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?

If Mumsnet was stirred up and used as a template to produce a woman, Weird Science style, she'd be a thin, angst ridden ball of rage with 101 on speed dial and two pale faced kids called Ptolemy-Bob and Felicity-Lentil. I hate it here.

Lois

Jelly I know I've been on MN too much when I catch myself thinking about 'DD' or telling my husband 'DD did such and such today'. NO!!!

The thing I notice most is the superlatives, the hyperbole on here. An op describes something, AIBU? Posters say she was rude. She defends herself. Posters retaliate with 'you were incredibly rude!' Incredibly? As in, you literally cannot credit it? You've never seen someone or even imagined them being that rude to e.g. Queue jump/ park on double yellows/ not write a thank you note? Your gob is actually smacked?

Also never heard the phrase 'grabby and entitled' in real life. It's mumsnet jargon.

Yes Tot! Also how so many people are "speechless" at how rude some posters can be.

Nobody has ever asked me, or indeed anyone I know, "did you mean to be so rude"?

@LoisWilkerson1 the children would never have hyphenated names!!!

Oh good point. What was I thinking. I also forgot to mention her loyal dh 'Simon'. But then she forgets about him too. Unless he leaves a crumb on the worktop. That means he's having an affair.

Does anyone remember the thread where the OP inherited a house and wanted to sell it but there was an elderly woman living there, who OP didn't know from Adam and it was suggested that OP give this woman the house...

that everyone has a degree or doctorate and if you can't just walking into a 30k plus job you're just not trying hard enough

My daughters name is hyphenated. I regret it.

Thats a terrible name. Do u shorten it to hypha?

The allocated nicknames predetermined before the child is born.
Edward NN Flopsy or Jane NN Loobyloo etc

but I don't often see the more moderate advice of just calling a child's head of year, class teacher or form tutor if in any doubt.
I see that a lot, usually from teachers on here and sensible parents.

My usual response is 'be aware that you may not have the full picture so instead of going in fuming and confrotnational, call the school, speak to the teacher concerned and take it from there'. Any misunderstandings can easily be ironed out, sometimes kids can put a spin on things that minimises their actions or makes out that the teacher is being wholly unreasonable, sometimes teachers make honest mistakes and sometimes some teachers are simply arseholes, but going in fuming solves nothing and calling the head of department, head teacher and the governors over your child getting a lunch detention makes you look like a prize idiot.

Longwayoff

😂😂😂

KittyHawke80

‘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!

Wondering what the issue is with this sort of post?

Also wondering what the problem might be with advice to leave in the situation parodied?

Surely you're not implying that this sort of situation never happens?
There are many well recognised reasons why victims don't talk about domestic abuse.

I think the second one is, if he has no money, how's he going to look after the children. First one, no idea.

After a horrible night where I reverted to Co sleeping with baby (gasp!) this thread has really cheered me up!

I went to the dentist the other day and they had made a "how much sugar in your drink" board. Lowest was water, obviously, next fruit shoot, carrying on to Yop milkshake then Lucozade energy drink having the most. I have forgotten the order of coke and something else as I was only there for 5 minutes.

Is the occasional fruit shoot that bad?

I use entitled in rl because of the fuckers who park their cars in the surgery car park where I work, for free, to go and do their shopping in town.

I have to laugh at the sugar control brigade... How would their kids have survived in bygone eras of sugar sandwiches and full fat everything.

Baby names. Apparently everyone is calling their newborn Clara or Ottilie and Carol is an acceptable name for a little boy

Never in real life have I come across a baby called Clara (for a few years anyway!) or Ottilie and surely no one would call a little boy Carol?!

Also schools. There are some people who move because of school catchments etc but I always thought of those people as quite wealthy, well to do sorts of people.

Every Tom Dick and Harry on Mumsnet seems to do it. In my experience the vast majority send their children to the school closest to where they live!

surely no one would call a little boy Carol?!

That’s Polish/E. European isn’t it?

Carol is better than fecking Arlo, which everyone claims is their own 100% original thinking and not the hive mind of www.trendybabynamesdujour.com

I haven't read the whole thread but the thing about people kissing / holding/ touching kids and babies does make me laugh. I put it down to being an English thing- my family are Italian and the last time i was there a little old lady kissed my sleeping ds on the head ( he's 4) - i only met her on the train !

My father had a (white) Southern Baptist male cousin called Carroll (I think that’s how they spelled it). He was born on Christmas Day, I think in the late 1930s.