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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask what things you do, that you think are completely normal, that have caused others to be shocked/disgusted?

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HappilyChatterly · 10/01/2014 07:36

Sat in the staff room tucking into a kiwi, like you do, or rather like I do...chomping it like an apple. Everyone was horrified! Apparently you eat it with a spoon like a boiled egg... I can see why, the skin is minging but I alwa?s thought it was worth it for the delicious flesh. My family all eat it that way, never occurred to me there was anything odd about, I thought it was just the way it had to be done.

I'm really paranoid now there are other things I'm doing that are weird and disgusting. Please post your own experiences so I can tick them off the list.

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CalamitouslyWrong · 10/01/2014 22:04

DoyouneedaWahmbulance: I Wikipedia the plots of movies and tv shows as I'm watching them too.

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McFox · 10/01/2014 22:08

Not me but my DH - he dips bread into any juice; coke, squash anything. It gives me the heave and he's banned from doing it in my presence!

pmgkt · 10/01/2014 22:08

We used to have white bread with thick cream spread on it, then loads of sugar on top! Yummy

snowgirl1 · 10/01/2014 22:08

I stand up to wipe my bum. According to DH this is weird. He remains seated.

CalamitouslyWrong · 10/01/2014 22:09

DS2 calls a mixture of different hoop shaped breakfast cereals a hoopy dip.

CalamitouslyWrong · 10/01/2014 22:10

I like dipping chips in soup. And dipping sandwiches in soup. Cheese sandwiches are lovely dipped in soup. Same with ham. I don't do it if there's lettuce involved though, for some reason.

CalamitouslyWrong · 10/01/2014 22:13

Actually, I sometimes look up the plot of books I'm reading on Wikipedia while I'm reading them, as well as films and tv programme. I like to know where things are going so I can concentrate on the details.

sandiy · 10/01/2014 22:15

Deep fried eggs apparently are wrong.
Salad cream in beans
We have this amazing contraption called A tast e toaste I remember my mum having one when we were little and came across this one in a junk shop.It looks like a metal bra with a hinge in the middle It's basically an old fashioned toastie maker but the genius is because it's round the egg sits in the middle.Which makes soft cooked egg in crispy toast shell Lush.Everyone I know thinks it's wired.
For anyone who lies milk skin Junket is the way to go.Basically it's curds and whey.yum

CalamitouslyWrong · 10/01/2014 22:18

Egg wrapped in toast sounds great.

Salad cream is never right though. Bleurgh.

BriarRainbowshimmer · 10/01/2014 22:20

no more surrupticious trips to loo at work with giant handbag that basically declares IM MENSTRUATING

But instead won't you have oddly-shaped boobs declaring I'm wearing tampons on my tits?
How do you all manage this without looking weird. I'm impressed.

Quangle · 10/01/2014 22:28

tampon in bra absolutely.

I don't wear anything tight at work and often I'm wearing a jacket so there's nothing to see. Wouldn't work if I was wearing a spaghetti strap top at work but I never am. I'm almost tempted to model the look for you on my profile but I won't. I don't want to go viral as the weird woman who wears tampons in her bra Grin

Littlefish · 10/01/2014 22:29

I eat my chips in size order.

Quangle · 10/01/2014 22:31

I want one of those toasty egg things. I might wear that as a bra too.

Also junket - bleugh. Worst pudding ever . Solid milk. And to jazz it up a bit - a speck of nutmeg.

BriarRainbowshimmer · 10/01/2014 22:32

I want to see the look Quangle, so I can imitate it and too become a weird tampon bra woman Grin

Lavenderhoney · 10/01/2014 22:37

Kiwi fruit are peeled and diced here, or eaten with a spoon. Not the skin! Its all hairy.. Or prawn shells -double yuck!

I like marmite which repulses my family.

I also like tuna in olive oil, drained, mixed with mayonnaise and chopped raw onion eaten with a spoon.

Someone once changed a baby on the table we were about to eat on which filled me with horror, and I hate cats on kitchen tops etc. I was once in a friends house where she let the cat lick the finished plates. Never been back. And letting dogs lick hands and not washing them after before eating- I mean, dogs lick their bums? Hello?

But its all home things, I don't think I do anything knowingly in public which repulses anyone. Thinks hard.. hmm

SauceForTheGander · 10/01/2014 23:12

DS does the food thing too - eats all of one food item on his plate and then moves on to the next thing ... He has special methods of eating particular things like a biscuit or pizza which I find very strange as ExP his bio father does this but he left when DS was tiny.

I've tried to make DS do cereal cocktail but he's horrified at the idea. I used to love Weetabix and bran flakes.

I love marmite and honey sandwiches.

Any fruit in a first course makes me feel sick. Eg apples / grapes in salad

I dunk my toast in coffee.

I am repulsed by milk. I cannot understand why we would drink the breast milk intended for an animal baby.

I can't believe so many of you are going round with things in your bras!

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ophelia275 · 10/01/2014 23:20

Yep, another kiwi skin eater here too - it's the best part!

someonestolemynick · 10/01/2014 23:21

I eat boiled egg with mustard and can't stand sweet and savories together bleugh.

My mum warms up apples in her cleavage before eating them, when I was little she would warm up ear and eye drops for me in the same way...

ophelia275 · 10/01/2014 23:25

I sit in the dark as I prefer this to artificial light.

I love gherkins/pickled onions/balsamic vinegar with/on everything.

I used to set my clock one hour later than it actually was so I would wake up and know I had an hour extra to sleep.

I occasionally put uhu glue on my hands, wait for it to dry and then love the feeling of peeling it off slowly.

BiscuitsAreMyDownfall · 10/01/2014 23:28

I like to ride trolleys in the supermarket. I have a little run and lift my feet off the floor while leaning on the handle. I'm 34. It's so much fun and makes the tedious task easier, can't wait till DH passes his driving test so he can do it.

I love cheese and jam sandwiches too. Also cheese and tomato sauce sandwiches.

When making DH a hot drink I always have a spoon of sugar (I don't take it in my drinks)

mummytowillow · 10/01/2014 23:28

I'm shocked people flush tampons, my drains would block and it would be embarrassing telling my LL!

I nappy sack them and put them in the bin, that's ok isn't it?

someonestolemynick · 10/01/2014 23:36

Oh, a previous landlady told me off for putting tampons in the bin (after wrapping them ....). Apparently I was to go down to the communal bins (3rd floor flat) straight after changing them. Needless to say I didn't stay very long.

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