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

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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.

One poster even referred to it as a ‘two-caste system’ on this very thread. She actually compared being invited to an evening do to the caste system.

Yeah, that will be SalemBlackCat the one that wants THE WHOLE WORLD to never say they're going on a fag break because it deeply offends her cousin...

So having a more intimate close circle of family and friends to your wedding breakfast/dinner, and then opening the evening party to a wider circle of friends, is in some way class tiering, or similar to the horrendous caste system!
^^this seems rather extreme thinking to me. I am very close to some, and others I go out with notsomuch and they don't know my family and so on, doesn't mean I'm somehow myself 2nd class to some, and some being 2nd class in my eyes! I can deal with not going to a private family/close friends meal, I dont feel like an 'untouchable' I just am not that close to the family and it would feel weird (hearing all the personal family speeches which I probably wouldn't 'get' because I didn't know them).
I understand it's a cultural difference but like a caste system? Nothing like one, especially as I could be an untouchable and at the same time some kind of higher class, just because of the closeness of relationship. It just isn't an analogy that fits.

@TheFuckFaceWhisperer, I like your name but am also intrigued by it.

Are you good at rehabilitating fuckfaces?

'Yeah, that will be SalemBlackCat the one that wants THE WHOLE WORLD to never say they're going on a fag break because it deeply offends her cousin...'

And believes evening do buffets need to include couscous, quinoa, salads and 'healthy' dips. Probably one of those people who think having over one unit of alcohol a week = alcoholism. Evening do = piss up for most people with some stodge to soak up the booze. A good time is had by most! And if you think it's a slight, well, don't go.

Actually, I need to correct myself. Fag is not widely used in historical fiction, but faggot definitely is.

I'm sure Enid Blyton used 'fag' to describe what the girls in first form had to do for the girls in the Upper Sixth.

Oh dear.I seem to be of the age that the contemporary fiction of my childhood is now deemed to be historical fiction.

ButchyRestingFace I saw a cross stitch on Etsy I liked, then realised I'm always explaining myself to idiots!

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I'm sure Enid Blyton used 'fag' to describe what the girls in first form had to do for the girls in the Upper Sixth

I haven't heard the expression for a long time for understandable reasons but I remember older relatives who employed similar usage and would say, "I'm fagged out" - meaning the particular sort of tiredness from running round performing those sorts of tasks at the behest of others.

Yeah, butchy- public school fagging is yet another derivative of the original faggot apparently.

I did find this quite interesting article yesterday when I was googling to see if there was actually causing any real offence when popping out for a puff on my e-fag.

Oh dear.I seem to be of the age that the contemporary fiction of my childhood is now deemed to be historical fiction.

Mine too (80s child)! But EB was writing in the 30s and 40s, which (probably) counts as "historical" now?

I'm basing that assumption on a recent visit to a museum where childrens toys from the 80s and 90s were now exhibited as "historical artefacts".

@TheFuckfacewhispher, haha, I like it! 👍

I'd never heard that men don't just fuck/ride/have sex, but Sink Ball Deep into someone. SBD has now become a family phrase, so thank you, Mumsnet.

I wasn't aware that it's fairly common practice, when you suspect a partner might be having an affair, to install hidden cameras, download telephone messages with special software, set up fake social media profiles to catch them out and generally behave like a spook.

Anonymous tip-offs to women whose partners you suspect might be having an affair. Not an evil-minded act which balances aggression and cowardice in equal measure and has been rightly the object of calumny down the centuries, oh no. It's an act of 'sisterly solidarity'.

Villanelle couple invited dc's friend's parents to dinner. Picture stately home, staff, and so on, only to be served beans on toast/similar, jelly, and so on, presumably as a joke or because staff had left for the night... When the return invite was made OP was desperate to know what to serve, much talk of marmite soldiers and kiddy type foods generally. The OP posted all through the meal, and then posted that her DH had walked into the room with the now famous words "Pom Bear anyone?". The whole of MN fell about laughing, OP couldn't be in the same room and thread went into classics, and we got a pom bear emoji!

Pombear thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1056940-to-think-this-couple-are-bonkers

Thanks arranfan just started reading first posts, and I really didn't didn't do it justice, just had completely forgotten about the complete bonkersness of the couple! But its a 30 page read, so good bedtime read to settle into, in bed if DP not going to stab you for daring to read a device in bed, which is a thing apparently on MN something I found out

Haha thanks Arran and Shrieking! Looks like a good read for later for sure. What an odd situation.

It once was that no pombear emoji was shown, but you could create one if you knew the right words, you will see a lot of posters doing just that [pombears] and so on

.. and there are other 'secret' emojis also

another one

there must be more....

That people wash mince after cooking it

You what?!

I'd have thought it made good business sense to make sure that the people who have actually bought and paid for food have got somewhere to sit, rather than having people who haven't spent anything hogging the tables.

But that wouldn't work either if volume was high.

I live in terror of wandering a rammed cafe with tray of hot food and nowhere to sit to eat it, so I either grab a seat first (makes sense), or leave without bothering. There is also the issue that if more than one of you only two will get seats for instance

But there are no rules, treacle, can't think of a single cafe that polices their customers like this because it's bad business practice. Personally if I see the place is busy and I want to sit I walk out if I'm on my own as I consider I might not get a place to sit.

I did think of MN when I was in a tiny cafe in Boston. There was a huge sign on the wall saying that you had to order first. They would find you a seat. The queue was out of the building and there must only have been about 20 tables. You went ordered directly from the chef who cooked your food (we are talking pancakes and fry up type stuff) by the time you got to the till the food was ready. Then a member of staff took you to a table. There was always a table free. They system worked because it was so tightly policed.