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.

@BlackeyedSusan

I suppose one thread attracts one sort of poster,and another the other sort.

Well, aren't you hoity Tory!

Not everyone can afford the time for more than one thread you know. Have some thought for others spending who have to spend all their spare time weaving dishclothes out of leaves so their 15 children can share it to wear as clothing. And that sharing is only happens on a Thursday. As we actually have compassion, unlike you, and rotate it around the neighbours all the other days of the week.

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Anyone who dares have a holiday that isn’t camping in the uk in the rain is an entitled spoilt flibertygibbet. Enjoying lying in the sun on the beach with a cocktail and a good book is roundly sneered at by these worthy folk. “I would be boooored”. Yeah right 😀

@MsTSwift

Anyone who dares have a holiday that isn’t camping in the uk in the rain is an entitled spoilt flibertygibbet. Enjoying lying in the sun on the beach with a cocktail and a good book is roundly sneered at by these worthy folk. “I would be boooored”. Yeah right 😀

And yet half of Mumsnet lives in either central London or a period detached in the right village near the right schools in SE England, neither of which is affordable to 95% of the population yet this seems to be considered to be perfectly normal, as in it can be talked about without embarrassment or apology like you must if you're fortunate to have more than £3.52 spare each month because you're either 'forced to live there for work' or 'prioritising DC education.

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

A hole? Some folk don’t know they’re born. We lived in’ puddle and we weren’t fancy enough for a tarpaulin, it were one carrier bag between 9 of us and we were grateful fer it.

Oh the competitive cookery threads.

'I have some pasta, cheese and milk, what shall I make?'

What follows is like Ready, Steady, Cook on truffle-oiled steroids at The Ivy. And the first poster to actually helpfully suggest, 'macaroni cheese?' gets roundly shat on.

I propose a new term😂

Schrödinger's mumsnetter
A person who is too poor to afford holiday's even if it's a tent for a fiver a week (so why to give something towards friend's honeymoon) while simultaneously having six figure salary on 16 hour a week job and a million in saving (cause anything less is just simply not enough if something happened, darling).

Great thread 😁

@JamieLeeCurtains

Oh the competitive cookery threads.

'I have some pasta, cheese and milk, what shall I make?'

What follows is like Ready, Steady, Cook on truffle-oiled steroids at The Ivy. And the first poster to actually helpfully suggest, 'macaroni cheese?' gets roundly shat on.

Pasta, milk and cheese Bloody luxury

If we had had that as children we could have made a 5 course meal for 23 people. We had to manage with scraping the moss off the neighbours privy and boiling it up in a rusty tin can.

My personal favourite are those who are absolutely appalled and horrified at asking family for urgent help if in dire need. How dare you assume your mother should look after your child while you have an emergency operation!
However it is okay to have been huge deposits for houses, family holidays and cars paid for by parents...

You lucky lucky bastard. I've been ere 12 years and they only ung me up the right way yesterday

@Comtesse proper belly laugh from “undead”, thank you!

Baby been up more than usual in the night? That’s nothing, someone else’s baby has been going through the four month sleep regression for seven years and wakes up every ten minutes, and they’re grateful for every one of those ten minutes! To say nothing of having to lick road clean wi’tongue.

I love this. Soooo funny. Everybody needs a laugh.

Mike Harding claimed he was too poor to be born, so his mother had him knitted by the WVS.

When someone posts that they hate their job and want to leave and another poster jumps on them with “think yourself lucky OP, you should be thanking your lucky stars you have a job. I would kill for a job, even if it’s scrubbing lavatories.”

I've similarly noticed more and more threads, even outside of AIBU, where every fucker argues the toss with the op. e.g I was cross because the person behind me wasn't social distancing 'WELL YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT THE HOUSE IF YOU'RE SO PARANOID NEVER MIND THE LAAAAAW YOU DELUSIONAL LAW ABIDING SUCKER GET BACK IN YOUR MOULDY FLAT WITH NO GARDEN UNTIL YOUR NEXT NHS SHIFT STARTS' x4000... next thread 'I was standing 0.9m behind in the queue as there was no room because of the shape of the till system 'I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DELIBERATELY WENT OUT TO MURDER VULNERABLE GRANNIES WITH INVISIBLE ILLNESSES YOU COVID INFECTIOUS CUNTBAG' x4000.

Schrodinger's mumsnetter 😂

@GlummyMcGlummerson

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."

Tesco! You clearly have money to burn, when you could take 3 buses to Lidl.

"We had to manage with scraping the moss off the neighbours privy and boiling it up in a rusty tin can."

Tin can? You were lucky. We had to suck t'moss in our mouths till it softened up.

My poor dead Grandfather WAS a POW, and i think you're being massively insensitive.

Sorry

One of the things I find odd is somone will say something like I've got £500 left a month for food, clothes, treats and extras. Loads of people will come on and say that's plenty they feed a family of 5 on £150 a month for 3 meals a day etc.

But then there are tons of threads where people talk about dh big job, 6 figure salaries, private school, buying clothes at exp shops, holiday homes ets. Not the type of stuff a per has if they live on £150 food a month. I understand there are different types of people in here. But it feels like people think others should be able to survive on scraps but they don't live that life.

@Galaxxy yes wanting people to follow the law on covid is being paranoid apparently

We should obviously just all stay in our homes until it passes as its redic to expect people to follow rules. Lots of posts like this recently.

Great thread - hilarious

@JamieLeeCurtains

Oh the competitive cookery threads.

'I have some pasta, cheese and milk, what shall I make?'

What follows is like Ready, Steady, Cook on truffle-oiled steroids at The Ivy. And the first poster to actually helpfully suggest, 'macaroni cheese?' gets roundly shat on.

Recent outbreak of Covid posts is heartless

But not as heartless as when you recreate the Aztec history topic with the sacrifice of the younger sibling