What are your unpopular opinions that most mumsnetters don’t agree with?

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Curious to know what opinions you see constantly on mumsnet that you think “Am I the only person that disagrees with that!?”

👏 👏 popular opinion with me.

Sure, but the reaction to their existence has become completely neurotically over the top. There's roughly a thread a day from someone asking for them to be banned or restricted in cafes as if they were aggressive beggars or heroin addicts.

I am not a particular dog person (I'm a cat slave) and don't have particularly strong feelings about whether dogs should be allowed in cafes or restaurants but I do think some of the reactions to their presence are pretty unhinged.

A well trained dog on a leash sitting quietly in a pub or restaurant is not going to cause a life-threatening injury or give you a communicable disease. At worst its a slightly smelly minor irritant you can avoid if you have to. Move to a quieter table and chill out.

@Picklepower - surely all those views are very popular on MN? I've seen them a lot..

I don't understand why so many mumsnetters live in wildly unsuitable locations and don't seem to consider moving.

You see it all the time - we live very rurally, there is no childcare, we have to drive 50 miles to school, I don't drive so have to get there on a donkey, I can't get a job because here aren't any and it takes me 3 hours every day to get the children to school by donkey.

Possibly it's just because they're more of an issue now? In the last few years, dogs are in more and more human spaces. Possibly it's not bad owners so much as they are unaware and the sheer numbers now have an impact.

Was just about to type something similar @Radra - that there isn’t enough countryside in the UK for the number of mumsnetters who claim to live “rurally” and sometimes “very rurally”

Donkeys are lovely. They're possibly a green alternative to motor vehicles 😉

Yeah

Also I totally get that it's not that easy to move but a) I just don't understand how you end up somewhere like this without apparently thinking through any of the practicalities and b) moving, while hard, is often clearly a lot less hard than continuing to live there

Yes, either every rural dweller is on Mumsnet or the countryside is more densely populated than Tower Hamlets.

That it's fine not to answer your door.

That it's fine to refuse to be a carer.

That it's fine to refuse to give lifts.

That it's fine not to be involved with your partner's kids.

That it's fine to say no to what ever request or pressure you are faced with for whatever reason.

That LTB (leave the bastard!) is under utilized on this forum.

Putting up your Christmas decorations in November and taking them down on Boxing Day makes you look as though you don't know your Advent from your Epiphany.

But I don't care about advent or epiphany 😂

Couldn't agree more

Pretty much everything I read on here I disagree with. The Hive Mind just seems like a load of rich-people opinions.

But what does one call water if not corporation pop!

Really? They're often whole threads about it being fine to breastfeed until primary school, dogs are awful and everywhere etc

See my rich -people post 🤣. I also think it’s to shut down any practical solutions that would solve the problem because the intention is really just to have a massive moan or tantrum.

My child had 2 teeth by 12 weeks. There was every need to still breastfeed.

Absolutely agree. Never been to a wedding where there was any kind of dress code at all.

Talking about "abroad hens" or "abroad weddings" - abroad is not an adjective!

Calling hen parties "hens"

Caring about hen parties - I can't imagine anything more boring/stressful

Spending every waking hour frothing at the mouth while obsessing over toilets

Adam's ale, traditionally.

Sex should be with someone special, not someone you've only met twice

A good nursery is a positive and stimulating environment for babies and toddlers and helps them hit their milestones faster. Babies and children who go to nursery from a young age are not traumatised by it and they are no less attached to their parents than those who stay at home with their mum all day until they start school.

Weddings - The couple can choose to do what they want and invite who they want. Invitees can choose to go or not but the Wedding should be about the 2 peeople getting married.

That cats pooping in neighbours gardens is ok. That cats are clever, they really aren't since they always seem to get run over in the village. That cats running over tables and on beds is not unhygienic.