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

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

This was in response to istoodonlegoagain and @jeffgoldblum

One that sticks out to me - a woman posted that she owned two houses and had decided to leave one to her children in the will, and the other to her disabled brother. However - she then decided that she would leave BOTH houses to her disabled brother and she wondered why the kids were pissed off about it.

Her reasoning was - they can continue living in the house but they’ll just have to care for my brother. I found it shocking. Like she couldn’t grasp that her kids might not want to be long term live-in carers for their uncle!!

Public transport is definitely not for everyone, its not used by the poor here in the rural north of England.

Have you SEEN the price of train tickets?

And the bus, yeah if they ever even bother showing up. credit to them they have reduced the price since covid but a 20 minute journey takes over 2 hours. Its like a soul crushing trip to timbuktu and back but with more grey British weather and travel sickness. You go through villages you never even heard of. They often skip villages just to speed up the route but if you live in one of those villages then your screwed there wont be another one for an hour of so.

Most my friends can't drive either (far too expensive) so walk everywhere and pretty much never leave the town.

Definitely not free but relatively cheap. I remember paying $300 in 2000 or so. I think the license was $75. Lessons are private but offered through the school sometimes which is why people are confused I think.

I remember seeing a poster in a bank in France for a special driving lesson loan !!

Btw I don't think it's shocking not to drive, and Americans know that people who grew up in NYC often don't.

I also think a lot of people on that thread said they'd give up their OWN seat rather than risk their child standing.

It's a bit like Top Trumps of who's more vulnerable the children or elderly - reality both are vulnerable other healthy fit adults should give up their seats.

This has made me laugh loudly out loud. A very similar but diluted version of this situation happened to me recently but there was no vomiting on her shoes from DS

Errrrr. What?!??

Still going on with one “friend” who asked if it would be unreasonable if she cancels the meeting with her “friend” who came from OZ!
i have known her for 35 years- she was my best friend, she’s still my friend, we share etc etc bla bla bla and then they are nastiest people, nasty aunt, nasty parents of that “friend”, friend is nasty as well——- so and so on!

Does anyone else remember one really sad thread by a poster who was being terribly controlled by her DH. He made her sit and watch him in silence while he worked. Even late into the night. I don’t think she was allowed out very often. She was making plans to leave then at the last minute didn’t go through with it. I really hope she got away from him.

That's absolutely ridiculous isn't it? Good for you for knowing what you like... And bloody enjoying it! ❤❤❤

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A poster who was in one of those daddy/little girl "relationships" where she pretends to be a little girl while he fucks her. That was bad enough but then it came out from past posts that she had a young daughter with special needs living in the house.

The woman who used to post endless bitter threads about her high-earning ex and how she was shafted in the divorce, then met a man who treated her sons like shit and refused to hear a word against him. She was getting a pasting on a thread and suddenly claimed she was currently on the toilet having a miscarriage. It was an obvious lie to get sympathy and I couldn't believe someone would make that up.

One post on a long thread about weird things you've seen in other people's houses. When the poster was about 11 she went to her friend's house during lunchtime at school. The friend's father came home unexpectedly so she hid, and the father raped his daughter on the sofa before going back to work.

It always shocks me when people double down on their incorrect opinions rather than simply googling the matter at hand and checking their assumptions. For example, some recent posters may wish to Google "is choking during sex dangerous."

I can understand how some incorrect assumptions aren't easy to check (for example, I know antivaxxers have websites full of fake news telling them they're right). But for many matters, the truth is just a quick Google and a few minutes reading away!

I think most people stand to do it, rather than stay sat down... Sitting down and arse wiping is quite difficult!

Haven't RTFT so not sure if this has been mentioned but there was a thread once where multiple posters admitted to loving their partner more than their children. Shocked me

There was another one where the OP as a teenager had witnessed her brother (I think?) rape her friend but no one believed her and her parents mistreated her for making accusations. I felt sick for her and her poor friend just reading it

I really doubt they do, sitting is the standard.

Curiously how do you part the peach sea to get on in there while standing up?

Like when you sit in a squat position the tension + the seat pulls your mud flaps apart but when you stand they tend to slam back together like magnetic clackers and your booty hole tucks downwards (the very distinction of what makes us uniquely true bipeds).

The only way I can see it being possible is if you have a 3rd hand or you do that thing parents do when wiping a toddlers arse and you stand, straddle and bend forward at a sort of right angle to add tension and change the holes position... that would be bloody hard in a small toilet cubical though.

I've just inhaled a Pringle I was eating laughing at this

There was a thread a few years back about a 13 year old who was having sex with her sixth former boyfriend. Lots of posters were offering advice such as "make sure she's taking precautions". Not a single remark about safeguarding the poor child , who at 13, cannot properly consent to sex anyway.

Mmmm Pringles, now there's a thought!

Oh my God, your description just had me in stitches!!! I needed that! I've always stood and wiped, always been clean, if there's been any doubt, I use moist (love that word btw, controversial I know, but what the hell!!!) toilet tissue to finish off! I once had a bit of a thing years ago and asked everyone I knew whether they were sitters or standers... All were standers! I swear, I don't know why I suddenly needed to know all that!!! I am slightly eccentric, but I also like to know stuff!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Please ask everyone you know, then get back to me, it could be a regional thing... Maybe I'm a stander because I'm in the North?! 🤣🤣🤣❤❤❤

I wipe my butt sitting on the loo 🥴 @EeesandWhizz

An OP was IN LABOUR and cooking and sorting things for her 'dh' as he couldn't do anything for himself 🙄

I know a number of people in my home city (UK, not London) who either don't drive or can drive but don't have a car. Depending on your lifestyle and the places you tend to go, it's not necessary in within the city.

Hahaha!

@Cerealkiller4U yep, someone up thread just had a pop cos they do this too, apparently it's easier with ND kids..

It really is an ideology with these people. Sexual libertarianism is the bed they will die on.