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 😬

There is a section of MN who are very squeamish about anything to do with toilets

• Toilet brushes are dreadful because of the germs on them
• Ensuite toilets are vile and basically the same as shitting in a corner of your bedroom.
• Pooing in a toilet that is not your own toilet (but no pooing allowed in the ensuite) is a trauma that must be avoided.
• Any visitor/friend/workman/DH (if he's had a curry) must not use your toilet and preferably drive 3.5 miles down the road to the tesco extra to go there.
• a baby's pooey nappy/sanitary waste must be removed from the premises immediately and put in an outside bin even if you are in a 4th floor flat and it's 3am and tipping down with rain.

Stop hogging the middle lane!! I know this is a lighthearted thread, but it’s dangerous for everyone else and it’s not funny. If you can’t cope with using the middle lane for overtaking then you don’t have the skills necessary to be driving on the motorway in the first place and you are endangering others.

I call them my hollibobs.

I don't much care if my family are CFs occassionally - we are all a bit CF to each other so it evens out. And even if it's doesn't, so what? They're family. Also, we find calling each other very rude words, funny.

I drive a diesel SUV.

The dog is allowed to go anywhere in the house he likes. Including on the sofas, on the beds and quite often, in the dishwasher.

During the hot summer, I watered my garden.

I have undecided opinions about whether covid lock downs were worth it or not. I don't know, either way.

Yes it is.
It’s not an act of rebellion against shops.
It’s selfish behaviour that seriously affects parents with young children and makes navigating a shopping trip that little bit more difficult and more dangerous.

Those of you who ask people to take their shoes off in your house, do you warn visitors beforehand?

I am very, very, very self conscious of my feet and would feel absolutely awful and really embarrassed if I had to be bare footed. I'd be happy to bring socks/slippers though if I knew.

She didn’t answer the door to someone knocking. She opened it when she heard noise outside and unfortunately the guy barged in seeing the light as an escape.

Still horrific and disgusting what happened, but it’s not the same as someone knocking

I sometimes don’t pick up dog poo but employ the ‘stick and flick’ method in the countryside as why use plastic bags when you don’t need to? Who picks up fox poo?

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and you wonder why people aren't in a rush to tell the truth!

I sing loudly in church, too! I know that I can sing, and I also know that people like other voices to hide behind if they're not so confident, and it's so much better than awkward murmurings that fade away into silence.

We have toilet brushes and a tumble dryer.
We ride bikes on roads in primary position so cars can't overtake unsafely and have to wait till there is actually a gap in the traffic coming the other way.
I don't closely supervise the kids at soft play or playgrounds. I let them go on waterslides alone.

There will be loads more I'm sure.

I love loud church singers. I don’t know many hymns so I’m always grateful for them covering up my miming.

DH is a performance parent. It's fucking annoying.

My kids are feral in supermarkets. They are generally well behaved children but take them to Tesco and they seem to think they're starring in an episode of Supermarket Sweep.

Sometimes I don't shower every day if I'm not leaving the house, that's a MN felon

I judge big families. I know it’s partly me projecting but I still do it.

I let me dog off lead (but put her on again for any obvious hazards or visibly nervous people). I do think if someone is irrationally afraid of dogs then they should work to overcome it.

Also, I don’t understand the need for all these teaching assistants. We had 30 in a class with one teacher and we were fine.

Go to local shop in my pjs.

I do think that performance parenting is misrepresented here.

I'm a nanny and once witnessed performance childminding. This wasn't just a one off, the same childminder used to come to the library (of all places) and loudly admonish the kids for any and every little thing while making eye contact with anyone around and give them a knowing nod in the effort to show herself as the perfect, no-nonsense caregiver.

It was incredibly cringe and I felt sorry for the kids, they were really just normal kids.

I think it's the theatrical flourish that makes the behaviour a performance, and you usually feel that the show is for you, the audience.

I'm a "middle lane hogger" - I don't see why I should have to keep slowing down and pulling in behind lorries to let you past when there are three lanes, and if you want to go faster than the 70 mph I'm going, you're breaking the law anyway so fuck off into the outside lane.

No Zizz, you are the one breaking the law, causing tailbacks and endangering others because you think the rules don’t apply to you as you have some special status. You don’t, and your response shows that you don’t give a stuff about any other road users as long as you’re alright Jack. Learn to drive properly or get off the motorway.

I talk too much and can never tell a simple tale but colour it with way too much description. Then bugger off on a tangent. I think it’s entertaining but my AC say it’s really not 😂
I am learning to stfu though.

I use words like 'super' 'blimey' and 'crikey' with frequency. Apparently I sjj should be lined up and shot for this offensive behaviour

I'm not the OW, but it amuses me that no one on MN has ever been the OW. Who are all these cheating men having affairs with?

@Saracen I think you spelt controlling wrong, it's 'sensible'

it's not controlling when the other person doesn't have capacity & you're not depriving them of anything they need (or 'within reason' want!)

You're looking after him & both of your futures! 💐

Plenty of people have, there are lots of threads written by or commented on by OW'

Scrote

I am on MN hated list of people! I'm a landlord, who owns a dog and believe that men are no worse than women as a whole.

According to MN, I am racist. I don't believe I am but MNers know best!