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811 replies

HeidiHaughton · 06/02/2021 15:29

Ltb being mine.

OP posts:
LouJ85 · 06/02/2021 21:41

@funinthesun19

“You knew what you were getting in to”

Said to stepmums all the time on here.

How can you possibly know the ins and outs of your life in the next X amount of years?

Oh Christ, and this. Every single time.

EvilSylvanianRabbit · 06/02/2021 21:41

‘I haven’t RTFT but..... (insert suggestion/question that has been explained by OP on page 3 of the 17 page thread)

Just maybe see it’s a massive thread and assume your question/suggestion has been answered?

PracticallyFloored · 06/02/2021 21:42

I always think the unmumsnetty hug is used so much that surely it's now a mumsnetty hug. Or just a hug. Not sure why it always has to be qualified.

rawalpindithelabrador · 06/02/2021 21:43

There's an Aldi or Lidl on every corner in the entire UK. Don't have any money, go to Aldi, the food is free there.

LouJ85 · 06/02/2021 21:43

@ShrikeAttack

Ah yes, 'All men use porn'.

They really don't, and I do find it quite sad that women believe that.

I agree. And that if they watch porn it's definitely be other want tips about how to be a violent abuser, because ALL porn is violent and abusive.

CreamFacedLoon · 06/02/2021 21:43

The hindsight brigade who can always foresee their future circumstances and anyone who can’t is a fool. Normally start responses with “That’s why I...”

OP: I’m a single Mum with 3 kids...
Reply: That’s why I didn’t have kids until we’d been married for 15 years, travelled the world and paid off our mortgage, so we knew our relationship would last.

OP: I’m struggling a bit financially despite earning £25k per year.
Reply: That’s why I became one of the world’s leading neurosurgeons on £1,500,000 per year. I don’t understand why more people don’t do it.

OP: My neighbours are really annoying.
Reply: That’s why I live on my own remote Hebridean island. It’s the only way to guarantee peace.

It’s the sheer wilful refusal to see that anyone could possibly be in less fortunate circumstances or fail to predict/prepare for problems.

funinthesun19 · 06/02/2021 21:44

Not having a car is akin to being Amish and indicative of being a dosser

And I bet in their next breath they’re moaning about the planet. But they also think every adult should own a car and if they don’t they’re irresponsible Grin

Yeah, makes perfect sense.

LouJ85 · 06/02/2021 21:44

*because, not be other

AIMummy · 06/02/2021 22:00

Reading this thread and realising that I hate hugs, wedding invites, answering the door or phone and can stretch one chicken to 3 or 4 meals

I'll get my coat. Blush

ConstantlySeekingHappiness · 06/02/2021 22:02

The ones who think that anyone who eats their evening meal before 9.30pm is clearly a toddler and cannot possibly be a fully functioning adult.

I can’t stand the “Only children eat at 5.30pm.... I don’t know a single adult who eats before midnight” brigade.

mooncats · 06/02/2021 22:06

My wife won't sleep with me
MN: when did you last cook and clean for her ?

TeddysTigerEyes · 06/02/2021 22:09

OP, I can hear my neighbours setting fire to their kids through the walls.
Response, mind your own fucking business.
The the flip.
OP, my neighbours have moved a bin bag closer to my bin.
Response, log it with the police they will want to know about this.

HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee · 06/02/2021 22:10

@TeddysTigerEyes yes and include a diagram

LouJ85 · 06/02/2021 22:12

@mooncats

My wife won't sleep with me MN: when did you last cook and clean for her ?

"How much do you do around the house?"
"Do you contribute enough financially?"
😂

HeidiHaughton · 06/02/2021 22:16

Another one.
'Famioy money'

OP posts:
HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee · 06/02/2021 22:18

Ahh yes family money. A woman having financial autonomy isn’t it be trusted

1Morewineplease · 06/02/2021 22:24

@lalafafa

howling Roast with one leg, I serve it with at least three veg, potatoes, parsnips, stuffing, yorkies and bread sauce. Another meal with other leg, often chicken and veg curry, chicken would make up a third of the content of the curry at most, served with a carb (rice or naan). Another meal, stir fry, risotto or casserole, again a third at most, using one breast. Ditto the other breast Ditto the bits. Bones for stock which I'll use to make soup.

I use Tesco Value/Asda Smartprice chicken. I've read all the bumf about chicken, and don't believe free range from a supermarket buys you a better product. nor a better treated one.

I think you need to buy a Hugh Fearnly whatsuphisarse for that, and it costs too much.

You will see that the meat is a very small part of our meal, and that's how I stretch it so far.

I'm not saying anyone else should, but you can't say a chicken doesn't go far if you eat half to yourself for one meal, same as I can't say one does go far to fill you up.

I prefer to eke it out, and use it as a flavour, rather than a filler. A trick I learned in South East Asia.

Effing Brilliant!
ShrikeAttack · 06/02/2021 22:24

Yes, and the mad North-South divide that plays out on MN. I do find it bizarre that people cling to ideas about either that were quite tired and boring when I went to work in The City in 1996 (when Northern women were treated as exotic and not quite right).

It still plays out on here, people asking about moving to 'The North' as though it's a lawless uncultured desert where people eat Tea in the evening and the streets are littered with drunks, dogshit, and the illiterate no-hopers that clutter up the Northern cities.

HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee · 06/02/2021 22:32

Yes the homogeneous north,all gravy and scrapping. Not a violin tutor in sight

Toddlerteaplease · 06/02/2021 22:33

Everyone worries about the 11+. I had absolutely no idea until I came on mumsnet, that it still existed in some areas.

LouJ85 · 06/02/2021 22:33

@HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee

Yes the homogeneous north,all gravy and scrapping. Not a violin tutor in sight

😂 as a northerner myself I love this comment

Iknowwhatudidlastsummer · 06/02/2021 22:34

Being identified in real life Grin

No one ever gets angry that a thread doesn't go the way they wanted and they are told they ARE BU. No one ever. They just suddenly get "identified" and get the thread removed.

Iknowwhatudidlastsummer · 06/02/2021 22:38

Children will ruin you, literally and physically.

Having a child (let alone more than one) MUST mean your body is fucked forever, flabby, uncomfortable, huge, sometimes painful. But you must be grateful because you "grew a human" and you will never ever be thin and toned again.

Ltdannygreen · 06/02/2021 22:52

You should get married for security 🤦🏼‍♀️

Iknowwhatudidlastsummer · 06/02/2021 22:56

@Ltdannygreen

You should get married for security 🤦🏼‍♀️
It's not so stupid

when it's as opposed to NOT being married which offers none.

It never meant that you can retire on a trust fund the day you sign.