To ask the silliest things people have said to you. (Title edited by MNHQ)

[Mightymelon]

Mine’s just told me that when DH and I have a daughter (not anytime soon it would seem) I will have to stop dying my hair as it sets a bad example but it would be fine if we had sons.
She has a daughter, and has been dying her hair since 1972... 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️🙄

Does anyone else’s Mil say rediculous things you have no idea how to respond to or just mine?

Regale me with strange MIL stories so I don’t feel so weirded out 😂😂

My Granny owned a Bentley and after my DGF died she employed a chauffeur. She was in the car when they pulled in for petrol, and wound down the window, waved the attendant over and gave him a guinea, saying 'fill her up please and keep the change'. It was 1977. She'd been carrying a guinea in her bag for 5 years after they ceased to be legal tender!

The guinea coin was replaced by the pound in 1816, so your grandmother must have been a great age.

I dunno, I've seen many "stupid things your Dh says" threads

What an unpleasant premise for a thread.

to all you miffed MILs on the thread

Qcumber
Let me remind you of the thread title
"To ask to hear the stupid things that’s come out of your MIL’s mouth"

MIL have been the butt of jokes for years. Why is that? Why not FIL or BIL? Older women are not respected in this society and I feel all the MIL jokes are just part of that.

Ohhh yes. My MIL is unbelievable sometimes.

“I’m glad MrZiggiestardust chose you, you’re so lucky...”

Ummm ok, thanks? I’m so glad I was chosen by him? How incredibly lucky I am that he chose me, I had nothing to do with this at all.

Also when we were having shutter blinds measured up, she said right in front of the guy:

“Waste of a perfectly good window, that. You want to get yourself some nets up, it’s like a fishbowl in here.”

Well, mine told me I needed to “just get over” her wanting her paedophile partner to have contact with our children (after he abused the ones in his family. That’s not MIL hating. I genuinely really liked her like the 8 years I knew her before that moment!

Pretty much any of the many and varied reasons she gave me for why my babies were crying.

Some MILs are idiots, I’m afraid. I have to grit my teeth with mine sometimes. If someone wanted to start a ‘things that your FIL says that annoy you’ thread then please do; id have plenty to add I’m sure!

“Childbirth doesn’t hurt. I don’t know why women make such a fuss about it”. After I’d recently had a fairly traumatic birth with forceps and episiotomy 🙄

"flowers to all you miffed MILs on the thread"

Extraordinary to be so lacking in imagination that you can't conceive of people speaking out on behalf of a group they do not themselves belong to!

My MIL is a very specific case, and unlike every other person in my world I am unable to tell her to can it (like I would my own family if they said something über out there) or cut her off. She's rude, obnoxious and derogatory, inherently racist, and generally a massive arsehole.

But, rather than MIL bash, here are some treats from a twat I know...

In a big loud voice in marks and Spencer's in Birmingham... "These are nice for the Asians" holding up a trouser and tunic outfit

"It is dairy free, look it says made with plants" about flora, the milk one, for my daughter with CMPA

"Why is your house so messy?" When I was 7 months pregnant and working full time as a teacher

"Well I managed to work when the children were little" (yes, for 2 hours a day as a lunchtime supervisor)

Oh and she decided to "help" in the garden the other day and ripped out my clematis for no reason!

Mine told me to make sure and not push my newborn baby into the traffic when out walking, on footpaths. Also sat in my house when said baby was 1 week old listing the benefits of breast feeding (which wasn't working for me!), should have told her to STFU. Lots of others but I've blocked them out!

Women bitching about women. Lovely

Oh god too many to list really.

Not knowing who Freddie Mercury is despite growing up in the 70's, and not under a rock at that, pissed me off the most for some reason.

Women bitching about women. Lovely

you do know that men can have MIL and post on here too don't you?

Oh and when I was pregnant and off work with PGP towards the end, she said all I needed was to get out walking, I couldn't even get myself up from the couch!

"Are you absolutley sure you want to get married? It's not too late to call it off."

To DH. The night before our wedding. May she RIP.

Ah yes the MIL joke, the specialty of comedians like Les Dawson.

So nice to see MN carrying on in his place now he's no long around to do it himself.

And the ' isn't she sleeping through' comments when DD was 3 months hit the spot.

And the look of horror at eating cake when I was 3 months post partum and still overweight still grates. Mind you this woman serves shredded iceberg lettuce with pie so what can I say

Yeah, pigsdofly, we love talking trash on here. Long may it continue

My MIL couldn't understand why we weren't letting DD have an Easter egg.
She was 3 months old at Easter - apparently I should have let her suck on it!

Urbanbeetler the guinea remained legal tender until 1971.

Anyone on mumsnet for more than a day would know that the title of this thread is deliberate shit stirring. Yes MIL's can say some stupid things. As can everyone else.

Mine ex mil wanted some jeggings and went to m&s to buy some and I was with her. She marched up to an assistant and asked her where the jiggers were!