What is a hun?

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I’ve seen this pop up a few times in threads eg ‘the sort of thing huns like’ or ‘that website is full of huns’

What exactly is a hun? Is it just somebody who says ‘hun’ a lot? What things are supposedly liked by huns?

@MaxNormal

A Rangers fan

😂😂😂

Not a hon.

The memes I’ve seen about fiat 500s always refer to late teens/early 20’s women who ‘live off daddy’s money’

It largely depends on context, too. It's a bit like a female version of the male 'mate' - used sincerely between genuine friends but also used insincerely, aggressively and/or patronisingly by people with an ulterior motive who are most definitely not your genuine friend.

As a working class women just sometimes i get a glimpse of what mumsnet types (i use the site a lot) think of me and its really awful. Shame on you.

It’s what some superior MNetters call other women who do things differently to them in a sort of condescending way.

It’s an offensive sectarian term to call a Protestant in Northern Ireland.

I should add some mumsnet types obviously the majority are perfectly nice

@Ffsseriously

I should add some mumsnet types obviously the majority are perfectly nice

Ah gwan you're scared now. Damage limitation exercise :)

@Ffsseriously

I should add some mumsnet types obviously the majority are perfectly nice

Don't water it down. You're absolutely right. Anyone decent knows you're not talking about them!

I've always said "hun" as in short for honey. But to my (now ex) husband! Term of endearment. I'm not smartly dressed, keen on cleaning or into mlm or even grey interiors. And I have a masters degree. Stereotypes!!!

I dont use 'hun' but I imagine alot of the posters on this thread to be tea towel enthusiasts with a week's worth of their husbands white y fronts hung out on the line

I’m off to tell my 75 year old Mum she’s a Hun. She thinks she’s the dogs bollocks in her Fiat 500

Lol to all the folk who know the Glasgow definition.

I’m married to a Hun and he is married to a Tim 🤣

@MrsTerryPratchett I was trying to avoid doing the very thing i was accusing others of, the sweeping judgements and stereotyping .
But it does shock me sometimes what people think of others, and how funny they think they are whilst making awful snobby comments. My consolation is that the 'posh' people they desperately ape would think of them as they think of me.

My very good friend is an Avon rep but hey at least she's out there door knocking and trying to earn a bit rather than sitting on her arse online stereotyping others.

It's the MN version of Karen and used to put women in their place.

@Thurmanmurman 🤣 I hope she embraces being a hun!

Exactly @MaxNormal!

Some people are so uneducated! 😆

Rangers supporter

Abusive term for Rangers fan

As I said above the word Hun is used a lot among MLM distributors as an apparently friendly conversation starter when they are trying to recruit people Into the pyramid shaped business they’ve joined. The “Huns” I’m talking about can be from any social class and regardless they are all victims and perpetrators of the same scam (multilevel marketing) which tricks people (mainly women) with promises of flexible childcare-friendly work with potentially great incomes and then
bleeds them dry financially, emotionally and socially. These are not stupid people, but they are in some way vulnerable to the lies they told. They’ve come to be known as Huns (men and women) because the word is used so often in those circles and I think it now has negative connotations because of the aggressive and constant spamming by many MLM people, often targeting people who are vulnerable with a “hi Hun, I see you have cancer, I’ve got a really good product for that” or messaging people in a Eating Disorder support group offering them diet products. So Hun has become a byword for a representative of a faux-supportive manipulative, cult-like world (at least, it has for me). That’s not to say that the individuals I meet all the time aren’t great people but the collective label has kind of stuck. I run a website to help people damaged by MLM www.mlmtruth.org for those interested in commercial cults.

PS: I have a Fiat 500 but I’m 53 and my Daddy doesn’t have any money for me to live off.

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@YouokHun

As I said above the word Hun is used a lot among MLM distributors as an apparently friendly conversation starter when they are trying to recruit people Into the pyramid shaped business they’ve joined. The “Huns” I’m talking about can be from any social class and regardless they are all victims and perpetrators of the same scam (multilevel marketing) which tricks people (mainly women) with promises of flexible childcare-friendly work with potentially great incomes and then bleeds them dry financially, emotionally and socially. These are not stupid people, but they are in some way vulnerable to the lies they told. They’ve come to be known as Huns (men and women) because the word is used so often in those circles and I think it now has negative connotations because of the aggressive and constant spamming by many MLM people, often targeting people who are vulnerable with a “hi Hun, I see you have cancer, I’ve got a really good product for that” or messaging people in a Eating Disorder support group offering them diet products. So Hun has become a byword for a representative of a faux-supportive manipulative, cult-like world (at least, it has for me). That’s not to say that the individuals I meet all the time aren’t great people but the collective label has kind of stuck. I run a website to help people damaged by MLM www.mlmtruth.org for those interested in commercial cults.

YY to this. I personally have only ever seen 'hun' used as an 'insult' when referring to people who prey on others (usually women) trying to get them to join their MLM pyramid scheme nothing to do with class or being a 'chav'.

MLMs are predatory, horrid businesses.