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.

I don't know any SAHPs IRL, seems to be loads on here.

👋. Over here. 😁
We must be very unlucky/lucky in our family. DM had sepsis in 2020 from a UTI. I had it the back end of last year from tonsillitis. We’re both still here to tell the tale but I honestly did feel like I was going to die!!
PS.. sorry about your grandfather x

Age gap- my dad's second wife was 24 years his junior. Gross. Sister's exh is 15 years his junior.

Sepsis- dad died of it in 2021.

People calling kids sexy. What the utter fuck?

Child free weddings- had one, slightly ruffled one friend's feathers but no one else batted an eyelid. And we were an Irish couple where weddings are massive and often rammed with kids.

Adult kids paying rent- our mum hit us with market rates as soon as we were earning. Still complains decades later that she was shocked when my sister and I abruptly moved out and got our own place. Lol.

I’ve never been blocked in by a CF parking on my drive, or been invited to an expensive wedding overseas that I can’t afford to attend or been asked to provide free lifts to work causing me to drive several miles in the wrong direction for years and years without mentioning the inconvenience.

I did have it after untreated burst appendix. Obv survived but was in hospital over a month

My partner had sepsis several times. I bags in to recognise it coming on. He didn’t die if it but of an
underlying condition.

It’s a Scots word and those comics are/were (?) made in Dundee. It’s used a lot in Scotland!

I work in a dental practice and all the nurses are collectively referred to as “the girls”. At our last practice meeting one of the dentists asked if we were offended/bothered by it. He’d called us the girls to another dentist who told him it was offensive, we are women.
Some of us are in our 40’s and 50’s and are more than happy to be referred to as a girl! Not one member of staff was upset by it.

Me too. I was three when my appendix burst. I remember crying for my mother every night I was in hospital.

I was the births of 3 of my grandchildren ( 2 daughters) When my eldest was born it seemed the world and his wife were there ( including my own brother popping in) Only person that wasn't was baby,s dad

It sure is. A close relative of mine got sepsis as a result of leukaemia which he didn’t know he had. He died 6 days later.

This!
You'd think receiving an invite to a wedding, hen party, or God forbid a baby shower, was akin to getting a nicely monogrammed envelope inviting you to go fuck yourself with a rusty chainsaw from the reactions on here.

There is a hilarious thread running now where the OP asked "does anyone actually like hen parties" and got the usual pile on from posters eager to announce how much they hated them, the irony being most of them said something along the lines of "I've never been to one but I can't think of anything worse" or "I've only ever been to one but it was awful"....Hmmm I wonder why you aren't getting invited to fun parties on the regular?

Whereas in the real world people tend to - gasp - actually enjoy spending time with their friends - so either say yes and look forward to it or if they really don't fancy it politely decline, no drama.

Packs of feral dogs pooping and peeing everywhere in coffee-shops, shops and restaurant.

I've been to a few child free weddings but it isn't something that bothers me. But I've never met people get up in arms about an evening invite or be mortally offended by it and refuse to go to the wedding. I've been an evening invite to a wedding a few times and we have evening guests at ours too. Absolutely no one caused an issue over the status of their invite.

And as I said on another thread, I've never known anyone in real life who is a son or has a son who has abandoned their own family in favours of their girlfriends family when they have a wife and children. I have a lot of male relatives, male friends and my own husband and all of them have retained the same relationship with their family as before and those that have kids, their kids are loved equally by both families.

Similarly MIL. I have perhaps one friend who didn't get on with her MIL, but everyone else seems to have drama free relationships with theirs with only the odd grumble but reading on here practically every mum hates their MIL.

People using weekends as "family time only" and not socialising outwith their nuclear family. Absolutely no one I know does this and people are more than happy to socialise with other families at a weekend.

Similarly not seeing visitors for months on end once a newborn arrives. Anyone i know that's had a baby (myself included) as loved the opportunity to show them to friends and family as soon as possible!

People using ridiculous loopholes to invite themselves to weddings or other celebrations; like they’re up in court and trying to get off on a technicality. I’m thinking of the woman recently who took her very much uninvited child to the breakfast the day after a wedding AND tried to feed him there, crying “But it wasn’t the wedding! It was the next day! There was LOADS of food and he was staaaaarving!!!” Or the famous thread where the OP was told in very clear terms that her brother’s lunch party was NOT the time to introduce her new boyfriend’s children - so turned up with them at 4pm because “lunch would be over by then” and was utterly bewildered to find out they were unwelcome.

Literally everyone I know in the real world who isn’t invited to something just doesn’t go! Because, you know, sanity.

Also, I don’t know any grown women who are as squeamish about swearing as some of those on MN. Using twee little words like “gosh” and “goodness”, as if they live in an Enid Blyton book. Who are these people?!

One group of people I did think only existed on MN were nosy pearl clutchers who want to “report” everything to some unspecified all-powerful body. Once my friend introduced me to the madness of our local Facebook groups I realised they really do exist in real life!

I don't know anyone who wouldn't let a tradie use the toilet.

I don't know anyone who thinks their dc are fully formed adults when they reach 18.

I don't know anyone whose teenagers were set a curfew on week nights. It wasn't necessary, on week nights they had home work/sports practice/matches/rehearsals, etc. Similarly I don't know any parents who didn't let their 15 plus teens have the odd beer or glass of wine.

Always the language used by people who claim it happened as well, chowed down, snaffle etc. 🤔 It seems on mumsnet vegans are either preachy and evangelical or snaffling/chowing/gobbling/wolfing down/stuffing their face etc on meat. One poster said a vegan came to her house and shoved not 1, but 2 whole roast chicken in their mouth. Sure Jan.

Husbands that conveniently & repeatedly leave their laptops or phones accessible for the partner to come back multiple times and drip feed the latest update to their snooping tale.

not the point of the thread but you must not have any speeding cameras around! I got ticketed at 24mph so now I religiously stick to the limit too 😆

Yes, and the husbands are always "working away" until a few days later, so the OP can't confront them until the thread has built up a nice head of steam.

I am surprised at the number of threads where a MIL, Mum or other female relative decide to call the baby a different name or not use the name. It's really common

I've never come across it in the wild.

I’ve done this loads of times.

Not aware that I ever met anyone IRL who loved Boden.

I met one set of parents in my life who tried & liked Gina Ford methods; nobody else ever talked about them. They switched to another parenting guru for their child No.2.

Never encountered... any trans person being obnoxious about using "single sex" space that not = their biological space. I wish I could say I never met an obnoxious trans person at all, but there was a guy who got banned from our store (USA) in late 1980s for shoplifting... I say guy, but presented as rather feminine. Don't know or care about their gender identity. I'm sure being trans doesn't prevent someone from being obnoxious.

I may have had sepsis 16 years ago (!) My interest in knowing is about 8%. I got better with a lot of antibiotics. Exhausting but not harmed. I can't think of anyone else ever ill like I was.

Never seen anyone getting sick and faint and having an instant migraine because they're within 100m of anything remotely fragranced.

It wasn’t me who made that comment - but I actually had sepsis last year! It was horrific but I had very good care, took months to recover fully from.