to think there are too many accusations of stealth boasting on MN?

[MardyBra]

Sort of a thread about a thread, but more general too. I just keep seeing posters getting jumped on for mentioning some aspect of their lives, which others see as aspirational or boasting. Why not just ignore/give the benefit of the doubt rather than jump down their throats?

FFS, I once got accused of stealth boasting on a supermarket thread for complaining about slow people who linger too long in front of the hummous.

"Look at me everyone - I'm a poncey hummous eater"

Maybe people do it as you have 'the cloak of anonimity' on here, and IRL it would be distasteful?
Doesn't bother me!

Has anyone noticed the inverted stealth boasters?

They were out in force at Christmas...."Well we are only giving little Jimmy a clementine and a lump of coal, how VULGAR to buy presents....."

Taramasalata is fish roe mixed with olive oil...smoked salmon tarama is equiv to quorn burger. A fucking insult to the original. Maid? Sainsburys? Smoked salmon tarama? Jog on wannabe

why is eating hummus considered to be boasting?

we must be the only country in Europe that thinks so? it is definitely a British peculiarity, this obsession with it - it's made of chick peas and oil, FFS!

would it count as a stealth boast if you made a reference to someone lingering in front of the canned beans section?

It's not. But poasts like 'Can I give PFB Tarquin hummus on toast for one of his First Tastes' is Wanky and Should Be Discouraged

Poasts?????

I was thinking about toast. Mmmm toast.

IWantMyHatBack i totally agree it does sound wanky but i still find it odd that hummus is the condiment of choice for said wankiness

surely there are far more wanky things out there?

or if we referred to it as chick-pea puree perhaps it would be more less wanky?

i thought you were being clever about Poasts btw(Post boast)

Yes, I like poasting.

My Mother has never, in her life, tasted hummus or salsa. She refuses. Can't deal with these 'new fangled things'

Chutney and pickled onions all the way in their house.. But they are the most wankery, poncy wankers (well, they think they are).

I love a good stealth boast post. I get my fix at Style & Beauty where it's been turned into an art form.

Always delivers.

I was commenting about the very same thing to my cousin, The Queen, only this very morning.

Please can we start calling them stealth poasts?

wahwahwah literally roared then... never done that before on MN

"stealth poasts" - fantastic. I'll get my PA to make a note of that for future use...

Cheers, I'd appreciate it.

Hahaha I actually laffed out loud. 'ooo get you with your fancy houmous'!!

i grew up in the most wanky middle class inverse competitive area (chiswick). The smell of Houmous is how we recognise each other in a working class crowd!

If someone's getting a bit of a roasting for their poasting can we calling it a poaching?

My personal chef makes mine. From scratch. He even lays the fish eggs himself.

Everybody does that, but only a few real food chefs fertilise the fish eggs themselves

It kind of bugs me how nobody is allowed to say anything positive about their kids on MN. Especially (God forbid) suggesting they are intelligent or good looking, even when it's relevant to the post (and you will be made to prove it is!). Surely we can accept that as mums we all think our kids are ace, doesn't mean we are dissing other people's.

People are allowed to sat that their kids are beautiful (aren't they all) and intelligent, what they get ridiculed it suggesting that their kids are better

or like cross-stitch or tapestry.

arf.

now now Mardy