To ask what things you never knew u tilypu joined Mumsnet?

[KimberleyClark]

I’ll start.

That having a one syllable first name and surname is an absolute no no.

That the word 'boundaries ' does not just apply to land 😒

Oh my god, that thread (maybe there's more than one 🤔) was ridiculous with the derailing about Staycation. And the vehemence with which people argued.

But H is correctly pronounced aitch. ??🫤

I do not know what this thing is and wonder, do I want to?

And my contribution is that I didn’t know MN was full of quick witted and hilarious posters like the one who picked up the funny typo! I feel we don’t get as many laugh out loud these days as I did at that.

And so so many things. MN is an eduction.

Yes! Middle names, in my opinion, are to honor friends or family. You choose one that means something to your life, not just pick a random name out of thin air.

If there isn't one that means something, don't bother with one.

That other people don’t answer the phone or door, and that toilet brushes are frowned upon. How do they get rid of skids?!

My suspicion that many people hate nurses (or just think we are ‘failed doctors’) was confirmed, though

I thought it was only porn stars that shaved their pubes

I never knew how uptight and crazy the English attitude is to kids playing out in comparison to the relaxed attitude of Scots.

I never knew that some people deep clean their houses several times a day.

Oh, and that having a tattoo is a sure sign that someone is a wrong’un and that no tattooed person could ever amount to much

I have learned (from my thigh rubbing and cries of 'oh, goodie!') that I am a real nosy parker about other people's lives and particularly their parking problems (as long as there is a diagram).

Given how many hours I have whiled away on here for 14 years I am now realising how little I have learnt however I'm not here for an education.

No wait, how many cheeky fuckers there are out there

I agree to a point. However DDs coat (she was about 12, so less likely to simply lose stuff) went missing as the beast from the East storm was forecast in 2018.....and I thought just one of those things.....but it coincidently turned up again about a month later as the weather improved, which made me a bit suspicious

I've been quite surprised how many people have issues with "school mums"

I thought if you were a mum and had a school aged child you were a school mum....but apparently it's different....haven't quite worked out how...

Oh yes, and that a HUGE number of people think an abbreviation of a name is a 'nickname' and very carefully choose one for their unborn child.

They must be in for one hell of a shock when the child ends up being called 'bumface' or 'sock drawer' by their schoolmates. Now those are nicknames...

That grown adults are too afraid to answer the door in broad daylight.

That the word is actually remuneration and not renumeration

That people who frequent centre parcs and McDonald's are the devil's spawn. 'The script', which if I had read it on here whilst dh enacting the script to the letter, I would have instantly known he was cheating instead of trying to be empathetic about his 'mid life crisis'...

Also how we should ltb if he leaves the toilet seat up, or dares to have an opinion.

That many MANY people don’t know the difference between bought and brought.

Yes, or hereditary nicknames, though probably more common in rural areas. I know a kid who was called Happy by everyone, because his father was, because his father had run the local shop and was notoriously grumpy.

I also know a man who must be in his sixties now, who is called Bono by everyone apart from his wife and his mother because he walked into the pub at night wearing dark glasses in about 1987.

That a £400 watch is a cheap watch 👀

That so many women are married to High Earners. So many in fact it makes me wonder if these men have multiple wives as I'd not have thought there were enough to go round.
That all the skinny jeans and heeled shoes in the shops are regularly emptied into the landfill. Because NO ONE wears them anymore. Ever. That botox, filler, micro blading and cosmetic surgery are all the same thing, and a patriarchal conspiracy to make women's faces fall off.
That there is a shop called mint velvet where it costs £150 for a cardi. And people pay this.

That spiders have willies and washing can be darked on.

Lol same. It was quite a depressing realisation 😂

I naively didn’t realise so many people got large inheritances. When my parents died I got nothing, my friends will get nothing from their parents.

I also didn’t realise there were so many people pleasers about. Every other poster claims to be one but I can count on one hand the amount I’ve met in real life!