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 ?

ITS NOT ILLEGAL TO OPEN SOMEONE ELSES POST (as long as you aren’t doing it to cause the addressee detriment)........ it ain’t hard to understand!

The "spa day will cure everything" one is my favourite, seem that around a couple of times.

The character judgements made with minimal information given, sweepingly prefaced with "OBVIOUSLY" or "CLEARLY" e.g. OP says "my DH went to the supermarket and forgot the milk" respondent says "OBVIOUSLY he has no respect for you and is in fact abusive and you should LTB and change the locks on your jointly owned home".

If you happen to look at someone else's phone and there's a message on the lock screen and you read it, you are invasive, controlling and coercive

I do really enjoy the NC posters who don't want to risk being outed because the post mentions the colour of their front door and everyone will therefore recognise them. I always read those ones.

ShotsFired oh yes! Some people's inability to comprehend that the point of text messages is for them to be sent at the convenience of the sender and read at the convenience of the recipient is astounding.
'My friend posted on FB yesterday saying her kids weren't feeling well. We're all meant to be going to the cinema today so I sent her a text last night asking if the kids were ok and if they'd still be coming. She hasn't replied. AIBU to send another?'
10 Million replies along the lines of 'OP YABVVVVU to send a text message during the night, even if it was 6 pm. How do you know they weren't all asleep and your text woke them up? I'm not surprised she's ignoring you, I wouldn't be your friend either now'.

What is it about some posters who can't grasp the concept of turning your phone off or putting it on silent if you don't want to be disturbed?!

That young people who can't afford housing would be able to if they didn't have an iphone and use starbucks.

You should never let your heating go off. If you keep it on to a set temperature you save money as opposed to letting the house cool down and heat up again.

People who spout this don't seem to realise that the value in not having the heating on all the time is that: you can't afford to have your house at that temperature all the time. It's not a question of what it costs to get it to that temperature: you're just accepting that it's colder. Sometimes you don't heat certain rooms, sometimes you don't heat any rooms, it's just cold and you are spending less or no money on heating at those times.

I also remember a thread about someone who's DC was throwing up in the hotel room hours before they were due to fly off ok holiday. Posters were telling the OP to give her DD calpol, wrap her up warm for the plane and she'd be fine!

The classic MN Chicken lasting the family a whole week of various dinners!

That it would be more nutritious to feed the DC peanut M&Ms than mashed potato.

Oh and that weetabix is a 'treat'. I love a good food thread.

Smart kids will always do well, no matter which school they attend. Don't tutor for 11+.

There is always somebody with a relative from a sink estate school who got into Oxbridge.

And the worst one is that Einstein was not talking till age 3 and did not get to university on his first try. There are some well documented letters from his mum to his grandmother where she describes how fluent he was with his speech at an early age and he did not get into university at first try because he was too young to attend!

@Fauxtatoes "If you expend mores calories than you eat you will lose weight" is factually correct!

I work in property law and the shitty landlord/tenant advice given on here is terrifying.

Raisins are junk food

It's completely normal for 7 year olds to still be waking in the night and you need to learn to deal with it.

There's an Aldi or Lidl in easy distance of everywhere, so if you notice food inflation, it's because you need to shop in Aldi or Lidl.

Food inflation is good because it will solve the obesity rise in the UK.

Everyone's got spare money to save/put in a pension, 'even 5 quid a week'.

Everyone can buy a property if she/he forgoes lattes, going out to eat, gadgets, etc.

Libraries and JobCentres offer unlimited, free access to computers, the net, printing, etc.

Finding life challenging with your SEN child? 'Have you applied for your care package?' Haahahaaa!

'Don't you have a friend/neighbour/family who can babysit/loan you money/drive you to a wedding 100 miles away/look after your 3 kids for two days so you can go to Cousin Sandra's evening do?' after the OP has stated, no friends or family who can help. This one I've heard loads of times in real life, too, usually from HCPs.

that everyone has available family locally to babysit...and spare money to go out

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That young people who can't afford housing would be able to if they didn't have an iphone and use starbucks.

NOt true ALL the time, obviously but Im 35 and would say this applies to the majority of my similarly aged friends who have never bought, if you replace iPhones and Starbucks with expensive clothes / holidays / nights out.

Saying that though that’s I do love in a place when you can get on the housing ladder for £130k and I appreciate it’s harder for people in the SE ect BUT I can totally understand why some people would agree with the original statement.

@Thedriftofstars What is it about some posters who can't grasp the concept of turning your phone off or putting it on silent if you don't want to be disturbed?

Because to a woman every single one of them has a relative who might have a DIRE EMERGENCY AT ANY MINUTE and the poster's mobile phone on maximum volume and with the most obnoxious alert tone is the ONLY way they have of summoning any help whatsoever from anybody in the whole wide world.

(The fact you can set phones to permit specific alerts at certain times is neither here nor there. They must martyr themselves to this cause.)

@19lottie82 Saying that though that’s I do love in a place when you can get on the housing ladder for £130k and I appreciate it’s harder for people in the SE ect BUT I can totally understand why some people would agree with the original stateme

I think it's probably more because they are so far from being possibly ever able to get on the ladder they think "well then fuck it all to hell" and just order another latte... What's the point in having savings if they will only ever be a fraction of what you need for a deposit?

that you must hand over your screaming newborn baby over to your husband who has been out drinking all night and strolled in drunk at 7am. then go out for some me time.
because you will totally relax knowing your child is being minded by a drunken idiot

That the Black Death was a good thing for humanity really. I think the comment was comparing it to Brexit.

That sleep training is tantamount to child abuse and babies will sleep when they're tired - they bloody don't!

oh and how the poster's husband has a hobby that is so unusual , just mentioning it will reveal their real identity .
ha ha ha

If you don’t identify as a feminist you must therefore endorse rape.