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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 · 07/12/2017 09:46

I bow to your janetty wisdom soup!!!

soupforbrains · 07/12/2017 09:47

ginger oh shit... I so did Janet the Janet terminology (not janetology, that would be the study of Janets and who wants to do that?!)

I'm so sorry everyone.

gingergenius · 07/12/2017 09:48

@soupforbrains Grin

QuilliamCakespeare · 07/12/2017 09:59

@Plornish I may have dreamed this but I'm sure there's a Farrow and Ball paint colour called Elephant's Breath. Poncetastic!

Gingernaut · 07/12/2017 10:05

Yup. breath/paint-colours/farrow-ball/fcp-product/100229

Elephant's Breath reads as an uplifting mid grey with its hint of magenta, but can become almost lilac in the cooler light of west facing rooms.

Gingernaut · 07/12/2017 10:06

Okay, try that again...Xmas Confused

breath/paint-colours/farrow-ball/fcp-product/100229

Gingernaut · 07/12/2017 10:08

I'm copying and pasting the whole link, but it's abbreviating to nonsense.

I am not Janetting website links Xmas Blush

No Janet you can’t OWN running
ThumbWitchesAbroad · 07/12/2017 10:08

ginger -- to be fair, I can't remember the exact year, whether it was 1991, 1992 or 1993 - it's all a bit hazy! I know it was one of those years though. So maybe we were there at the same time! Grin

It seems very un-Janetty to share though...

gingergenius · 07/12/2017 10:13

@Gingernaut - you just Janeted Farrow and Ball too!!!

gingergenius · 07/12/2017 10:14

@ThumbWitchesAbroad yes fair point. I'll only concede if you can wax lyrical about your favourite pieces!

CountessOfAldi · 07/12/2017 10:29

As a young teen, I knew a girl at school who Janeted Kickers shoes. She wore them and she’d ‘worn them since year 7’ and she would fall out with anyone else who got a pair because SHE WORE THEM FIRST. As an adult I bet she’s still Janeting her arse off.

gingergenius · 07/12/2017 10:32

My favourites are music Janets. The ones who 'discovered' an artist before everyone else.

I used to know a Manet who did this about the spice girls: When 'wannabe' came out he stated that it's was ok but he preferred their earlier stuff!!!!

PuppyMonkey · 07/12/2017 10:43

This is great, my Dsis is a Janet of the highest order on absolutely everything - toys, all school subjects, university, having babies, having dogs, gardening, David Bowie, all shops, menopause, breast screening, everything.

I have been a journalist nearly 30 years but she is more of a journalist than me as she did well in O level English in 1976.

Lorddenning1 · 07/12/2017 10:43

FFS I think I may be a Janet :(

Me and my Sis was pregnant at the same time, I was pregnant first and told her my baby name that i loved but other half was unsure, fast forward around 6 months and she stole MY NAME!!!!!!!! and then because she was having twins she used a variation of MY NAME to name the other,,,,,, I INVENTED THE NAME AND IT WAS MINE!!!!!!!

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 07/12/2017 10:44

ginger - my favourite pieces are, and always have been, the melted clocks. I quite like the elephants too, but the clocks always win.

I think we're safe to share though - the fact that you gave an option to concede, and I considered sharing, suggest that neither of us are actually Janets at all! Grin

Gingernaut · 07/12/2017 10:45

gingergenius.. Nope. I'm an Anti-Janet as regards Farrow & Ball.

Dulux all the way AFAIC.

Although, ask me how to stabilise a surface for paint. I can Janet painting techniques. Blush

Gingernaut · 07/12/2017 10:47

I used to know a Manet who did this about the spice girls: When 'wannabe' came out he stated that it's was ok but he preferred their earlier stuff!!!!

GrinXmas GrinGrinXmas GrinGrinXmas GrinGrinXmas Grin

soupforbrains · 07/12/2017 10:55

I wonder how Janetsadick is getting on with the original Janet....

Do you think she's been arrested for stapling Janet's head to her trainers?

OVienna · 07/12/2017 10:59

oldlaundbooth Wed 06-Dec-17 22:03:57

*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 )*

Um...I had to emigrate to escape the Janet's in America. However, whenever I'm back I 'own' Britain. Well, I have to compete with the Janet's who think they know more about it than I do. "Have you ever heard a real Yorkshireman speak?" as they roll out their Last of the Summer Wine DVD. "Yes, my husband, in fact."

MyToeHurtsBetty · 07/12/2017 11:08

I think I'm going to have to concede defeat in Janneting... as in I'm more a Jack of all trades and Jannet of none... :D

Imchangingmyname · 07/12/2017 11:14

My cousin has Janeted parenting, via Facebook. She is the only one to ever have been a parent and she is the best at it.

gingergenius · 07/12/2017 11:58

@ThumbWitchesAbroad 😘

FreudianSlurp · 07/12/2017 12:04

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Tomhardyshadabath · 07/12/2017 12:34

My friend and her sisters, whilst growing up, used to refer to their vaginas as Janets. I don't want the responsibility of Janetting vaginas but I am going to Janet all vagina-related euphemisms, foof, lady garden, fanny etc. In fact, I am thinking of calling my own vagina Janet now!

KoalasAteMyHomework · 07/12/2017 12:46

Someone tried to Janet my name once.
Fuck off Janet, its MY NAME. And yours is clearly Janet anyway you liar.