to wonder if anyone really cares?

[QueenNefertitty]

The wearing of sunglasses.
Takeaway coffee.
Parenting your children in an enthusiastic manner.

Have all recently been decried (by a significant number of posters) on MN as actions undertaken PURELY to 'impress' other people, or to look cool...

Do people REALLY think that sunglasses/coffee/enthusiastic parenting are done for attention... ? Or is it just a bit of summer holiday/silly season boredom kicking in, and people fancy a scrap?

Can't work out if people are on the wind up, or genuine.

I'm 'guilty' of all three - am I to be cast out of Mumsnet forthwith?!

Apols for the TAAT X3!

Sunglasses? Why on earth would anyone wear them to impress people...can't you buy them for a quid?!

Who are you trying to impress buying take away coffee? Surely everyone else in the coffee shop is doing the same thing?

Sunglasses in the dark though - absolutely!

I didn't know about sunglasses

My DS today why you keep looking at me like that your face is scary. I squinting at bright outdoors scenery

Don't know if an age thing but I need sunglasses all time I seem to be sensitive to light even if cloudy.

Well I must have looked like an utter twat today. I was out with my baby doing silly and very obvious things to make him clap (as he has just learnt today) whilst wearing sunglasses and had a take away coffee on the grass beside me.
I don't care what others think. I had fun, my baby did clap, I could see this because the sun wasnt in my eyes and my coffee was nice. I'll look out for a thread about me 😂

So not just me who sensitive to light and needing sunglasses.

So Is this an getting old thing or due to my lack of protecting my eyes when I was young and cool?

Performance parenting ( like the phrase - new one on me!) is very annoying and often done purely to be admired by others, no doubt.

Coffee drinking and sunglasses wearing are not, and I too have been amazed by the hostility some chippy people obviously feel re: these two benign habits. That coffee thread was hilarious!

I'm ridiculously short-sighted so my Sunglasses are prescription, sometimes I forget to take my ordinary glasses, so the Sunglasses stay on until I get home.

I'm obese at the minute and there isn't anything that I can do about it, because of ill health, which makes me walk slow, so there's hardly anyone who I don't piss off, anyway.

If there is one thing being on MN for a long time has taught me it is that I don't pay attention on nearly the same level as other people.

The world is neatly divided for me into things that are 'not my problem' and therefore 'not my business' and the reverse.

If it ain't my problem I don't give a fuck.

I wear sunglasses and drink starbucks.

The sunglasses because its fucking sunny and its difficult to drive. I drink starbucks as there is one in the building I work in thats subsidised. Costs me 90p for a black coffee.

I cant tell if people think its twatty, because i have no fucks to give.

Performace parenting is an odd one. I dont really care. I do care when its impacting me. Like on a train and i have to listen to 3 hours of it. Then its mildly irritating.

Oh come on OP it's Mumsnet, you should know not to take everything seriously and with a large pinch of salt.

Aparently large swathes of the population of MN rarely wash their bras. On that basis I really don't think any one can be seriously judging anyone's coffee habits.

People like a good whinge. It alternatively keeps them entertained or makes them feel better about their own lives. Either way it's a public service.

"The world is neatly divided for me into things that are 'not my problem' and therefore 'not my business' and the reverse.

If it ain't my problem I don't give a fuck."

Great philosophy

"Performance parenting is an odd one." >>>
performance parenting is an odd one.

Yes Doggy!!! Yes.....again, cos it's a 'thing' see

My DH wears prescription sunglasses, sometimes he forgets to being his glasses so then when he goes indoors or it gets late he has to keep them on. Didn't realise everyone thought he was a show off twat for doing that.

The coffee/sunglasses/tattoo threads baffle me.

It's basically people complaining about other people existing in the same universe as them doing things which have absolutely no impact on them whatsoever which annoy them for vaguely defined reasons.

It started out as a "why do people feel the need to walk about with coffee?" thread and someone piped up that they do it while wearing sunglasses to look ultra cool - I think they were being sarcastic. No-one really think sunglasses make you look cool! We all know it = hangover or black eye (like it's ever sunny in the UK anyway!?)

Sunglasses wearing, coffee carrier here. And worse - I carry my bag in the crook up of my elbow with the fist in the air...(not the hand with the coffee, obviously).

I have been known to wear sunglasses indoors, if I do it's because I've forgotten my proper glasses so my choice is look like a twat or walk into things!

I have poor eyesight and as a result my lenses let too much light in so I wear sunglasses for around 9 months if the year, otherwise I struggle to see and eyes stream, if I have a costa cup in my hand it's a cup of tea that I am drinking, not an accessory ffs

Op I am with you, I don't care and don't look out for these things and it wouldn't cross my mind to judge for these things

Sun glasses look cool so of course people wear them, same as anything we do to make ourselves look better and feel more together.

Take away coffee, one of life's greatest simple pleasures in the face of a shit day with smallies driving you up the wall if you can afford them but I can understand people not so keen on coffee not understanding that.

Performance parenting, let people get on with it, it gives them a feeling of doing stuff as per all the fucking articles holding mums to randsome.

I do worry about the rage people feel about others just doing their thing. That is a greater danger to people's well being and mental health.

Ransom

Wow, must tell my dad. He wears sunglasses inside and outside due to eye problems. His eyes cant cope with light.

Performance parenting. So annoying.
In a stately home cafe the other day:
'Look at the peacock!'
'Oh look at the cheeky peacock!
'Oh the peacock's stolen a sandwich!'
And on and on in a piercing voice...

I wear sunglasses a lot because I have photosensitive epilepsy,

I like any coffee and have been known to have a takeaway cup,

Can't stand loud parenting but then I don't have kids so it would annoy me.

"Performance parenting. So annoying.
In a stately home cafe the other day:
'Look at the peacock!'
'Oh look at the cheeky peacock!
'Oh the peacock's stolen a sandwich!'
And on and on in a piercing voice..."

WTF? that's anormal conversation with a small child.

*a normal anormal is being bothered by that conversation.