Only on MN ...

[cathf]

Not a TAAT as such, but inspired by a response on a thread running at the moment.
It got me thinking of the differences between MN and my RL friends and acquaintances, and things that are accepted wisdom on MN that no-one I know in real life cares about at all.
I will start off:

1. Little girls who wear pink clothing, and gendered clothing in general;
2. Scented sanitary towels;
3. Fruit Shoots
4. People cuddling/touching/talking to your child;

The amount of threads and angst over these topics is staggering, yet no-one I know would even think any of the above were worth discussing, never mind getting worked up about. Anymore?

@amazingpoddlehairdo
Go douse yourself and it in gallons of Zoflora! (I have one too. No one can shit in a straight line in this house!)

There are people on here who claim that they can smell a scented sanitary towel through a person's clothes

Why not rehome a greyhound?

I'm looking for ideas for a short break, anywhere but Prague

How about Prague?

I love Mumsnet

Oh the classic one

"I'm a single mum, I work full time I barely have a penny to my name and my house is a dump, the stress is just too much."

First two posts:

"Why don't you get a cleaner"

"Spa day?"

I do know someone in RL who said no visitors for 3 weeks after she got home from hospital (so 4 weeks since baby was born). Her family fell out with her over it.

Single mum. “Struggling with work and childcare. Job not particularly well-paid so I really can’t afford to up my childminder hours.”

“Could you get a live-in nanny?”

🙄🙄🙄

Locking the front door.

You'd have to be actively inhaling to smell a scented sani on a woman. They don't smell THAT strong🙄

There was a thread a year or so ago about the tyranny of curtains, and how only lemming, rule-following idiots got suckered into the 'madness' of opening and closing your curtains every day.

I think I needed a week off MN after that one.

There was a thread a year or so ago about the tyranny of curtains, and how only lemming, rule-following idiots got suckered into the 'madness' of opening and closing your curtains every day

I wasn't around a year ago but just call me Lemming! There I was thinking we opened curtains, during the day, to let in light. And then closed them at night so nobody could peek in. What kind of fool am I 🤦‍♀️

The lunch box threads always make me a bit ashamed. They are always quite fancy and well pretty adventurous. Where as most five year olds I know get a sandwich, a yoghurt, some Mini Cheddars and a string cheese plus the obligatory piece of fruit which goes back and forth in the lunch bag until its finally bitten once and left to rot.

I've worked in schools and no one brings lunches as healthy as the ones on Mumsnet.

Oh! And the parents who are mortified that a stranger spoke to, or even worse - TOUCHED their baby 😱

Poor baby! 🤣

What about the posters who are aghast that their MIL kissed their own grandchild??? Something is wrong somewhere...

‘My husband is unpleasant to the children - he pushes them/shouts at them/abuses them emotionally/bullies them/humiliates them/neglects them. He leaves me very short of money, and I can’t buy things they need . . . ‘ ‘Leave the bastard!’

‘I’m worried about my ex having my children in the holidays, and have concerns that he hasn’t got the money to look after them, as he pays me no maintenance for them . . . ‘ ‘Contact isn’t linked to maintenance! You can’t tell him what to do with the children on his time!’

Totally agree about lunchboxes .

But - I am that person (well, haven't read previous threads but I have done this) who invited the boys who 'bully' my DS to his party. Sometimes I think it's important to set a good example and rise above other people's bad behaviour.

However - I'm sure it depends on the level of bullying. In this case it's more that a number of boys wind him up (he has ASD) and he tends to retaliate, so they are often involved in arguments or fights. He can also be annoying or start things too. Anyway - we invited the whole class so when he asked if he could not have this one boy who is the worst, I said no - we would set a good example and not miss one person out. There were 30 kids all running riot around the garden so they didn't have to spend time together, and it was all fine.

They still fall out at school (although they sometimes get on OK) - and I can't say the other child is really my cup of tea (could fill a whole other thread.....) - but boys do fight and I wouldn't want to miss out one boy out of the whole class.

I can’t recall ever discussing sanitary protection with anyone.

Except when I can’t find the sanitary protection aisle in an unfamiliar shop and want to know where it is.

I can’t recall overhearing any conversations about sanitary protection either. Or any fictional conversations outside of adverts. It’s just not something that women talk about in real life IME.

So I’m a bit baffled at the notion that not having heard people complain about scented sanitary towels must mean that no one minds them.

People acting like having anyone outside your ‘little family’ (i.e. parents and baby) visit said baby in the first month post birth is basically the equivalent of giving up on parental bonding and throwing your baby into the wilderness to be raised by rabid badgers.

I have a friend who did that whole babymoon thing. Although just for a fortnight. It really upset both sets of grandparents, and my friend got really upset about all the grandparents not understanding why they weren’t allowed to visit. All the grandparents lived nearby. There was a lot of ranting about it from my friend. It sounded like a whole lot of unnecessary aggravation for everyone, including the new “little family”.

Donthugmeimscared and AlexaAmbidextra

Spot on! I get the same at work too. So I guess in this, at least, MN and RL are pretty well matched.

Scented sanitary towels

We see a lot of patients who have issues due to these. It’s a clear issue.

Passionate mistrust of 'the male class'.

Admiration for obnoxiously outspoken people / children.

The need to 'call out'.

The belief that the world is out to get you because of your sex.

MN Is full of virtue signallers suggesting behaviours that they and most others would never do in RL.

The one that sticks in my mind was a poster whose in laws had offered to take the entire family to Disney but OP really couldn't stand the idea of it and didn't want to go. Firstly it's not all about YOU and I bet your kids would love it, then a few posts later someone came on and earnestly suggested that OP turn her in laws down and entreat them to donate the money they would have spent on taking the family away, to a children's charity so that some disadvantaged children could go camping instead. As if! I was imagining my own in laws expressions if I suggested that.

As for fruit shoots, I am the only person I know in my RL who never gave them to my children. We always had water bottles but every single other parent I know gave them to their kids.

Recommending a product in an OP in style and beauty...

OP - just tried X mascara, it's really good, would recommend

Other posters - Do you work for X mascara??!! Wow, thanks for that (said in a sarcastic way), are you advertising for this company ???

OP - Ffs I'm recommending a mascara you miserable twats.

The tales of the use of bleach is quite alarming. Gallons of the stuff. I never use any and the smell makes me heave.

Agree about the gendered clothes. I once responded to a poster asking if she should put her son in a family heirloom that was essentially a flowery dress saying I wouldn't -
and got an angry obtuse shouty response 'WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU SAY BOYS CANT WEAR FLOWERY DRESSES??!!!!' Like I was the first and only person to hold such a view. Cracked me up.

I don't know anyone in real life who has gone no contact with family but have heard it a lot on here either posters have done it or advice people to do it ( on some threads I can understand why they would due to awful things that have happened) but I've never heard it mentioned in real life. The having no visitors after having a baby everyone I know has had visitors I've never heard of any one even considering no visitors. The hatred of people saying hun or babe where I live people say it loads it doesn't bother me in the slightest but some people on mn hate it so much but I've never heard anyone complain in real life but its also common to be called pet or love ususlly by older generation.

When someone comes on feeling insecure about their dh going out for meals/drinks with new work colleague who happens to be a young very attractive female, the response is often, "why don't you trust him"?or "would you be like this if it was a male"? . Umm no she wouldn't give two hoots if it was a male.

@Sparklingbrook

Maybe you could fashion a mask, similar to the ones worn in an operating theatre, from a scented sanitary towel? - after all, they are apparently so strongly scented that they can be detected through layers of clothing, so I'm sure a bit of bleach wouldn't be a problem! 😊