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.

@Joswis

Dinning flack jacket!

Why is zoflora annoying? It's just disinfectant.

It’s making normal stuff a ‘thing’. As a PP said turning drinks into a lifestyle choice.

It’s like we’re all walking adverts nowadays. No-one can just *be^. It’s the Instagram generation. Houses have to be styled, we’re all #making memories. Just fuck off with it all honestly, it’s why mental health is so bad. 95% of people think their lives don’t measure up to the 4% who are lying and aspire to be the 1% who are genuinely having a fantastic time.

@Passmeabottlemrjones

The only acceptable outfit for an evening out is cigarette pants, silk 'cami', killer heels and a statement necklace. With a slick of red lippy.

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

Using gallons of smelly stuff in the washing machine and gallons of Zoflora and not realising you have gone nose blind because you have lived with it for so long.

A&E. Now.

When someone posts something that is mildly irritating about their DH and they get the reply “Is he often thoughtless?” / “Is he regularly abusive like this?”

The absolute competitive friendlessness and the pride of having no friends. So weird.

It's like with the weather forecast - it's always "the odd rumble" of thunder.

@ChwistmasTwee

And composing long, awkwardly worded texts, emails and speeches when the OP hasn't actually asked for advice on exactly what to say to someone.

YES this. Especially when the thread is already 8 pages long and loads of other posters have already done it. Just why??

Also all the open letters: “To the woman in the car park yesterday, did you not see me? I hope you realise....” blah blah

Also the competitive being scared of spiders
OP: there’s a spider in my house
Posters: omg burn your house don’t and run away it’s the only solution op! Kill it with fire!!

Really irritating

MN used to be obsessed with competitive no-screen-time. If you let you child so much as peep at the TV it will rot their brain and they'll fail all their GCSE's.

Then yesterday I was told several times on a thread that I am "massively tight" and basically abusive because my 8yo DD is only allowed 3 hours gaming on a weekend WTF.

And composing long, awkwardly worded texts, emails and speeches when the OP hasn't actually asked for advice on exactly what to say to someone

I hate it when people suggest wording for emails because it usually contains words like henceforth and incumbent. FFS OP asked about how to tell her sister she won't be coming round for Christmas dinner, she's not making a diplomatic speech.

Attitudes to alcoholics while being a slave to wine and gin.

Conpetitive skinniness. What you weigh 8st? Oh you fat pig. I weighed 7st 10lb at 9 months pregnant and i was big as a house.

Echo chambers of the popular non name changers piling in on a poster.

Condescending attitudes to stay at home mums, part time workers are lazy and full time mums with strangers raising their kids ard role models for their kids.

God freaking sensitivity to anything remotely pro breastfeeding taken as an attack on bottle feeders.

'Interesting first post' comments.

Illogical clothes sizing.

OP: "If you are 5'3" and weight 11 stone, what dress size are you"

Loads of replies: "size 8 in most shops but 10 in others"

Yeah right

Oh and i forgot the:
I recently gave birth. I feel so fat and disgusting my dp not attracted to me. Drip feed later: Oh and im a size 12uk.
Just.fuck.off.

Why is zoflora annoying? It's just disinfectant.

I didn't say it was annoying. The title of the thread is MN obsessions. I think zoflora is an MN obsession.

When someone posts something that is mildly irritating about their DH and they get the reply “Is he often thoughtless?” / “Is he regularly abusive like this?”

The bleach obsession is weird too. Gallons of bleach being sloshed everywhere for no reason. Bleurgh.

@Sparklingbrook yep, no consideration for the environment when they glug a gallon of bleach down the sink

Ah man i was gonna steal the fuckingcrustybread name lol someone beat me to it 😂. Agree with whoever said about everyone being a narcassist some people are just arseholes. Also ltb is thrown around very readily on mumsnet. Sometimes the op absolutely should ltb and I've said it myself but it seems its thrown out very everything! And yes to the anti McDonald's gang. I love me a maccy ds! 😁

The constant benchmarking and desperation to be labelled as 'middle class' despite the fact that 60% of the UK population is middle class - totally baffling. Also, the absolute hatred of anyone with overweight or obesity and the sheer inability to grasp that there are many rich fat people.

@Sparklingbrook

The bleach obsession is weird too. Gallons of bleach being sloshed everywhere for no reason. Bleurgh.

To be fair, I did this when my daughter did a poo in the bath right after that vaccination that leaves the virus live in the poo so you have to be extra careful in disposing the nappies (rotavirus?). I was terrified the virus would be live in the bath and harm her, so I threw bleach all over every inch of it. Then, after rinsing, I got scared that there might be bleach still on the surface that would burn her, so I took off all my clothes and started rolling around trying to touch every millimetre of the bath to check there was nothing caustic on the surface. Then my husband walked in to find my daughter playing with her bath toys on the floor, and me naked, sliding around inside the bath while sobbing that I was a terrible mother.

But that's another story.

That a size 10uk could be OBESE because 10uk today is 16uk in old money and its the fault of vanity sizing we lost sight of what a slim person looks like yawn

This is one of the websites that i findvery ED triggering tbh. I keep meaning to quit MN as some stuff here wind me up too much. I cant be alone in this.

On the food threads where people talk about what crap but tasty foods they like. It's always cheap white bread, like what bread do you eat normally? And always with loads of butter.

@PrincessNutNut I think you did what any of us would do, it people on here Chuck bleach down the sink every other day for no good reason tower than some fishwife hairdresser told them to

To be fair, I did this when my daughter did a poo in the bath right after that vaccination that leaves the virus live in the poo so you have to be extra careful in disposing the nappies (rotavirus?). I was terrified the virus would be live in the bath and harm her, so I threw bleach all over every inch of it. Then, after rinsing, I got scared that there might be bleach still on the surface that would burn her, so I took off all my clothes and started rolling around trying to touch every millimetre of the bath to check there was nothing caustic on the surface. Then my husband walked in to find my daughter playing with her bath toys on the floor, and me naked, sliding around inside the bath while sobbing that I was a terrible mother.

But that's another story.

🤣

@justanotherneighinparadise

To be fair, I did this when my daughter did a poo in the bath right after that vaccination that leaves the virus live in the poo so you have to be extra careful in disposing the nappies (rotavirus?). I was terrified the virus would be live in the bath and harm her, so I threw bleach all over every inch of it. Then, after rinsing, I got scared that there might be bleach still on the surface that would burn her, so I took off all my clothes and started rolling around trying to touch every millimetre of the bath to check there was nothing caustic on the surface. Then my husband walked in to find my daughter playing with her bath toys on the floor, and me naked, sliding around inside the bath while sobbing that I was a terrible mother.

But that's another story.

🤣

Ha ha ha @PrincessNutNut, I’ve done similar with my PFB

@PrincessNutNut wasn't that the polio vaccine back in the day?