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.

Bulk it up with lentils...

A camel coat just makes me think of Delboy.

That it seems to take 5 hours to get somewhere ...
5 hours to travel to a wedding/ in laws
Or ex is moving 5 hours away and wants said person to drive the kids back and forth no meeting in the middle 🙄

@BritWifeinUSA

Bulk it up with lentils...

And put the entire contents of your fridge into a lasagne, because what do those pesky Italians know putting only mince and a bit of chopped carrot/onion/celery in.

What I find annoying is when a particular Poster gets half thread right, and gives a very opioniated viewpoint on a subject...

Really Annoying that is...

Also when a particular poster is very judgemental on a particular subject, that is a bit of side opinion.( misses totally the point on giving a viewpoint on the main thread narrative.

For e.g recently a op thread on how offensive disrespectful it was,seeing kids throwing things at a dead badger etc.
And then a Poster saying in a holier than way, Op shouldnt have said lost her temper and swore.(yes I know swearing at those kids is not good,but those kids swore at Op first etc..

"It's not my responsibility to educate you about (current bollocks)".

Even if said bollocks was picked up on a gender studies course at some unknown college that nobody will ever have heard of.

'managing the household finances'

I always feel I am doing this wrong, I have everything on a direct debit, maybe once a year I will do a review to see if there are any better deals out there but other then that it just ticks over in the background. Sure, I get it if you are in a low income household things need to micromanaged a bit more but you can't help but feel some folk big up this responsibility to being on par with being the CFO of a FTSE 100.

Same goes with dental appointments, assuming your kids don't have teeth on par with Shane McGowan chewing a brick it's a twice a year event that you book during each visit. The trauma!!

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'.

It's never remotely occurred to me that 'whilst' is pretentious - it's just an everyday word. Am I also a terrible snob because I tend to favour 'until' rather than 'till'?

'Whom' is not a 'pretentious' variant of 'who', but simply a different part of grammar. 'Who' and 'whom' are the equivalent of 'he' and 'him' - if the 'm' would be there for one, it would also be there for the other. If you wouldn't say "I'm going out with he", why would you ask "Who are you going out with?" ?

Those who object to 'gotten', presumably too American, need to read some Bill Bryson's books about word which were taken across the Atlantic, disappeared here but then came back!

Ooh, I haven't read any Bill Bryson for far too long! I never understand the rather ignorant claim that 'gotten' is somehow an Americanism - it was used in the King James Bible, which was translated by 50+ of the most brilliant scholars of the day and published in England 165 years before the USA even existed.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

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'.

It's never remotely occurred to me that 'whilst' is pretentious - it's just an everyday word. Am I also a terrible snob because I tend to favour 'until' rather than 'till'?

'Whom' is not a 'pretentious' variant of 'who', but simply a different part of grammar. 'Who' and 'whom' are the equivalent of 'he' and 'him' - if the 'm' would be there for one, it would also be there for the other. If you wouldn't say "I'm going out with he", why would you ask "Who are you going out with?" ?

Those who object to 'gotten', presumably too American, need to read some Bill Bryson's books about word which were taken across the Atlantic, disappeared here but then came back!

Ooh, I haven't read any Bill Bryson for far too long! I never understand the rather ignorant claim that 'gotten' is somehow an Americanism - it was used in the King James Bible, which was translated by 50+ of the most brilliant scholars of the day and published in England 165 years before the USA even existed.

Well said.

XDownwiththissortofthingX
That's made me laugh. There are quite a few threads where posters decide that nobody could every enjoy (insert sex act here) and despite posters saying they do, they're told that they really don't know their own bodies and have been conditioned to think they like it.

Bung/chuck/throw any raw ingredients into a slow cooker and by the end of the day you gmhave a delicious healthy dinner for the whole family

Lurpack is disgusting (its actually perfectly nice and my whole family prefer it to anything else)

Class. I generally think this is because mn is very "middle class" and they seem to be the ones who are most obsessed with class, how much people earn and where they live.

Kids clothes. They have to be scandi style and brightly coloured because anything else is just BORING.

If you need some good MN "class" action, I would highly recommend popping over to the elf/balloon thread. It's hilarious.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4094991-bloody-elf-turns-up-in-a-balloon-now?pg=1

Having a chippy tea. I understand what it means, it just sounds odd & twee/annoying.

"Having a chippy tea. I understand what it means, it just sounds odd & twee/annoying."

I think the "chippy" part is to emphasis how wild and naughty they're being for passing up on their usual sniff of lettuce and thimble of tap water. (They also always go to a chippy that serves the famous mn MASSIVE PORTIONS so can recreate Jesus feeding the 5000 with one fish supper.)

Then you'll get the nit pickers asking, what is a fish supper? I've never heard that expression before.

MNers seem incapable of Googling e.g. regional words or expressions. So instead of being able to enter the discussion helpfully, they derail by screaming “Is that a typo? I’ve never heard it called a jag. Did you mean jab?”. 🙄

Lately I noticed on a Christmas board talking about Christmas dinner and what they are having for a starter etc.

We just do Christmas dinner and a desert. No way am I faffing around with a starter. How do they fit it in?!

Oops meant dessert. Parts of the Sahara is definitely not going to be on my plate at Christmas!

This “picky tea” thing sounds very twee and irritating.

Doesn't twee picky tea real!y mean I cannot be arsed to cook?

@IAmADNAMA

Lately I noticed on a Christmas board talking about Christmas dinner and what they are having for a starter etc.

We just do Christmas dinner and a desert. No way am I faffing around with a starter. How do they fit it in?!

We don't even have dessert until Boxing Day because we pig out on the main meal then pig out on chocolates etc afterwards.

Cereal for breakfast. Nuggets, fish fingers oven chips and all the other stuff known as ‘beige’ food. It’s what most children eat for their tea on a regular basis in real life. If you can get a spoonful of vegetables or fruit down them too you’ve done well!

If your sex life or proclivities extend to anything other than once-per-week missionary, at a strictly pre-arranged time slot, with the light off and three methods of contraception employed, you're a 'cool mum'.

That's made me laugh. There are quite a few threads where posters decide that nobody could every enjoy (insert sex act here) and despite posters saying they do, they're told that they really don't know their own bodies and have been conditioned to think they like it.

Agreed. There was a thread here once where a poster was lectured that she only did X sexual act to please men and was probably being abused.

The poster was a lesbian.

It's never remotely occurred to me that 'whilst' is pretentious - it's just an everyday word. Am I also a terrible snob because I tend to favour 'until' rather than 'till'?

'Whilst' isn't pretentious. It's grammatically correct. As is 'until' but i thought the correct abbreviation of it is 'til' as opposed to 'till' isn't it?

Oh relax everyone. Try to stop getting enraged by other people. Life is too short.