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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

What’s your favourite true stereotype about yourself?

183 replies

ProbablyAboutTime · 07/05/2021 21:12

I’ll start.

I’m a 30-something middle class white woman drinking Pinot and listening to Dido while her DH is working away.

I’m also wearing a Breton-striped jumper and love naice ham.

What have I become?

Your turn

OP posts:
IconUcon · 08/05/2021 20:49

It’s exhausting!

MistyMargaret · 08/05/2021 20:52

I don’t have or want children.
And it is because I’m selfish and like to sleep in until midday.

Verbena87 · 08/05/2021 20:58

Art teacher. Mostly wear linen dresses I’ve made myself, clogs, and hand knitted jumpers.

Teenytinyratsass · 08/05/2021 21:03

Irish and fond of a drink, extremely chatty, will disarmingly ask direct questions and until becoming a parent used swear words as punctuation.

And since moving to the UK I also fit all the middle class Marlborough Sauvignon blanc, Ocado, Hush, joules for kids, sharp elbowed parent stereotypes too..

Sigh

TheNestedIf · 08/05/2021 21:04

I do actually quite like zider.

KatnissNeverdone · 08/05/2021 21:07

I'm from Wigan and I really like pies.

geillisduncan · 08/05/2021 21:09

I'm a Fifer and tighter than a ducks arse.

OneMoreForExtra · 08/05/2021 21:24

I grew up abroad as the child of expats, now living and working in the UK. I still wonder why people don't go round to each others houses for mid-week drinks and dinner, even when I'm working till 8

SwedishK · 08/05/2021 21:25

Hmm, I’m Swedish, loves long snowy winters, dress Scandinavian and I am outdoorsy.

OneMoreForExtra · 08/05/2021 21:28

I'm also a CEO working mother. I have it all. This means I feel guilty about work when I'm with the kids and feel guilty about the kids when I'm working.

forinborin · 08/05/2021 21:34

Eastern European and I am really blunt.

Crimblecrumble1990 · 08/05/2021 21:36

On my period. Moody and snappy all day and now sat in bed eating chocolate...

abouttogoon · 08/05/2021 21:38

I'm married to a builder, our house is last to be fixed up 🙁

Hippychickster · 08/05/2021 21:39

I'm a blonde haired, blue eyed Swede (born here though) and when we were children we had family saunas on a Sunday night.

traumaticconversations · 08/05/2021 21:39

I’m Scottish, Glaswegian father, Celtic supporter and have always voted SNP . Hair was ginger at birth ... as was mum and dad’s ...

Yogatomorrow · 08/05/2021 21:49

Am english living abroad in a coffee-drinking nation. Only drink tea and many cups a day. Also am ridiculously polite (in a country that literally has no word for "please" Shock).

AngeloMysterioso · 08/05/2021 21:50

@brokengate

I'm a farmers wife and I therefore have straw on the kitchen floor, a live lamb in the bottom door of the Aga and stew in the slow cooker.
YABU for not providing a photo
MonkeyGoneToHeaven · 08/05/2021 21:54

I am a blonde with eyelash extensions and I do the school run in a Range Rover Evoque. I am terrible at parking.

Theonewiththecandles · 08/05/2021 21:58

Bi AND greedy!

HandforthParishCouncilClerk · 08/05/2021 22:04

Angry ginger here too. Also middle aged mum of a child with special needs - I am almost always to be found sporting a mum bun, sloppy oversized jumper and clutching a cup of coffee.

PattyPan · 08/05/2021 22:11

I am posting on MN whilst wearing a Boden dress! Which came from eBay, because I am a classic guilt-ridden, environmentally conscious, organic-buying, Guardian-reading, allotment-gardening, vegan, public sector, middle class leftie. I had organic lentil soup for my dinner and felt guilty because it came in a plastic pot 🤦‍♀️

catwomanhatwoman · 08/05/2021 22:14

Stereo type one (who no one sees!) Stay at home mum who regrets giving up work, workaholic husband, three kids, laundry pile as high as me, toys all over the floor, losing at housework, always late, struggling to remember mufti day/school trips/parties/play dates, husband calls from the office/bar/golf to ask me to collect his dry cleaning/tax his car/pay the builder etc.Confused

Wealthy stahm, kids in private school, drives a Range Rover, wears Chloe/mulberry/Barbour/Ralph Lauren/gym kit.

If only the people who see me as the latter knew🤦🏼‍♀️

CleanAndPaidFor · 08/05/2021 22:34

I'm from Yorkshire

I turn the heating off when my husband has turned it on.

I regularly shout "it's like Blackpool Illuminations in here"

I'm friendly and straightforward.

I make MAGNIFICENT Yorkshire puddings.

BiminiBonGoulash · 08/05/2021 23:01

A southerner who always feels the cold
A Londoner who always hurries down escalators
A woman who loves pink, pastels and glitter
A bisexual who is confused

ihavethehighground · 08/05/2021 23:06

The bedroom window stays open, even in winter 😁