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No Janet you can’t OWN running

582 replies

Janetsadick · 05/12/2017 17:54

It’s not “your” hobby.

Nobody is stealing your thunder by taking up running.

If you faux roll your eyes and mention it again I’m going to throw a fucking stapler at your head

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gingergenius · 05/12/2017 22:59

It is. Actually could you own some too. I'm feeling slightly faint at the thought

MytToeHurtsBetty · 05/12/2017 23:01

It's a massive responsibility. Quite difficult to get someone over to feed/exersize them when on hols etc

gingergenius · 05/12/2017 23:03

Well yes. Gingers are a handful. You have raised some interesting points....

MycatsaPirate · 05/12/2017 23:04

Please op, can you sit and hum the Chariots of Fire theme tune when you are at work tomorrow? Even better if you can slo mo run while humming it.

We have a Janet in our lives. She owns Tombolas. I kid you fucking not.

MycatsaPirate · 05/12/2017 23:05

And ... I own all pirate cats.

gingergenius · 05/12/2017 23:06

Fuck! I think my mum is a Janet. She owns EVERYTHING. But only if I've expressed an interest in it.

leccybill · 05/12/2017 23:07

Got a SIL who Janets the fuck out of veganism. Badly gets on my tits.

BathshebaKnickerStickers · 05/12/2017 23:22

I had a friend who owns BIRTH

So without her, none of you, or your ancestors even exist..!!!

NorksAreMessy · 05/12/2017 23:33

I love MumsNet

In fact, I loved it before ANY of you did. (Apart from C0D...but that wasn’t C0D earlier, it was cod)

MumsNet is MINE...I thought of it, MNHQ only had the idea because I thought it first,

So nerrrrrrrr

AaarghUsername · 05/12/2017 23:33

They're always called Janet aren't they?

Pretty sure I used to work with the Running Janet - she really disliked the idea of anyone else daring to strap on a pair of trainers.

She also once put on a performance evaluation that her greatest skill was "looking for problems with things", only to have the manager ask her to re-do the form as "nit-picking" wasn't necessarily a desirable skill in a colleague.

10 points to the person who can guess what she put as her greatest skill instead....

UterusUterusGhali · 05/12/2017 23:36

I knew a Janet who Janetted Bob Dylan.

Dunno if Bob had any say in the matter.

elephantoverthehill · 05/12/2017 23:37

Can I get the 10 points for suggesting your Janet's greatest attribute was her positive relationship with all staff?

KeepServingTheDrinks · 05/12/2017 23:39

Dammit. I was going to suggest humming the Chariots of Fire theme, only to have a pp not 4 or 5 from the end doing it first. Gives Pirate a Death Stare.

Can't wait to hear what happens tomorrow!

JoggingJanet · 05/12/2017 23:43

HmmAngry

Originalfoogirl · 05/12/2017 23:45

Can't wait to hear what happens tomorrow

I own tomorrow. Nothing will happen unless I sanction it.

NorksAreMessy · 05/12/2017 23:48

:) jogging well played!

Sn0tnose · 06/12/2017 00:12

Janet in my office (she is actually called Janet) claimed my good idea as her own and wrote it in the minutes. Fucking bastard Janets.

Oh my goodness, my office Janet (who is also called Janet) is always nicking ideas from other people and claiming them as her own. What happens when you get two different Janets who both think that they own ideas? Will there have to be a 'Janet off'? A fight to the death to ascertain who is the more superior Janet?

Lovecat · 06/12/2017 00:18

My sister is called Janet. She does running. I'm really hoping that this isn't her... Shock

SukiPutTheEarlGreyOn · 06/12/2017 00:28

I've changed my name by deed poll to Janet and I own all pavements, roads and paths. And also those there green bits and brown muddy bits that might one day become paths/roads. So, faux Janet had better get a big old pair of suckers for her trainers because she's running on the ceiling from now on. No, wait that's called suckering and I own that too. And ceilings.

PamplemousseRouge · 06/12/2017 00:33

I've got a friend who's a bit of an avocado Janet. Because she loves them, nobody else can touch them 🙄

PamplemousseRouge · 06/12/2017 00:35

Suki what about public parks? Do you also own those? Wink (Maybe they're part of the 'green' areas you own actually... sorry, my mistake!)

gingergenius · 06/12/2017 00:36

I think this thread could actually Janet the fuck out of Classics!!!

yumyumpoppycat · 06/12/2017 00:37

I don't actually know anyone called Janet Envy - I own not knowing anyone called Janet.

PamplemousseRouge · 06/12/2017 00:38

Haha I think it could gingergenius! Grin I'm a bit sad that I don't actually know any Janets in real life - feel like I'm missing out a bit... 😂

DonkeyOaty · 06/12/2017 00:54

I own eating Jordans* straight from the packet for a post midnight snackette, cba to bowl it.

  • Not Jordan or indeed Jordan but Jordans. No apostrophe? Yup. Mine. Hah.