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Forgive me mumsnet, for I have sinned...

794 replies

AlternativelyWired · 13/08/2022 22:30

Lighthearted!

My sin: I went to a Wetherspoons whilst on holiday in England. Not once, but twiceBlush The food was great and I have 3 children with very restricted tastes in food. I'm the same so the menu suited us all. I feel bad about going there knowing the mumsnet consensus on the guy who runs Wetherspoons but it met our needs. I am a Catholic and feel like I need to say a few Hail Marys as a result.

What are your mumsnet sins?

OP posts:
PoxyAndIKnowIt · 14/08/2022 17:16

I bought DS Grand Theft Auto V for his Christmas a few years ago!

My license to parent should be revoked.

loopycurtains · 14/08/2022 17:18

Not horrified, @FlissyPaps, just don't agree that the analogy holds up. Yes, both involve cleaning up shit. But in one case, there is no choice but to use hands and, in that other, there is.

Personally, I don't think there's anything 'wrong' with using your hands. But if using a brush keeps my hands shit-free, then that's what I prefer.

In the same way that I use a scoop for the cat's shit, rather than my hands. Or keep my hand inside the bag when scooping up dog shit from the garden.

FlissyPaps · 14/08/2022 17:26

Or keep my hand inside the bag when scooping up dog shit from the garden.

A poo-bag keeps hands shit free … the same way a thick wipe keeps hands shit free if I need to do a quick wipe of the toilet bowl. (Above the toilet water may I add.)

Kite22 · 14/08/2022 17:29

What a pathetic thread

Does being condescending make you feel good ?

Great thread @AlternativelyWired Not often I sit and read through 22 pages

Malbecfan · 14/08/2022 17:29

I'm terrible. Here's my list:

I'm a teacher.
I love ironing.
I don't own a dishwasher or tumble drier.
I do own several bog brushes.
I hate cleaning so DH and I have an ongoing competition for who will crack first and clean up/vacuum, unless we have guests coming over.
I answer the door and phone even when I'm not expecting anyone.
I get on really well with all my neighbours.
I drink way too much wine and gin.
I talk to random strangers, especially when I go back to my home city.
I've never bought or worn Boden, White Stuff or SeaSalt.
The only Toast I know is consumed every morning.
I don't own an air fryer.
I don't have Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Sky, BT or any of that paid-for stuff. My kids survived perfectly well with Freeview and YouTube.
I don't do "tinkly laughs" or "head-tilts". Unless I'm at school I ask "what the fuck are you doing?"
Whilst I wasn't MiL's biggest fan, she adored my DDs and DH so when she died and DH was stressing about her eulogy, it was an honour to do it. Lots of people said how lovely it was and how well I portrayed her.

SunscreenCentral · 14/08/2022 17:37

What do you do with the "thick wipe" after you've removed the shite?

FlissyPaps · 14/08/2022 17:40

SunscreenCentral · 14/08/2022 17:37

What do you do with the "thick wipe" after you've removed the shite?

into a nappy sack and into the bin.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 14/08/2022 17:42

I wear gym leggings and tops in public, even though I'm not an 8 stone 17 year old.

I think fasting is a crap idea that's been very well marketed.

I think that bariatric surgery is not the only way to lose weight.

I eat carbs, fat and protein.

A massive salad only counts as one unless it contains one or more of meat, eggs, potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice, pasta and at least eight separate vegetable items before you add olives, capers, seeds, nuts or dressing.

I think that every single 'new' diet book makes a shitload of money for the writer when all they've done is repackaged eat less, move more into a slightly more palatable discourse.

I don't believe that perimenopause is always the answer for every unpleasant sensation or emotion in our bodies and, in fact, the current trend for it perpetuates archaic attitudes that women are mere beasts at the mercy of our slowly withering ovaries, compared to men or women at peak fuckability age.

I believe that people can be arseholes because they're being arseholes, irrespective of whether they have autism or not.

loopycurtains · 14/08/2022 17:43

FlissyPaps · 14/08/2022 17:26

Or keep my hand inside the bag when scooping up dog shit from the garden.

A poo-bag keeps hands shit free … the same way a thick wipe keeps hands shit free if I need to do a quick wipe of the toilet bowl. (Above the toilet water may I add.)

Ah yes, I get that. It's what to do when the skiddies streak themselves under water. In my experience, a shot of bleach left to sit in the bowl for a while doesn't always do the trick. Plus, I think the brush is more environmentally friendly (not going to be holier than though and pretend that's my main motivation!)

PoxyAndIKnowIt · 14/08/2022 18:32

Are we done with poo yet? 😒

ThinkingFace · 14/08/2022 18:33

I find veganism annoying because it's become trendy and militant.

IcakethereforeIam · 14/08/2022 18:40

@vodkaredbullgirl my mum smoked in the house so much the bathroom ceiling turned orange. She sent me or my sister to the shop to buy them for her, until the law changed and we couldn't. She died very suddenly far too young, of a cause unrelated to fags. She never got to meet her grandkids. I'm older now than she lived to be, not got any health problems from her cigarettes. I always nagged her to stop, I wish I hadn't. I love to have her back, sit with her and we could all breathe in her smoke.

D this, D that, D the other makes me cringe.
I can only get two meals out of a chicken.
I have a toilet duck plastic stick thing instead of a bog brush.

Lndnmummy · 14/08/2022 18:42

I have spent the afternoon in my lovely friends hot tub and eaten mcdonalds with prosecco. Best day ever

AMIAMIBU · 14/08/2022 18:45

Lndnmummy · 14/08/2022 18:42

I have spent the afternoon in my lovely friends hot tub and eaten mcdonalds with prosecco. Best day ever

OMG! I'm going to admit I'm jealous!

BaileySharp · 14/08/2022 18:47

I have been to wetherspoons once since brexit/covid! I felt bad but there weren't many other options! The food was worse than I expected (before I was attempting to boycott my experience of them was tastes great for the price!)

TheKeatingFive · 14/08/2022 18:53

I have spent the afternoon in my lovely friends hot tub and eaten mcdonalds with prosecco. Best day ever

Right, no hope of redemption for you. Eternal damnation in the MN fires 😆

Canabelievethis · 14/08/2022 18:55

Forgive me MN, but I iron all my clothing, bedding, tea towels and even DH's work shirts.

I hate grey of any shade for walls/home furniture colours trend and long for cream to be in favour again. Just had no idea that I wasn't alone in this so really thankful for this thread.

Lndnmummy · 14/08/2022 19:43

TheKeatingFive · 14/08/2022 18:53

I have spent the afternoon in my lovely friends hot tub and eaten mcdonalds with prosecco. Best day ever

Right, no hope of redemption for you. Eternal damnation in the MN fires 😆

Totally. I'm screwed. Should have name changed really but never managed to work out how to do it.😅

PoxyAndIKnowIt · 14/08/2022 19:57

I have been "rewilding" the edges of my garden this year AKA to lazy to do the gardening despite some Mumsnet pleas for us all to cut our grass to help them not suffer with hay fever!

Dweetfidilove · 14/08/2022 20:17

Only on page 4, but nominating @LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet a whole rebel 🏅🏆. I'd enjoying holding your baby while you eat, go to the loo on a flight or just take a damn break!

BarbaraofSeville · 14/08/2022 21:14

PoxyAndIKnowIt · 14/08/2022 19:57

I have been "rewilding" the edges of my garden this year AKA to lazy to do the gardening despite some Mumsnet pleas for us all to cut our grass to help them not suffer with hay fever!

I thought the MN hay-fever sufferers didn't want us to cut our grass because the chopped up bits of grass in the air made their hay-fever worse?

Plus it's better for the bees for it to grow.

Mybumlooksbig · 14/08/2022 21:45

I love Wetherspoons AND McDonald's.

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 14/08/2022 21:50

I am another one happy to go AI to Benidorm. they have great kids entertainment, great range of restaurants, easy to navigate as everything is in English, and all the cheap and nasty things that give kids a happy holiday.

I know your average MNer takes their toddlers wild camping in Beirut for a fortnight and when they say “the kids absolutely loved it” I just think they’re total liars -kids want swimming pools, mini discos, people dressed as Mickey Mouse and ice cream on tap!

SomethingOnce · 14/08/2022 21:51

I find veganism annoying because it's become trendy and militant.

It’s newly trendy, but it’s always had a militant contingent.

ordinaryriffraff · 14/08/2022 22:13

I’m not a mum!
just on here for the sisterhood.

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