J'Accuse... I do not believe a sizeable minority on here when they say "I blah blah blah"

[Salmotrutta]

E.g. :-
"I cook from scratch" - I hate "from scratch". We used to say "everything was homemade".

And those of you who state "homemade potato wedges" ? ...yeah, I'm impressed. So that would be some potatoes shoved in the oven then?

DS2 used to sneak in my bed, he sleeps like a starfish - pissed me off

My children don't come into my bed, they just know, I hate sharing with DH at the best of times, breathing all over the place fgs.
I'd love our own beds like George and Mildred, he won't have any of it. He's so selfish. I ought to LTB really.

I live near the largest and first state sponsored Steiner School in the country. Wankers.

I have lived some motherfucking MN fantasy lives in my time, Georgian rectory with walled garden - check, isolated medieval cottage - check, SAHM with cleaner - check, City worker and gal about town - check, owner of a small local business, making great stuff that everyone creams their pants about (but takes you to the edge of bankruptcy) - check.

But the happiest, the Happiest I've ever been in my adult life was for a brief period when we lived just outside a very depressed and much derided town in the Welsh Valleys, people just get on with it, they don't fill their heads with shit like this, they DON'T EVEN FUCKING CARE. And as I get older I find I actually would much rather have their company than the twattery I find myself surrounded with.

[Lowers tone of thread with pertinent thought].

Metallic what does LTB mean

I didn't care where they slept tbh,as long as they were asleep.

And we never organised "activities" for DC.

They said shit like "Can I join Brownies/Cubs?"

And we said "Yeah, that's fine"

Then they went.

It's Leave the Bastard, you won't see it used much around these parts though.

DS2 used to sneak in my bed, he sleeps like a starfish - pissed me off

You mean he sleeps stuck to the side of a tank full of water?

That would so piss me off too.

Metallic - I hear you on the breathing thing.

DH can annoy me by just being alive in bed.

I hate my sleep being disrupted.

salmo I was actually thinking about you earlier today! I was on the loo and reminiscing about the old DT days

I make homemade chips from scratch but the rest of the time the DDs have to sort themselves out.

Oh ok. Thanks. Thought it was a pre-requisite to be a man hater on here!!!

I never did all this baby groups, baby music, baby yoga and all that palaver either.

What's this that children have to be entertained now. You see it all the time. "we've been to the zoo, park, library, seaside, museum, etc. Where shall we go today?"

Why do they need all these activities now?

Oh yeah!

That LTB thing is funny when said in jest but sometimes you see posters pitching in with their mysoginistic crap when it's quite unjustified.

My kids used to play out and the neighbours kids used to call for them. I didn't think the neighbours kids were neglected because they were allowed to wander up and down the street.

It's just what kids around here do.on MN iits a SS calling situation.

According to "recent studies" the secret to a successful marriage is spooning and sleeping close - no, sod off I need my space to sleep, not hot breath in my face or a man part poking me in the back!!!

According to "recent studies" the secret to a successful marriage is spooning and sleeping close - no, sod off I need my space to sleep, not hot breath in my face or a man part poking me in the back!!!

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I didn't men to type mysoginistic!!!

I meant girl-powerz types but got the word totally wrong!!

My mum used to have a blackened pan with fat in it. We used to cook chips in it then put in outside the back door to cool down and the fat to solidify.

Maybe that fat is actually the universal ingredient of the universe, the fabled "scratch".

WineCowboy - I may need a wee reminder about namechanges.

I am seriously old and can't remember!! ??

You didn't 'men' to type it OP??

What kind of man hating monster are you?

I think they're getting scratch, mixed up with snatch!

Ah good thread.

I'm making a roast tomorrow. The chicken is all pre-seasomed in its little foil tub waiting for me to take the plastic off. The potatoes and veg likewise. Just call me Nigella and be done with it.

Also tucked next to them are the pre-made bottles of formula for 8mo DD to guzzle happily over the next 24 hours. Although some have called me a bad mother for a) not breastfeeding and b) risking my precious baby's life by making up bottles in advance rather than spend hundreds of pounds on premade stuff in case parents can't measure out scoops or water and magically shake them together. From posters who wouldn't dream of letting a bottle past their precious offspring's lips yet somehow are total experts on ff. What they don't realise is that I wasn't given the choice to breastfeed by my doctors so ya know, nothing like a heavy dose of judementalness on what was a very difficult subject for me that MN is so good at doing Yet last time I checked DD was happily emptying out the contents of the kitchen cupboard on the floor and doing a mean downward dog pose between each box....perhaps she's actually doing just fine after all on formula?

I nearly drop kicked my iPad out of the window this week, reading a discussion about childhood obesity and tooth decay, when a poster crowed "I'm SO glad I persevered with giving my children water to drink. They're now teens and still only drink water and hot chocolate"..

Fucking REALLY? They sound such fun!

If I'd persevered giving my DD only water to drink, the stubborn little mare would have died of dehydration well before her second birthday.

Up yours Worra

Eddie same here, ours had a wire basket which we just used to leave to set in the fat.