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

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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?

I LOVE grammar and spelling pedants, I'll have to look round for the missing A tile on my laptop. Sometimes my spell checker gets things wrong too.

I turned off autocorrect on my tablet and I dont know how to get it back on

My auto correct won't let me be creative with my grammar, boo MrsJayy

That any behaviour can be labelled. So a DP is never just an idiot or in the wrong. He probably has aspergers, is on the spectrum or has mental health problems.

That if I get too engrossed in reading AIBU then I will late to pick the kids up from school!

Lots of MNetters ready to ask, in a not-condescending manner at all, whether the OP has been 'having anxiety issues recently' if anyone dare mention they have a concern.

What tonsil stones are.. And that I had some

I learned how to poke a tonsil stone out dog. It was very satisfying!

Some people would like it to be illegal to hang your knickers on the washing line.

I learned that people like to squeeze blackheads and pop pimples for fun. Some enjoy it so much that they film and photograph it to share with other connoisseurs. There is a sporner corner on MN just for this particular hobby . And their sign is >< for squeezing spots.

Me too Winnie, it was ace

Also discovered that if you do not combine ALL funds as 'family money' then you are the victim of financial abuse, because God forbid anyone makes a different choice based on their own circumstances and opinions.

that Christenings are the new weddings - oh the drama! Bridezialls V Baptisaurus

That people still can not function without P+C spaces

Some people spend £50 on fucking candles

That we are all different and th world would be so boring if we were all the same!

I have toilet brushes (cleaner uses them but I bleach the toilets the morning she comes anyway!), fasten my bra at the front and twist, have my own towel in my own bathroom, send my DS to a private school, don't boast about said DS as he is middle of the road at most things, feed him a crap diet as I wasn't strict enough when he was young, feel relieved he is not the only one with odd red marks from growing so quickly, knew it was think not thing, gave my DS fruit shoots, wouldn't be happy for him to be given beer by a sports coach, have never used a P&C space, have only ever spent £50 on a candle for a friend not myself, realised my DH, mil, neighbours are quite nice. And someone on here will do the exact opposite of all of my list but that's ok. I don't have to live with them!

£50 on a candle I might as well just set fire to the actual money and save myself some time.
I have read that the only way to do finances is to have a joint account but I like having and controlling my own money. We share and transfer funds across to each other as and when needed but I like having access to my own overdraft account and not feeling as though I have to explain every tiny purchase. It's not like I'm off blowing ££££ on my hobby behind his back and I trust him enough to believe he's not doing that to me either.

That people saw going to Events, such as a Wedding, as a hardship.
That people would turn up to an Event without a gift.
That people weren't happy to give money, or be given a gift list.

That Family Relationships are unimportant, to many, especially Grandparents.

That fat people were so hated.

That some people think that you need drugs to stay out all night. Said people also think that if one Partner doesn't want to have the children minded and go out, then you should both stay in, for the next eighteen years.

Yes the attitude to going to events like Weddings, always surprises me. I just see them as a chance to have fun with friends and family, and see someone I care about getting married. The only person in real life that I know who didn't want to go to a wedding, was the new wife going to her DHs daughters marriage. But even that was fine on the day.

Always cancel the cheque

When giving a sheet of stickers to your toddler (who always rips them in half when trying to take them off) to peel off the background. Intact stickers everything!

The meaning of dragon butter, sootikins and space docking.

Thanks MN!

I've learnt that I should have 2 pedicures per month
I should catalogue my glad rags on a spreadsheet
I have committed a cardinal sin and must be thick as 2 short planks for giving birth at 18
I must get a degree and a Masters in armchair psychology.
I should phone the police if dd is told off by her teacher
I should not go to a&e even if the gaping wound on my arm needs sutures

Flying you can fit a whole Fiat up your fanjo?!

HOLY FLYING FUCK MONKEYS i have just googled dragon butter, sootikins and space docking and now I need to bleach my mind.

scampimum don't look up truffle butter then! You can't unread it.

I've learnt that i really need must have a cherry stoner even though no one here eats cherries and there are never any in the house

And that quite a few people believe my home town is an awful place to live

What's with the towel sharing angst anyway?

Six words: three under three and molluscum contagiosum.

Then it just became a thing we do, and lessened the bedtime Not Mine! chorus.

lessened the bedtime Not Mine! chorus

That wasn't clear. It was referring to the answers to the general query of "whose wet towel is on the carpet?"

I find MNers are a strange mixture of hygiene obsessed and then MNers who wee in the shower and share towels. I like to think most people are in between like me.