No Janet you can’t OWN running

[Janetsadick]

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

AIBU?

And now I own posting things twice by accident.

(Done. Contract signed)

OP there’s quite a few of us on here who run (although clearly we all copied Janet) - if we all sent you our marathon and half marathon medals, you could distribute them to all your colleagues to wear and just watch Janet’s head EXPLODE.....

I’m afraid I had to Janet gin earlier this week, because some CF was trying to Janet gin. I made some passing remark about how coffee wasn’t going to cut it that morning, but a G&T might, and the clients (a couple) said (seemingly as one) “ah..but which gin? That’s very important”.. right, challenge offered, challenge accepted. I suddenly remembered a year ago finding a small distillery that had started making gin that doesn’t seem to have hit the shops around here anyway, and waxed lyrical about it for some time. Everything about it was new, secret, poetic, and all-round trouncing.

They were more than peeved to have been so out-Janeted. Not my finest hour as they were patients .

Iborgia I think when you are goaded into Janetting it's almost the worst because afterwards you, realise that you just Janetted and feel the shame.

I'm ashamed to say I think I may have inadvertently Janeted Game of Thrones. I came to it late in the game having totally pooh-poohed it. And now I enter great online discussions exercising my immense knowledge on the subject.

Oh the shame.
#Janet

Thanks Soup for understanding hte shame - I think it was the astonishing combination of smug married Janet and Manet that did for me.

Ginger definitely get a pass for Janetting GOT, it seems built for the very purpose.

My office Janet owns Disneyland. And possibly Florida. But disowns Disneyland Paris, for 'tis not in Florida. No one can go to Disneyland FLORIDA without Janet's wisdom and guidebooks. And tips for queueing.

Iborgia I understand, a Janet & Manet couple must have been unbearable. The important thing is that you realise you did wrong, you've accepted that and owner up to it and now you won't do it again :)

The thing with GoT is that SO many people seem to think that they have Janetted it, or attempt to Janet it, it's quite hard to tell who the Janettiest Janet is.... maybe there need to be some sort of GoT Janet-Off...

Basically anyone who watched GoT from series 1 is a Janet - you can't Janet GoT if you watched it later that that - Obviously, tsch {rolls eyes}

Unless you had already read the books, I am not sure what a Manet is, but in that case you might be one of those...

I am St Janet of Albania

My Janet is a nine year old girl who knows EVERYTHING about cheese. It's true, she told me this morning while she was getting her lunch ready for school.
"I know EVERYTHING about cheese, mum"
"Do you really, sweetheart?" I said, wanting to be supportive.
It was only when she couldn't put a name to the orange block I held before her, that I realised that she is a Janet. And a bloody lying one at that.

yumyum some pages back it was agreed that the male version of a Janet is a Manet (to rhyme with Janet, not pronounced Ma-nay, just to keep you entirely up to date). HTH.

soupforbrainsIborgia Allow me to Janet. I read the books years ago, you know. (GoT, obviously, not all books ever)

I own cross stitch.

I started with one of my mother's cast off kits and have carried on with it long after some of the regular magazines have gone out of print.

I mean, once upon a time, the craft and lifestyle shelves were heaving with cross stitch magazines for beginners, De Agostini collected part works, magazines of alphabets and so on.

Now you can't move for paper and card crafts, knitting, crochet and mindfulness magazines.

But I'm in this for the long haul. I'll keep on cross stitching and I'll be here.......waiting to pounce......ready for when the fashions change again and cross stitch comes back 'in' again.

I'll be there in the office, by the water cooler, lurking in the canteen, ostentatiously flapping thread and cloth in my spare moments but barely giving my latest project a glance as I look about the place for someone struggling and giving you unsolicited advice, showing you my (enviable) portfolio and telling you it takes years to become an expert.

Colouring in? Pah!

#Janet #Crossstitch

Why can't we like comments?
Some of these responses have had me creasing at my desk.

I have accidently created a new mumsnetter. Apologies to the posters formerly known as soupforbrains and Iborgia who now exist as one entity in a Star Trek Voyager Neelix/Tuvok type transporter accident thingie. Oh, Apparently I have not had enough coffee.

Chow That's ok. I quite like Iborgia so it's not too bad...

Also just for the record I am not Janetting GoT.... I don't want that sort of responsibility.

That’s so cool, how did you do that?? But you can’t blame coffee. I knew that if I just bided (bid?) my time, my Janet would come to me. It is coffee. You have no need for more coffee, you simply need the right kind of coffee. You are unlikely to know what this is, and it is unfair that you will probably never discover it as we do not know each other, and therefore I cannot Janet coffee at you for 90 minutes straight.

I do feel so very ‘umble at being merged with soup, she’s quite a dame.

Now this GoT thing is interesting and it raises a question...
Is a Janet someone A) who is genuinely knowledgeable about a subject and tries to own it, or someone who has, B) come to something late in the game with no prior knowledge, got obsessed/immerses and then Janet-splains to all and sundry ad nauseum, as if she herself discovered said topic.

I don't want to get my Janet terminology (janetology?) wrong so would appreciate some clarity.... for my part, I'm erring towards B... thoughts???

ginger I would say that a Janet is not quite either of those definitions.

A Janet is a person (f) [see also Manet for males] who believes that they know everything about, or is best at a certain activity or topic. They therefore believe that they are the ultimate 'queen' of said topic/activity.

There are then 2 subsets of Janet as @AnachronisticCorpse pointed out earlier;

^Janet #1 owns stuff and gets really pissy if other people try it.

Janet #2 owns stuff and is therefore the world expert on it.

Actually there’s also Janet #3 who does both, gets narky about people doing it and about them doing it wrong. ^

@soupforbrains you Janeted janetology!!!!!!

I think it's B) too gingergenius.

Sorry I should have added that it is irrelevant as to whether they DO or do not in fact possess the claimed knowledge or talent.