Things that people bang on about on here that you never hear discussed in real life

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I'll start:

travel trousers. - just put some jogging bottoms or leggings on for God sake and stop being a twat
Wills - Maybe nobody I know inherits any money, but wills seem to be a big deal on here

Oxbridge

Elasticated trousers jogging bottoms both the same thing really

Just thought of another one: handbags
People are always buying expensive handbags and want to talk about Which one to buy and give them names like they're people "does anyone round here own a Barbara? And what do they think about it?"

and I've never ever discussed handbags and I talk about clothes a lot.
So that means that everybody else is wrong and I'm right

Important even if married once there are children too- we hadn't realised before doing ours that DS would have automatically inherited half with the IHT bill to match.
We've also made specifications regarding who should care for him, should the worst happen to both of us and sorted our POA at the same time. DH had been very aware of POA as his mum's had been in place a while with her MS and carers etc

You’re lucky to be free of school whatsapp groups. Me and DH are mainly just spectators but there’s been the odd occasion where it’s gotten ugly on there between people - often on a Friday night coincidentally 🍷🍷🍷. Alright for the odd bit of drama safari but generally a bit of a pain in the arse.

I bf for three months apiece then moved onto bottles. I think MN would have a fit but no one cared in real life. Twenty odd year’s later two 6ft sons none the worse for it.

Agree wills are important.

DD1 lives in a care home. We want to know if DH or I have COVID, so as not to go and infect all the residents and staff, who look after her. I would not want to do a demanding job, while feeling knocked out by COVID!

(I wouldn’t go if I had a cold or flu either, but I only had Covid for the first time this year, and knew it was different from anything I’d had before, but wasn’t sure what it was)

I hear about just about everything mentioned here occasionally, if not IRL then certainly elsewhere online, including the words and expressions that, allegedly, no one ever uses except on Mumsnet. There are entire websites dedicated to, for example, handbags (see: The Purse Forum) and SUV hatred and trans rights vs women's rights and going no contact with "toxic" family members and home schooling and the dangers/downsides of surrogacy and weight loss intervention and ongoing COVID risks/developments, etc.

The topics mentioned on this thread that I genuinely have NOT seen elsewhere, or don’t recall seeing/hearing (leaving aside the obvious plants):

• A chicken that can feed a family of 6 for a week. Was this perhaps a one-time comment that became a kind of running joke (even if not particularly funny)? Because that, too, happens a lot on online forums in general.

• All of the replies on this thread that name drop brands no one cares about. (Except Dyson, which I do still hear about in the context of boycotting it.)

• “Nub theory”, “wedding satire”, “parent and child parking”, “changing cushions to make your house sell”. Never heard of any of these, so I assume I also haven’t seen them on here.

• Toilet brushes I think I've only discussed with people I live with, but I’ve also only seen the topic on here as a complaint about people mentioning them, never seen the actual organic mention.

Don’t be fooled 😉

not such a reliable independent source is it though? 😄

I must be an outlier as (after a c/s) new GPs came to the hospital (I wasn’t keen on them coming the evening of the birth cos I was exhausted but I tolerated it). After that though I welcomed visitors in hospital and at home and have lovely photos to look back on.
PILs looked after DD when I had DS so they had to bring her in the next day.
No-one expected me to get up, they made their own tea or kindly fixed me a meal.

No, I would never wear jogging bottoms, because I think they look awful.
I've bought some great wide leg trousers from Zara that are a lightweight fabric and don't crease too badly.

Car seats. If I ever see a primary aged child rear facing with knees up by their ears I'll know they're a Mumsnetter. Never actually seen it in real life

Also harry and Meghan, if I wasn't for the thread titles of MN I wouldn't have even know they were moving back.

It was a headline on all the major news bulletins, plus online papers, including the BBC, C4, Guardian and Independent

😂😂😂 maybe their hobby is watching feet videos on only fans 😊

Lol me neither. Outside SM no one gives a toss about what they’re doing. I have commented on them before on MN, but I’d die of cringe if I brought them up to a real life friend. 🫣

Wait, you’ve only ever known ONE couple who’ve got divorced??? I’m pretty sure that makes you the outlier. What are you, Amish?

My parents and two siblings are all divorced and I’ve got at least a dozen friends I could name of the top of my head.

*tbf, my family are shit at relationships, but the point stands.

Me too - none of my social
circle have been or are divorced 🤷🏻‍♀️

😆😆 the mind boggles! 🦶

Not ever had a discussion about pensions?!
Best get sorted if you want a comfortable retirement.

Trans people.

Christ yes
sort your pension out

I have no friends or relatives who got divorced. Some people know lots of divorced people. Either situation is perfectly ordinary.

I've come to the conclusion that some people just don't discuss much at all, including important financial concerns or things which are headline news.
Each to their own.

Well done for making this thread all about you!!!