Airline seats are the new eating grapes in a supermarket

[OnlyHereForTheCamping]

When I first joined mumsnet and it were all fields etc. The great divide was between those who would eat grapes in a supermarket and those who would not. Now it appears to be those who fork out for seats on a plane and those who don't

For December has nobody yet mentioned the threads where some people get annoyed when school Christmas Concerts are ruined by other people's noisy children running up and down and those other people are annoyed because "It's not the bloody Albert Hall you can't expect total silence".

I always prefer a good Bridezilla thread myself.

Oh yes or when their child isn't picked to be Mary threads

I like the competitive spend the least threads. Usually a thread where someone has posted a pic of a huge mountain of presents someone on their FB page as posted so everyone here can slag that person off

There is also:

Cyclists v Motorists
Legitimate food issues v Picky eaters
People getting married can choose whether to have children at the wedding v How can they expect me to leave my baby at home?

Someone up thread mentioned a bingo card. I am sure there is scope for something of that nature. Or some means of gathering together the common themes and then you can just indicate which side of the argument you are on in each case and it comes up with a personality description similar to the Myers Briggs thingy. Then whenever one of these threads comes up you just quote your classification and that is enough to say where you stand on the issue.

Love a stately home

That's brilliantly ironic when compared with the actual Stately Home thread

There was a great thread about a month ago - 'threads I didn't start'. Which was basically 20 pages of people being supremely reasonable - 'I saw someone feeding her son grapes in the supermarket - he seemed to be enjoying them bless him' and 'my sil has invited herself for Christmas - it's going to be so lovely to spend time with her'

Mumsnet took it down though. They said it would put them out of business if it were allowed to continue.

Ha ha I started something similar a while back my pockets was this it?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2688838-No-Drama-Mumsnet-threads-you-havent-started

Parking and wheely bin threads were given a boost once we got the facility to post images, though - I love a good diagram

It was parsnips. And thank you. That thread made me really calm and nice. For a while.

I may have embroidered the truth a bit there. MN might have moved it to classics in a supremely graceful gesture rather than reacting as I claimed...

Oh I love the diagrams too. They really let you imagine you are there moving the wheelie bins do they block the neighbours' view of their parking space or whatever aggressive bollocks it is op is advised to do

I love loo brush threads, but we haven't had one for ages < sulks >

Here's an educational primer:

Why has this thread died? I was loving it.

Me too meta

I also want to know what Derek is getting for her push present

Next week:
Those whose DC would eat canteen chips that had fallen onto the counter, and those whose DC wouldn't.

I don't care about either of those things. I wouldn't feed my kids food in the supermarket but that's more because my boys tend to expect things like that to apply to everything so I'd just get myself into a constant fight over everything they saw and decided they want to eat.

I don't really care if other people do.

And you wouldn't catch me dead on a plane so I don't really care where anyone sits on one either 😂

we could go onto the rights and wrongs of sticking the nanny and DCs in economy while you and DH are in first

Tesco has removed the potential for many threads by providing a tray of free fruit at the entrance and inviting children to take a piece to eat as they go round the shop.

I could do with one of those threads where someone registers on Mumsnet just to come on AIBU and tell us there was an annoying kid in Costa this morning and the mother wasn't taking steps to sort him out. I love those ones. It's like they think we're a professional body. Like Olivia's going to come along and go "thanks for bringing this to our attention, user344536345. Bloody liberty. And you say she was on her mobile as well? Next time try and get her badge number and we'll have HR bring her in for a disciplinary. "

Just saw another leggings-and-dress thread that will inevitably end up with the Antis accusing the Pros of being skanky, sweaty, lazy, fatsos, and the Pros defiantly posting that their size 8, 6ft, 8 stone,18 year old daughters wear them all the time, so they are therefore the definitive high- fashion garb.for 12 stone, size 20, 5'2" forty somethings

I live on a council estate and all my neighbours are having their bathrooms and kitchens replaced and there's workmen and vans all over the place and they keep parking in my space. And it's really noisy. But as they've got a job to do and I'm just glad I have a toilet and water which is more than my neighbours have right now, so I'm not going to make a fuss and rant about parking and noise. Do I fail at mumsnet?

I think you should book a spa day.

I love the laundry threads. The "wear it for a nanosecond nd then boil wash it" team versus the " you are destroying the world, I wear stuff for years without changing it" team.
Hysterical nutters versus mangy mingers!

Don't forget the school place threads.

Sept-Dec - Overanalysis of where to apply, how many schools to apply to, will I really get into the oversubscribed amazing school 10 miles away when there is an undersubscribed failing school in my street.

Apr-June - Appeals angst

Oh God those, I wash my towels every day, threads make me feel like a right slattern! 😀