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 😬

I own toilet brushes!

What's wrong with a toilet brush?! 😳

Genuinely, I’m dying to know!! How else are loos being cleaned - is there some hack we don’t know!

How do you clean your toilet without a toilet brush? It's bleached every time it's used.

This seems fine to me, totally normal. I think the whole concept of “performance parenting” is nonsense.

I wear shoes in the house all the time. I have a loo brush in every bathroom. I have a cleaner despite only working half the week. I have a second home.

There is a bit of a split of sonecNNetters who think a toilet brush and others that are disgusted by the idea that germs may stay on the brush. I’m a toilet brush person - I think they wear gloves and clean with a sponge but maybe someone else can explain.

I forget by DHs birthday completely and on a regular basis. It’s now a standard joke. Apart from our kids, generally I don’t remember to get cards or presents for other people’s birthdays. I would offend a lot of MNers who would be told to disown me as a friend.

I piss about playing with the DC in the swimming pool and impede the lane swimmers.

Love doing it ever since a woman deliberately kicked toddler DC because she was lane swimming...in the toddler pool because the big pool was closed for school groups.

The issue with toilet brushes is when people use them to wipe off poo, rather than just cleaning the toilet.

My lovely nanna had a poo-y toilet brush that she use to hang over old knickers. That put me off toilet brushes forever! 🤣

I clean toilets with a cloth.

I'm American.

Well it’s quite obvious that the people complaining about those things won’t be the ones doing them...statistically that’s completely viable.

As for the things mentioned in your OP, I don’t do any of them. I don’t have a dog so that doesn’t count, but if I did I can assure you that I wouldn’t leave it’s shit lying around because that’s just grim and irresponsible behaviour and I’m not a lazy twat.

I have an SUV, for just me and my lone child. I also stay in the middle Lane if I see loads of lorries ahead in the first lane.

Love how you mention inconsiderate people in your post😂

I tell people to take their shoes off in my house.

There is a bit of a split of sonecNNetters who think a toilet brush and others that are disgusted by the idea that germs may stay on the brush. I’m a toilet brush person - I think they wear gloves and clean with a sponge but maybe someone else can explain.

When I give the bathroom a clean I'll use gloves, sponge but everyday I use the toilet brush. It gets bleached, I don't just leave it. I wouldn't want to not have a toilet brush with my child and their friends over a lot 😂

I do that, otherwise all the dirt from outside gets walked inside. That's just grim to me

@fannyfartlet is it really that bad a thing to do? There are always empty family spaces, I really struggle to think it’s a Very Bad thing to do. I’m usually in and out in 5-10 minutes, done.

I consider it my small act of rebellion against a system that wants to cram too many cars into car parks

Cor I think that would put me off knickers too 😂
makes sense now, I thought people just used them to clean the toilet - not as poop spatulas! I fill the toilet brush holder with bleach so it sits in bleach while not in use… however when DS starts crawling will have to find another solution

*its

Confounded auto-correct!!

My kid occasionally behaves like a monster in public but he is autistic.

Well no one will comment if they’ve done one of these things will they. I frequently complain about out of control dogs but wouldn’t comment of someone was complaining about their friend taking a week to text back as I’m a big culprit in this.

I'm a boomer ,,,

That's something that many mumsnetters proudly admit to, that and not answering the phone 😂

🤣 I am shocked at the anti Americanism on here though.

As for me, my kids are older but I don't have a regular job. My house is untidy (despite not having a job), I don't change the sheets weekly, I drive a big old car and can't stand Nissan Micras, Fiat 500s and their ilk.

I have two toilet brushes, one for each toilet. People take their shoes off in my house. My children hardly ever had sweets and biscuits growing up and, as adults, can take or leave them. I was a performance parent at times too, judging by these posts. I silently judge when people write would of/could of/should of, or mix up loose and lose say that someone has went rather than someone has gone.

I pour a little bit of bleach into the toilet bowl after I’ve finished cleaning it and leave the brush sitting in there for 10-15 minutes to disinfect it. But then with a crawler/toddler you won’t be able to do that either...

This is shaping up to be a delightfully bun-fighty thread given that we’ve got middle lane hogging (gives me the RAGE), parent and child parking without any children, toilet brushes, dog poo, feral children and shoes on/off!