What's the most privileged/off the mark post/response you've read?

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I've name changed for this, just in case anyone does an AS and accuses me of getting DM fodder.

Me and the DC had to flee our home several years ago and we were moved into a tiny 2 bed flat temporarily. I made a thread at the time, saying me and 3dc had had a traumatic move and were very overcrowded and asked for advice on how to store our daily stuff in an efficient way.
Several posters replied helpfully, linking shelving units/freestanding storage, but one poster replied along the lines of:

"Your DH must be high up in the army and you have to rough it in officers housing until your 5 bed detached home is ready".

Another poster quoted the above with "This was my immediate thought too! It's so hard OP, but we've all been there".

I found this both amusing and perplexing because a) I would never have assumed the above and b) it was so far off the mark.

There was another thread very recently about food guidelines where the lack of awareness and privilege was quite frightening!

Oh god don't get started on drinking wine! I learnt my lesson on that a long time ago😂

Heidi was a smug little git as well. If “getting your steps in” was a thing back then, she’d have been unbearable.

The post that sticks with me the most was on a thread about what marks you out as middle or upper class and a poster had the nerve to post that "the absence of disabilities" and "good posture" were signifiers of being well bred.
WTAF.

This site has always had an orthorexic contingent. It's kind of fascinating.

This - and the total lack of understanding that people who don’t drive and have awful bus service might be reliant on the local Spar which is expensive and lacking in choice

Oh but they're just so [head tilt] worried about the WLIs, y'know? Has it ever occurred to you that they might have side effects?

And the most unmumsnetty thing about is the total lack of hysteria I have around UPFs!

My most unmumsnetty thing!

You looked at a wine bottle once? Have you thought about getting help?

Re weight - see also ‘I can’t imagine letting myself get that overweight’ lucky fucking you!

also the horror if any ones has TWO carbs in a meal ‘pasta AND garlic bread!!!’

I haven't seen the thread so don't know the specifics tbh. But a lot of people have house insurance. Most people who own have insurance and about 2 thirds of people own the house they live in. About one third rent and roughly half of those people will still have contents insurance. So it's not crazy to suggest looking at home insurance coverage.
I wouldn't say it's as ridiculous as some of the other things that crop up on mumsnet. E.g. just get a nanny, cleaner to offload domestic duties, just go on a lovely holiday for 2 weeks and leave the kids with your incompetent husband, spend £10ks moving house to give every child their own room when op has clearly said they can barely afford the house they're currently living in

I remember a recent comment when someone asked, who would have four children if they knew they didn’t have enough money and bedrooms for them? It was i response to a woman on benefits with a three bedroom house and kids sharing.

I couldn't believe it as there are so many reasons including coercion, having children when comfortable and thrn falling on hard times. It was just tone deaf.

I’ve known a couple of people who were driving at 17 and both had unlimited access to private land to practice. News flash, not everyone does 🫤

Lord, some of these... People really do live in another world.

I don't have a mumsnet example, but I did once have a doctor tell me there was no point doing anything to help me with a serious medical problem because "I wouldn't change my life* and he'd be wasting his time trying or prescribing anything.

(* ie, stop being a 24/7 carer)

I always love the private school ones where it's perfectly possible for people to afford the fees by not changing their car every year but instead driving an battered old Volvo (must be a Volvo - although a VW estate will do at a push), only having one UK self-catered holiday a year, shopping at charity shops and Vinted, and buying food from Aldi.

I'm never sure whether these posters are actually that stupid, are posting for effect, or genuinely believe families up and down the UK who live like this anyway, can somehow magic tens of thousands for school fees.

Or indeed that there are families who DO all of that and don’t have £15,000 - £30,000 spare as a result!

Probably the wages one.
I can save 1k a month after paying for absolutely everything, aibu to think this is normal?
Aibu to think I cannot manage with £500 disposable income a month and that no one lives like this?
You need to buy a bigger house, every child should be in their own room and never share with a sibling

Probably the wages one.
I can save 1k a month after paying for absolutely everything, aibu to think this is normal?
Aibu to think I cannot manage with £500 disposable income a month and that no one lives like this?
You need to buy a bigger house, every child should be in their own room and never share with a sibling

Probably the wages one.
I can save 1k a month after paying for absolutely everything, aibu to think this is normal?
Aibu to think I cannot manage with £500 disposable income a month and that no one lives like this?
You need to buy a bigger house, every child should be in their own room and never share with a sibling

Probably the wages one.
I can save 1k a month after paying for absolutely everything, aibu to think this is normal?
Aibu to think I cannot manage with £500 disposable income a month and that no one lives like this?
You need to buy a bigger house, every child should be in their own room and never share with a sibling

Probably the wages one.
I can save 1k a month after paying for absolutely everything, aibu to think this is normal?
Aibu to think I cannot manage with £500 disposable income a month and that no one lives like this?
You need to buy a bigger house, every child should be in their own room and never share with a sibling

Probably the wages one.
I can save 1k a month after paying for absolutely everything, aibu to think this is normal?
Aibu to think I cannot manage with £500 disposable income a month and that no one lives like this?
You need to buy a bigger house, every child should be in their own room and never share with a sibling

You get the same kind of thing in reverse from some city dwellers if you live in the country though. Apparently country kids have nothing to do except chew straw and take drugs in the local graveyard. Some people just have no insight whatsoever into the fact that different places are, well, different. Or worse actually, they think that having spent a few days somewhere on a holiday twenty five years ago makes them an expert on life there!

Parent struggling to afford designer clothing for teen son. The comment that got me was mum using a disability as a reason he needed designer clothes. He doesn’t need designer clothes because he has a disability!

I've really, really gone off Kirsty Allsop lately and particularly after she criticised author Michael Rosen for using his London Freedom Pass. She targeted him and claimed it was "bankrupting our country".