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I just peaked at middle class wankerism

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Buckarooo · 05/04/2025 11:47

At a farm café... naturally. And daughter is on special diet, so she was eating her packed lunch. And she went to eat her apple ...I found my self saying "oh darling, let me wash your apple, it's got brioche crumbs all over it"

What a dick I am 🤣

OP posts:
Ethelflaedofmercia · 07/04/2025 11:08

How the other half live. I’m currently balancing an ashtray on my newborns head to flick my fag ash x

QuirkInTheMatrix · 07/04/2025 11:09

Hoppinggreen · 07/04/2025 10:03

It is if you serve them with fake or even real caviar on top

They have fish flakes and freeze dried reindeer cubes and a sprat a quails egg yolk on top. I wish I was joking but I'm not!

Shetlands · 07/04/2025 11:33

QuirkInTheMatrix · 07/04/2025 11:09

They have fish flakes and freeze dried reindeer cubes and a sprat a quails egg yolk on top. I wish I was joking but I'm not!

What do you do with the whites of the Quails' eggs?

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Hoppinggreen · 07/04/2025 11:39

Shetlands · 07/04/2025 11:33

What do you do with the whites of the Quails' eggs?

Teeny tiny Meringues?

HectorPlasm · 07/04/2025 11:47

Brioche is sweet pap - avoid!

JudgeJ · 07/04/2025 11:59

QuirkInTheMatrix · 06/04/2025 12:31

But Manchester is getting a Soho House so we’re becoming more acceptable. 😁

Many people who live below the cobbled section of the M6 have no idea of how expensive living in some parts of the Norf is, some of the country's most expensive housing.

quantumbutterfly · 07/04/2025 12:11

JudgeJ · 07/04/2025 11:59

Many people who live below the cobbled section of the M6 have no idea of how expensive living in some parts of the Norf is, some of the country's most expensive housing.

All those 4x4s must make the cobbles a doddle.

quantumbutterfly · 07/04/2025 12:14

Btw how does murdochian compare to dystopian or nihilistic?

abricotine · 07/04/2025 12:28

quantumbutterfly · 07/04/2025 09:18

Which category is your post? A, B or C (thread mum).

Mine must be C. But which is yours 😉

quantumbutterfly · 07/04/2025 13:12

abricotine · 07/04/2025 12:28

Mine must be C. But which is yours 😉

D - just nosey curious

BeCleverViewer · 07/04/2025 13:25

Ethelflaedofmercia · 07/04/2025 11:08

How the other half live. I’m currently balancing an ashtray on my newborns head to flick my fag ash x

I'm dreaming of maternity leave i envy you.

eastegg · 07/04/2025 15:35

Comedycook · 05/04/2025 12:35

Tough crowd op...

This!

Wiping crumbs off an apple and posting that you sounded a bit of a wanker is now ‘not a behaviour to be proud of’. 😂😂😂

QuirkInTheMatrix · 07/04/2025 18:16

Shetlands · 07/04/2025 11:33

What do you do with the whites of the Quails' eggs?

I buy them just as freeze dried boiled yolks, so never get any quail egg whites. It would probably be cheaper to actually buy quail eggs and boil them myself 😁

Samamfia · 07/04/2025 19:33

Buckarooo · 05/04/2025 20:52

You caught me out, yes. I just wanted a bunch of internet strangers to marvel in wonder that I decrumbed an apple. It's all so obvious looking back.

I've read this far, you're hilarious, as is this whole thread 😂Thanks for some well-spent procrastination when I should've been working

Hoppinggreen · 07/04/2025 19:42

QuirkInTheMatrix · 07/04/2025 18:16

I buy them just as freeze dried boiled yolks, so never get any quail egg whites. It would probably be cheaper to actually buy quail eggs and boil them myself 😁

They are a bugger to peel though

AprilMadness · 07/04/2025 20:17

Dear me! I used to love these kind of threads on mumnset.

But this thread and some of the posters has just made me roll my eyes.

The good old days of mumsnet and amusing threads have truly gone :(

Wildflowers99 · 07/04/2025 20:33

Comedycook · 05/04/2025 12:23

I recently found myself saying to my DD in the supermarket "this is just ridiculous, it's the second time they don't have any sourdough"

I hate myself

I said the exact same thing recently and felt a complete and total tit.

Downunderduchess · 08/04/2025 09:28

BunnyLake · 05/04/2025 17:01

But you might if you hear yourself say to your little two year old, sorry darling they were all out of avocados for your lunch today.

Can I just say, as an Aussie, avocados are pretty much a normal regular food choice here. Sometimes they might be more expensive than usual but generally we have them fairly often.

I’m still fascinated with this thread. Just all so class warfare ish!

Also, please don’t come for me, I mean no harm.

Thank-you

BunnyLake · 08/04/2025 11:23

Downunderduchess · 08/04/2025 09:28

Can I just say, as an Aussie, avocados are pretty much a normal regular food choice here. Sometimes they might be more expensive than usual but generally we have them fairly often.

I’m still fascinated with this thread. Just all so class warfare ish!

Also, please don’t come for me, I mean no harm.

Thank-you

Avocados, it’s another one of those words like brioche that just sound ‘posh’ in their pronunciation, regardless of whether they are or not.

Countries (like the US or Australia) kid themselves they don’t have a class system because they are not as overt but they do exist (‘Westies’ in Australia is a class based derogatory term).

BunnyLake · 08/04/2025 11:31

AprilMadness · 07/04/2025 20:17

Dear me! I used to love these kind of threads on mumnset.

But this thread and some of the posters has just made me roll my eyes.

The good old days of mumsnet and amusing threads have truly gone :(

It’s fascinating how a harmless thread can turn so sour when humourless people invade it. I’ve seen it several times on MN. The bewilderment, bafflement, head scratching or offence taken by some posters because someone found themselves saying something a little la-de-da to their ears is, in itself, mind boggling (baffling etc 😁). There must be a lot of Margot Leadbetters on here 🤭

quantumbutterfly · 08/04/2025 13:01

More of a Barbara Goode really, though I don't speak fluent Hindi...yet

BeCleverViewer · 08/04/2025 21:51

I miss Jane. Honestly i can't get over where I was and how hard i laughed. My sense of humor is weird. I also dislike rye bread deeply personally and violently.

Wildflowers99 · 08/04/2025 21:52

Today I heard ‘Willem, a sense of urgency please darling’ as mum got little boy off a train

Not my own wankery but somebody else’s this time

BeCleverViewer · 08/04/2025 21:53

Omg can you imagine your on a date they order and it's cavier on rye bread with Avacado garnish. I'd leave i would get up and leave 😒

BeCleverViewer · 08/04/2025 22:22

SassySusie · 05/04/2025 19:31

It doesn’t work like this. I have a cousin who is very dyslexic. He quit school at 16 and got a job as a painter and decorator and has always lived in relative poverty. This doesn’t mean he suddenly moved down a class and most true middle class people would immediately recognise him as middle class. I could also take a typical working class job, but the true working classes would still recognise me as not working class or “truly one of them”.
it would take a few generations. I am not saying one class is better than the other here and everyone can enjoy an avocado or not in my case as I loathe them.

I've reread your comment and just realised how nasty you were trying to be. You know nothing of wealth of social mobility. I see from what you were trying to imply that middle class people might find out my background well I have a very loud cockney accent, which I worked hard to keep. Because when I was climbing up the ladder there were always these insignificant middle class women who felt the need to point out my working classness. I'm mean it was bizzare I don't respect people like you and mostly socialize with working class or upper class people, your right about traders there's a heavy presence in some areas. Not so many middle class though funny that must be the brioche. Basically because I'm very good and my job I've never had to care what anybody thinks about anything and also tbh other half is dead posh it's awkward fortnum and mason posh. His family are blunt funny and regularly bargin hunt, do you know my biggest fear about our relationship if we get married wedding food. Like I'm really not fussy. And urm why do you think me saying the word nan was a gotcha moment. Why would i need you to think i was middle class 😒

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