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...

Dialect is not an affectation

I agree, it's only an affectation if you put on an accent from an area you don't come from or don't live in.

People can be intolerant of different expressions (which can be nothing to do with regional difference, but eg derived from social media), but some accents just aren't very nice to listen to. And while we're all different, there's general agreement on the accents that are more aurally-appealing and those which aren't.

For me, many Irish and Scottish accents fall in the former category. I won't offend anyone by talking about accents I don't like!

Mumsnet has taught me that people arguing over 'aitch' or 'haitch' can take up more space on a thread than anything else😬

Mum is that you? Look, if you don't like your new granddaughter's name then that's a you problem. You don't have to visit, but I'm not caring for you in your old age.

Now Haddy, do you really think little Elizabeth-Margaret Truss-Thatcher Abrams will want to look after you in your old age? I'm off to spend your inheritance.

That'd be a first.

Not true when the children are of school age. In the hours they are at school that is when much life admin can be done which is not something a working parent can do.

Both SAHPs and parents in paid work typically see the children spend similar numbers of hours out of the house. I was making the point that the comment that was mocking working parents for finding life admin exhausting was bonkers as typically working parents for that on top of a full time paid job. Of course it’s exhausting!

There was no SAHM bashing in my post. You just failed to read it properly.

Another one today - apparently "everyone" can hold in farts.

No they can't. You can try to let them out quietly but if the air is coming, it's coming. It's not controllable like a bowel movement (generally) is.

To be fair they should be controllable for most people most of the time. So no, not everybody can, but it's equally inaccurate to say they aren't controllable for everybody.