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

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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 think that is one of the most lower-middle-class posts I've ever seen on here, which is saying something. 😀

Of course she was.
'If you know, you know.'
Seriously 🙄

That is a much better example than mine @PedantScorner
Thank you.
It happens all the time. DD was born here, but never had this issue when she worked in North Tyneside.

@RampantIvy , I worked at one place (NW England) and those sort of errors did happen. I remember someone complaining that they couldn't find someone's contact details, but from how they said the name, that they were looking under a vowel not the R the name started with. The name was something like Ella Ratkin but he said it as Eller Atkins.

@Slidesclipsandbobbins , she wasn't, and she was right.

she wasn't, and she was right

Well, I very much disagree @PedantScorner.

I don't think the difference between aitch and haitch is worth arguing about - unless you really "sigh" the h, you'd hardly even notice it!

From someone whose name starts with an H.

Why is it a middle class post when it's a regional, not class, difference?

It's the letter name that's in question not its pronunciation - so the name you give to the letter H when saying NHS for example.

Maybe because of the assertation that there is one, and only one, right way to say the letter and that there always has been - and that anyone who says it differently is ignorant.

And this following a discussion which made it clear that haitch is the standard pronunciation in some places, in Ireland for example.

It's a shocking attitude, made even more shocking by the fact that some people seemingly can't see that.

Gosh. We haven't done haitch in weeks.

We had a teacher at school who always told us off for pronouncing H wrong
However I can't remember if she used to say "it's not aaaaitch it's haaaaitch" or the other way around. She used a really long a sound. She was Scottish, this was in Home counties.
As a result I don't actually know how I used to/should say it.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

To be fair no one says ‘En-Haitch-Ess’… do they?!

I do.

Edit!

I wouldn't, no.

This made me LOL🤣

Of course they do.

I don't. But I do spell the start of my name as see haitch.

Answering the door to people I don’t know

Yes, this is a really odd one to me, too, but apparently not to a lot of MN.

I didn't know you were supposed to completely ignore any knock at the door unless you were specifically expecting someone.

Mumsnet has taught me that there is more than one way of doing most things and whatever you do, someone will think you're doing it wrong. I'm not convinced I'm objectively doing anything wrong.

I guess after N you would hear it more.

But when it starts a word (like haitch) you don't really hear it in the same way.

In my opinion.

Certainly not worth taking over a whole thread about!

The way round it with NHS is to say November-Hotel-Sierra :)

It's not about class, it is just about arrogance and "my way is right".

But then I don't believe in "class" anyway, it's all about how much money you have generally.

Some people are just sanctimonious. They may or may not be comfortably off.

I think that's true. The bra thing really made me laugh (for those who don't want to scroll back through the thread - if you do your bra up at the front and swivel it sound, you are really weird and childish because you've had [insert number] years to do it "properly" (ie do it up at the back).

I am still scared to admit on here that I get measured for bras at M and S because apparently that is WRONG and I will wear the wrong sized bra for ever!