When MN turns into a Four Yorkshiremen sketch

[SteveArnottsbeadyeyes]

Maybe just me but seeing it more often. Op can say “I’ve been left with £10 to last me a month, I have four children to feed, and now the boiler has stopped working”

First reply... well you should feel lucky with your £10 I only habe £5 and I cannot conceive so feel lucky you have children.

It's because a small percentage of the world are joy suckers/fun sponges/play the victim and martyr

And they're ALL on Mumsnet

@LaurieFairyCake that may be true

Ha! You might like this thread😁
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3997162-why-do-people-on-here-feel-the-need-to-be-so-dramatic

@SchrodingersImmigrant haha thank you!

But this isn’t about the drama llamas - it’s about the “I have it worse” brigade. Am trying not to taat. But there are soo many draining p

£5 !!!! You were lucky! Ive got 12 children, live in a one oop one down......

@SteveArnottsbeadyeyes

But this isn’t about the drama llamas - it’s about the “I have it worse” brigade. Am trying not to taat. But there are soo many draining p

You should be grateful you got llamas. Some people have a cat and that's it

Cat, you lucky lucky bastard.

We had a cockroach and were grateful

A house? You were lucky to have a house! We used to dream of living in a house!

There seems to be two groups around this - one group who compete over how little they have and another group who compete over how much.

The grand folk are firmly in the middle laughing at both groups.

@1Morewineplease

£5 !!!! You were lucky! Ive got 12 children, live in a one oop one down......

An up AND down?!! Ehhhh tha doesn't know thas luck. We only had down, deep down and was grateful for that.

@MoggyP

Cat, you lucky lucky bastard.

We had a cockroach and were grateful

You are so nasty! It's not my fault I am a bastard. My father couldn't keep it in his pants. Actually it was just shorts. He and my mum couldn't afford whole pants, let alone a cockroach!

Pants! Well check out you posh folk! We wore scraps of cloth

Shorts!!

We had to fashion rudimentary coverings from old dishcloths thrown out by the Big House

Well You are all sooooo rich, aren't you and love showing it while us normal folk sits here butt naked because we cannot afford clothes. I married down.

There is a modern version of this... “I pad! My kids were lucky to get scraps of paper.”

You gave them paper!!!
We needed that for kindling. The fact that some people wipe their arse on such precious commodities makes me sick.
We had leaves and we were grateful.

Leaves?! Hoity toity with access to nature! We dreamt of leaves!

An 'ouse! You were lucky, we used to live in a 'ole in the road covered by a sheet o' tarpaulin.

What I don't understand about MN is how everyone claims to be earning £250k doing a PT job and their partner is an even bigger earner. But when someone asks how to make £10 last a family of four for a week they get jumped on for being lucky enough to have that kind of cash in the first place!!!

The type of people who think treating your kids to more than a tangerine at Christmas will some how turn them into spoilt brats.

Off topic sorry, but the op example peed me off. I hate begging threads .

Yep all of this .

@1Morewineplease

£5 !!!! You were lucky! Ive got 12 children, live in a one oop one down......

I hope you're not claiming benefits. MN hates people who claim benefits

Wedding ones are my favourite.

OP: "How can I have a dream wedding for just £3k?"

Replies: "£3k!!! I could only have dreamed for having that much for mine! We spent £3.78 on our wedding. I picked my own flowers from a local field, bought a 50p white nightie from Age UK as a wedding dress, packed a Tesco value picnic for guests and the venue was a hole we dug in the ground. All our guests still say to this day it was the best wedding they've ever been to."