To ask for things that happen on MN that you’ve never seen happen IRL

[JandamiHash]

I’ve never seen or heard a parent refer to their child as “sexy”

I’ve never seen anyone having a nap on a public bench.

I’ve never seen someone cajole their daughter into the aisle at a wedding so they can be a stealth bridesmaid

All the above is what I’ve read about on MN recently that people do and have seen before done, regularly.

I've been with someone who had it on 2 occasions.
Both near fatal.
Both already inside A and E. Not the public area. Same hospital.
Both times being ignored by staff.
Despite my repeated pleading.
It's not something I can forget.
Nor would make up.

I’ve never seen anyone butter a radish……

I have never heard of anyone getting 30 mins free legal advice which most of MN suggests every firm offers.

A friend of my mother had it, she is around 80, was in hospital for months, was extremely ill and was still recovering a year later, thankfully is now well.
When my mother was in hospital a couple of years ago there was a young woman on the ward who had been there for 4 months with sepsis.

my dad does! Butter and salt

Be thankful for that.

My dad had it twice 2nd time he didn't make it. The hospital missed an infection and told me I didn't know what I was talking about. I knew how he changed with infections.

Thinking that any more than an occasional glass of wine is a drink problem

I know 2. My colleague who is now fit and well, and my mum who died

I’m going to assume that the comment about not liking children being called “sexy” was from a comment I made earlier tonight on a thread we were both on, because otherwise this is a wild coincidence….

But yes, just to reiterate what I said earlier, people really DO call their child sexy, and inexplicably they defend it.

Here’s a recent thread on MN about this exact subject, with plenty of posters describing people they’ve seen doing it 😩

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5318168-man-in-the-park-calling-a-baby-sexy-aibu-to-consider-reporting

I learnt this from mumsnet years ago- at least 15 years, and use it whenever I can!
No IS a complete sentence!

@JandamiHash you are very fortunate then. I know someone who died and last year a close relative nearly lost their life to sepsis and is still recovering from the after effects. Unlike everything else mentioned on this thread which is very anecdotal and often exaggerated by posters, sepsis is very real and the very real statistic is that 5 people die every hour in the UK from sepsis, that’s one person every 12 minutes or 48,000 people a year. Thats not including the ones who survive.

I say No quite a lot! I learned it at a women's assertiveness course - it was startling how difficult we all (even my stubborn, outspoken self) found it. Things I don't see on Mumsnet and wish I did: women taking assertiveness courses.

I had sepsis from a tooth extraction. Loads of people get it, especially women after a difficult birth.

I don't answer the door. I'm a grumpy, lazy hermit with mobility problems - I live upstairs and they've usually gone by the time I get there anyway. I bought a door camera months ago, but haven't put it up because, if I'm honest, I don't even want to speak to whoever's there 😬

I hear fewer people calling children sexy these days, and am glad of it. Used to be ever so common.

I love tales of batshit behaviour! Humans actually are pretty strange, OP. If you keep your eyes and ears open, you'll be fascinated, horrified, puzzled, impressed and amused by us all.

I've never heard or read the phrase "give your head a wobble" anywhere else, and it really grates on me when I read it on here. I know I am being unfair - it's just a phrase like any other - but it seems weirdly prissy to me - as if people are using it instead of "grow the fuck up", or "sort your shit out" or something a bit punchier.

Also, you know when people start doing that craven super-submissive thing on here,. When a load of posters inexplicably gang up on them, rather than biting back or stepping away, some OPs start falling over themselves in their haste to apologise for existing and thinking their thoughts - that's when the phrase "I have given my head a wobble" often seems to rear its head. No you haven't, I want to shout, what you have done is allowed yourself to be cowed by a lot of outspoken strangers on the internet .....

Unfair? Perhaps I should give my head a wobble, and stop objecting to it ...

My cousins 17 year old daughter died of it.

atleast you have not ''got your ducks in a row''

I have never seen a stunt pineapple in the wild.

I have never heard anyone use the word “boak” but read it on here a lot. Made me laugh when I was looking at a list of staff at a school, and one is Mrs Boak.

I don’t know anyone who’s child is ASD or ADHD yet on Mumsnet it seems that everyone’s is

I’ve never seen someone cajole their daughter into the aisle at a wedding so they can be a stealth bridesmaid

I sort of saw this one but it predates MN by decades.

Back in 1982 my Uncle (22 at the time) was getting married and of course all us neices hoped to be BM's. But there was 9 of us and the bride had a single neice and nephew. She chose them as her attendants. Even as a 9 year old I got it. My cousins (or rather, my aunt) wasnt having it. She bought her three DD's matching bridesmaid dresses (80's bridesmaid dresses were not subtle!) and manufactured a reason to not go into the church until after the bride.

Except that one of the ushers stopped her and my cousins and made them wait until the bride made her entrance and then made them sit at the back. They werent in any of the official photos. I found out donkeys years later (was in my 40's) that my Uncle had a hunch that she would do this so had a plan to stop her! Always felt sorry for my cousins though as they had been told they were BM's by my aunt and they were within 3 years either way of me agewise. So cruel.

I've never heard anyone say 'boak' but am pretty sure it used to crop up often in comics like Beano and Dandy. You've gotta find a way to write that disgusted noise! It's no dafter than 'bleugh', really.

Transwomen in the ladies’ toilets. So, so many of them!

My son was blue lighted to hospital with it and survived.

Edited to add he was abroad when he was 19 and didn't get a tooth abscess dealt with quickly enough. One day after realising he had it, he was undergoing emergency surgery in the ER and spent a week on IV antibiotics. Just a general health announcement never to neglect an abscess!

@GarlicPile Yes! I remember it from comics. I love surnames, fascinating at times and often I find them funny. Like Mr Crack - “missed her crack”…… I”ll get me coat!

I 99% agree and the other 1% I dont look at who is in bathrooms that closely to tell

The first two, definitely more than once or twice. I absolutely hate the sexy child thing. It’s wrong on so many levels.

As for people asleep on a park bench? Yes, I can’t believe you’ve never seen anyone @JandamiHash .

My best friend has had sepsis. My MIL died from sepsis.