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

Yes - dishwashers are far more hygienic than washing by hand. It took me a while to persuade myself it was ok to put the dog bowl in, but I do now and I'm still alive and well!

My DD does the knicker under pj's bit but she went to boarding school and they all did for privacy.

I beat the shit out of my babies to train them for future hardships. They are fine.

It's funny that the people who sleep "train" eg letting them cry until exhausted use the same rethoric as those using violence to "educate" their children ; "never did them any harm, they're fine". For those of us knowing some of the victims they are absolutely not fine even if they seem to be superficially well adjusted .

That people on Mumsnet who weren't allowed to watch channels with adverts, call the adverts 'commercials'!

The Script
The Freedom Programme
Grey Rock
FOG (fear/obligation/guilt)
That people think it's dirty not to wash your clothes after every wear

That men and women can't be friends without pesky old sex getting in the way

God I’ve had the displeasure of some of these in the real world “where’s her coat” about a toddler on a toasty day in may 🙄 or “where’s her socks” about the baby who takes their socks off straight after you’ve put them on every time

How do you clean your toilet then?

And why is a toilet brush unhygienic? You don't use it for cleaning anything else.

I had one child at 16 and my other two in my mid twenties they definitely seem to only do it to younger mums when you’re a respectable age it’s all just cooing over how cute your baby is

Be kind. Leave these people be. It would kill them to know that any germs around a toilet actually left their body. And probably left some behind.

That moles aren't the size of cats.

I was a bit surprised that I had never seen one.

Aww... and there was me thinking they enjoyed having their arms up to their elbows in a toilet.😁

That people who dye their hair blue are all trans rights activists. That one amazed me.

That people think that flushable loo wipes to clean the loo are a good idea - no, they clog the sewage system.

That people use soooo much bleach. It's awful stuff.

That people keep their loo brushes in the shed.

And that's just from the first few pages of this thread.

Pink was mental illness (I wonder what Professor Alice Roberts thinks of that? ).

Trans women frequent all loos whilst sporting a beard and a frock. ( I've only seen such a person in Brighton).
Having worked in London, Brighton and Scotland I've never met these so called TRA.

Having worked in London, Brighton and Scotland I've never met these so called TRA.

They are always out in force at any LWS event.

Yes, absolutely horrendous behaviour in Brighton outside that event.

Yes I've never understood that. Plus my loo brush is easy to clean by holding it in the toilet and flushing it again.
I can't imagine using one use wipes, which then get flushed.

I hate toilet brushes. Although I have a cleaner and she uses one in our loo, I never use it, just put loads of bleach down if there is any mess left. Seems to get rid.

I suppose if she's giving it a good scrub then it's probably clean enough with a bit of bleach.
Why don't you use the toilet brush? She's probably bleached it afterwards.

@RescueMeFromThisSilliness How do you clean your toilet then?

Using rolled up toilet paper for anything above the water line. Bleach to clean below the water line.

And why is a toilet brush unhygienic? You don't use it for cleaning anything else.

It has lots of fine bristles, so particles of shit get trapped within it. All toilet brushes have visible pieces of shit. Those fine bristles can easily flick and spray tiny droplets of water/shit when they make incidental contact with the toilet rim.

Not using the brush for anything else is irrelevant. You are using a brush to clean shit from your toilet, and then you are leaving that brush in your bathroom which means it is possible for accidental contact or contamination to occur.

I am less bothered by shit inside a toilet than by shit being outside of a toilet.

Perfect reply to the loo brush question @shuggles , thank you.
I can't look at one without heaving. Never had one, never will.

You can microwave a whole swede. It's been life changing 😂

Loo brushes give me the actual boak.

I've found this site genuinely very useful in terms of parenting advice especially in the baby years and I've also been thoroughly entertained by some of the posters here, many of whom are clever and funny and wise.

That said, one thing that I've learned is that many women are much more misandrist than I ever realised. This gets justified on here by talk about how men are hopeless or violent or whatever and of course some men are. But I find the way men are talked about on here to be often genuinely hateful and unpleasant and it makes me think less of women for it. I feel the same way when I read the awful stuff said in the manosphere about women. It's depressing that there seems to be an inability to recognise that men are just people. There's a tendency here to treat them as one uniform blob. You see it all the time: a poster complains about a husband who commits some minor offence and there will inevitably be the "I had one of these" response. One of these, like you're talking about an appliance not a person. And on and on it goes.

I also find it bizarre that on a site which seemingly does recognise the fact that biological sex exists and has an effect on behaviour, there's so little recognition of the fact that men, by and large, will not behave the way women do in every situation. Men's continued desire for sex is frequently treated as abhorrent, as disgusting or perverted. It surprises me that so many women get married, have children and then seem to think that's it as far as sex goes.

I'm also saddened by the number of women who don't seem to care at all about their husband's family and in fact often go out of their way to make that relationship difficult.

I suppose the TLDR is that reading Mumsnet over many years has made me realise that women are just as petty, selfish and cruel as men which is no surprise really but nevertheless makes for depressing reading sometimes.