What 3 things has mumsnet taught you about life?

[Pika09]

What 3 things has mumsnet taught you about life?

(Lighthearted obviously)

1. Never answer the phone if it's a number that you don't recognise or is withheld.

1. Never answer the door if somebody hasn't pre-booked an appointment and definitely not after 7pm, even if it is somebody like the police (see 1.)

1. Under no circumstances must you communicate with your neighbours except by passive aggressive notes about their legal parking.

Anyone got any others?

[YgritteSnow]

You can't have a dog in a flat, ever!

The only dogs that are ethically permissible are retired greyhounds and if you must have a pedigree 🙄, then you'll need to get a poodle.

A term time holiday will ruin your child's education, it will never recover.

It's perfectly ok to tell people not to buy your child birthday or Christmas presents because you, the adult doesn't want "plastic tat" in the house. Who gives a fig for what your child actually wants or would enjoy?

Ex wives are bitter and jealous, and nine times out of ten dreadful parents who have raised mannerless, spoiled brats who the step mothers must work with to undo all the damage on their infrequent visits.

[YgritteSnow]

I always think "don't JADE - justify, argue, defend or explain" when I'm in tricky situations at work.

I like this

[MouthBreathingRage]

1. Many people exaggerate

1. Many people live fanatsy lives/personalities out on Internet forums

1. Today I learned if I don't use £100s worth of face cream with increasingly stupid names, my skin will shrivel up by the time I'm 40.

[megrichardson]

• .Don't get involved with a cyclist
  
• always get your ducks in a row
  
• some people don't wash very often

[ViciousJackdaw]

Whatever a stepmother does, it will be wrong
Whatever a man does, it will be wrong
Whatever a transwoman does, it will be wrong.

[winterinmadeira]

1 Covid 19 and the lockdown has brought out the best in people and the worst in people
2 some people are in very sad situations but just don’t want to help themselves as much as others try to support them

[ooooohbetty]

1. only on mumsnet will people agree that it's ok to give your children ridiculous made up names
   
2. only on mumsnet are the under 30's unable to buy their own home
   
3. only on mumsnet are new parents justified in not allowing any immediate family to visit for the first 6 years
   

[BakedCam]

Great thread.

1. That social services are there to 'help'

1. McDonalds isnt food

1. That moving house is so simple.

[MorrisZapp]

Hobbies are a secret

Health issues from twisted ankles to heart disease are a secret

Nobody must know your secrets, apart from maybe your DH

[HappyBdayCaptnTom]

The extent to how petty and spiteful people can be. Some people just enjoy spite and making others feel miserable.

Hypocrisy and how people try to cover it up.

That the world wouldn't be any better if it was ruled by women.

[Rainycloudyday]

That a lot of peoples relationships are probably very different behind closed doors compared to what they present outside.

[Rainycloudyday]

Oh and that I’m very, very lucky to have my husband. Sorry, I know that’s an unacceptable sentiment to express here.

[BubblesBuddy]

People arguing black is white.
People who swear all the time and think it’s normal.
People who take offence at every little misdemeanour.
That I’m not like the majority of posters because my DC didn’t have SEN.

[OneandTwenty]

that everything involving parents at school is a safeguarding issue.

[GreyGardens88]

To have a deep and irrational hatred for Baylis & Harding

[OneandTwenty]

that politeness and the most basic manners are a sign and symptom of oppression from the patriarchy.

Actually everything is oppression from the patriarchy

[Viviennemary]

Men are evil cheats mostly. A few are long suffering saints and earn a six figure salary. I suppose they are in high demand and few and far between.

[FakeBrunette]

That everyone's husband had a hobby that's outing.

That you will be hung, drawn and quartered for not RTFT.

That some people have waaaay too much time on their hands.

[MouthBreathingRage]

1) only on mumsnet will people agree that it's ok to give your children ridiculous made up names

Only on mumsnet will posters openly mock non-English names they don't recognise and deem them 'made-up'.

2) only on mumsnet are the under 30's unable to buy their own home

I don't think this is true. I do think it's noted on MN that under 30s without a bank of mum and dad will find it far more difficult to ever buy a home, never mind before 30. That's more of the current economical truth rather than an MN exaggeration.

[TabbyMumz]

How bonkers people are.
You need to follow up every opinion with a link or stats.
If you have anything, dont tell anyone, jealousy is rife.
If you are being a right bi**h to people, it's ok, you can suddenly mention your mental health that you never mentioned before.
That everyone must live in exactly the same place, ie where you live absolutely cant be different to what anyone else says.
If you say something about where you live, someone else will come along who has looked at the stats for that area and tell you, that you are wrong.
The WHO is god.

[carolebaskinsheadband]

@paperandfireworks you took the words right out of my mouth!

[chocolatesaltyballs22]

That anyone who drinks more than a thimble full of sherry per week is an alcoholic.

That stepmothers are all evil bitches without exception.

[peperethecat]

1. That MILs are evil.

1. Anyone who wants to visit you within the first six months after you've had a baby is unreasonable and intrusive and you should go NC with them immediately, especially if they're your in laws.

1. Your husband's family should know their place and not expect to spend Christmas with him ever again because you're your "own little family" now, which does not include his parents or siblings.

1. A lot of women put up with a lot of really awful men.

1. The pill has a 75% failure rate, which is why so many women have so many accidental babies with these really awful men.

On a more serious note, I am genuinely astounded at the number of women who don't have any real degree of financial independence from their husbands, or worse, unmarried partners.

[WhenItIsOver]

The husbands or partners of other posters pay for sex or have affairs at work, but 'mine doesn't and never would'.

If someone posts a fact, something they have honestly experienced, they will be jumped on and accused of lying because nothing like that ever happens.

Pregnant women and healthy children should be offered seats on buses and and allowed to sit in the disabled places because they are more important than those that are old, infirm or with disabilities.

That my opinion or experience is always wrong.

[WhenItIsOver]

Sorry, last one should be part of the middle one.