The Mumsnet Code

[ChippySauce]

Friend popped around earlier unexpectedly, without giving me 3 weeks warning 😮

AND DC11 let them in 😱

What is the world coming to I ask you!
Does nobody adhere to “The Mumsnet Code” anymore?
Whatever next, will we be advising each other to Keep The Bastard?!

I despair, I really do…

What violations of TMC has occurred in your life recently?

I work PT in a low paid industry and mind my kids the rest of the time, Dh thankfully has a good income so yes I'm financially dependent on a man and don't see that changing.

I let any kid who plays with my kids hang out in my house and jump on the trampoline, get a drink of water and generally use my house.

I often host kids sleepovers

I leave my dog in the car if I'm getting petrol or running into a newsagent

I hang out with my ILs even though there are things that really annoy me about them

I don't fall out with friends or family. I bite my tongue a lot and tolerate things I don't always agree with. Sometimes of course I reduce contact a bit but I have never gone NC with someone.

I have never had an abusive ex.

Mind you dont overstep the MN Code... The whole point of the thread BTW.

I'll try not to. I've got £10 off McDonald's if I spend £30 can you freeze a Big Mac.

I actually really like my in laws… and when I hand my kids over to them/ my parents I don’t give them 500 rules about screen time and what they can and can’t feed them… the only rule is keep them alive, and I trust they can do that since they raised their own kids.

I sometimes kiss babies' faces.

I don’t deep clean the house in one hour, or batch cook, or have a job that pays 100k a year!

We regularly host sleepovers and my DC go to them at other people's houses. One of their friends slept over and I have never even met his parents. It's always fine and fun.

I look things up on the internet and find out the truth about this and that occasionally, so I am therefore about to blow the whole of Mumsnet wide open with this news of staggering proportions...

Spiders do not have penises.

Our laundry is nocturnally safe after all. 😎

I don't immediately tell a woman to get an abortion, in a tone that implies it takes the same level of effort as getting a haircut or buying a coffee.

You are a disgrace to Mumsnetkind.
Honestly, you need to go give your head a wobble. NOW.

Agreed, I also manage without using:

Grim
Vile
Clique
Limerance

I do a good head tilt but I've never managed to make my laugh tinkle <hangs head in shame>

I have never said the killer phrases that mn claims will eviscerate anyone
DId you mean to be so rude? Fucking right I did, so what of it?
No is a complete sentence. Tit is also a complete sentence

never have I muttered inane platitudes or advice
This too shall pass. What a wanky platitude.what if it doesn’t pass?

i have never advised anyone having a tumultuous time to Have a spa day! Get highlights. Looking like you shop with QVC won’t get you through a tumultuous time

I regularly wear white to weddings. I have a particular nice silk slip dress
Have never worn a bolero, never will
i put my perfume on with a foot pump, never too much I say

I have not gone NC with my MiL.

Post it on AIBU or it didn’t happen!

Wobbling as I write 😂😁

Must do better

Sadly I must admit to reading the vast majority of Mumsnet Threads ( for the last 20 years), all very entertaining and/or interesting but have never felt the need to add a response beginning ‘You sound nice’ in a sarcastic manner.

While I’m in confessional mode, I have also never interrogated a poster to provide detailed information when I felt the OP was lacking. And yes, I will also tell you that I have also never gone back to a thread to suggest the OP must have been telling porkies because they have not returned with an update nor accused them of drip feeding when the interrogations from others have elicited additional information. I don’t think I can call myself a proper Mumsnetter and I deeply apologise.

you Mean to say,you’ve never berated an upset woman by asking any update op
How very remiss of you

I open the front door when people knock.

You animal 😂

OK. I'll bite.

You should do. We are in drought where I live. The reservoirs are very low and we have a hosepipe ban from tomorrow. This affects us all.

Agreed - you only have to look at the floods in Texas

Or ‘Crush’

Mmm, sorry about that. Wouldn't have happened if I'd just taken the park and ride rather than my car into town.