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to think some people need to live in the real world....

90 replies

wantstowelspickedup · 27/02/2011 18:47

I admit that I am a new member to this site but having looked around a number of threads (especially AIBU ones) the one over-riding thought that comes to mind is get a grip on reality!

I have read about someone who live in a rural village complaining about a neighbour who has a cockerall.

Someone risking a supermarket workers job over a silly comment that would not have been understood by her DD (and for some reason seems to think her DD will never hear this type of talk in her life)

People complaining about schools saying their DC are nto ready for full time (mainly to reduce their childcare costs but blaming the school for looking after the childs needs)

and the list goes on!

Folks; live in the real world for a change.......

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ChippingInMistressSteamMop · 27/02/2011 19:44

Hec - care to link to the thread the numpty OP is on about? Must have missed that one?!

OP - you don't sound that new to me....Hmm but anyway, if MN isn't to your liking there are plenty of other sites out there ... don't let the door hit you on the arse.

ChippingInMistressSteamMop · 27/02/2011 19:46

Diabolo - the key is to 'not give a fuck damn' what anyone else thinks! Stand up for yourself, voice your opinions... don't take your ball and go home! Keep your name - that will help.

Hec - half term projects are criminal!!

AngryBeaver · 27/02/2011 19:47

off you fuck then!

BooyFuckingHoo · 27/02/2011 19:48

i thought that too chipping.OP seems a bit too familiar with MN ways.

HecateQueenOfWitches · 27/02/2011 19:48

oh, she's not a numpty. Don't be a meanie. Grin here it is. apparently there are two, and my opinion is only one half of the 'get into the real world' thing.

But I'm going to make it All About Me because I've never had my very own bitchy thread before. Grin

HecateQueenOfWitches · 27/02/2011 19:50

Oh they bloody are, chipping.

life and death of Jesus. Well, I've scared my poor little bugger out of his wits with that one!

history of voting - suffrage movement etc

and explanation of the different types of variables. - independent, dependent, etc.

I feel like I'm back at school Grin

diabolo · 27/02/2011 19:54

Chipping.. sometimes it gets really personal though doesn't it? And it is quite hard not to take offence when someone who doesn't know you from Adam starts assuming all sorts about you

For instance, the other week I said that being born "poor" didn't mean you had to stay that way ... hard work, educating yourself etc etc. and a regular poster "assumed" that I was being smug and saying "look at me I'm rich" - which wasn't the point of my post of at all (I'm not rich at all, though I'd like to be).

So sometimes I just think "right - f* you then, and go away for a few weeks.

I clearly need a thicker skin.

veritythebrave · 27/02/2011 19:59

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RIZZ0 · 27/02/2011 20:00

FFS it's COCKEREL!!!!!!

Bleddy thread-about-thread starters, making me go around hoovering up spelling mistakes twice... [mutter]

TanteAC · 27/02/2011 20:01

Well done Hecate!

I, too, have pissed away my entire weekend on mn as I am ttc and removing all temptation to have a good time drink alcohol or conspiciously NOT drink alcohol with my jarhead social circle.

Have been binge posting instead Grin

OP, I think it is a bit ironic to tell people online to 'live in the real world'. This is cyber space .

It's not real life. Shock In real life, I probably would't have spent my entire day giving advice to strangers about their bitch of a mother in law or telling them that I find it bizarre zebras haven't gone to war with humans or whatever (really enjoyed that thread Grin).

Neither would I tell a bunch of strangers in RL about my pant snot (go on, look it up) or how my DH and I have had a mega private heart to heart about difficult times, etc. But these things are all in my head and it is precisely because I wouldn't or couldn't talk about these things in 'the real world' (where I live enough of my life) that I LOVE mn.

I have also witnessed MN and RL cross over with some incredibly moving and powerful results.

YABU

PS I can't believe teachers set half-term projects as then wehave to mark them

Emmanana · 27/02/2011 20:05

OP, everyone is entitled to their opinion, including you, and the beauty of any internet site is that if it's not to your taste you can de-register!
Everyone has different ways of spending 'me' time, some people spend it on MN having a little to and fro, offering opinions, and sharing the benefit of experience with others, just like you might have exchanges at the school gate, the pick up at bday parties, etc etc.
There are some single parents on here, who have very little contact with other adults on a conversational basis.
If you don't want to spend time reading anything that you have judged to be written by people who 'need to get a grip' then your'e fully at liberty to never look at the site again.
If you feel you need to call over your shoulder as you leave
'Folks; live in the real world for a change.......'
That's fairly insulting and generalised, and a bit too judgey pants; but hey - glad we were able to occupy 10 minutes of your utopian 'real life' as you put your criticism in writing...

HecateQueenOfWitches · 27/02/2011 20:05

YOU'RE A TEACHER?!!!

Can I kick you right up the arse?

I realise you didn't set all this work, but you'll do.

Come here!

Grin
SalandersBro · 27/02/2011 20:06

I have been told it's bad to comment one thread to another, and this is an example. you were/are on the tesco/bloke thread wit han opinion that others, incl me and Hecate and others disagreed with. so you start this one.
real worlds - I am ok with my real world. would not be so happy living in your real world - and there isn't one real world. sorry to disappoint.

sloggies · 27/02/2011 20:10

Hecate no need to kick Tante, Towelspicked up is a teacher too....

HecateQueenOfWitches · 27/02/2011 20:13

Really?

bloody fantastic.

TanteAC · 27/02/2011 20:21

I spent all half-term lolling round relaxing and eating cake

duchesse · 27/02/2011 20:24

Everyone lives in the real world. There's no hierarchy of realness.

HecateQueenOfWitches · 27/02/2011 20:25

Don't think that I can't run fast with these boots on...

SalandersBro · 27/02/2011 20:26

i'll just paint on some go-faster stripes

HecateQueenOfWitches · 27/02/2011 20:27

Teamwork. That's what I like.

Megatron · 27/02/2011 20:28

I like it here. The 'real world' is a pain in the arse sometimes so I'm quite happy to drift off into mnet sometimes where folk can have a good gripe about anything if they feel like it. Nowt wrong with that.

LibraPoppyGirl · 27/02/2011 20:44

All together now ladies......

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn't really matter to me, to me

[Libra skips off down the Yellow Brick Road in her MN non RL world emoticon] Grin

Catnao · 27/02/2011 22:28

I am a teacher - but set half term homework? Are these people MAD?? They'll have to mark the bleeding stuff!

freebreeze · 27/02/2011 22:36

No I agree with you. It's all abit middle-class out there - sometimes I think if that's all you have to worry about etc.....But then again, that's the point of this network i suppose x

eggontoastie · 27/02/2011 22:43

According to one m'sn member most on this website are Inbred Twats, cant think why. We are all different & on here we're annonymous so to have strong opinions on posters who you have never met is a bit daft really.