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CruCru · 2023-10-14T18:31:24+00:00

I remember a poster saying that it really stressed her out to see a woman outside the house with wet hair as no one should be too busy to blow dry their hair. This was weird to me because I have shoulder length hair and never blow dry it. What about you?

Sparehair · 14/10/2023 22:16

10HailMarys · 14/10/2023 22:13

I’m always baffled at how genuinely furious people get on Mumsnet about other people’s utterly harmless choices, which affect them in no way whatsoever, eg the people who are absolutely apoplectic about things like other people choosing to wear pyjamas to relax in their own homes. Also, there are threads where people are really furious - properly vicious - about other people liking autumn.

Also Mumsnet seems to be full of people who claim they are hypersensitive to even the slightest smell and therefore have to retire to bed with a migraine if someone 10 metres away has the audacity to wear perfume, and are absolutely raging on any thread where perfume is discussed.

Plus, the people who insist that if you don’t shower at least daily you are disgusting and stink and are inconsiderate to everyone around them, even though they actually have no idea how often anyone standing next to them showers and therefore cannot possibly say with any confidence what level of shower frequency does/doesn’t make someone smell.

omg- yes! “ I can tell who in the office doesn’t shower daily”. Um no. You know who smells but for all you know they might not have showered all week. And the person who doesn’t smell might also not have.

SacAMain · 14/10/2023 22:16

Lookatmytoes · 14/10/2023 22:15

Weeing in the shower. Can’t imagine why anyone would be bovered.

If they have to use the same shower, I can!

bellac11 · 14/10/2023 22:16

Posters going on about being disrespected by their OH because their OH doesnt do what they want or agree with them about a parenting issue or whatever.

Constantly.

Sparehair · 14/10/2023 22:18

SacAMain · 14/10/2023 22:16

If they have to use the same shower, I can!

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Well if you think about it if they pee at the start of the shower and then run the shower for 5 mins that’s probably less pee trace than sharing a toilet with them.

YetMoreNewBeginnings · 14/10/2023 22:19

That nobody over 15 should ever expect a birthday card from their nearest and dearest.

Everyone hating weddings. Everyone I know loves a good get together for a happy occasion. And nobody goes in a mega huff if their partner isn’t invited because of numbers.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 14/10/2023 22:22

People who post "rtft". Who reads the whole thread before posting? Do people really aways do this? Smacks of "do as I say not as I do". I can't believe the posters who insist others do this, actually always do it themselves.

I always either rtft before posting or otherwise I don't post. Wading in to comment on something when you don't know the full story and any developments makes you just look like Billy Bleach from The Fast Show.

Even worse are people who don't even bother to read the OP and just prefer to guess from the title what the situation might possibly be - and then answer based on their imaginings.

Darkmode2 · 14/10/2023 22:25

People washing their clothes on a proper hot wash

Nobody can convince me to wash my laundry on a cold wash

saltinesandcoffeecups · 14/10/2023 22:25

The one I’ve never figured out is the garbage bin hatred on here.

Like is that a commonly held belief?

CrunchyCarrot · 14/10/2023 22:29

I think there's a big obsession and hotly debated opinions over toilets and things connected to them - bidets, toilet brushes, cleaning toilets, flushing toilets, having separate toilets from the bathroom and whether you will catch something awful from your toothbrush's proximity to the toilet! Not forgetting loo roll of course!

Dinnerlady12 · 14/10/2023 22:32

10HailMarys · 14/10/2023 22:13

I’m always baffled at how genuinely furious people get on Mumsnet about other people’s utterly harmless choices, which affect them in no way whatsoever, eg the people who are absolutely apoplectic about things like other people choosing to wear pyjamas to relax in their own homes. Also, there are threads where people are really furious - properly vicious - about other people liking autumn.

Also Mumsnet seems to be full of people who claim they are hypersensitive to even the slightest smell and therefore have to retire to bed with a migraine if someone 10 metres away has the audacity to wear perfume, and are absolutely raging on any thread where perfume is discussed.

Plus, the people who insist that if you don’t shower at least daily you are disgusting and stink and are inconsiderate to everyone around them, even though they actually have no idea how often anyone standing next to them showers and therefore cannot possibly say with any confidence what level of shower frequency does/doesn’t make someone smell.

Yes! I remember a thread about laundry detergent and a poster complained that if they walk past a house with open windows they can smell the occupants washing powder 😂

SacAMain · 14/10/2023 22:34

the horror at the idea of having people over, or god forbid staying with friends or family.

I have never heard anyone in real life not looking forward to having friends or visiting friends or family, unless they're the in-laws from hell.

WibblyWobblyTimeyWimeyStuff · 14/10/2023 22:34

@10hailmarys

I’m always baffled at how genuinely furious people get on Mumsnet about other people’s utterly harmless choices, which affect them in no way whatsoever

eg the people who are absolutely apoplectic about things like other people choosing to wear pyjamas to relax in their own homes.

Yeah that IS weird.

Something else I don't understand, is why some posters get so salty and annoyed, that OTHER posters don't want to answer the door unless they are expecting someone or expecting a package or delivery. Why do you care LOL?! I can only surmise the people who get annoyed, and make snide, sarcastic, derogatory remarks, are the irksome, irritating popper-inners who just turn up at someone's home, and expect them to drop everything for them and accommodate them. Coz they are soooooooooooo important!!! And clearly the person they are visiting has fuck-all else to do with their life but bow down to them!

I don't answer the door if I am not expecting anyone/a package/a delivery, and I don't give a fat shiny bollock what anyone else thinks. I don't answer because, it could be .........

A sales rep.

Someone saying they are an ex con trying to better themselves, and trying to get me to buy shit off them.

An acquaintance who is uninvited expecting me to drop everything for them and let them in.

A scammer pretending to be from my energy company.

A fucking Betterware, or Bodyshop rep!

A neighbour asking me to take a package in for them as they'll be out when it comes. (No fuck off I'm not waiting in for YOUR package!)

Someone saying they have just finished off Mr Miggins driveway and have some tarmac left and will do mine for £300 cash.

Someone wanting to cut my conifers down by 2 feet. (If I want them cutting, I will contact someone myself!)

Someone saying they have spotted a loose roof tile on my roof, and will get up and fix it for me for £50. (Only to come back down and say £900 worth of work needs doing, and demand £200 off me for the 'work' they've done.)

Someone expecting me to spend half hour of my day doing a survey.

Someone trying to convert me to their religion.

A delivery driver dropping off a package for someone else. (NO! I cannot be fucked to wait for said neighbour to come get it, OR have to take it to them, AND be responsible for their shit, AND have to spend my valuable time chatting shit to random neighbour when the package exchanges hands.)

Someone trying to sign me up to the county newspaper that I haven't purchased since 2007, as they only sell 973 copies a day now, compared to 23,000 twenty years ago!

Someone who has got the wrong house.

Etc etc etc............

If I am NOT expecting anything or anyone, no I won't answer the door. And I don't have to explain myself to anyone.

SacAMain · 14/10/2023 22:35

Dinnerlady12 · 14/10/2023 22:32

Yes! I remember a thread about laundry detergent and a poster complained that if they walk past a house with open windows they can smell the occupants washing powder 😂

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I raise you the posters who could smell if a woman was wearing sanitary towels.

CarpetLady · 14/10/2023 22:36

”No is a complete sentence”- which I think is supposed to mean that you don’t need to justify your boundaries but always makes me imagine people just saying NO to each other endlessly.

Generally the way some Mners treat all social interactions as if they were legal contracts in which they’re trying to avoid doing anything they’re not unavoidably obliged to do.

EverythingYouDoIsaBalloon · 14/10/2023 22:38

People frothing about how shoes must be taken off in the house because of how utterly filthy the pavements supposedly are. In the 70s when there was dog shit everywhere, maybe. Now, not so much.

SacAMain · 14/10/2023 22:40

The uproar about a woman having BARE LEGS at a wedding. Shameful 😂

EverythingYouDoIsaBalloon · 14/10/2023 22:40

Something else I don't understand, is why some posters get so salty and annoyed, that OTHER posters don't want to answer the door unless they are expecting someone or expecting a package or delivery. Why do you care LOL?! I can only surmise the people who get annoyed, and make snide, sarcastic, derogatory remarks, are the irksome, irritating popper-inners who just turn up at someone's home, and expect them to drop everything for them and accommodate them.

I've often thought this too.

IDidntKnowMyOwnStrength · 14/10/2023 22:40

Home schooling, l often laugh out loud at some people's bizarre interpretations. How do they get it so wrong?

Squiblet · 14/10/2023 22:42

SacAMain · 14/10/2023 22:35

I raise you the posters who could smell if a woman was wearing sanitary towels.

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EWWWWWWW

I need to know who this is so I can avoid her for the rest of my life.

Dedsec2023 · 14/10/2023 22:43

Portakalkedi · 14/10/2023 21:04

Weird that people get posts deleted or are banned for having opinions that don't suit the majority of posters.

ive seen a few where the posts were relevant to the questions being asked yet still deleted.

KarmasOnYourScent · 14/10/2023 22:43

WibblyWobblyTimeyWimeyStuff · 14/10/2023 22:34

@10hailmarys

I’m always baffled at how genuinely furious people get on Mumsnet about other people’s utterly harmless choices, which affect them in no way whatsoever

eg the people who are absolutely apoplectic about things like other people choosing to wear pyjamas to relax in their own homes.

Yeah that IS weird.

Something else I don't understand, is why some posters get so salty and annoyed, that OTHER posters don't want to answer the door unless they are expecting someone or expecting a package or delivery. Why do you care LOL?! I can only surmise the people who get annoyed, and make snide, sarcastic, derogatory remarks, are the irksome, irritating popper-inners who just turn up at someone's home, and expect them to drop everything for them and accommodate them. Coz they are soooooooooooo important!!! And clearly the person they are visiting has fuck-all else to do with their life but bow down to them!

I don't answer the door if I am not expecting anyone/a package/a delivery, and I don't give a fat shiny bollock what anyone else thinks. I don't answer because, it could be .........

A sales rep.

Someone saying they are an ex con trying to better themselves, and trying to get me to buy shit off them.

An acquaintance who is uninvited expecting me to drop everything for them and let them in.

A scammer pretending to be from my energy company.

A fucking Betterware, or Bodyshop rep!

A neighbour asking me to take a package in for them as they'll be out when it comes. (No fuck off I'm not waiting in for YOUR package!)

Someone saying they have just finished off Mr Miggins driveway and have some tarmac left and will do mine for £300 cash.

Someone wanting to cut my conifers down by 2 feet. (If I want them cutting, I will contact someone myself!)

Someone saying they have spotted a loose roof tile on my roof, and will get up and fix it for me for £50. (Only to come back down and say £900 worth of work needs doing, and demand £200 off me for the 'work' they've done.)

Someone expecting me to spend half hour of my day doing a survey.

Someone trying to convert me to their religion.

A delivery driver dropping off a package for someone else. (NO! I cannot be fucked to wait for said neighbour to come get it, OR have to take it to them, AND be responsible for their shit, AND have to spend my valuable time chatting shit to random neighbour when the package exchanges hands.)

Someone trying to sign me up to the county newspaper that I haven't purchased since 2007, as they only sell 973 copies a day now, compared to 23,000 twenty years ago!

Someone who has got the wrong house.

Etc etc etc............

If I am NOT expecting anything or anyone, no I won't answer the door. And I don't have to explain myself to anyone.

That's a big explanation for someone who says they don't have to explain themselves to anyone. 🤣

Regholdsworthswaterbed · 14/10/2023 22:43

The temperature of other people's homes. Some see it as a badge of honour to be sitting in your living room wearing 10 jumpers and look down on those who have the heating on. A horrible cold house is nothing to feel smug about.

Gowlett · 14/10/2023 22:43

When someone says “it boils my piss” I always think how painful that must be… “makes my teeth itch” the same.

What is spider willies? (and do I want to know?)

Conkersinautumn · 14/10/2023 22:44

My gran would tell me when I was younger that only one sort of woman needed to wear makeup to work. The mners that go on about being 'well turned out' amuse me as being two sides of a very petty coin. Why do so many women feel they can police other women's dress and appearance?

SacAMain · 14/10/2023 22:44

Social media, who can only be used by attention-seeking desperate show-offs.

It's puzzling how people find something to hate and bitch about if they remove themselves from social media and stop looking at their "friends" life on there.