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Things that PISS you off, but you can't really say so.

637 replies

pinknailvarnish1 · 26/08/2025 17:12

I have a few. Can't say them out loud (except to DH).

MIL & FIL - multi millionaires. Spend loads of money on themselves, lavish holidays, sports cars, only the very best restaurants etc. Never ever do they give a penny to their adult children (and one is flat broke). This is despite them both having been given property and a thriving business by a parent themselves.

My Dad - Overbearing, alcoholic, violent outbursts etc, all through our childhood. He's now decrepit and I have to do so much for him. I resent it.

Brother - keeps saying he's broke, whilst living like a rockstar. Just spend £20k on a holiday, lives in a £600k house, drives top of the range car, but often claims poverty - stop lying!

And breathe......

Anyone else?

OP posts:
Childrenare4life · 30/08/2025 08:35

taxguru · 26/08/2025 20:08

Older people who are sat on levels of savings/wealth purely by sheer luck of the year they were born, who genuinely believe they "earned" it through sheer hard work and making "good" choices, and that all today's younger adults are work shy, lazy and can't buy a house because they have an Iphone and a Netflix subscription! The same elderly people claiming they live in poverty whilst apparently forgetting the half million pound house they live in and a few hundred thousand tucked away in ISAs!

Absolutely agree. It's often a topic in my house as my MIL is one of those

IainTorontoNSW · 30/08/2025 21:17

Starling7 · 29/08/2025 13:04

Not where I lived it was Micky Ds!!!!

Micky D is more commonly used in the USA or by some people who've been there. Aussies, in the main, use "Maccas"

JudgeJ · 30/08/2025 23:28

AugustSlippedAwayIntoAMomentInTime · 29/08/2025 11:13

Not the OP you're responding to, but teachers absolutely cannot right 'the truth' in their reports. They are heavily overseen and read by SLT before they go out, it's made very clear that they have to be 'positive' with 'targets for improvement'.

A good parent would want the truth, it creates a starting point for their child's improvement. Years ago I was working in a High School, all the parents had a time slot for each subject but one father rang to say he was held up on the motorway and would be late but he would like to see as many teachers as possible. He arrived quite late, some teachers had finished and left but the main subject teachers were still around, he came to me last, looking despondent when he sat down, 'Give it to me straight!' and I told there was nothing wrong with his son that a good kick up the backside wouldn't cure, he beamed and said that's the most honest thing I've heard. His son improved immensely and got good exam results a couple of years later.

Starling7 · 31/08/2025 11:58

IainTorontoNSW · 30/08/2025 21:17

Micky D is more commonly used in the USA or by some people who've been there. Aussies, in the main, use "Maccas"

I lived in the Sydney suburbs for 7 years and whilst they also said Maccas they absolutely said Micky Ds and Mick Donald's all the time . My Australian husband and his friends and family certainly did and none of them had been to the States. Weird that you8trying to correct my experience 😅

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ivegotthisyeah · 03/09/2025 18:22

My partners parents when we visit them. Somehow I get stuck with them repeatedly telling the same stories they told me last time we saw them. My partner has a very good knack for disappearing and not get sucked into an eye contact boring conversation with them.
fuck off with your boring same stories - they also never ask me anything about me or my life, pretty similar to their son.
just fuck off all of you

nellietheellie75 · 03/09/2025 18:24

Easyyoke · 29/08/2025 18:19

This just is just not true. I was a flower girl 42 years ago and many of my friends have been flower girls.🤷‍♀️

I too was a flower girl 36 years ago so it's def not a new thing!!

Dutchhouse14 · 03/09/2025 19:45

People who say they are giving to charity instead of sending Xmas cards - cba as virtual signalling.

DH eating his breakfast really loudly in our bedroom, including scrapping bowl with his spoon and spoon clinking against his teeth.

Blatant favouritism/double standards by manager at work. Some people can do no wrong, others can do no right.

Friends who regularly cancel at the last minute.

GentleJadeOP · 15/10/2025 17:45

Maddy70 · 26/08/2025 17:16

My friend talks with his mouth full. Spits his food all over the table ..
I've told him too several times. He just doesn't care

I can’t bear this either. Or people who noisily slurp soup etc

GentleJadeOP · 15/10/2025 17:46

Dutchhouse14 · 03/09/2025 19:45

People who say they are giving to charity instead of sending Xmas cards - cba as virtual signalling.

DH eating his breakfast really loudly in our bedroom, including scrapping bowl with his spoon and spoon clinking against his teeth.

Blatant favouritism/double standards by manager at work. Some people can do no wrong, others can do no right.

Friends who regularly cancel at the last minute.

I would be absolutely furious inside at the breakfast eating!

Fooofooop · 16/10/2025 08:36

My friend's behaviour when she is drunk and the things she says to strangers about me, and in front of me, when we are out.
My mum - who I love dearly - her expectations of me
My DH behaviour when drunk, not all the time but sometimes
People in shops/supermarkets

LBFseBrom · 16/10/2025 09:46

Fooofooop: My friend's behaviour when she is drunk and the things she says to strangers about me, and in front of me, when we are out.

Don't go out with her any more if she doesn't know how to behave. Do tell he when she is out of order, she may not realise how bad she is.

My DH behaviour when drunk, not all the time but sometimes.

Warn him not to get drunk and go somewhere else if he is. I presume he is a grown man.

Why surround yourself with people who allow themselves to be out of control? There are many who do not need alcohol to have a good time.

People in shops/supermarkets

You can't choose with whom you rub shoulders in shops but you can just go in, do your shopping and leave without getting involved with anyone. Most people manage that. They can't all be bad, surely?

Other than that shop online and have deliveries, I do and it makes life much easier. However I don't encounter trouble when I do venture into a shop and hardly notice anyone else, you must be unlucky.

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