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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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TheOtherGirl · 07/12/2017 12:47

I believe you'll find that I am the GofTs Janet, as I have read all the books no less than 4 times, oh yes. And have watched every season numerous times.

Live with it.

KoalasAteMyHomework · 07/12/2017 12:47

@MyToeHurtsBetty better to be a Jack than a Janet

AdoraBell · 07/12/2017 12:50

I’m not a Janet. And couldn’t run to save my life this week.

gingergenius · 07/12/2017 13:03

I work in the wedding industry and I get guests trying Janet me about my job EVERY SINGLE TIME!

MintyChops · 07/12/2017 13:17

I own Peru having been there first in 1999 then again in 2002, having FULLY COMMITTED to owning it and all of South America by living in Guatemala for 3 months to learn Spanish. Owning somewhere in their own language? Done.

SherbertFizz · 07/12/2017 13:47

Could we add 'to Janet' as a new verb in the OED?
I Janet-
You Janet -
He/she/it Janets
Etc. Etc.

ExFriendOfJanet · 07/12/2017 13:49

I've just realised I tried to Janet MN Sad by referring to the good old days. All I have to do now is let you know I was here when it was all fields...

ExFriendOfJanet · 07/12/2017 13:52

SherbertFizz

We could also give examples of use, eg 'She Janets the fuck out of parenting/running/crafting/Peru'

Chinnychinnychinnychib · 07/12/2017 13:57

Ahhhhhh FFS I just woke my ill mother up snorting at the Janet Vagina.

Which would be fine except we’re in the hospice.

I own laughing at vaginas in a hospice.

ExFriendOfJanet · 07/12/2017 14:07

Chinnychinnychinnychib you'd think that's be a niche thing to own but I swear to Janet (appropriate as she is all knowing and powerful), someone on MN will have laughed at vaginas in a hospice.

Glad you're laughing Flowers

SingaSong12 · 07/12/2017 14:10

Pedant corner -
he Manets not Janets, but they Janet and we Janet even if there are men in the group.

Openup41 · 07/12/2017 14:39

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HateIsNotGood · 07/12/2017 15:14

Neighbour's dd's bf is the Manet of 'pet grief'. Our dearest dog had just died but Pet Grief Manet "knew all about that" as his DF once had a dog that died many years ago.

HateIsNotGood · 07/12/2017 15:26

Should add that neighbour's let their dd and her bf Manet and Janet me about everything - because they don't actually know about anything or voice an opinion themselves.

Then after being Manet and Janetsplained to extreme levels they can only wonder why I Absolutely Own (confirmed) the middle-aged super-mass head rotating freak out.

They all stfu now.

HoneyIshrunkthebiscuit · 07/12/2017 15:31

My Sil’s new partner is a Janet (or Brian). He went to the us for 2 weeks three years ago and it’s all he ever talks about ‘in the us they have this’ ‘well in America it’s like this’. Funny thing is DP has actually lived in America at one point yet we have to sit there and have this boychild explain it to us.

RosaDeZoett · 07/12/2017 17:05

Just catagorised another office Janet, she Janet's anyone who has recently died. St. Janet of the recently deceased "oh my god! My neighbour /cousin /postman /chiropodist. I knew her/him sooooo well, I'm devastated!!" She knows everyone, but when they die, She REALLY KNOWS them. She better not Janet me when I die, I'll fucking haunt her.

SherbertFizz · 07/12/2017 17:11

ExFriendOfJanet-good thinking... next step is to wait for it to turn up on Countdown :)

SingaSong12-I stand corrected ;)

ClearEyesFullHearts · 07/12/2017 17:22

A male Janet is a Manet, I believe

And he owns painting.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 07/12/2017 17:34

I completely Janet going to weird weddings. It doesn't matter how odd a wedding you have been to one of the weird weddings that I have been to will totally out-Janet your relatively banal experience.

ringle · 07/12/2017 17:42

You're not the first and you won't be the last!

"I've just realised I tried to Janet MN sad by referring to the good old days. All I have to do now is let you know I was here when it was all fields..."

creamcheeseandlox · 07/12/2017 18:07

Janet and Manet. This thread is the best Grin

holey · 07/12/2017 18:08

When we announced to DM the name we had spent nine fucking months deciding on for DD, our firstborn, she told us we couldn't call her that as my cousin's daughter was called that. Because the son of my dad's brother, who I've seen four times in the last 30 years (and two of those were funerals) had chosen the name for his DD, who was about 9 or 10 at that time, DM had Janetted it on his behalf and was adamant that the name was therefore taken and we couldn't have it. She was most put out and annoyed when we insisted it was the name we had chosen and we damn well would have it. Fast forward 17 years and my DD has never, ever met the second cousin (or whatever they are to each other) whose name she had apparently stolen so why they couldn't both have it is utterly beyond me.

yumyumpoppycat · 07/12/2017 18:28

This thread has made me realise I am a Janet and actually probably most categories of Janet (bar the one where actually knowledgeable). My DP is also a Manet. I was sad about this and resolved to change until I realised I actually Janet being Janet!

tiddleywinks27 · 07/12/2017 18:49

Janet should be drop kicked into the face!

BerylStreep · 07/12/2017 21:42

Rosa too late. I already Janeted most of South America in 2000, when it was cool and hard work. I was being modest when I only mentioned Peru (as modest as I can be when actually I am a Janet Grin)

But on a serious note, I was a bit put out when my SIL went to Peru, because IT'S MY COUNTRY.