Mumsnet posts which drive me mad

[Ilovecleaning]

Anyone hate these posts?

• really really really long posts
• long posts with NO paragraphs
• posts which start ‘ I have a friend, let’s call her Jane; her DH, let’s call him Sam… you can’t bloody well follow the post. Much easier just to say Friend and DH.

Any others? 😊

Well if I develop a disability that’s serious enough for me to have to leave my home, it’s highly likely to leave me unable to drive too! And yes, I might have a drop in income and have to move, but the area still won’t be pre-designated - I could still choose a cheaper area with public transport options. If anything, lower income areas are likely to be better served in that sense. And if my drop in income is that severe, won’t a car be something of a luxury?

No one is saying driving is a useless skill. Of course it isn’t. But it’s not as essential as all too many MNers make out.

Birthdays and now driving

Start a new thread

Sometimes conversations (or arguments) develop beyond the original point. If you have something to say you feel is more pertinent, no one is stopping you.

Nope - the squirrel has left the building ...

While I will not go into detailed debate and discussion about exactly how useful driving is: one thing that I hate that occasionally on MN, is the occasional expression of contempt for non-drivers; the idea that they are not true adults; even once or twice that anyone who ever assists them by giving a lift (in one case ONCE A YEAR at Christmas) is at fault for 'enabling' them not to learn to drive. That only people with 'genuine medical reasons' can be excused for not driving- well, some of us have genuine medical reasons that are not instantly visible; do we need to get a doctor's note in order for this to be tolerated?

HairyMcHairyFace · 25/02/2024 23:05

This gets my goat too and I'm not American. "We don't do anything for Halloween. It's a horrible American invention".

So's the car and the modern lightbulb Sandra and I don't see you sitting in the dark and travelling everywhere by horse and cart.

The modern incandescent lightbulb was actually invented by Joseph Swan, of Sunderland, but living and working in Gateshead. Edison just ignored the patent and had better mass manufacture.

Karl Benz patented the first motor car.

I know other posters do this too - check if there’s more than one post from the OP and if there isn’t I don’t bother with the thread

These topics (and a few others that have arisen) aren't random stuff, though. They are about things that annoy people on MN. On birthdays (a discussion that ended several days ago, but some people seem determined to drag it back to complain about it), the topic was not birthdays as such, but some MN-ers' criticisms of those who either do or don't want their birthdays acknowledged. On driving, the topic is not driving as such, but the attitude that some MN-ers display to non-drivers.

Just as relevant to the thread as people announcing their name-changes, or calling their friends 'A' and 'B' - neither of which bothers me in the slightest, but obviously are issues to some people.

Probably I shouldn't be entering the debate at all, and thereby no doubt prolonging it- but the 'relevance police' posts are starting to drive me slightly mad in themselves!