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642 replies

Tueresmuyguapo · 10/12/2023 22:57

According to recent threads:

Everyone over the age of about 35 looks way younger, constantly mistaken for younger, doesn't have a line on their face yet despite never using suncream, and their nan only used bin juice on their face and smoked 80 fags a day but had beautiful skin at 103 years old.

Everyone had sex with their complete stranger dp within about 4 seconds of meeting them for the first time, their dp moved in that night and never left and they're coming up to 762 years of happy marriage now.

Everybody on here seems to earn 200k in some mysterious job that doesn't seem to exist, they can't quite explain what they do, but they worked their asses off to get to this level of seniority which involves them working 3 hours a week for 2 weeks a year.

Interested to hear any more.

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DeeCeeCherry · 17/12/2023 02:37

According to posters, absolutely everybody smells terrible apart from them because they shower 6 times a day and wash their clothing after 5 minutes of use. They can smell someone's perfume and body spray from 6 miles away and it makes them heave and retch. (See current thread on smells)

There was a thread some years ago, whinging on about scented panty liners. There were posters on there saying they knew which colleagues used them because you could smell the scent from afar(!), and they would actually retch every time said colleagues walked past them.

This place is crazy at times

Tueresmuyguapo · 17/12/2023 02:39

That's ridiculous 😂 I'd be too scared to ever use one of these scented ones now !

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Tueresmuyguapo · 17/12/2023 02:42

If a man even acknowledges his mother's existence more than once every 7 months, he's a complete mummy's boy who you should not waste your time on because you will always come second to her.

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Tandora · 17/12/2023 02:49

That it’s totally fine to partner with a man who has DC and then treat his DC with the indifference contempt you would a stranger, because all blended families are different, and anyway no one can stop you.

Wishimaywishimight · 17/12/2023 03:14

There is nothing that can't be solved by LTB or a spa day.

Tueresmuyguapo · 17/12/2023 03:24

If you're attracted to anybody more than 6 months younger than you, you're some sort of sexually perverted deviant who ought to be ashamed.

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StarlightLady · 17/12/2023 05:50

That you should lift your asbestos nightie and let your husband/partner have his way with you only as a reward for doing something special. Sex is generally something to be withheld.

JerkintheMerkin · 17/12/2023 08:32

Everyone has 3 months worth of salary saved for the boiler that will definitely break down.

KimberleyClark · 17/12/2023 08:34

That for men there is no such thing as unwanted sexual attention. They are always up for it and fair game.

Kitkatfiend31 · 17/12/2023 08:39

That so many people really don't want anyone to use their toilet.

BettyUnderswoob · 17/12/2023 08:41

From the S&B board I learnt that £300+ for a handbag is "reasonable"

My new (to me) handbag cost £5 from the chazzer.
Even if I treated myself to a new new one I'd still not go higher than £30!

BettyUnderswoob · 17/12/2023 08:43

Oh, and that any expensive clothing purchase is an "investment".

JerkintheMerkin · 17/12/2023 08:56

That contraception will always fail for people who have sex that one time with an ex or partner they should have binned long ago.

StarlightLady · 17/12/2023 09:06

Everyone loves a diagram.

JerkintheMerkin · 17/12/2023 09:11

Every woman will suffer from pre-menopausal symptoms that are a near death experience and will come out the other side nothing more than a dried husk.

alwaysmovingforwards · 17/12/2023 10:05

Lots of post advise LTB as the first response.

Also lots of threads where posters complain about being single, getting ghosted as their iron evidently has better options available, why is everything so expensive as a single parent etc.

StarlightLady · 17/12/2023 10:20

Never consider how on earth you are going to wear a bra with that special party dress until you have bought the dress.

TheShellBeach · 17/12/2023 10:32

Kitkatfiend31 · 17/12/2023 08:39

That so many people really don't want anyone to use their toilet.

Even themselves, in some cases.

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BlueThursday · 17/12/2023 12:10

You’re a troll if you mention the DCs are at school on August 20th

ssd · 17/12/2023 12:26

HRT is the answer to absolutely everything, even the trains being late

InefficientProcess · 17/12/2023 12:34

No matter what the circumstances, someone will engineer some pretext to find the OP at fault. However flimsy.

The thread could be about how someone came round, took a shit on the doorstep, set fire to the Christmas tree and told the 5 year old Santa doesn’t exist and 3 separate posters will have found some way to tell the OP that she’s a dreadful person for lying to her children, materialistic and doesn’t care about the environment because she’s got a tree and a dreadful host for not offering to wipe their guest’s bum.

Which is to say: I’ve learnt people will complain regardless what you do. So it’s best to give fewer shits about what other people think.

InefficientProcess · 17/12/2023 12:40
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I’ve had plenty of practice at this giving fewer shits over the last year, having recognised that STBXH is one of these hypercritical just looking for any excuse to have a go types. He’s not even consistent and totally hypocritical with it too.

It seems there are plenty of MNers who just channel STBXH’s personality online too.

QueenMegan · 17/12/2023 12:46

Mention politics and no one admits they are Tories yet there is a very right of centre vibe. Labour is fine because it means you're naice but still wont send your dahlings to a state school. Even worse than Tories is Tony Blair the only decent PM any of us we will ever have in our life time. Show any support and you will be annihilated with crazy clsims of devil whorship as the standards he was held upto were impossible.

StarlightLady · 17/12/2023 14:18

That you risk being arrested, unless your knickers come up to your bra (no gap allowed) and made of a fabric at least as thick as your winter duvet.

sl0th · 17/12/2023 14:46

That those with relatives who are abusive/toxic should never go low/no contact because "tHeY aRe FaMiLy" or "yOu OnLy GeT oNe MuM".

That all dogs are going to become snarling, aggressive monsters the second they see a child.