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If you could ban anything what would it be

415 replies

zaza687 · 15/07/2022 00:34

Anything you want what would it be ?

OP posts:
Underhisi · 15/07/2022 10:36

"A lot of people on benefits (think benefits britain) that say they have no intention to find a job, smoke 50 a day and keep having more and more kids for a pay rise and a bigger house .. and laugh about it"

Define "a lot". What percentage of people on benefits are you saying, do that?

Coastalcreeksider · 15/07/2022 10:37

Vapes! Those horrible fruit smelling ones. They make me feel nauseous.

I've walked through more clouds of these stinking clouds when in town than I ever do with cigarette smoke.😡

firef1y · 15/07/2022 10:38

NotSoSlimShady8 · 15/07/2022 10:21

A lot of people on benefits (think benefits britain) that say they have no intention to find a job, smoke 50 a day and keep having more and more kids for a pay rise and a bigger house .. and laugh about it 😡 - I would ban them being allowed to have an uncapped amount of children whilst intending for them to be paid for by tax payers .. where we are struggling with two full time jobs to afford to live and buy a house and have to discuss if we can afford and save to have a second child - what a system

There is already a benefits cap no benefits for children after the first 2. So no-one is churning out kids to get a pay rise.
And 50 fags a day!!!!! That's near enough £30, how much benefits do you think get that they can afford £210/week for fags

Coastalcreeksider · 15/07/2022 10:39

Vapes! Those horrible fruit smelling ones. They make me feel nauseous.

I've walked through more clouds of these stinking clouds when in town than I ever do with cigarette smoke.😡

acjohnson · 15/07/2022 10:40

@Labourious I wish I could like your comment, haha!!

acjohnson · 15/07/2022 10:43

@BeerPongChampion

I'm curious, what do you mean by blended families??

acjohnson · 15/07/2022 10:44

BeerPongChampion · 15/07/2022 01:03

Smooth peanut butter. If it didn’t exist, I wouldn’t have ordered the wrong one on my shopping, and would have had the nice crunchy stuff I like on my toast earlier!

Scented sanitary protection. That can fuck right off.

Blended families. 😬

In relation to my previous tag 😀

Herbaceousborder · 15/07/2022 10:47

Littering, I'd love someone to explain the mindset behind anyone who litters.Every week I collect 2 bin liners of rubbish on the rural half mile of road I've adopted through the Adopt a spot campaign.Why do people do this.

CaptainCorellisXylophone · 15/07/2022 10:56

I'd like to ban egocentric twats: ie all the people who just want to ban the things that they don't do/like - bicycles, eating meat etc

Selfie-sticks, on the other hand, can all be thrown into the fucking sun because nobody needs them and all the egocentric arseholes using them get in the way and ruin the view.

C152 · 15/07/2022 10:58

Shit bag employers who don't pay salaries owing.

Somanysocks · 15/07/2022 11:07

Neighbours ( not the programme)

Smoking

Cats

Foxes

Somanysocks · 15/07/2022 11:08

And slugs and snails

NotSoSlimShady8 · 15/07/2022 11:10

@Underhisi enough

Underhisi · 15/07/2022 11:16

Not even able to estimate a percentage when using the phrase "a lot" = talking bollocks

NotSoSlimShady8 · 15/07/2022 11:18

@Underhisi move on love it’s not that deep

sensinggettingcloser · 15/07/2022 11:19

The world wide web.

MrsSkylerWhite · 15/07/2022 11:21

Topless men outside pubs/on streets on hot days.

CounsellorTroi · 15/07/2022 11:21

Selfie-sticks, on the other hand, can all be thrown into the fucking sun because nobody needs them and all the egocentric arseholes using them get in the way and ruin the view.

I actually find it quite hard to take a decent selfie of the two of us. I seem to have short arms and my phone does not have a wide angle lens. DH can't do it either.

GrannyGoggles · 15/07/2022 11:22

Helium balloons.

riesenrad · 15/07/2022 11:22

Pavement parking (and parking in cycle lanes)
Already banned but would enforce: leaving engine running while stationary for any length of time
Garden bonfires (preferably at any time but definitely between May and August)
Noise pollution - noisy garden/house parties, people playing music out loud, boy racers screaming around the roads etc
Net curtains
People stopping to look at Stonehenge on the A303 and making the queues there even longer!
Dogs in offices and shops, and they would have to be on short leads at all times in public places, I'd have more investment in dedicated dog exercise areas in parks

ReeseWitherfork · 15/07/2022 11:26

MrsSkylerWhite · 15/07/2022 11:21

Topless men outside pubs/on streets on hot days.

Such a British institution that. I might be genuinely sad if it disappeared.

PermanentlyTired03 · 15/07/2022 11:27

Weed- I hate the smell. It lingers and it's just nasty. I know it's illegal, but people still smoke it everywhere.

Lucy & yak dungarees. They look bloody awful.

CuriousCatfish · 15/07/2022 11:30

sensinggettingcloser · 15/07/2022 11:19

The world wide web.

So you would ban MN?

underneaththeash · 15/07/2022 11:30

Blokes who dodge child maintenance - you just need a system like the US where they can’t access services without payment.

vegans - or anyone else who claim their nutrient deficient/over processed diets are actually healthy.

people pretending that you can chose your sex

tattoos - I have to look at them not you.

those awful gym shorts which go up your bottom crack. Again for the same reason as above.

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 15/07/2022 11:33

underneaththeash · 15/07/2022 11:30

Blokes who dodge child maintenance - you just need a system like the US where they can’t access services without payment.

vegans - or anyone else who claim their nutrient deficient/over processed diets are actually healthy.

people pretending that you can chose your sex

tattoos - I have to look at them not you.

those awful gym shorts which go up your bottom crack. Again for the same reason as above.

People who whinge about anything that has no impact whatsoever on their life