To think mumsnet will shrivel up and die

[Hobnobswantshernameback]

Without all the usual Christmas threads
I mean....what will people find to moan about

Don't worry OP, there will be loads of:

AIBU to be upset that my 90 year old Granny, who hasn't got internet and doesn't know how a computer works, didn't bother to go on line and buy my children the massive, expensive presents she should have done and just sent a paltry sum of money in a card instead

The grabby masses will be out in force and will brook no excuses about people shielding, unable to access shops or internet, or being concerned about their own finances.

There will also be ructions about not getting the thrice boiled, drizzled by the hand of angels with goose fat roast potatoes and sundry other essential Christmas food items.

Santa and the elves are self isolating until Christmas so you don’t have to worry about presents. Unless reindeers can pass it on...

@Hobnobswantshernameback

Oh lord There's a whole world of "my neighbour popped a Xmas card through my letterbox...is she trying to murder me with covid...does she not know there's a pandemic going on" Type threads just waiting to explode

you've called it!

It'll become a worse version of the competitive frugal mumsnet christmas
"I've spent Christmas a thousand miles from
Anyone and spent 2p and ate half a parsnip and a quarter pig in blanket by the light of a single fairy light and still had an amazing time"

Mumsnet will be fine, there are going to be a bajillion lockdown/Brexit/Remembrance Day threads.

Oh Christ it will be worse than ever.

All the handwringiners and curtain twitchers will be in their element.

There's always parking

And toilet brushes .....

The competitive misery threads will be stratospheric
The out miserying competitive quarantiners will be utterly in their element

@Hobnobswantshernameback

Without all the usual Christmas threads I mean....what will people find to moan about

Is that naivety or a challenge?!!!

This year will be the mother of all moany christmassy.

The local lockdown christmas v no lockdown christmas moan.
The no restrictions v the full lockdown argument moan
The 'selfishly flaunting christmas' moan
The competitive 'I've the hardest christmas in the whole land christmas' moan
The 'guess who turned up on my doorstep uninvited anyway moan
The zoom family meltdown moan
The christmas is ruined because x, y and z didn't get delivered in time moan (x 56373365 times)

Well if Christmas is effectively cancelled, I for one will be most aggrieved.

My highlights on Christmas morning are the "Horrendous Christmas gift" threads and then Boxing Day the visiting family and being half starved posts due to minute portions/lack of food generally. 😂😂😂

Seriously, I know it's bloody awful for those involved but hilarious to read. (Been there/done that so know exactly what it is like.)

If there are none of these at Christmas then I will throw a serious strop - definitely no shrivelling and dying.

"my MIL sent me an expensive cashmere jumper but she did have a cough for a day, does anyone know how to bleach the Covid from it?"

Oh and a few days prior to Christmas the inevitable threads re online deliveries gone wrong and the outlandish substitutes.

God I'm a cruel old cow! 😂

I'm looking forward to the annual boxing day Baylis & Harding moan thread

Think Red has covered most bases

I want to hear more about RedToothbrush’s terrifying cannibal neighbours, who had 30 people for Christmas. I usually just get a boring old turkey.....

Boxing Day the visiting family and being half starved posts due to minute portions/lack of food generally.

Ooh I love them, a real highlight.

Maybe we should set up a MN Christmas Bingo Card Thread?

Definitely RedToothbrush, you already have a very comprehensive list there, any prizes for guessing how long it would be before shouting "House"!

Loving the bingo idea

Mind you there will be a gap in the market for all threads moaning about school nativity plays

'We have been going to the same friends for New Year's Eve for twenty years - what are we going to do?' type threads.
Or 'What a relief. We have been trying to get out of inviting the Munchies for New Year's Eve for ages and Covid has given us the perfect excuse. Help me plan a New Year's Eve just for us' type threads.

Christmas? Lockdown? With the FAMALAM? Tiny turkey too?

It's gonna be GOLD

I'm looking forward to the annual boxing day Baylis & Harding moan thread

^

I’m predicting lots of stockpiling (or ‘prepper’)threads to carry us over the next four weeks at least. Toilet roll hoarding has reared it’s ugly head today. Lots of shoppers at my supermarket this morning with 100 plus toilet rolls in their trolley to add to their 100 still under their beds from March.

@Hobnobswantshernameback

Without all the usual Christmas threads I mean....what will people find to moan about

Oh don’t you worry yourself, there will be plenty to moan about . In fact it’s already started.

@Babdoc

I want to hear more about RedToothbrush’s terrifying cannibal neighbours, who had 30 people for Christmas. I usually just get a boring old turkey.....

crying

Well there is supposed to be a turkey shortage and that is the natural progression of the competitive frugal christmas thread...

It has to be said 'the shit christmas present thread' will be brilliant this year. It will probably be a list of whats left in Tesco after the panic buying the week before Christmas.

Except in Wales.
They are just getting coal because everything else will be non-essential there still.