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No Janet you can’t OWN running

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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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hesterton · 06/12/2017 21:53

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Purplealienpuke · 06/12/2017 21:57

Apparently I own constipation.... Just putting it out there.... or not in my case 😩
As you were😂
Janet is a twat. I dislike anyone called Janet, i must own that too 😊

leccybill · 06/12/2017 21:58

She's not owning cocktails now aswell is she Shock

No Janet you can’t OWN running
oldlaundbooth · 06/12/2017 22:01

She is very fond of saying, 'well just rest Sunday'

^

Oh yeah, baby baby baby

oldlaundbooth · 06/12/2017 22:03

Do the Americans have Janet's?

I can imagine Ina Garten being a Janet

(buddering stuff though, not running, well maybe running, but only after Jeffrey and budder )

TracyBeakerSoYeah · 06/12/2017 22:04

I own Prague Smile

mummmy2017 · 06/12/2017 22:07

Often wondered what you call this one...
she joins a club offers to do everything she can, upsets people and leaves in a huff.
Repeat with next group.
but it's always other people who are at fault.
How can a grown woman have 6 jobs in 4 years and be bullied in everyone.

RubyFlint · 06/12/2017 22:09

I don’t know anyone called Janet but I know enough Janet’s.

WhatIsGoingOnNow · 06/12/2017 22:13

Ask her if shes the one who thought it was her idea to breathe...

Slapdasherie · 06/12/2017 22:17

Yes, it's true there are sub-genres of Janeting.

My Janet also janets the shit out of being a member of my family.

And technically she was there first as the first born, but she has never forgiven my 3 brothers and I for hustling in on her patch.

WhatIsGoingOnNow · 06/12/2017 22:18

Well thinking about it Janet may well have thought of running.
Does she wear a skirt made of animal skin and walk around with a club by any chance? 😂 You must ask her what anti ageing cream she uses 🤣

PaddingtonBearHardStare · 06/12/2017 22:18

We have a Janet in our office. She owns whatever the current topic of conversation is in the office. She knows everything about everything and back again. We also have another Janet in the office who is exactly the same. The conversations are very funny to listen to as a bystander.

Names have been changed to protect identifies but one of them is called Janet

ExFriendOfJanet · 06/12/2017 22:27

I have just de-registered after YEARS to post on this thread because it made me laugh so much...

I had a friend Janet who OWNED every city she ever visited in the 80s. Every time anyone went anywhere from 1992 onwards, Berlin, Jerusalem, Paris, New York, it was just such a touristy place with no soul left and we should have seen it in the 80s. I did point out that people who visited in the 70s could say that to her but she was having none of it. Everywhere's a shit tourist destination now, we should have all gone in the 80s when it was gritty. Fuck off Janet.

Thank you MN, this brings me back to the good old days Grin

ExFriendOfJanet · 06/12/2017 22:31

TracyBeakerSoYeah

Unless you went to Prague in the 80s then you didn't see the real Prague. My Janet already owns it.

soupforbrains · 06/12/2017 22:35

@mummmy2017 I think I know this one.... I have known one of those...

She joins things, takes on all the responsibilities then fails/flakes out of things and flees the scene of the crime yet somehow it's never her fault... over and over.

I call this a Susan.

HidingBehindTheWallpaper · 06/12/2017 22:43

I own Prague.

I own Prague and I have the paperwork to prove it.

Pamplemoo · 06/12/2017 22:43

@DJBaggySmalls I'm crying at Anti-Janet Grin Can I have it on a t-shirt please, or perhaps a badge?

Cracker09jacker · 06/12/2017 22:44

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gingergenius · 06/12/2017 22:46

@Cracker09jacker I LOVE the Good Place! And we love Janet!
I total Janet The Good Place.
I Janet Janet.

Slapdasherie · 06/12/2017 22:46

Cracker, yes, yes she is.

Never doubt that the Janet-matrix is real.

soupforbrains · 06/12/2017 22:47

OMG cracker I'm watching that at the moment and hadn't clicked. You are SO right.

Except that Janet in the Good Place isn't as much of an arsehole as Janet's usually are. Far less irritating. Also she actually DOES know everything... which is far less annoying than someone who just THINKS they know everything.

I don't think she can be their leader but she may be their inspiration and subject of worship....

Pamplemoo · 06/12/2017 22:48

@ExFriendofJanet me too! Lurked for years, but this thread was too good to miss.

gingergenius · 06/12/2017 22:48

AND ...I Janet Venice because I went there twice and found a Salvador's Dali exhibition by accident and bought something. So I also Janet Salvador Dali because I practically know the guy!!!!!!
Xmas Grin

frieda909 · 06/12/2017 23:30

Has anyone figured out what male Janets are called yet? Are they still Janets? Or can we call them Brads, perhaps?

My old flatmate dated a total Brad who owned cooking. All cooking. Any time I was making dinner he’d come in and be all ‘Oh you’re cooking, I see, what spices are you going to use? Hmm, yes, good choice, but I’d go easy on the paprika if I were you. Oh, you’re chopping the onion like that? That’s one way but here, let me show you how I do it’

NOBODY ASKED YOU, BRAD.

soupforbrains · 06/12/2017 23:32

frieda I think 'Manet' (rhymes with Janet.* Not like the artist) was agreed on.*

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