthepotatomen · 19/12/2023 16:32

Startyabastard · 19/12/2023 16:21

When a lady had been medicating her dog/s over the years with paracetamol and saying it was fine.
It appeared that it might have killed them in the end. I can't be sure but I think she said it was approved by a vet.

My dog was on paracetamol for 3 years on the recommendations of our vet and the orthopaedic specialist, if the dog died from it then she must've been over medicating

GonksAreNotJustForChristmas · 19/12/2023 16:32

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 16:28

On this thread?

Not on this thread. They said on Mumsnet.

garlictwist · 19/12/2023 16:32

Mosa369 · 19/12/2023 01:19

Efficient I must say 😅

I experimented with sleeping in my swimming costume so that when my alarm went off at 6am to swim before work, all I had to do was roll out of bed. I saved time but I got terrible thrush.

CatSpam3 · 19/12/2023 16:34

ToWhitToWhoo · 19/12/2023 15:15

Yes. I think some of the worst were during the height of the pandemic, when some posters said that Covid prevention was unimportant, because most people who died of it had pre-existing conditions (hello, 40% of the population have pre-existing conditions!) Mind you, given that this was the attitude of some of our Great Leaders, it's hardly surprising that some posters would say it too!

Also, people who imply that people with mental illnesses are just being self-indulgent, or don't deserve accommodations, because 'everyone gets stressed/ anxious sometimes'.

Also, slightly related, the contempt that a few posters have for anyone who can't drive.

Gosh, yes still so much discrimination against those with mental health issues. In fact there is a poster just below your post who on another thread stated they believed that anorexics should simply be forced to eat. I remember their name as I was so horrified that such people with despicable views walk among us.

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 16:34

GonksAreNotJustForChristmas · 19/12/2023 16:32

Not on this thread. They said on Mumsnet.

Apologies i am recovering from flu and not at all with it!

I'm not so sure what the OP meant.

Either way the fact that the meaning is open to misinterpretation shows how bonkers the gender thing is.

5PurpleDinosaurs · 19/12/2023 16:39

garlictwist · 19/12/2023 16:32

I experimented with sleeping in my swimming costume so that when my alarm went off at 6am to swim before work, all I had to do was roll out of bed. I saved time but I got terrible thrush.

Yes granted this might have worked for a functioning adult who presumably then showered after a swim and put on clean clothes. For a functioning adult putting Dcs into uniform to save time shows that they are not functioning parents. Every child and every adult in a school knows who the smelly dirty and neglected kids are.

Prayfortheangels · 19/12/2023 16:40

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 16:20

Not seeing any hate on here.

But if by 'basically hate any woman who are not exactly like them' you mean that many mumnetters do not believe that trans women are women because they are male, then I'm not sure what's shocking about that, it's basic biology.

Not everything is about trans women.

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 16:41

Prayfortheangels · 19/12/2023 16:40

Not everything is about trans women.

thank goodness.

laveritable · 19/12/2023 16:43

Talking crap about MILs!

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 16:43

5PurpleDinosaurs · 19/12/2023 16:39

Yes granted this might have worked for a functioning adult who presumably then showered after a swim and put on clean clothes. For a functioning adult putting Dcs into uniform to save time shows that they are not functioning parents. Every child and every adult in a school knows who the smelly dirty and neglected kids are.

You've never had a child with ASD in the throes of school refusal then have you.

Disordered parent I was not. Desperate parent I was.

My child could not manage anything other than go to school. She couldn't manage to get undressed and redressed.

Glad to see the judgement of others runs deep.

This didn't go on for very long btw, it turned into full blown school refusal and she is now educated other than at school.

pickledandpuzzled · 19/12/2023 16:46

To be fair, @itsfinallytime , that’s a very different situation from the one where all the dc slept in school clothes for the parents’ convenience.
Yours is a disability adjustment, the original one seemed to be considered a ‘life hack’.

Prayfortheangels · 19/12/2023 16:46

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 16:41

thank goodness.

You are the one that jumped to that conclusion.

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 16:47

pickledandpuzzled · 19/12/2023 16:46

To be fair, @itsfinallytime , that’s a very different situation from the one where all the dc slept in school clothes for the parents’ convenience.
Yours is a disability adjustment, the original one seemed to be considered a ‘life hack’.

I just wonder how you can tell?

5PurpleDinosaurs · 19/12/2023 16:47

I have a 14 year old with ASD and LDs and ADHD and dyspraxia actually. And Tourette's. And talk about it alot on here. Under this current user name and others.

You can advance search me and i can dm you all my other user names if you wish.

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 16:48

Prayfortheangels · 19/12/2023 16:46

You are the one that jumped to that conclusion.

Not unreasonably given the prevalence of males who complain about women who don't see them as 'women just like them'.

I have no idea if that was the point the poster was making or not.

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 16:49

5PurpleDinosaurs · 19/12/2023 16:47

I have a 14 year old with ASD and LDs and ADHD and dyspraxia actually. And Tourette's. And talk about it alot on here. Under this current user name and others.

You can advance search me and i can dm you all my other user names if you wish.

Right so why are you so judgemental?

You know all ASD children have different needs and issues. Why when a child is like that do you conclude it is disordered parenting?

5PurpleDinosaurs · 19/12/2023 16:54

I was talking about a parent who puts their child to bed in their school uniform to save time. According to a previous post. I am not sure this was somethig you specifically posted. About your own situation because as far as I am aware I was responding to someone talking about a random post on MN that shocked them.

I was not responding to you, specifically.

pickledandpuzzled · 19/12/2023 16:57

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 16:47

I just wonder how you can tell?

It was very clear in the article I read- I don’t know if @threecupsofteaminimum was referring to the same one or can expand further.

You’ve taken personally the combined comments of 4 or five posters that were anbout someone with more than one child, not about your specific situation

5PurpleDinosaurs · 19/12/2023 16:58

Anyway I think that the posts which you reacted to so much without (intended) cause have clearly been triggering. So I hope- very much you are okay. x Because I know that sometimes day to day life is just fucking shit.

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 17:01

Your post said - Every child and every adult in a school knows who the smelly dirty and neglected kids are.

That's not about the specific children of the poster who was bragging about doing it to save time. Nor is that particularly disordered if it is the real reason. It is making a comment about the parenting of children who attend school dirty.

That was the comment I was referring to as being judgemental. Because it is!

itsfinallytime · 19/12/2023 17:02

5PurpleDinosaurs · 19/12/2023 16:58

Anyway I think that the posts which you reacted to so much without (intended) cause have clearly been triggering. So I hope- very much you are okay. x Because I know that sometimes day to day life is just fucking shit.

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I'm fine thanks.

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