To ask about the weird things you only learned from MN?

[Blanchedupetitpois]

It seems like in MN world there are all kinds of rules that I swear I’ve never seen expressed or followed in real life. What have you been most surprised by? I’ll start:

1. Adults don’t celebrate birthdays, and if you expect any recognition of yours, you’re being childish.

1. Halloween is exclusively an American import with no history in this country, and celebrating it is therefore tacky and meaningless.

1. Trick or treating is glorified begging.

1. Absolutely nobody other than you or your DP is remotely interested in your pregnancy, and even telling another person that you’re pregnant is akin to riding a donkey down the high street while calling for palm fronds to be laid at your feet in recognition of the impending miracle of your unborn child.

It seems there are a lot of things that claim to be flushable and indeed they will flush. Tampons swell in waterBut they don't break down quickly like loo roll. Deep in the sewers there are huge piles of 'flushable' stuff like wipes, cotton buds and sanitary products blocking it right up. ☹️ That's if it doesn't get lodged on a twig in your outside drains first causing everything to collect behind it and the whole roads drains fail.

I've just googled the Welsh word for carrots. Definitely not acceptable in the UK in 2018, if you are speaking English. Obviously perfectly OK if you're speaking Welsh.

Ah yes but if the REST OF THE WHOLE WORLD see it @treaclesoda? It's offensive. It being surrounded by Welsh words makes no odds. Offensive, whatever the context.

That some people can’t read some posts on a thread and think ‘I’m not enjoying this’ and then move to another thread but instead decide they NEED TO SHOUT THAT THEY DISAGREE and berate everyone and derail the thread. We don’t all need to think the same

Some people are ridiculously obsessed with class and are desperately trying to appear to be middle class...and along those lines, using the word 'naice' .

So many posters say they have children with Special Needs.

The word “naice” is just a mild ribbing, surely?

...just mild ribbing

SilentIsla

I've no idea, but there are so many examples of class obsession on here it's astounding.

Class is interesting, though. I find the whole thing fascinating.

SilentIsla

I totally agree - this forum has certainly made me think about how I would define different classes in UK society today, because I've been quite surprised about other people's views and perceptions.

I have loads of topics hidden, I think at the last count I had 11 topics not hidden.
That might me why I haven't seen a lot of what has been mentioned here.
Where are all the threads about class obsession?

It baffles me when people are advised to say 'no that doesn't work for me' or 'sorry this no longer works for me'. In real life I can't imagine this ever just being accepted without explanation, and if someone said it to me with no other explanation I'd be thinking WTF!

Thankfully it was very different in my day when you'd pass the baby to any random stranger if you thought you'd get a break for five minutes

A while back, I read something where the parents said that they basically wrapped their PFB in swaddling and didn't leave him unattended for a second. By the time they got to their 5th, and had discovered children can be quite robust, they were so desperate for a break they'd have been happy to tether their youngest to a post in the yard and toss her a spray can of Wolf Away ...

I'm also surprised about other people's class perceptions, particularly the oft held view of the middle classes that the working classes are not interested in the arts, classical music, education or food that is not beige and chips.

That all builders do colossal, pipe blocking shits.

Hardly anyone stays in a resort for their holiday. Only people who have appeared on Jeremy Kyle are allowed to. Everyone else stays on a working farm in the middle of Hungary.

That having a toilet brush is akin to having a decaying corpse in your bathroom

I don't even want to go into what I've learned about dolphins

Hardly anyone stays in a resort for their holiday. Only people who have appeared on Jeremy Kyle are allowed to. Everyone else stays on a working farm in the middle of Hungary

Haha brilliant! This had me in stitches.

I don't even want to go into what I've learned about dolphins

True - yet hugely enjoyable!

Dolphins? What?!! What have they done wrong? Are they worse than a random stranger builder, who knocks on the door after 7pm and does a giant pooh in the toilet then wees on the seat instead of gushing?

Dolphin thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3386868-AIBU-to-be-livid-how-dolphins-are-portrayed-compared-to-how-they-are?pg=1&reverse=1

So what do the anti toilet brush brigade do when there is a particularly stubborn Guinness and jalfrazi stain on the porcelain?

You know we can actually buy and eat faggots in the UK with no problem?

Fag is not short for ‘faggot’ (the offensive term) when referring to cigarettes. Fag is offensive in other cultures because there is no word ‘fag’ other than the shortened version of ‘faggot’

Ergo, the English word is a completely different word.