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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To not really care if I am boring, thank you very much!!

303 replies

sugarmatches · 25/09/2007 23:15

Hands up, I am a boring person.
My life is a bit dull and I don't really do many interesting things on a daily basis. My dh is nice and normal, my dc are lovely and have no health problems and my family are on the right side of crazy. We have a boring car, go on boring holidays and have boring friends (whom I love, btw!).

So what??

If I want to post a thread asking how to get stains out of my Le Creuset, I am bl**dy well going to do it no matter what anyone says. If I had a more interesting life then I might ask advice on getting bodily fluids out of sequins thongs, but I buy mine from M&S and they are machine washable at 40 degrees.

I know that there are so many people on MN who have really difficult things to overcome and who are still nice, friendly and helpful to us boring posters. That is how it should be I think. And F*ck you if you don't agree

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talulasmum · 01/10/2007 10:06

ps; sorry about crap spelling again, trying to do 3 things at once!

lucyellensmum · 01/10/2007 10:12

i spend far too much time on here, its actually a problem!!! I tend to hop on when dd eating brekkie or having her nap, she has three hours a day, but always feel as if i have wasted my time tbh. Saying that, there are some serious topics and posts and i have recieved a lot of support on here for which i am grateful. I think we all just crave adult company. My DP i think would prefer if i were having an online affair, i mean, at least that would be a bit more exciting and i might be a tad horny afterwards

Lorayn · 01/10/2007 10:20

Ha, TM, my DD is at school, DS is nearly 3 and loves nothing more than lego, so he is normally quite intent on ignoring me!! I am rarely online weekends for more than about ten minutes, same goes for after about 2pm, but just lately DP has been having an affair, with a PS3, so I am an oblivionwidow

talulasmum · 01/10/2007 10:32

oh yeah, think its great if you need some support, and if you want to talk about something you think friends/family wont understand or just not be interested in. also some of the subjects on this section are really interesting, but will never have time for the "aibu to be upset because someone looked at me a bit funny" but it can get a bit addictive. as for the online affair, nah, rather talk to you lot.

Lorayn · 01/10/2007 10:41

TM, there are soo many threads I just totally bypass, but some arghhh, they get me really het up and I end up telling DP the whole story, I'm surprised he hasn't made his own mn name!!

talulasmum · 01/10/2007 10:55

lorayn; oh yeah, some of them i read just for a laugh, but i think oh for god sake get a life. no one, i mean NO ONE can be that boring, but all life is on here, which makes it great.

lucyellensmum · 01/10/2007 13:40

I just think that we start the whole AIBU threads because we don't have our friends to rant at, i mean, you may say it if you were sitting next to them but the computor is the nearest we have - lol. I love the AIBU threads as some of them are good for a giggle, the others do get me rather wound up, i do TRY not to get drawn into it, but sometimes, as in RL i just can't keep my mouth shut

Lorayn · 01/10/2007 13:52

I am on a thread atm (in breast/bottle feeding) where I cannot simply hush my views, sometimes I find it really hard not to just say OMFG ARE YOU SERIOUS???

Other times I start to write a message and just close the window cos I really can't be bothered

talulasmum · 01/10/2007 14:06

i know what you mean, sometimes you want to just give your opinion and walk away, but then you see some arse has tried to make you look an idiot, and you just have to tell them to f**k off! (well i do anyway!) just had to forget the benefit fraud thread, too many wankers on it.

Lorayn · 01/10/2007 16:35

Ha, yh, I have been on a couple of threads like that, one about a woman shouting at her newborn baby (understandable totally, but when one person said it was unreasonable, everyone went doolally) and another recently about a pregnant girl applying for a job but not telling the employer until she had been offered it and had the contract in her hand (which I said was underhand). You end up deciding to just leave it be even though you know what you're saying makes perfect sense!!

And as for the benefits one, I guarantee a lot of people on that thread break the law or see someone else break the law regularly, but there is no way on earth they would have admitted it to you.

SueBaroo · 01/10/2007 16:38

I'm very, very boring, and I usually only come on MN when I'm having a crap time, because I know folk will be about and someone will acknowledge my existence.

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suey2 · 01/10/2007 17:33

me too sue baroo- maybe it is all in the name?
What i dont' understand is how people can be so strident in their views and cannot seem to accept that we are all different. The confrontational nature of some of the postings is quite shocking- what happened to female solidarity? Or are we really always just trying to score points off one another

Vikkin · 01/10/2007 20:04

Good lord, are you all still at it? I never got anywhere near MN after our giggles on Friday night.
Are we any nearer a conclusion on the pans, or shall I just bog off?
What are we finding boring just now?

lucyellensmum · 01/10/2007 20:45

well vikkin, it turns out, that talula, does not in fact have a dd called talula (theres a surprise) and she lives in suburbia, with a posh toaster (well not quite sure about the toaster) So she is as boring as the rest of us.

Lorayn · 01/10/2007 20:59

she wont buy le creuset though.

Vikkin · 01/10/2007 21:11

As much as I WANT to do the pans again, I have turned over a new leaf and am trying to be less boring.
Now dh has gone back to work for an hour (I know, how boring) I've been scanning the threads and have found that - some people on MN live a very different life to my boring one.
Someone's having a rat problem.
Someone's dp has been at the webporn again. It's all happening out there.
I am never sure whether this thread is going seriously tits-up again, are y'all just gently teasing tonight?

talulasmum · 01/10/2007 21:14

lem; actually i do have a toaster, and its a very nice one.

but one thing im not is boring, call me bonkers, crazy, and the million other things ive been called, but not that. the day i buy a le crusty thing i'll admit defeat.

Lorayn · 01/10/2007 21:14

This thread is the best ever, dont you forget it. But seriously apparently talulasmum was on a windup.

lucyellensmum · 01/10/2007 21:27

Oh believe me, if im offered boring or turbulent, i'll take boring over and over and over until im bored. I like being boring, if other people think i am boring thats fine, but im not bored, just boring.

talulasmum · 01/10/2007 21:28

lorayn; lucyellensmum had me sussed from the start but actually not really a wind up. 95% of what was said was true. it was just interesting to see how people reacted to information. most didnt get my jokes within jokes, but no, not total wind up. i do shop in iceland, but i also shop in john lewis. i never actually mentioned where i lived, i left that for you lot to decide

DeedeePickles · 01/10/2007 21:31

Please tell me the Pot Noodle bit was real, though

Lorayn · 01/10/2007 21:34

Actually you told lots of fibs, you said you had an fb, no dh, you only had 'talula', I could go on an don. No-one ever mentioned where you lived btw.

I think also, if you read back the threads loads of us said at some point 'is she for real' which obviously you weren't.

talulasmum · 01/10/2007 21:39

lem; never be boring. how can you carry on if your chatting and people start falling asleep! believe me 99% of people dont want to talk about kitchen appliances. if you cant think of anything interesting to say, just say nothing. you've got plenty of time to talk crap when your 60. and i mean this in a nice way, cos i know your really a talula underneath.

Vikkin · 01/10/2007 21:44

Oh Gwad, you're at it again. This is just NOT what boring people do.
Just spent ages reading an old thread about losing your sex drive.
Am now going to re-read that thread from a couple of weeks ago about the M&T groups, remember that one LEM. What a laugh.
Am I boring you yet?

xXxamyxXx · 01/10/2007 21:45

break it up folks

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