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.

You eat “coon” cheese in Australia!?

Oh my fuck. And as if we didn’t already think you were chatting absolute shite.

That type of selfish, spiteful, immature and really vicious way of thinking. I just wonder what happened to people to make them so hard-hearted and so selfish and nasty that the person asking someone to exercise consideration be it on here or elsewhere is the one who deserves to be ganged up on, as if that person is the one in the wrong. What a messed up world.

You do realise MN has a search function and you can be seen all over this UK based parenting site slagging off UK words, parenting, attitudes, beliefs... and you've been going around making upsetting and spiteful comments to posters.

You don't seem to like it here very much so I wonder what your motivation is..

SBC if words can only have one meaning, we have a long way to go. You will be policing for decades. There are many words we use completely legitimately that could be used in a different, insulting, racist, diss list, sexist or spiteful context. How are you going to deal with, for example

fruit
cock
spastic
balls
pouffe
powder puff
monkey
bitch
fanny

Now you are aware that these nouns can be used maliciously, are you going to be able to invent new ones?

• diss list is disablist

Would you like help drafting your letters to the BBC, the Guardian and Cressida Dick?

Oh, there’s another one, dick.

Swooned

The hobby thing - I agree it's very odd that so many people seem to have a hobby so unusual that it would be outing. But I don't see why people object to the word hobby itself . Knitting is a hobby, football is a hobby, cycling is a hobby. It just means a pastime/leisure activity .

Also baffled by the 'fag' thing. It does not mean a gay person in the UK. So it is not an offensive word here. Words mean different things in different countries. You can't expect people to stop using a word just because it means something else in another country/language!

If a meat ball had been slanged to a faggot because it somehow linked to homosexuality then I could understand why faggots for tea would be offensive, but it was a faggot for tea long before it was used in an alternative context.
When I was at school lesbians were called lemons, that was offensive. We didn't suddenly start drinking citrusade instead of lemonade.

Vegetable with regard to a person is offensive but its OK to eat meat and vegetable for tea.
Slag is offensive when using it to describe someone but in industry when they melt metal they end up with slag. They don't have to change it because someone might be offended by its technical usage.

Gollywogs was deemed offensive be a use its usage was directly linked to a group of people in a negative way. Its totally different.

Well put,SleepingStandingUp.

I do agree though that the n word did used to be used differently.

N brown was a stock paint colour and it was the name of Guy Gibson’s dog.

I looked to see if Fags, Mags and Bags was available on iTunes as a podcast. It is available as an audio book on iTunes but written as F*gs.

Yes, but the paint colour came from the expression, not vice versa.

Oh yes, but it was a common place paint colour.

I remember a woman who was understandably cross when she received a brown leather sofa labelled as n-brown.

What about spotted dick? there was a proposal by a supermarket (Tesco?) to rename it spotted richard. However, this is Mumsnet where the only acceptable pudding (sweet, dessert, afters) is yogurt and a piece of fruit.

Fruit?! Good gracious no, it’s FULL of sugar!!!

People don’t feed children fruit do they? Fuck me, you might as well just inject them with Haribio.

Oh for goodness sake Salem stop being so ridiculous. Having a fag, IE, a cigarette, is in no way referring to anyone's sexualuty. Grow up. And using cap lock randomly just makes you seem odd

"Picky tea" is something I have only ever seen within the confines of MN.

In our house it is known as " standing in front of the fridge, eating random foods" but I appreciate that's not as catchy.

Think the Coon cheese finally saw Salem off.

Exactly sleeping. Salem should avoid the West Country I grew up regularly enjoying brains faggots, cigarettes were fags and cigarette smokers were “faggers”. This was far from a term of abuse as the “cool” kids smoked “ we wuz down the backfield with the faggers fagging” has to be said in broad Somerset accent. Happy days.

Blue I think she frothed so much because it was the early hours of the morning, hyperventilated and passed out. I've never had reason to advance search anyone on her but I did with Salem and this isn't the only post that they've ranted on about fags 🙄

Whirly a fag troll! How exciting

It dies t take much to excite me these days treacle 😂

@salemblackcat4 you're being absolutely ridiculous. The N word is offensive in the UK. That's why we don't use it. What makes you think it's exclusive to the US???

Now I have just remembered Tanna. It is one for the Solomon Islands and is best known as they place where they worship Prince Philip as a god.

Various western cultures went over and tried to convert them to Christianity and failed instead leaving them half dead with western diseases.
However this does mean that some of their language today is based on English.
In their language to word ‘handbag’ is just about the rudest word you can say. It’s English equivalent in both meaning and rudeness is cunt.

I’m off to Style and Beauty to tell them to pack it in.