So far this year, Mumsnet has taught me.....

[YouAreMySweetestDownfall]

Fanny is a very naughty word in Scotland,

That loads of people hate the expression 'little man' (guilty)!

That there are other toddlers out there that refuse to go to bed and actually for many parents there's fuck all you can do but ride it out.

Mumsnetters can offer a wealth of experience, advice and hand holding and it can make a massive difference in your life.

And loads more things but wanted to keep it lighthearted. How about you?

That you mustn't ever ever ever stack your empty plates in a cafe

why?

I don't know, something to do with stacking them wrong? Apparently it makes some people want to vomit

I still do stack mine though - empty any uneaten food onto the smallest plate and pile them up on the tray from biggest to smallest. Then I put any rubbish into a bin (if there is one) and take the tray away. It just feels wrong leaving a messy table behind

In any thread about Center Parcs, someone has to mention anal sex, even when the OP wanting to know about the place is a mum who is going with her 15 YO DD and no-one else.

That a lot of people are ridiculously conservative about food hygiene and waste all sorts of perfectly edible food because they are certain it will give them food poisoning.

Most people have sex with their husbands a lot more than once a week Really??

Please nobody tell my OH this.

Dh, as annoying as he is at times, is actually not that bad!!
IABU.. about allsorts...parenting and household cleaning usually.
Women turn into absolute monsters before their weddings.. love a good bridezilla thread!

That sitting in your front garden is 'a bit council'

That's ridiculous.

I always sit in mine. I've even got a cooker, a washing machine and a mattress, to make me more comfortable....

Also that there are other grown women out there who still smirk at innuendo and rude words.

AIBU made me realise how very, very reasonable all my colleagues, neighbours, friends and family, including the ILs are.

What a bucket list is.

That sitting in your front garden is 'a bit council'
Is it? Oh heck, I'd best move then. Don't want anyone to think I'm 'a bit council' (even though I live in a housing association house on a street with mixed council, ha and privately owned houses)

Lol at WorraLiberty all you need now is a can of Stella.

Also that there are other grown women out there who still smirk at innuendo and rude words.
In one of them!

It's another THING comming

I'm once of them!

You can sit in the front garden, usual, just look a bit hippyish. There is an eccentricity exception. Fag in corner of the mouth, can of Stella and stained bathrobe with bunnies on do not qualify for eccentricity though.

that my neighbours are wonderful
that my ILs don't give me any grief
that my dh is pretty good on the whole
that my very able kids are "average"
that my life on the whole is pretty good but my pensions, savings are a mess and my mortgage is too big. in the real world i feel fairly financially stable... deluded maybe?

I'm sorry for the TMI but it is a very useful technique!!

People don't have sex more than once a month week do they?!

that lurking AIBU threads is one of the reasons for my username

Oh yeah sitting i your front garden is a bit council found that out recently

worra

Oh yes, that there are people who really believe that front gardens must not be used for sitting in or god forbid, hanging washing in.

I love an inuendo i snigger and think ooo matron

I love an innuendo too.

Hang around long enough and give you one

*I'll

That no matter how I name, dress, feed and interact with my child, someone out there will not only have a problem with it but will be brought to the point of frothing rage and/or nausea, so I might as well just crack on.

That I'm not going anywhere near a bus when I'm in London this weekend with our huge pushchair!