MN obsessions

[RoughWinds]

Why is MN obsessed with fluffy socks, why not just socks?

Also see new pyjamas, posh chocolate, warm coats, good quality yet inexpensive anything.

Can we use some new adjectives.

I miss when the only thing naice was ham.

@Brefugee I have just been told on another thread that, after stating that exH refuses to buy his family Xmas presents (he's loaded but also lazy and mean), I'm spiteful because I won't go out and buy some for ex's family instead

@Ginfordinner

I see it all the time on the university threads. I often feel like shouting on any thread about Loughborough University that DD would have hated it because it attracts the "first set PE" types

I've worked in many schools. Every SLT/Head that was borderline sociopathic very aggressive and thrived on a culture of terror and backbiting amongst staff had been a PE teacher. One that went to Loughborough.

My current PE colleagues are lovely. They didn't.

The Whole of MN: You are body-shaming and corrupting her. She MUST call it a VULVA and pledge to NEVER trim or tidy her pubic area, or she will become a stripper by the time she's sixteen

LOL! I can’t believe we got to page 13 before someone mentioned the MN vulva obsession.

I’ll call my own minge flaps whatever the fuck I like thanks.

That should be a cigarette pant, a killer heel and a red lip

That's where I go wrong. Mine would be cigarettes, pants under my jeans, a pair of shoes that don't kill my feet and the only red lip around here since facemasks became compulsory is around the lid of my lunchbox.

the only red lip around here since facemasks became compulsory is around the lid of my lunchbox

Is that what you call your vulva?

@RUOKHon

the only red lip around here since facemasks became compulsory is around the lid of my lunchbox

Is that what you call your vulva?

No. They'd be the lips around DP's lunchbox.

Oh, yeah. That's a MN thing; men aren't allowed to have a sex drive - ever. I don't mean the sex pests and rapists, but the normal men who would rather like to make love with their partners/wives more than once in the last 7 years. They're expected to live like trappist monks, as are women whose men don't want to have sex with them, as though a cold piece of plastic applied to the clitoris and surrounding area is a direct equivalent of the emotional and physical comfort/pleasure of being in the arms of a warm, living, breathing human who is emotionally bonded to them.

@RUOKHon

the only red lip around here since facemasks became compulsory is around the lid of my lunchbox

Is that what you call your vulva?

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Also

OP. do you think this blind goes with this sofa (pics)?

Four million MNers: Sorry OP. Can't compute. I could NEVER consider living in a new build. I must live in a Victorian pile with draughty windows and stripped floors in order to even function.

OP. But is the green ok with the pink?

Four million MNers: in your shoes, I think I'd knock the whole house down and rebuild using reclaimed bricks from a derelict, period rectory in the Cotswolds.

Blimey, Glummy they sound like a bunch of wankers.

Has the MN love of Boden gone now? I don't see it mentioned very much now

Woman aged about 36 posts 'guess my age', responses are:

• you're at least 52
• I would guess about 60
• you can tell by your sagging neck that you're older (sorry)
• I'm 73 and you definitely look older than me

Man asks for sex = rapist and abuser
Man denies woman sex = abuser and also gay

@PonderingPeggy

It's not enough to feel upset about something. No you must be "broken" or "ruined".

MN children are always "sporty".

Don't forget the children are also VERY tall and VERY slim even though they eat MASSIVE piles of vegetables and have unlimited access to the fruit bowl

@slashlover

"My DH has a female friend/coworker..."

LTB!
He's shagging her/wants to shag her!
I would put a stop to it
Get all your ducks in a row OP.

😂 and the ducks in a row 🤣

MN children are always "sporty".

Don't forget the children are also VERY tall and VERY slim even though they eat MASSIVE piles of vegetables and have unlimited access to the fruit bowl hmm

Don’t forget also that MN children are also always “sensible”.

@TeachesOfPeaches

Man asks for sex = rapist and abuser Man denies woman sex = abuser and also gay

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Everything is 'grim'. To me grim means like, a grim diagnosis, the news from the doctor was grim. Everyone here seems to use 'grim' like it basically means nothing and it is going out of style. Also, I was sat, I was stood, etc.

WHILE we're on the subject, I don't know if this is a UK thing, but I have never come across the word 'whilst' until I came on here, it sounds and looks so Shakespearean and archaic. Not sure why people can't write 'while'. I'm surprised these people don't write doest and thou. The juxtaposition of someone being so posh and old-fashioned that they write 'whilst', but then write 'I was sat crying' or 'I was stood outside' - both examples of broken English, is really ironic. I mean it doesn't even sound right, or look right. It's not just bad grammar, it sounds like a person struggling with broken English. If thou canst write 'whilst' surely you have basic English abilities to a standard that you can write 'I was sitting crying'/'I sat crying'/'I am sitting crying' or 'I was standing outside'.

@Kalula

Everything is 'grim'. To me grim means like, a grim diagnosis, the news from the doctor was grim. Everyone here seems to use 'grim' like it basically means nothing and it is going out of style. Also, I was sat, I was stood, etc.

WHILE we're on the subject, I don't know if this is a UK thing, but I have never come across the word 'whilst' until I came on here, it sounds and looks so Shakespearean and archaic. Not sure why people can't write 'while'. I'm surprised these people don't write doest and thou. The juxtaposition of someone being so posh and old-fashioned that they write 'whilst', but then write 'I was sat crying' or 'I was stood outside' - both examples of broken English, is really ironic. I mean it doesn't even sound right, or look right. It's not just bad grammar, it sounds like a person struggling with broken English. If thou canst write 'whilst' surely you have basic English abilities to a standard that you can write 'I was sitting crying'/'I sat crying'/'I am sitting crying' or 'I was standing outside'.

It's not an uncommon word over here. Nothing pretentious in using it.

I used to have a uni tutor who'd mark us down for using 'whilst'. It does sound odd and pretentious, like you're an old Victorian lady writing a letter. Like 'whom'.

@Kalula

Everything is 'grim'. To me grim means like, a grim diagnosis, the news from the doctor was grim. Everyone here seems to use 'grim' like it basically means nothing and it is going out of style. Also, I was sat, I was stood, etc.

WHILE we're on the subject, I don't know if this is a UK thing, but I have never come across the word 'whilst' until I came on here, it sounds and looks so Shakespearean and archaic. Not sure why people can't write 'while'. I'm surprised these people don't write doest and thou. The juxtaposition of someone being so posh and old-fashioned that they write 'whilst', but then write 'I was sat crying' or 'I was stood outside' - both examples of broken English, is really ironic. I mean it doesn't even sound right, or look right. It's not just bad grammar, it sounds like a person struggling with broken English. If thou canst write 'whilst' surely you have basic English abilities to a standard that you can write 'I was sitting crying'/'I sat crying'/'I am sitting crying' or 'I was standing outside'.

There is a board specifically for pedants.

I think grim is a great word and describes many situations described in threads on here.

I use whom and whilst in real life. Objecting to words is a real MN obsession though - which brings me to GOTTEN. Perfectly normal word where I'm from but it seems to freak out the MN hordes.

Obsessed with delivery men knocking on doors and waking up their precious child. As if all delivery people need a printed schedule of all children's naps. And folk washing their bedding and skirting boards twice a day.

Ha Polyxena. Worse. I am irish

@mummyoneboy19

I’d log it with 101.

No wonder you can never get through to 101 when you need to, there’s hoards of mumsnetters reporting things like the neighbour opposite cutting their hedge down.

To be fair though I feel like reporting my cross-the-road neighbour for crimes against good taste with his Christmas lights! Bless the hedge, no way am I cutting it down.