Unanswered MN questions

[WomanStanleyWoman]

There are certain threads that come up on MN again and again, year after year - and for me, they throw up obvious questions. Yet on more than one thread, I’ve asked these questions, but no one ever seems to answer. Am I missing something - or is it that the answer would contradict the OP’s key argument?

A couple of examples that spring to mind:

‘What is it with people who won’t answer the door? What if a lovely relative had sent you a surprise and you missed the delivery? What if one of your neighbours had lost their cat and needed to check your garden? What if someone was desperate for help and you just ignored them?!?’

The question I always ask is ‘What do these people do if you’re out?’ Presumably even people who happily answer the door to anyone at any time of day have to go out to work, to the shops, to visit family etc. What do these people desperate to see you do then? Surely the delivery driver puts a card through the door; the neighbour with the cat leaves you a note; the person in desperate need of help tries the next house. If all of these are perfectly workable solutions for when someone is out, why can’t they work if someone just doesn’t feel like answering the door? But no matter how many people I’ve asked, never a reply.

Another one that I’ve seen come up a few times is whether it’s okay to let children/teens leave the crusts off a sandwich. Whenever I see this topic comes up, a few posters will always claim that said teens will be starving and reaching for chocolate later because they didn’t eat enough calories at lunch, because they were ‘fussy’.

I’ve pointed out on more than one of these threads that a slice of bread averages at around 105 calories; therefore there can’t be more than 10 - 15 calories in the crust. I’ve asked the calorie counters if they really believe that a maximum of 30 calories could really make the difference between being full until dinner and a junk food binge mid-afternoon - but again, not a reply.

What are your unanswered questions? Also, feel free to answer either of mine if you can!

Why the seemingly simple act of parking a car seems to be the cataylst of WW3. Rudeness in general doesn't seem to get posted about so much but there have been (and will be) multitudes of parking threads.

And - why are they so thrilling? That's the more mysterious thing. Because they bloody are!

@Ibane

What will happen to the tragically-bewildered and over-named offspring of two people both of whom have double-barrelled surnames? Will the world end? Will phone contacts need to leave extra space for humungous 16-barrelled surnames?

@Ibane I would also like to add in those poor poor children with 'nickname' names

What exactly did J K Rowling say that was so transphobic and hateful? Please quote, with original source.

@Puffalicious

I think people who make baseless digs are weird too. But I suppose if we were all the same, we’d have smaller shopping centres

It's not baseless, it's an opinion (remember, we're allowed those) based on what I think.

Your shopping centre analogy makes no sense. Were you trying to be witty as well as dismissive?

Of course you’re allowed an opinion. I meant it was baseless in that you simply decided my post was ‘weird’ and felt the urge to share this with Mumsnet, with no elaboration on what you found weird and why.

As for your question, I was mainly going for dismissive, but if anyone found it amusing, that’s all to the good. I can’t take the credit for it anyway - I nicked it from a Kitty monologue by Victoria Wood. It’s a pity you don’t find Kitty witty, but there’s no need to get shitty.

Your shopping centre analogy makes no sense. Were you trying to be witty as well as dismissive

I think @WomanStanleyWoman hit the dismissive mark whilst simultaneously being witty. But to her point, different strokes and all

Aye, okay, different strokes. In MY opinion folk who don't answer a door are, indeed, anti-social and it's weird behaviour.

I have never seen a thread about cutting crusts off a sandwich. Sounds gripping.

Great thread!

How does anyone clean a toilet without a toilet brush? I have seen it mentioned many times but have never seen anyone describe the methodology.

@Sparklingbrook

I have never seen a thread about cutting crusts off a sandwich. Sounds gripping.

James Cameron is already attached to direct the Hollywood adaptation. ‘Crust’ - this time it’s personal.

@GnomeDePlume

How does anyone clean a toilet without a toilet brush? I have seen it mentioned many times but have never seen anyone describe the methodology.

I’ve seen described on here that people put rubber gloves on and manually scrub the skids off the toilet with a cloth, that then either gets binned or out on a boil wash with bleach.

And my question about that which has gone eternally unanswered is: how is that any less gross or less faff than just using a damn loo brush?

Does anyone have a nice Mother in Law

I don't, but luckily my husband does 😁

Also OP, I never got the crusts on bread thing. Why do people try and force their kids to do something they wouldn't do themselves.

Ok, what kind of skids so people have that don't come off with bleach? I just squirt it all around and leave it. Flush after a while and away goes the poo. Very rarely, a second application of bleach is required.
So when I clean my toilet, it isn't really dirty in that way. It's more the seat, under the seat etc that need a proper clean.
My MIL is nice. Batshit crazy but nice. I could write many threads about her but they would all have an undertone of admiration because even when I can't understand her, I admire her.
Matching names for children i have only come a across once in RL - a friend who chose names with similar meanings for her children so not quite the same as matching.

@Nixbox I am guessing you aren't in a hard water area. Scrubbing below the water line is necessary.

@Interrobanger I agree, the idea of getting up close and personal with a toilet stain below the water line is far worse than a toilet brush.

@Puffalicious

Weird post. As weird as people who don't answer a door IMHO.

Yeah unless there's a reason like mh why wouldn't you answer a door? Unless it's that one person you are avoiding!!

I don't know anyone in RL that doesn't answer the door, or the landline phone.
The amount of people on MN that don't seems very high. I always joke that they might as well brick their front door up and have done with it.

@LaChanticleer

why do people on the baby names board want the names of their offspring to ‘match’, like they’re a three-piece suite?

This is making me search for a stream of Kath & Kim, and the epis around Eponnee's [sp?] birth

Epponnee-Raelene Kathleen Darlene Charlene Craig , 😂

@GnomeDePlume do you mean scrubbing below the water as part of your normal clean, or does the hard water react with poo? (We don’t have hard water! And now I’m more glad of that than ever!)

@Nixbox hard water means that the porcelain doesn't stay glossy smooth so things stick. We have to use industrial strength anti limescale cleaning chemicals to keep on top of it. Normal bleach is not enough.

Now I know that the anti toilet brush people are in soft water areas I feel better!

@GnomeDePlume glad to be of service! And now I understand the obsession with brushes

@Nixbox MN at its best! No arguments, no drama just a sharing of knowledge!

[quote GnomeDePlume]@Nixbox hard water means that the porcelain doesn't stay glossy smooth so things stick. We have to use industrial strength anti limescale cleaning chemicals to keep on top of it. Normal bleach is not enough.

Now I know that the anti toilet brush people are in soft water areas I feel better![/quote]
Finally! An answer to this. I’ve lived in so many different houses and we never have skids and never needed a toilet brush. I thought maybe we were just lucky with the shape of the toilets. Now I know it’s the soft water!

@Sparklingbrook

I don't know anyone in RL that doesn't answer the door, or the landline phone. The amount of people on MN that don't seems very high. I always joke that they might as well brick their front door up and have done with it.

Yeah unless there's a reason like mh why wouldn't you answer a door? Unless it's that one person you are avoiding!!

Obviously I can’t speak for anyone else, but the ‘Why wouldn’t you answer the door?!’ brigade always act like it’s some kind of blanket policy. Of course I answer the door if I’m expecting someone, or I’m expecting a delivery, or can see the postman coming up the path. But a random knock that’s most likely a salesman, a Jehovah’s Witness or someone trying to persuade me to vote for their party? Sod that.

@MaryAndGerryLivingInDerry

What do you mean? It’s like anything that accumulates dirt - if you hoover weekly, what happens to the floor on day 7 that means it needs hoovering that didn’t happen the first 6 days. Ditto mopping the floor, scrubbing the loo (unless you do it after every use), however frequently you personally do these things, it’s because that’s how long it takes to accumulate the dirt to the level you think needs cleaning. Same with towels, or any item that is used more than once before cleaning/replacing.

Thank you. My point entirely. Let’s hope those that insist towels are clean right up until the tenth (or 14th or 30th) use are reading.

this is the weirdo poster who changes her towels after every single use!