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

Some people wash their bed sheets everyday

I'd love clean bedsheets every day, but I don't have the time! I read that Jackie Kennedy Onassis had clean sheets every day, and even had them changed after she took a nap.
#bedsheetgoals

Jackie Kennedy energy - That's like Tara Palmer Tomlinson saying she bought box fresh white topshop T shirts and wore them once then threw them out

Wow. At least JKO had the sheets washed and I'm guessing re-used quite a lot!

People either have kids at 18 or 42. I feel out on my own at 27.

@RescueMeFromThisSilliness That some people don't use a loo brush.

Yes, some of us are hygienic.

I'd never heard of endometriosis.

Putting the bedding inside its matching pillowcase with a sheet and storing it in the airing cupboard!

This made me laugh!

It's not a nugget of information as such but I never realised how many people are so completely incapable of understanding that people are different. They genuine can't seem to fathom that not everyone is them, with their specific life experience and their way of doing things. That people make different decisions and want different outcomes. That people want different things from their lives and relationships than they do. Just so completely unable to step out of their own shoes.

I eat all cereal with hot milk all year round. Cold milk doesn't mush it up properly.

How pervasive gentle parenting is.

How willing so many are to sacrifice their entire identity in motherhood for beings that will forget to call them in a couple decades.

Some people also wash their bed sheets once a year.

Mental load.

My mum definitely believed this. When I was a child, there were just three channels, and dsis and I were forbidden from watching anything on ITV, because commercial TV was the axis of evil. Funnily enough, this all changed when channel 4 opened, and mum wanted to watch Countdown - all of a sudden, commercials were acceptable! 😂😂😂

So, I take it you wouldn't be impressed by allowing the dog to stick it's furry head right into the dishwasher, to provide vital pre-wash functions by licking the scraps off the plates?

Frank Sinatra never wore a pair of socs twice apparently.

ITV was never on in my husband's house growing up. His dad called it 'council telly'

To get ‘Your Ducks in a Row’

A while back now, but proper feminism.

I'd always thought I was a feminist but certain discussions (and definitely not exclusively on the feminist board) links, book recommendations, others' experiences, relationship patterns etc, along with becoming a mother 14 years ago made me see it clearly and how far there is to go.

Definitely have moments where I wish I'd never over pandora's box and remained believing we're all equal and shaving my fanny was a free choice 😂

FWIW I don't put my pet bowls in the dishwasher, but it is entirely psychological.
I always use the 70° intense cycle which is unsurvivable for most pathogens I imagine.
But aside from that, I have shared a lifetime with cats and dogs and they have never made me ill nor given me parasites.
The DCs on the other hand....

FWIW I don't put my pet bowls in the dishwasher, but it is entirely psychological.
I always use the 70° intense cycle which is unsurvivable for most pathogens I imagine.
But aside from that, I have shared a lifetime with cats and dogs and they have never made me ill nor given me parasites.
The DCs on the other hand....

Least funny thread of all time

I’ve just remembered the bbc kids channels didn’t have commercials and all the others did, with the commercial breaks being every ten minutes and showing these amazing over priced toys. It doesn’t surprise me so many parents didn’t want their kids watching it now I think about it

That lots of people are:

• very anxious about en suites
• wildly dogmatic (forgive the pun) about the purity of dog breeds
• happy to sit on their beds / sofas with feet up wearing outdoor shoes

hmmm I’ll raise you snapped and farted. Yet soooo many mnetters ruined keyboards and woke up babies with their shrieking on that one 🙄