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

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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.

Saw someone else mention it on another thread like this but all these men with nondescript ‘hobbies’, like DH is off at/doing his hobby. With no indication of what it might be. Most men I know might do something like go to the gym, game, play with broken cars, fish or whatever but it’s never this big deal that they schedule like it seems to be here.

In real-life I tend to use: bowfin', howfin', honkin', mingin' and pure raj.

I code switch on here though and vile, foul or rank seem to be sufficiently U for MN.

Yes, this is a great example of things that didn't really happen irl 😁

Sending love your way and I hope the transplant comes up very, very soon. What a horrible bloody time you've had of it.

And sepsis is pretty common especially in terminal patients where it's often the thing that takes them away on top of whatever their terminal diagnosis was.

The only time I remember using ''no'' is if my slighly nicer ''no thank you'' or 'no sorry I can't" or ''sorry that won't work" does nothing

but maybe a few times only in my life like of someone is trying to sell me something as in door knocking

I am very good at saying I cant or wont do something though so I am poilte but no means no however it is worded so I have no issue using that

I had sepsis (peritonitis) caused by an ovarian cyst which ruptured and perforated my bowel. Half an hour away from death the consultant told me afterwards. My SIL had it following an awful birth during lockdown, her birth story is horrendous, I didn’t think they allowed women to suffer like that, it went on for days.

I have always been too polite and agreed to do things I really didn’t want to do but same SIL above invited me to her no frills, all girls together, week long communal yurt camping hen do I discovered I too can say “no” as a complete sentence. Actually I think I said “dear God, no!”. Does that count? I must have looked horrified too because she fell about laughing.

Sending you all the best and fingers crossed a suitable donor heart will be inbound ASAP!

People often say it will be outing but also that it's common/realtively common so I get bored of "trying to guess" because I can't be arsed. He runs/cycles/makes models/plays football/plays golf*/goes to a million pub quizzes a year. Just tell us because it can make a difference or you know, annoy everyone with their top secret hobby that without your actual postal address!

*This has always been the worst hobbie I've seen in real life. Golf widows.

I had it aged 8 from a dog scratch to my ankle, it got horribly infected and my mum didn't notice as she was working all the time. A day or so after spending all night delirious she saw my infected pussy ankle and took me to a&e, I thought it was a huge overreaction for a gross rash. I ended up hooked up to drips and all sorts

As long as DH is not hanging around the house annoying me his hobby could be playing in traffic just gives me the remote as he leaves, it leaves me in peace

have never seen dogs in cafés slobbering on food on tables, going around barking and licking other people and wiping shit all over the furniture.

they're usually under the table/chair sleeping. Sometimes they're sitting staring at their owner.

My SIL had both her mother and mil in the delivery room! Fuck that! My sister had my mum too. When I had my 1st child my fil offered for mil to come with us when they arrived to look after the stepkids when I was in labour, I politely declined. My mum was a bit arsey and after nipping in to see me in the early stages she was all like "well, seeing as you don't want me as your birthing partner ill go home now!" I was like "my husband is my birth partner, why do I need another?" Also my mum was never particularly emotionally available to me as a kid so bollox

You don’t work in a cafe in the Lake District then.

Many people won't know they had sepsis - it depends what language we use when describing the diagnosis . It would be very very common to say that someone had pneumonia or a chest infection for example but much less common to say to a layperson that they had a respiratory sepsis. There'll be many people who will go home knowing they had an operation for a kidney stone that made them pretty sick but who wouldn't describe it as obstructive urosepsis, or gram negative septic shock, or any one of the other ways medical professionals might describe it. Doesn't mean they didn't have sepsis.

I do agree there is an over-focus on sepsis which unfortunately has led to missing other major diagnoses. I've seen cardiac failure very very commonly misdiagnosed as sepsis acutely. The sepsis campaign has been very successful, but is it but one amongst many possible diagnoses. It will eventually reach a tipping point at which the public campaign will be suggesting people ask 'is it really sepsis though' when they receive that diagnosis.

Same here...including 2 of my sons and the school think my 11 year old daughter is on the spectrum so is going to be assessed. I guess I'd best keep an eye on my newborn

Omg true, my father played golf growing up, huge red flag. I think male cyclists too. My DH bless him said his hobby is me which feels very accurate 😭.

Guessing was fun to begin with but now im sick of seeing the word, apparently every middle aged man is dedicated to theirs.

No I don't. I am in various cafés all over five out of seven days though.

Perhaps the Lake District has a special microcosm of bad dog behaviour....

A bit like Center Parcs with children. I see utterly shocking behaviour from kids in restaurants specifically at Center Parcs that I have never witnessed anywhere else (and I would never have believed without seeing)

I have never been to the Lake District, but perhaps the same kind of thing happens there that happens at Center Parcs....

Oh god you are lucky. I work with a few.

I have and I’m certain the person read it on here before using it on me. It’s such a condescending phrase. There are far better ways to say you don’t want to do something.

But you wouldn’t use the word in real life you’d make a vomiting sound. It only works written down.

My husband decided when I was pregnant with my youngest that he was going to rejoin the freemasons! He was a member 11 years ago.

Doubt they can answer, if they did…

My Mum and DH were with me.

Some people I know, had multiple different people through the birth.

It's the level of LTB I struggle with, marriage and partnership is difficult and we only ever have one account here.
People seem so uptight, taking offence at the slightest thing and there's a general lack of resilience where people seem to not cope with normal life.
I posted on a thread where I , tongue in cheek, mentioned my untidy husband and actually got a reply along the lines of I was putting up with a terrible existence, though I didn't mention all the things he does do. People are so quick to judge
People going over a posters previous threads to catch them out, it can be a vindictive place sometimes.
I also have never heard people using the word hobby as a catch all, saying football is not outing.

Woah! 😳 See I assumed they’d all be very boring like fishing. Not essentially joining a cult- how’d you feel about it? Did he rejoin?

I don’t think i’d be having it personally, just the whole secretive, ritualistic boys club thing is not our vibe.