What has Mumsnet taught you you've been doing wrong all of your adult life without realising?!

[harriethoyle]

Inspired by a recent thread, in which I read multiple posters saying you shouldn't wear mascara on your bottom lashes (which I have been doing for the last 30 years 😂) what has Mumsnet told or taught you you've been doing wrong?

The irritating thing is then I made one eye up as usual and made one up without mascara on the bottom lashes and DH preferred the without eye! Don't even get me started on my inability to make a chicken last a week...

I'm not stopping you having a good day.

I felt your comments about the term 'life admin' were snarky and I said so, and I wasn't the only one who disagreed with your comments. I think it's quite ironic that you're accusing me of looking for something to be offended by when your initial post was so scathing about that term. I'm not offended. I simply disagree.

And no, we don't need to agree. But you keep stating your opinions as facts and I suspect that's why you've been getting some pushback from me and others on this thread.

Yep, I find it quite hilarious.

Like the woman who posted an AMA about flying with a baby and was inundated with interrogations of 'do you feel guilt about the climate?' and 'what are you doing to fix the damage you have done?' etc... like she should live in shame and disgust.

I know I'm not her, I have flown probably less than 20 times in life (given each holiday requires a flight there and back plus a few short pleasure trips) all short haul but frankly no I don't care or feel remotely guilty.

I'm not going to donate all my wealth to Greta, give up my time to hunt for injured sea turtle or glue my tits to the road for just stop oil to 'elevate' any perceived wrong doing either.

I wish to see the world, its my dream and one I likely wont get to fully live but if I have the opportunity I will take it because traveling and seeing other cultures is important to me. Also as a scientist with a degree fully trained in studying peer reviewed scientific papers I don't remotely buy into the online fear of climate change. Yes somethings are pollutants and we constantly adapting to fix them (and that has never once been achieved by throwing soup on a painting) but no its not even remotely close to the end of days or bloody apocalypse.

In fact my child is starting flying lessons soon to achieve his lifelong dream of being a pilot and I'm perfectly happy with his choice of career and every normal person we have encountered thinks its cool too (no one has clutched their tin hat and yelled 'but the chem trails').

@bringincrazyback you really have stopped me having a good day. I commented on a lightheaded thread, and you decided to have a go at me because it hit a nerve. Do you not have anyone else you can go annoy? There was nothing scathing about my comment

I'm not going to bother replying to you. You're just looking for argument and honestly, you're really not worth anymore of my time

That the only way to be considered a functioning adult is to live in a massive detached house in the countryside, or to own your own property in London.

I don't hate bleach. Just loo brushes

1. I wash the gloves when I'm done but there is no poo involved. I don't stick my hand down a loo with poo in it

That the word 'anxious' no longer exists, now it's just 'anxiety' a pathological condition.

Not only not eating baked potatoes as it's you know 2024 but also not calling them ' jackets' in revered tones and recommending them with everything on every occasion

Feel free to not reply, but other people have disagreed with you too. If you're going to accuse people of spoiling your day simply by disagreeing with you, choosing just one of those people seems oddly selective.

According to 99.9% of MN, heels are old fashioned and totally impractical. Frankly though, I don't give a shit what other people think and I bloody love wearing high heels for a night out. Oh, I also wear mascara on my lower lashes.

Wash your armpits and bits with soap not shower gel. I miss shower gel 😕

Me too.

I'm pretty sure I'm not doing it, though!

😳

I think some people mistake RG for Ivy League. My son put down a RG as first choice because he felt he ought to but got into his non RG insurance and I couldn’t be happier.

I think it basically means it’s a research university but don’t quote me on that.

Red Brick means it's a research uni, and many Russell group are part of that. I only know this because I work in recruitment though.

I don't tend to get offended about anything much, but on MN it's almost compulsory to take offence at the slightest thing.

Red Bricks are not better than Poly Techs either.

I went to a Poly Tech and older people (who haven't even gone to uni) sneered at it. My course was full of Red Brick students doing the medical internship and then resitting because their Red Brick did not include the physical experience they needed to actually qualify to become licensed. I can still enter Research fields with my degree as well as practical fields.

Without a license the degree is a pretty useless piece of paper unless you have a magic in with a private institution that has very deep pockets that will straight off hire and fund you for private research.

I have to laugh sometimes at the threads where someone is asking if they should do something and the replies are literally alternating with Yes you should, no you shouldn’t, yes you should, no you shouldn’t. And on it goes for pages and pages. I’m none the wiser and I expect it’s been no help to the OP.

mumsnet has taught me that there is no subject too lighthearted or innocuous that people can’t manage to get in a spat about it

That you can peel mushrooms. Never knew.

I use a brush and rinse it by sticking it in the loo and flushing it. I clean the cistern and lid with loo roll so I can flush it away afterwards.

By flushing I mean I give it a ‘shower’ in the loo, I don’t flush the brush away. 😁

Ha yes. Lighthearted threads sure do turn nasty quickly 😆

I had a destination wedding
I let my dog off the lead in the park.
I don't take my shoes off at the door.

I'll see myself out!

That it's totally acceptable to talk to strangers about your "bathroom habits" whereas in real life after the age someone else wipes your bum , it's really not ( general chitchat, not a medical worry)

Chickens/mince/shoes. I have not been making a chicken last for six meals. Neither have I made 500g of mince last 4 meals. And neither do I make people take their shoes off before they come in to NOT eat chicken or mince.

I've learnt from Mumsnet that I'm weird for preferring warm sunshine to cold torrential rain. I've also learned that small children love nothing more than putting their puddle suits on and going for endless rainy walks, splashing in puddles for hours on end. This is evidenced by the totally deserted playgrounds, parks etc I see on wet days...