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WHY ARE YOU NOT EMBARRASSED??

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Doingtheboxerbeat · 27/08/2023 20:36

Why do people not check and double check the original post before adding a scolding reply which makes them look really silly, when the answer is right FKING there? Honestly, should we take a breath, a moment to consider if we are not going to look really twattish by letting our angry little fingers type stupid responses?

It almost makes so much sense why society fails so spectacularly when people are so confident in being loud and wrong.

I already know that I have made several errors in this post, and I fully expect to be pulled up on them because of murphrys law 🤭.

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Doingtheboxerbeat · 28/08/2023 04:42

Lovinglife50 · 28/08/2023 04:19

I read that, you want to wind the shit out of people

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What in the blue hell have I said that has been offensive to anyone? You are very much the problem here and what this whole thread is about.

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Lovinglife50 · 28/08/2023 06:06

I wasn’t offensive or a problem

Mummyoflittledragon · 28/08/2023 06:16

CakeForAll21 · 28/08/2023 02:00

@LuciaPillson

Correction...

Not all old people are vile just the ones who do not read the post.

I think I hit the jackpot with being compared to a racist and now got an anecdotal "I have read your other comments on another thread and they are ridiculous". Whilst appearing to have failed to read this one.

Also who the Fck knows what random other thread shes mad at me for. 😂

Is this referring to people over 50 old?

At 29, 50 will come upon you in the blink of an eye. And what you’ll discover is that if you’ve spent that blink of an eye wisely, you’ll be pretty wise yourself whilst realising at 50 just how much you still have to learn. Then you’ll appreciate just how much life out there there still is to live. And you’ll understand the meaning of the phrase ‘youth is wasted on the young’.

And please, ageism is never going to win others over. Even the critical posters are teaching us something. We all have things to learn from one another. Younger, older and so forth.

I was a teenager in the 80s. The late 80s was a bloody scary time. It isn’t a bed of roses these days but there are definitely more safety nets out there now than there were then. Times have changed, there are pros and cons. And when all else fails, there are food banks, which we shouldn’t need but we do whilst there was nothing back then. So those posters saying you / we will get through this do have a point. They’ve lived through it once already. I am just hoping there will not be all the suicides this time like there were back then.

Tiredalwaystired · 28/08/2023 06:44

CakeForAll21 · 27/08/2023 22:25

@Tiredalwaystired @FuckingHellAdele @Fallingthroughclouds

I think I found you....

The biggest give away is when you ask for like career advice and they say when I graduated in 1982 I applied for a top job and got it so maybe you are lazy and need to work harder.

Or where they say things like does one not send children to grandma's house instead of paying expensive nursery bills. Well great but I had to move to get these so called easy top jobs and now grandma is 100s of miles away so... or telling me how much nursey was in like 1996.

Fyi i would expect mums net to be full of 20 somethings as I thought it was for parents to share similar experiences these womens kids would have been adults when mums net was created so how did they end up here??

WTAF?? I’m in my 50’s and my kid is about to leave primary school. Careful OP, your prejudice is showing.

Although maths clearly isn’t your strong point. If you graduated in 1982, that would make you 62 now, not a 50 something. Although I guess I could have graduated at 12…

Nanaof1 · 28/08/2023 07:16

Hawkins0090 · 27/08/2023 21:46

If I make mistakes I try to apologise sometimes I do miss parts of the thread or the updates, then it's on to the next thread.

I have been guilty of responding before reading every page once in a while. More often, I end up skipping a page and then getting lost when I read replies to messages I never saw.

If I make a mistake in responding, I am fine asking the PTB at MN to delete it, and they are always kind about my ask.

mangochops · 28/08/2023 07:21

I can understand people doing this when the thread is super long and maybe they'd have to scroll back multiple pages to see, or they are new and dont know how to see all of OP's replies in order but what baffles me is when someone berates the OP for not doing xyz and literally all of the replies directly before them are saying "well done OP for doing xyz". How unobservant do you have to be not to notice that?

Spyral · 28/08/2023 07:34

@Tiredalwaystired

The poster that you quoted isn't the OP...

and you are literally proving the point of the OP's OP!

But I can sympathise with you if it's due to tiredness 😴💤 Nothing worse than always being tired.

Lwrenagain · 28/08/2023 07:40

Muphry is a great name for a cat, if nothing else

NeedTheSeaside · 28/08/2023 07:43

MonumentalLentil · 28/08/2023 00:27

I suspect it's to assist the hard of reading.

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😬😬

Tiredalwaystired · 28/08/2023 07:49

Spyral · 28/08/2023 07:34

@Tiredalwaystired

The poster that you quoted isn't the OP...

and you are literally proving the point of the OP's OP!

But I can sympathise with you if it's due to tiredness 😴💤 Nothing worse than always being tired.

Erm, yes I’m aware it wasn’t the OP..?

Ah, OK, I see - I used OP in it which I meant as. “Other poster” not “original poster”. Bloody Mumsnet acronyms.

supersop60 · 28/08/2023 08:02

Thank you for educating me. I had never heard of Muphry's Law. Every day is a school day on MN. Love it.

Teateaandmoretea · 28/08/2023 08:07

Your problem op is you’re too polite.

Everyone knows how to spell ‘sod’ so stick with that.

MrsJellybee · 28/08/2023 08:34

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 27/08/2023 23:35

It’s gold. OP should have just said Sos’d Law and been done with it.
All these grammar Nazis. Oops, did I just invoke Godwit’s Law…

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It's Godwin's Law

(Sorry, I wanted to play)

willWillSmithsmith · 28/08/2023 08:38

Well even though this thread is scrambling my brains I have learned something new - muphrey’s (not murphy’s) law. I’ve lost count how many posts I’ve read correcting someone’s spelling or grammar only for their post to have errors.

Some funny posts on here but a thread to read in small doses.

Saverage · 28/08/2023 08:57

CakeForAll21 · 28/08/2023 03:50

@Doingtheboxerbeat

Oh well I had some fun winding some highly stung people up. Still waiting for this other post I have randomly also offended someone on. 😂

You sound unintelligent and bitter, that's probably the reason you can't get a job, rather than 50+ women being jealous of your figure, car and husband and whatever else you floated as a reason.

You got deleted on the Work thread you were on by the way.

BogRollBOGOF · 28/08/2023 09:01

HRT on ketamine sounds much better than old skool glue sniffing.

Not that I've tried either, but I did find it funny when friend A was horrified and panicked that friend B sniffed a Pritt Stick when we were at school, back when a B was a decent GCSE.

I refrain from commenting about spelling and I don't like drinking Murphy's or Guiness.

ilovesooty · 28/08/2023 09:40

Saverage · 28/08/2023 08:57

You sound unintelligent and bitter, that's probably the reason you can't get a job, rather than 50+ women being jealous of your figure, car and husband and whatever else you floated as a reason.

You got deleted on the Work thread you were on by the way.

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I expect that deletion (whatever it was for) will be because she's working class. Apparently MNHQ don't delete middle class posters.

TeacheeTeacherson · 28/08/2023 11:17

Ok, now I feel like we need a term for people who refer to things as ironic who don’t understand the meaning of the word irony. Alanis’ law perhaps?

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 28/08/2023 11:23

Ok, now I feel like we need a term for people who refer to things as ironic who don’t understand the meaning of the word irony. Alanis’ law perhaps?

Oh yes, I like that idea, though I'm not convinced that even Alanis believed everything she was singing.

TeacheeTeacherson · 28/08/2023 11:26

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 28/08/2023 11:23

Ok, now I feel like we need a term for people who refer to things as ironic who don’t understand the meaning of the word irony. Alanis’ law perhaps?

Oh yes, I like that idea, though I'm not convinced that even Alanis believed everything she was singing.

Yeah, Alanis mostly seems to think it means something a bit annoying and inconvenient. A fly in your Chardonnay etc

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 28/08/2023 11:29

I'd have just hooked the fly out and swigged it down. I felt more sorry for the bloke who took his first flight and the plane crashed. How unlucky is that?

TeacheeTeacherson · 28/08/2023 11:32

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 28/08/2023 11:29

I'd have just hooked the fly out and swigged it down. I felt more sorry for the bloke who took his first flight and the plane crashed. How unlucky is that?

IT’S NOT UNLUCKY IT’S IRONIC!

LikeShitMermaids · 28/08/2023 11:36

Stop it. It's crab STICKS. Just read the posts and look at the pictures on a completely different thread

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 28/08/2023 11:39

IT’S NOT UNLUCKY IT’S IRONIC!

😂😂

LuciaPillson · 28/08/2023 12:22

LikeShitMermaids · 28/08/2023 11:36

Stop it. It's crab STICKS. Just read the posts and look at the pictures on a completely different thread

Crab sticks, crab cakes, it's completely irrelevant. The point is that the OP is being completely unreasonable to divorce her husband just for weeing in her mother's koi pond. But that's the trouble with the young folk these days, no sticking power. Why, when my husband went marching down the village high street in nothing but an ammunition belt, pink wellies and a policeman's helmet, I just gave the kitchen floor an extra scrub and sat myself down with a nice cup of tea. Mind you, there was a war on.