What random nugget of information were you completely unaware of before you discovered mumsnet?

[777holyandsinless]

I’ll start

it being a commonly held idea that itv is uncouth and bbc is the classy alternative

It’s my plan for how to occupy myself in retirement. Everyone needs their potentially outing hobby, right?

(disclaimer: I’m in my 40s, retirement planning is still a distant dream but will not involve this)

I hadn't noticed that the op on this quote said rinse.

No of course that doesn't make sense! I always do a second spin.
But obviously not a rinse!!

What? Help.

The people who say “just let a nanny” or arrange a live in help. Like it’s just so easy.

Get.

I gave birth to mine at just over 44, so I am just second to the king, apparently! :-)😂

Back door shuffle where we are 😅

Absolutely!!!!

I didn't realise how many people NEVER swear and are horrified by those who do, also how many people are disgusted by the natural bodily process that is farting. Some people on here make me feel absolutely wild.

I'm also frequently surprised by how many posters relate a long list of truly, objectively awful behaviour by their husband/partner and ask if that's OK or normal - think sleeping with his underage cousin, punching the OP in the stomach, kidnapping the neighbour's dog etc. They really have to ask if this is OK and accept it as normal. As someone posted earlier, I learned on Mumsnet how low the bar is set for men.

I use toilet duck heads, wipe around the bowl and drop it in and flush it away.

My gran used to use the expression be in a paddy, never knew it was offensive till I read it on mumsnet. In Spanish leaving a party without saying goodbye is "leaving French style", no idea if the French are famous for this or not!

Didn't know about the hearing.

😆
I said the same thing.
It's to delay pleasure apparently 😆
I thought it was a metal egg cup 🤣🙈🤷‍♀️

i have learnt names for things:

the pains I felt during pregnancy had a name

• fanny daggers and javelin arse

Also, - fanny gallops!

Stunt pineapples. I now forensically examine on line house listings, tv makeover shows etc to spot “stunt” items, be they well trained pineapples, too many vases of flowers, artful fruit bowls. Saw a lovely one the other day, huge glass vases ( yes, more than one) stuffed with pure white tulips, must have cost a fortune, I was deeply impressed, it was a tv show rather than a house listing but someone had put them together and they worked. Thankyou mumsnet for opening my eyes.

"Low bar for men": you may be right, I don't know. I tend to think of these scenarios as a glimpse into the way some people live. What am I - upper working-class? Something like that. Anyway, I come from what would be called a "decent" family. But there are lots of people from totally dysfunctional families, full of resentment, bitterness, arguments, violence and sexual abuse. If that's been your world since you were a child, then that's what's normal to you. So you come on here, tell your story - which, to you, isn't that shocking - and say, "Anyone else?"

I don't think men and women are that different emotionally. For every flaw a man has, there'll be a woman with a similar flaw. The big difference is that men are violent and women tend not to be.

It's a good point but I'm uncomfortable with attributing bad behaviour to the working classes! There are arseholes of all classes in my experience.

That adult children at home on £50k+ shouldn't pay keep.

Well!!!

That'd be a nice surprise stocking filler for the husband 🤣

Yet the 17 year olds on Apprenticeships should "pay their way".

I agree; definitely not an exclusively 'working-class' (whatever that means) phenomenon.

How to get your ducks in a row
what a CF is!
that I feel comfortingly normal compared to many posts and replies I read!

My father would not let us watch ITV because of the adverts, he obviously thought our heads would be turned and we would demand everything we saw, however after the children had gone to bed, you would hear him switching the channels! We had to watch BBC at all times and only their 6 o'clock news was accurate...

As others have said, I wish Mumsnet had been available when I left home.

Moving house is magically easy on Mn.

Any kind of neighbour problem and it's "I'd just move" like that doesn't cost thousands and take a long time.

Boris Johnson.