To ask you to admit doing the annoying things people on MN complain about?

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For an anonymous internet forum, it continually strikes me as odd that people very rarely admit to engaging in the problematic or annoying behaviours complained about on here - it's always someone else doing it, apparently. Whether it's hogging the middle lane on the motorway, having kids who are out of control in public places, being a noisy neighbour or not picking up dog poo, people on MN constantly complain about these things happening around them but if no one on here admits to doing it, who are all these offenders? For example, several people in my neighbourhood are leaving their dog's poo around constantly, but when this is brought up on here every single dog owner loudly exclaims that it it's these dog owners who give them a bad name, that they never go out walking without carrying several bags for good measure! Same with bad driving - people on here love calling out driving pet peeves, but surely at least some people on here are engaging in those very same behaviours e.g. tailgating, driving too slowly or bad parking, that everyone complains about?

Are people on here just squeaky clean or in denial? I admit it, I do hog the middle lane sometimes, there you go 😬

What’s the thing about toilet brushes? Sorry if this is widely known, I’m new around here. How can you not use a toilet brush? What else are you supposed to do?

I was going to ask what's wrong with having sanitary protection for guests and then I remembered the names I got called when I revealed I not only had a shoeless house but have a box of slippers for guests to wear if they should wish to. There were also various vomiting emojis because it isn't possible to keep up with the extra laundry generated by chucking them into the wash between guests and anyway it's still disgusting even after they've been through the machine.

These people will faint if they know the bedsheets also get reused after being washed.

@Cafenero35

There are people here who believe loo brushes are for breaking up stubborn logs who have outlived their welcome in the bowl of the loo.

All the sensible people know that is what poo sticks are for.

Thanks but also ewww

if your not actively overtaking something on the left you are making the right hand lanes congested.

Not if no other cars are around ,though... I mean, it's a tree fell in the wood but did it make a sound since no one was around to hear it situation. You can't hog a lane even when you don't move left, if there is literally no other driver approaching who seems to want to drive faster than yourself.

I often stay in middle or outer lane if no one else is around who would want to overtake. I find compulsive move left at first opportunity drivers amusing.

Overtake. Nobody approaching from behind. Move left for 10 seconds. Move back right to overtake. 45 seconds later, move back left for only 20 seconds. Then move right to overtake again. Repeat. Like a pointless dance.

I thought it was a poo knife?

My gran used to use a potato masher to clear the stubborn logs my dad and his brothers left.

I don't own a toilet brush since one of the dc decided to stick it down the loo after he'd had a huge poo and not flushed

I pretty much always answer the door unless I'm trying to have a nap

I smoke and I have no intention of moving if I'm sat outside a pub just because someone else's little darlings are in the vicinity

So what do none toilet brush owners do when the toilet has been left with skids all over the bowl? And while I’m on about that my sons very pretty, very polite, very intelligent girlfriend keeps doing it at my house 😡 I can’t say anything because I’d be extremely embarrassed never mind her. How can she not know though? I hate cleaning someone else’s turd marks up

Or lazy parents as you called them

Come on, you just love the sound of your own voice, even better if people can hear you having an 'educated discussion' 🤣

Most people manage it all without putting on a loud performance

Well I used to clean toilets in hmos so nothing bothers me and you probably don't want to know

Other than that bleach

I vote Toryand will continue to do so, have a loo brush and cleaner once a week.w

I let my dog lick the dirty plates in the dishwasher, saves having to use the pre wash function. I also kiss him and let him lick my face.

Shoes on in my house please- I have no desire to see your feet.

I have a toilet brush.
I let DS play loudly in the garden.
I play music in the garden.
I do the grocery shopping as a family.
I talk, sing, and play with DS (sometimes rather loudly) in public.
I am from North America.
I think school uniforms are a waste of money and are a detriment to education.
I don't clean my bathrooms, hoover, or tidy my house daily.
My DS watched tv well before the age of 2.

That’s disgusting. Repulsive human being.

'Performance dad at the swimming pool' was one of my fav threads ever.

Sadly I've looked for it since and never been able to find it again! 😭

I'll admit to this one. Friends or family don't randomly call on me, and if they do they can ring me if they're at the door, otherwise it's not getting opened.

Most of the time it's either the electricity guy or the neighbourhood kids asking can they take my dog a walk.

However, I will open it on Halloween night for the kids trick or treating.

I'm the noisy neighbour! If I can't play music, do the hoovering or have sex without worrying about the neighbours in my own house, then when can I! And fully support any other neighbours in doing so. But I know I must be the noisy one because despite the fact I wouldn't mind, I never hear anyone else

I watched a traffic police tv show the other day and they had cameras watch a car join the motorway, move straight into the outside lane and continue there for miles with the other lanes empty. They received a fine/points (can’t remember which). The cameras can see you driving illegally you know.

Sounds like you.

I’ll ‘fess up.

I sit and play on my phone at soft plays (kids are 5&9 so old enough to do their own thing). Sometimes I don’t know where they are because I’ve been engrossed in my phone and I have to go find them.

I complain in restaurants if the food or service is poor. Gen-Z-ers would absolutely call me a Karen. But if I’m paying good prices for quality food I expect it to be the good I ordered, to be tasty and I don’t expect 4 drinks to take 25 minutes to arrive. I even ask to speak to the manager.

I use ‘hun’ in text messages.

Im an extrovert, and I strongly suspect in an annoying extrovert who people just wanna tell to fuck off 😂

Oh goodness I'd missed the fact tumble driers are a no no, but why would they be?

-So we have a tumble drier
-I'm a stay at home (necessity) /full time carer to our child with no pension
-smoker
-Also have toilet brushes am repulsed by any house that doesn't .
-I'm carrying covid curves I shouldn't be but detest exercise
-I am GC

• Not overly so but am religious which seems to be an MN no no I read recently on here....

-I have always answered the door/phone. -Use anti bac wipes (sorry but nothing else works as well ).

• I volunteer a significant amount of time on an advocacy basis and though it was the case before, I actually detest the Tories more than is healthy.

-I don't own a microwave. -I do though use leftovers right down to last bits of veg or whatever. -I am not at all offended by Meghan Markle. I find her refreshing. -A roast chicken only last a Sunday afternoon-zero grasp of how these mythical "feed a family of 50 a thousand dinners" is clearly a joke.

Tumble dryers are a no-no because they and they alone are responsible for the melting ice caps and the upcoming end of civilisation as we know it. They won't stop until they've made the planet uninhabitable.

They are the devil's work. And probably minions of Meghan Markle.

Oh, I tell my children Father Christmas is just a story, I home educated for a while, and I’m not transphobic.

Ahhhh thanks for that @mathanxiety .

I shall ensure the Meghan minions are made aware of my lack of outside space and hatred of drying racks which take days to dry anything....

I suspect my relentless laundry drying is bringing to world to an untimely end- I'll have at least folded it all by then hopefully..,

Don't remember that one, although talking about swimming pools the your minge thread was funny