Mumsnet is full of funsuckers?

[BigDahliaFan]

People who don’t like day trips, weddings, going out with work, watching the football, answering the door?

im introverted and quite shy but I like all of the above and am delighted if a friend rings to organise something or says yes to coming round.

Yeah, I DO have to go along with this one... It's set to go up 23/24 degrees Celsius in the UK this weekend. I'm waiting for the raft of threads saying, 'Oh my God, it's too hot. It's too warm. I'm boiling. I'm sweating. I feel ill. Why can't it be winter again? Roll on winter. I hate the summer. I love the autumn and the winter with all the cosy log fires and hot chocolate and snuggling upon the sofa and watching a movie and the dark nights cosy, cosy, cosy. Bring on the autumn and winter!'

Then when it drops below about 13 C, 'Oh my God. It's so cold! Have you got your heating on? I've got my heating on. I'm gonna have a massive heating bill. It's freezing. I'm cold and bitter. Why does it have to be so cold? Cold, cold, cold, cold. We need sun. We need it. We need it. We need it! OMG OMG!!! It's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooc COLD!'

This shit is waaaaay more annoying than people just saying they don't enjoy doing certain things!

I always thought I was introverted but I just don't relate to the kind of people that identify as introverts on here at all. For me it just means I need some alone time for downtime but still enjoy spending time with me.

Universe on its own that place..

Obviously I meant spending time with others.

Reminds me of a quote from one of Britain's most extraordinary eccentrics - Lt Col A D Wintle - "I am never bored when I am present".
Yes,probably a very difficult, opinionated, irascible and egocentric man, a real life 'boy's own' hero, huge integrity and sense of honour, patriotism and belief in justice and an extraordinary life story

I like
Hot weather
Football
Parties
Foreign holidays
Really high heels
Weddings
People coming over
Dogs
Surprises
Leopard print
And I always answer the door

Beginning to think I'm really weird 😂

I don't think it is at all. Football is shit. Not only is it shit, but the pay is absolutely ridiculous for kicking a ball around a bit of grass. It's mind-numbingly boring and its fans are usually uneducated, drunken cretins. Weddings are very similar. Day trips are a pain in the arse for me as a disabled person and why would I want to socialise with my colleagues when I have my own friends and family who I actually want to spend time with? All my colleagues want to do is see how much they can drink without throwing up. Again, mind numbing.

As for answering the door... No. I won't make the effort to transfer into my wheelchair in the middle of working from home, then back again afterwards, if I'm not expecting someone. If someone wants help, they can knock on one of the other doors. I have my own problems to contend with.

My (entirely subjective) conclusions from this thread are that:

Women's football is better and more 'fun' than blokes'.
Surfing is a far more 'fun' international sport to follow. Especially since it's not funded to the ridiculous degree of international men's football and doesn't attract the same kind of spectator (which can only be a good thing).
Riding, swimming, hiking and surfing are a lot more 'fun' than sitting on your backside watching any sport.
Music gigs and live theatre are more 'fun' than boring, tedious, identikit weddings, hen weekends or baby showers.
Holidays and weekends away are more 'fun' than day trips.
Quality time shopping and holidaying with actual friends is more 'fun' than keeping up corporate appearances with colleagues.

PS.
Hot tubs and spa days FTW.
Answering the door does not, in anyone's language, qualify as 'fun'.
As to whether the Sex Board on MN is fun, this one can be left entirely to readers' own discretion ....

I don't know why some Mumsnetters have such a bee in their bonnet about some people not wanting to answer the door.

Ditto. Who gives a shiny shit? Answer the door or don't answer the door as you see fit. It's your house.

You have a point OP.

I have never encountered anyone like this elsewhere but these boards seem to have a lot of posters who talk about things like weddings, birthday parties etc as if they're just a major inconvenience and a drain on their precious resources. As if they think of these events primarily in terms of cost - financial and time. What a joyless way to go through life!

If you don't like doing these things then fair enough but all the harping on about being inconvenienced, using annual leave and spending XX amount, I don't get. That's what your money and free time is for... enjoying life!

I find this somewhat baffling too- I couldn't care less if people answer their door or not, it doesnt affect me in the slightest. Maybe if I was a door to door sales person I might be miffed but I'm not, so who cares?

I think at the end there you answered your own question - as you said, free time is for enjoying life. If you don’t enjoy weddings, birthdays and all that annoying stuff then you’d prefer your free time for doing things which actually are fun and interesting.

I think at the end there you answered your own question - as you said, free time is for enjoying life. If you don’t enjoy weddings, birthdays and all that annoying stuff then you’d prefer your free time for doing things which actually are fun and interesting

Exactly- why on earth would I spend money and my precious annual leave on things I dont enjoy doing? Life is way too short for that- I'd rather spend it on things I DO find fun and interesting, surely thats the entire point

@Screamingabdabz first time I've proper belly laughed at a comment on here. Well played.

I think it’s the nature of an internet forum to attract disproportionate numbers of misanthropes, moaners and the socially awkward.

How about mumsnet and the greater world is full of people who think there is only one way to have fun. These people are biased and boring. They can’t see that there are a multitude of ways to embrace the rich opportunities the world has to offer.

How does not answering your door make you a funsucker? It's always been my experience that the people who just pop over without being invited are the ones ruining the door answerer's good time.

I’ve never known anything like it. But I just think it’s the rise of individualism in general

Christ, this shite again.

Why do other peoples preferences bother some people so much.

So what if some people are 'socially awkward' Labelling people who are like that miserable, moaning misanthropes is just nasty though.

Each to their own.

The obsession with annual leave 😭

Well surely that's the point, people don't want to use their annual leave and spend XX amount on going to weddings etc. when it's their free time and their money they are using up to go to said wedding.
Plus a lot of the examples people come on here to moan about are things like destination weddings or very expensive spa day hen dos where the OP is going to end up having to spend hundreds of pounds on something they don't really want to go to and often it's not that close a relative or friend's wedding.

It is snobbery. They look down on certain kinds of fun as it is seen as lower class.

Or maybe, they don't 'look down' on it at all, they just don't want to do it themselves. Would that be a possibility for you at all rather than labelling it as snobbery?

I don't care that posters like or dislike any number of activities. Some of those I've tried and might want to do again myself, or I've not tried them and have no wish to. Does that make me a 'funsponge' or 'buzzkill' or whatever moronic insult pops into your head?

Live and let live. Do what you like as long as it doesn't impact other people. You don't need validation or a round of applause for it, do you? Nobody cares about your hobbies and events other than you.

But surely you can see that there's a difference between "No, not my cup of tea, I really don't fancy it" type of posts and "Urgh, why would anyone go to Disney World? Only morons go there."

Or " I tried abseiling once- never again, I nearly peed my pants I was so scared" and "I don't like baby showers- they're chavvy."

Some posters manage to put across their point eloquently and with grace. Others...not so much.

Which, ironically, is what OP did with this thread - looking down on people who say they don't like the things she does, and using a sneery little term ("funsuckers") for them.