to think life in the MN world as an adult is rather boring?

[ThereWasOnceAGirl]

Definitely not everyone but it feels to be a large percentage feel that -

You only should celebrate your birthday until you are 10. Anything after that and it's odd.

Why are you buying Christmas presents for adults, only buy for children? So not adults aren't allowed presents at Christmas.

Going out on a Saturday night even for just one drink seems very frowned upon and

Life as an adult is pajamas on at 7 every night of the week, not celebrating your birthday and not getting presents at Christmas.

Well for birthdays I have presents from the DC, and a cake. It's fine.

I'm afraid I went to a concert (tickets my Christmas present from my parents), spent the night in a nice hotel and went shopping and spent my birthday money on some converse.

Very wicked

Went with DSIS who picks up all the nasty bits of having lovely, but ageing parents so it wasn't purely self indulgent.

Zombie loves her birthday. She'll be throwing herself a 60th birthday party in April. She'll actually be 62 in April but her cancer treatments meant she was unable to celebrate the past 2 years. It will just be a few close friends over for a house party but we will celebrate in style.

She also loves Christmas. It's extra special for her this year as she's shopping for her MN Christmas Appeal recipient. She'll be with her SIL, BIL and Niece from Christmas Eve into Boxing Day.

She's very much looking forward to being out for a drink on Saturday night. She's going to the London meet-up and is soooooo excited.

She also holds her hands up to putting on her pjs early in the evening. It's a comfort thing.

The PO can bugger off.

Ooh actually DH and i celebrated our 40th birthdays. We went to see a West End show and stayed in a posh hotel for the night, paid for by my DB and DP's.

I agree that there are some corners of mn who would like the world to believe that they drink only unicorn tears, poo diamonds (which they sell and donate the profits to sad donkeys), eat only home weaved lentils and have never lied, coveted or had an impure thought in their lives.

I like chat. . .
about telly
About wine - I fessed up on the booze thread. No claims of half a thimble every leap year from me
about toilet brushes

I have already worked out that I am a MN imposter though and am only biding my time until outing.

I don't do birthdays really - family tradition as we are all within weeks of Christmas. But I bloody love Christmas

I don't celebrate my birthday and I don't get drunk often. (I don't like who I turn into when drunk) Certainly my 'clubbing' days are behind me. I think drunk people are irritating.

But I sing and dance to the music in the supermarket. I answer the phone (to numbers I know) with ridiculous openers and I only stopped using the swings when my arse got too fat. There are many more examples of daft, fun, some would say childish behaviour.

Everyone's different but we all have fun in our own ways. It's daft to say X, Y and Z are the Fun Things and if you don't do those specific things, you're a boring person leading a boring life. as you yourself quite rightly say in a later post "You have different priorities. It doesn't mean people that are different to you have the wrong priorities." this is also true of fun. Different ideas of fun are still fun.

starball how could you be be so frivilous?? It is not allowed on here you know! Shame on you for spending some cash and having a great time on your birthday

Zombie - your 60th sounds lovely. Have a wonderful time.

It's my birthday today! I love birthdays. Had to work but work mates spoiled me with cake and champagne; got home to cards and cake from the offspring. Treated myself to a waitrose sarnie on the way home. Bloody lovely, all of it.

MN as a whole doesn't have a view on these things, but there is an element that takes a very dim view of going out and having fun with ones friends after dark. Male friendship takes a hell of a battering, and everyone should be tucked up in bed by 12.03 am on New Years' Day.

Also frowned on by a small but vocal minority is anyone who plays any form of computer game after the age of 15 as they are all both violent and obscene and simultaneously childish and fit only for immature minds.

Yes, everyone's fun is different.

I was nightclubbing at 15 I don't want to be doing that at 40+.

Always hated clubbing.

I do like computer games though.

Yeah. Me too. Early starter

I had my 18th birthday in a place I'd been drinking in for 2 years. (This was a LOT of years ago when very many more blind eyes were turned as long as you weren't a prat causing trouble or acting childish ) I was having a pint with my mates and I turned to the bloke behind the bar and said "Can I have my 18th in here" and he said yes.

By the time I got to my early 20s my liver was on its knees and I was ready to give it up and settle down.

You are not being unreasonable. I sometimes wonder if I'm a frivolous waste of space because I enjoy buying presents for my family, enjoy celebrating events and like going out for a night on the tiles and coming back in the wee hours.

Life is overwhelmingly dull and depressing. Why not have fun and enjoy yourself when the opportunity is there?

I always celebrate my birthday. Parties, meals out with friends, etc. I love going out socially, but have been ill a lot this year so stuck in Mning. But still went to a 50th birthday party last weekend. Lots of drinking and silliness.

Life is short. You need to enjoy it

MN is so dreadfully proscriptive these days

Isn't it just?

Who needs a defence? It's not like it's a crime to not fancy clubbing when you're pushing 40

I always celebrate my birthday, and I love receiving unexpected Xmas pressies :)

I do tend to have my pjs on at 7 though, just because I'd much rather relax in my onesie than my heels and jeans

As for social life, I can't get a babysitter very often so I don't go out and drink much. But, I do socialise with friends etc through the day and sometimes have a friend over and have a few drinks.

If I did have a babysitter, I'd be out every Friday

Not yet, BriarcliffBelle. But she will be in 145 days.

Mn is proscriptive?

Can I just ask - joking aside now for a minute - do any of you actually - seriously - change anything about yourselves or the way you do things because of something some randoms appear to think on a chatroom?

Surely not. I mean, the whole What Would Mumsnet Think is a joke, isn't it? It doesn't actually matter one jot.