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Fuck your future little ASBO's and your noodle-stained pjs. Stop clogging up A&E

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Hatstrategicallydipped · 05/01/2021 19:02

metro.co.uk/2021/01/05/tory-said-fat-mums-in-pot-noodle-stained-leggings-are-filling-ae-13850016/?ito=facebook%7Csocial%7Cmetroukfacebook&fbclid=IwAR0toNZNKiwyolyGldH9UWEReTLex7VA27ZOPFVr-lPTWFv16CKS5JKFVlI

I actually thought this was parody. But this guy actually wrote this shit. On New Year's Eve. I wonder whether it was after a discussion with Boris?

Mr Baines has since apologised and stood down as chairman of the Clwyd South Conservative Association. He wrote: ‘A&Es in Germany aren’t full of fat mums in pot noodle-stained leggings/ pjs taking their kids for a day out at A&E to harvest Facebook likes because their darling little snot-covered Asbo fell over. Happy New Year.’

I somehow get the feeling that he's a Mumsnetter? Hmm

OP posts:
NotTerfNorCis · 05/01/2021 23:08

Dunno if it's wrong of me but "darling little snot-covered Asbo" made me laugh.

Covine · 05/01/2021 23:11

Yeah, you probably need to get out more.

Oh, you can't.

PodgeBod · 05/01/2021 23:23

@NotTerfNorCis

Dunno if it's wrong of me but "darling little snot-covered Asbo" made me laugh.
Really? It was his stereotyping of children that I thought was most despicable. Maybe because I fit this description, fat and often wear leggings, and until recent surgery my child had an awful post nasal drip that meant she was almost permanently "snotty nosed" no matter how often I wiped it. It made me really sad.
Emeraldshamrock · 05/01/2021 23:26

He is charming. Hmm
On days when I really couldn't be arsed getting washed and dressed the thoughts of a sudden a&e visit encourages me to get sorted.
Thankfully I have not been often with the DC it is always required on an off day.

Indecisive12 · 05/01/2021 23:30

It’s awful.
But I can’t be the only one with a fb friend who checks in then replies to every comment with ‘I’ll message you hun xxx’ at least a few times a year.

Indecisive12 · 05/01/2021 23:30

Checks in to A&E I mean

Malin52 · 06/01/2021 00:52

I have an old school friend on Facebook who is literally an A&E clogger. She has checked into A&E no fewer than SIX times since late October. No known 'conditions'. Checks in and gets 50 'OMG u ok huni? And her responses are always 'PM u babe'.
Out and about the next day with no reference to whatever 'emergency' befell her the day before.

Sinful8 · 06/01/2021 01:02

@Leannethom85

As opposed to the children of the tories dumped in a boarding school never to see mother or father for months at a time, mummy to busy on holiday with the toy boy as daddy is a rich old boring fart...

These people have no idea how the working class live, if they assume we all eat pot noodles in our primark leggings, then they so far out of touch.

I want to believe you but a trip to asda paints a different picture
Lofari · 06/01/2021 02:14

This thread is ace.
Pandemic.....A+E is like a proper day out these days surely.
Also I now really fancy a pot noodle.

Catflapkitkat · 06/01/2021 05:46

Bring back the old days when you left drunken 'I love you, I think' messages on ex's answerphones.

Tinkerbell456 · 06/01/2021 06:28

What a vicious thing to write. I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of parents who bring their kids into a and e do so because they’re genuinely worried. Not for giggles. This applies regardless of what they are wearing. Having a little experience as a nurse in a and e, I won’t say I have never encountered Frequent Flyers but very, very rarely.

OhBollocksToIt · 06/01/2021 06:38

Always a picture of a cannula. Always.

Donotgogentle · 06/01/2021 06:50

The unbelievable part is that a Tory councillor is making a positive comparison with Germany.

Wiredforsound · 06/01/2021 07:23

Pyjamas? Oh darling, I always wear a ball gown and tiara to A&E.

yetanothernamitynamechange · 06/01/2021 07:28

The only person I know who frequently posts cryptic posts about her trips to A&E is fairly posh, so his stereotyping is of.
Another reason his post stinks is making fun of the "pot noodle stained leggings" because thats definately a dig at the fact they think they are lower class than him. Its snobby and also deeply unfair because hardly anybody looks their best when going to A&E - the last time I took my child I had a fleece thrown over my PJ top and a pair of hastily thrown on (probably stained) leggings. I lived in Germany at the time as well.

Anycrispsleft · 06/01/2021 07:30

What an absolute cunt. I live in Germany. We pay 600 euros a month for health insurance, that's why our A&Es aren't overrun. Now that we have a pandemic on, levels of service in the German "health service" (it's private provision) has gone down to where the NHS is on its best day of the year. And him and his party are the reason for that.

Graciebobcat · 06/01/2021 07:54

Typical Tory. They create an I'm All Right Jack society where people get left behind then laugh at those left behind. Remind me, how long have they been in power, ten years now? Can they really blame anyone else? Especially when they destroyed jobs in loads of areas in the 1980s that have never been replaced and created generation after generation of benefit dependency.

Sparklesocks · 06/01/2021 08:24

Who are these people who love sitting in a&e for hours at a time and so go for shits and gigs??

longwayoff · 06/01/2021 08:50

He's a Tory. Why the surprise? Only surprise about context is that he hasn't suggested it should be adapted for use in their next election publicity drive.

HunterHearstHelmsley · 06/01/2021 08:55

My first thought was "how the Pot Noodle end up on their leggings?!"

I'm going to have a Pot Noodle for lunch to see how easy it is. I expect I'll get more on my gravy stained vest than my leggings.

Lalallals248 · 06/01/2021 10:28

I was in A&E the other night, being delighted by the riveting tales of a highly drugged-up women telling us how her 'liquid weed' had made her heart 'come out of her body and give her a heart attack.' Then, at 2am, a group of lads came in swearing and shouting. They did all seem to be there for the 'fun' of it.

formerbabe · 06/01/2021 10:45

Do only the feckless layabouts of the underclass need emergency medical treatment or is there a secret middle class A&E that I don't know about?

Where you go if you've burnt your hand on the aga or twisted your ankle playing tennis.

Nicolastuffedone · 06/01/2021 11:03

I used to work in A&E.....some of it rings true, sadly, entire families would arrive, they’d have stopped to pick up granny on the way, and they would cause havoc! Always a big, shorty sweaty row with the staff....🙈 hell on wheels

user686833 · 06/01/2021 14:25

Do only the feckless layabouts of the underclass need emergency medical treatment or is there a secret middle class A&E that I don't know about?

As a frequent children's A&E visitor I love observing all the stereotypes that are in the wait room at any one time. Along with the huge extended asbo McDonald's family, there is always a middle class couple of a young PFB with nothing more than a high temperature who performance parent to the extreme and look terrified to be near the McDonald's family.

yetanothernamitynamechange · 06/01/2021 17:18

@user686833 "As a frequent children's A&E visitor I love observing ...." Found one Shock

(I am only joking obviously, I am sure really you are not visiting A&E just for the fun of people spotting). But also, what is your view on parents who rush their PFB born because into A&E they have blood in their nappy only to find out it is in fact beetroot? (asking for a friend)