To ask the most bizzare 'facts' you have read on mums net

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Everyone obviously thinks what they are telling you is true but sometimes their sources or opinions are not factually correct.

What is the most ridiculous or bizzare fact/opinion you have seen ?

Um, no - like women doing odd things TO their........

That it’s absolutely fine to go to a wedding empty handed as it’s your presence not a present that’s required. No it’s not, it’s really not ok.

That when you go to someone’s house for dinner you provide your own drinks and you don’t share. You being your wine and drink your wine, your friend brings her wine and drinks her wine. Just odd IMO

Everyone on MN talks about their degree and being a graduate as if it’s something special and important. I can safely say that not only have I never given my degree a single moments thought since the minute I left university unless I’ve been making a job application I don’t recall ever discussing it with anyone at all and haven’t the first clue if most of my friends I’ve made as an adult have a degree, what it’s in or where they studied as it’s not something which ever comes up in conversation where as on MN it appears to be a very important defining factor

That if a man really weelly loves you,he’ll marry you.otherwise you’re the trial run girl
That a chicken feeds 9 for three days and makes soup,sandwiches,risotto
That a spa day and/or highlights is a sensible response to any emotional crisis
That social workers have quota of kids to snatch from their families
That all monies must be family money if woman sahm otherwise he’s controlling
monies must not be shared if the woman is sole the wage earner.hes a cocklodger

Puns don't need to be exact homophones for people to get the joke It took me quite a while to get the joke and I know quite a bit about phonetics and onset and rime (yes I mean rime).

That, if you are really poor and living in really straitened circumstances, all you need to do is get a better job and earn more money! That or take in ironing or dog walking in order to earn the tens of thousands of pounds a year that you need in order to afford heating/a car/bills.

Oh, and you might need to go to university to get more qualifications in order to get this better job. Even if you've already been and have a good degree...

That people should LTB if their DP dares to go for a few drinks with work/mates and leaves his partner to do the DCs bathtime/bedtime on their own for 1 night.

Your man is having affair if he takes a call on mobile,and doesn’t immediately announce who it is

Oh oh oh oh this is a funny one. All men who don't want vasectomies are evil. Even if he is your casual boyfriend of 2 weeks, you can ask him to get a vasectomy and if he doesn't want to, you should be ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGED

That trans women are the same as actual women.

But surely the words 'shorn' and 'Shaun' are still pretty similar, even if you pronounce the 'r' in one of them?

Maybe for some people but in my accent they aren't even vaguely similar. I had no idea that it was meant to be a play on words until I read it on mumsnet.

Mn is full of sofa psychiatrists who can assess narcissistic traits,and sociopathy online and all in the absence of having met the person.

Anyone argument between a man and woman can be reduced to hes gaslighting

If you don’t have joint accounts and family money you’re not a committed family unit
Babies & Children who attend nursery FT grow up to be dysfunctional fire setters.there is research

Ah, well, I guess I thought that something having the same starting consonant cluster and the same final consonant and only one syllable with a very similar vowel sound would be vaguely similar. I would have thought the consonantal assonance would have been more important than it seems to be. I've just listened to the word 'shorn' prounounced in lots of different accents from across the UK and US and in all of them it sounds to me very similar to Shaun - there's just an 'r' in some of them. They all have a very similar vowel sound. It's not as different as 'sheep' and 'sharp' for instance.

But anyway I understand that for some people the pun isn't very obvious.

Except some women on MN are clearly being financially abused.

If you don’t have joint accounts and family money you’re not a committed family unit

Usuallly thats true in regard to the posts people are actually making. There are always a few that like to pretend its just fine and perfectly feminist for a man to keep all his money while his partner can't buy a thing.

If the household chores and looking after children isn’t a perfect 50/50 split your DH is a nasty abusive arse and you absolutely must LTB. Even if there is a legit reason like the husband working long hours FT.

That gullible has been taken out of the dictionary.

Wow Sunset I admire the research you've done on the controversial subject of the Shaun/shorn pun.

All monies shared (esp his) not yours mind cause that makes him cocklodger

That women over 60 are frail little old ladies and must be treated and spoken about as such. Even though the retirement age is 67, so they may well be high flying professionals, in Mumsnet land it is all 'your poor mum, at her age, you must make allowances etc etc.'

Not saying DHs should get away with nothing, it’s just the idea that it absolutely MUST be 50/50 or your relationship is doomed.

You must give your unmarried partner an ultimatum to marry you.or you leave him

That if you were with someone and didn't declare very loudly On The First Date that you didn't want any more dc - even if you didn't know it at the time - that you're a cruel bitch and should die slowly and painfully on the spit roast of MN wrath, or sth. Not bitter, no no no.

That grandparents only fall into one of two camps - either completely disinterested, only seen the DC once in 27 years, no Christmas/birthday presents and cannot remember their names, or overinvested to an unhealthy extent, calling your DC their 'baby' and wanting to take them to live with them and bring them up.

There are none that quite like their GC but work hard and don't have loads of time to spend with them but do see them when they can.

That people whose partners went out the night before and didn't return home the next morning should simply go about their day as normal and not worry at all.

Or anything where posters' solutions consist of shutting off natural human instincts and emotions.