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AIBU to be so annoyed that men have all the fun

44 replies

ThisIsStartingToBoreMe · 14/01/2016 21:52

Why is it always men who get to carry out really exciting staff like the Brinks Matt robbery and the Hatten Garden Diamond Heist. And I know they never found the people who robbed the safety deposit box in Mayfair but I bet they were men too!!!

Seriously though, i'm curious as to why more women aren't invited to take part.

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ilovesooty · 14/01/2016 21:54

Grin at "invited to take part"

WorraLiberty · 14/01/2016 21:56

Invited?

What the actual fuck? Grin

Eeeek686 · 14/01/2016 21:56

Too busy having babies and playing on mumsnet?!

Grin

SisterMoonshine · 14/01/2016 21:57

It did make me smile that the Hatton Garden diamond robbers were pensioners.

sooperdooper · 14/01/2016 21:57

Nah I bet the Mayfair safety deposit box were women and that's why they've not been caught Hmm

SwearyInn · 14/01/2016 21:58

Because we'd constantly have to re-do our make-uo and can't run fast enough in heels. And we'd probably giggle too much.

LottieDoubtie · 14/01/2016 21:58

Grin Women! Shit at crime.

mudandmayhem01 · 14/01/2016 21:58

Maybe female master criminals just don't get caught

sooperdooper · 14/01/2016 21:58

Damn should've been Grin

Diggum · 14/01/2016 22:02

I think I could be very handy with an oxyacetylene torch if anyone is interested in tackling this injustice.

TrojanWhore · 14/01/2016 22:03

" Maybe female master criminals just don't get caught"

Fixed that for you

knobblyknee · 14/01/2016 22:03

There was a TV sitcom in the 1970's that the men were caught and put in prison, and the wives took over. So we cant all be shit at crime. They were actually quite good at it.

Cavaradossi · 14/01/2016 22:05

Rose Dugdale, an English debutante, joined the IRA, carried out a heist that involved robbing £8 million of paintings, and then bombed an RUC station in Strabane using a hijacked helicopter. Got nine years and gave birth in Limerick prison.

ThisIsStartingToBoreMe · 14/01/2016 22:15

That sitcom was called Widows and I remember it well!!!!

Yes, I think the women robbers just haven't been caught, that's it!

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BoneyBackJefferson · 14/01/2016 22:15

OP

you have a strange sense of fun.

ThisIsStartingToBoreMe · 14/01/2016 22:22

Joking aside. I am really really curious as to why this sort of thing is always done by an all male group

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ToastedOrFresh · 14/01/2016 22:25

Because we'd constantly have to re-do our make-uo and can't run fast enough in heels. And we'd probably giggle too much.

This ^ smile

I remember a scene from, 'Men behaving badly' when the Martin Clunes character is rummaging through a box looking for something and all he finds is hair dryers, curling tongs, hairbrushes etc and he exclaims, 'no wonder you women don't get positions in industry, you're all to busy doing your hair.'

Even I had to smile at that !

It was a joke, btw, and then over 20 years ago before anyone feels the need to start reaming me.

WRT the OP. It would have meant working overnight, even then on a public holiday i.e. Good Friday. Who's minding the kids ? The husband ? The infirm relative ? The drama friend ?

hollowlegs · 14/01/2016 22:26

They would trip when they were running away.

(in the films we AWAYS tri. Smile

ToastedOrFresh · 14/01/2016 22:27

square brackets for a Smile otherwise the word smile just comes out emboldened.

Strangertides1 · 14/01/2016 22:28

But how do you known no women were involved??...perhaps they were simply smart enough no to get caught. Wink

ToastedOrFresh · 14/01/2016 22:30

I also find it quite telling that initial reports were saying that it was a gang of East Eurpeans that wot done it.

Foreigner blame anyone ?

I didn't think it was done by them, it just seemed like the crime of a bunch of old lags...oh wait.

coffeeisnectar · 14/01/2016 22:31

I love that they used their bus passes to meet up to plan it.

Quite clearly all the women masterminds have never been caught.

JarethTheGoblinKing · 14/01/2016 22:31

Women don't get caught

slicedfinger · 14/01/2016 22:33

Brilliant line on the BBC just now. "... Even suffering from in continence... Left a trail..." Grin

VoyageOfDad · 14/01/2016 22:37

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