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Lots of mums run around after their family like headless chickens

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matchbox20 · 22/01/2011 21:26

Why do I constantly read about mums on here running around after their kids and husbands like headless chickens and then moaning about it?

I am new here and I am amazed on how 1950's a lot of you sound.

The woe is me brigade.

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Original poster
matchbox20 · 22/01/2011 21:59

I would'nt swear on the internet it is quite common and serves to show the poster has not really got much to say.

Why would I be described as a troll for having an opinion?

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brightlightsandpromises · 22/01/2011 22:08

yawn, you are right, perhaps the poster didnt have much to fucking say about your twatty post

southeastastra · 22/01/2011 22:13

Grin welcome to mumsnet

lovemy2babies · 22/01/2011 22:13

Because I was conditioned by my parents generation and culture to think I was only good enough if I had a full time job and ran the home.

I have now learned that its all shite

And also some have Dh/dp who couldn't care less if clothes are clean or the vacuum is done so won't do it.
And would be happy to live on pizza and chips.

Me on the over hand like things clean and tidy and like better food then him indoors.

So not as simple as 1950s housewife now is it

tethersend · 22/01/2011 22:15

I bet you got a better class of troll in the 1950s.

matchbox, it's my opinion that you are a troll. A shit one.

Hey, it's just my opinion Smile

lovemy2babies · 22/01/2011 22:15

So matchbox how does your household run?

Or do you have a daily cleaner, live in nanny and eat out everyday?

brightlightsandpromises · 22/01/2011 22:18

if the OP is a troll, does that mean we are all goats??

Lovemy2babies, i reckon matchbox is a man

LurksAscending · 22/01/2011 22:23

Is this the wrong thread to ask for advise on starching my pinny frills?

lovemy2babies · 22/01/2011 22:23

A man hey?
Possibly, there is something almost female resenting comming out of the posts.

Perhaps matchbox has had a row with a woman in is life today and thought he would take his crap out on a mostly female forum?

You still around matchbox?

lovemy2babies · 22/01/2011 22:26

Matchbox where are you?

You've started something interesting and now I would like to know a bit about you and why you hold women with such contempt.

Now come and finsih off what you started

brightlightsandpromises · 22/01/2011 23:14

i think we scared him her off!Grin

ssd · 22/01/2011 23:19

why do so many here call someone a troll?

I think the op had a valid point

scottishmummy · 22/01/2011 23:25

the troll patrol are incorrigible.love squawking troll and rattling cage

Cyb · 22/01/2011 23:26

How do you all know its a troll?

scottishmummy · 22/01/2011 23:27

they dont know troll.love a conspiracy and dem glistening torches

BaronessBomburst · 22/01/2011 23:32

Didn't Matchbox 20 have a hit once? Back in the 90's.... something about cowboys and indians....... Too tired to google it.

scottishmummy · 22/01/2011 23:33

energy/ire expended looking for trollery is more tiresome than any wind up post

Original poster
matchbox20 · 23/01/2011 08:06

Not much more been said since I left.

I am not a man lol but find it amusing you think I am a troll, I have had a couple posts of support but you chose to ignore them. I feel it is a shame they didnt say anything further.

No I don't have a cleaner we all clean in the house we all cook we do do our fair share.

I work my oh works my child goes to school....nothing out of the ordinary.

If you have a prob with your life that causes you to vent on a forum you really need to sort your life out at home.

Sometimes forums are for for bashing someone and not really dealing with the problem.

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matchbox20 · 23/01/2011 08:08

i think we scared him her off

What from an internet forum, you are off your rocker. lol lol lol.

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GlynistheMenace · 23/01/2011 08:13

hi matchbox

If you have a prob with your life that causes you to vent on a forum you really need to sort your life out at home.

wtf do you think these posts are for?
They are asking advice or for different angles on the problems so they can sort them out!

So, since you've got it bang on the nail, please share and we can all be as enlightened as you profess to be

Hmm
Xenia · 23/01/2011 08:18

A lot of women moan and make no changes. I think that's the point of the thread and I share that view. They also enable sexism at home. If the husband isn't bothered about the house being tidy either to it yourself and allocate him some other tasks like 100% of the washing or all the child care on Saturday and Sunday or buy in services which he pays for half of.

Megatron · 23/01/2011 08:19

I'm sitting on my arse on t'internet while DH makes me a bacon sarnie, I really must read up on this 1950's housewife thing as I appear to be getting it wrong.

Matchbox your description of your life sounds very similar to lots of people on here, no better or worse. I agree that some seem to make their lives difficult by accepting certain behaviour but I do think that what you read on the internet can, in some cases, be taken with a pinch of salt. So I wouldn't worry yourself too much about how others lead their lives, I'm sure you have your own little gripes that others would find ridiculous.

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matchbox20 · 23/01/2011 08:25

Xenia.................spot on.

a lot of women moan but do nothing about it that is exactly the point of the thread.

And also some people do like to moan. We all know someone that when you say ''Hi how are you?'' they launched into how bad they have had it over the last week. And don't tell me you don't find it boring cause it is.

I always look on the bright side.

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noodle69 · 23/01/2011 08:27

I am on my own this week as my husband is working away. Its the first time I have looked after the house and daughter on my own. Its so boring when you havent got a man here to help you.

I have not been able to go out this weekend at all on my own which has been a bit of a shock to the system. I also finding it hard having to cook stuff at the weekend so I have been cheating and got takeaway for the last 2 nights.

He has only been away for 2 days so far! Its not that I cant do it on my own but it is boring not having lie ins, nights out and having to think for myself whats for dinner the whole time.

Xenia · 23/01/2011 08:27

It's supposedly a woman thing - they want to moan but do not really want the change and want someone who will listnen to the moan. It's infuriating for doers and often the men in their lives as they suggest a solution to the pathetic woman and she doesn't even want that solution she just wanted to moan.

Instead people should either cultivate contentment with their lot - you're always better off than someone else or else don't do that which is the problem (eg I don't iron, life's too short to stuff a mush room etc )

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