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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:
Thepeopleversuswork · 26/08/2025 18:53

JHound · 26/08/2025 18:50

People who ask for advice for how to improve a situation they constantly find themselves but don’t want to make any changes.

Yes. Or people who ask you for your “professional opinion” on something when they have already decided to do the exact opposite of what you recommend. And listen to you expostulating at great length what you would do before saying “no I have decided to do x”.

RM2013 · 26/08/2025 18:53

So many things where do I start?
Someone else up thread said picky bits - drives me insane.
The person that keeps posting passive aggressive quotes on Instagram - if you have an issue with someone just tell them!

So many more but I’d never stop!

JHound · 26/08/2025 18:53

Oh actually my boss who insists on coming to my desk first thing in the morning to chat.
Before I even switch my computer on and have time to breathe she is right there.

I arrive at 9:00. At 9:01 she is there asking how my evening was. Just FCK OFF, FCK OFF, F.*.C.K O.F.F!!

😡

Catsandcannedbeans · 26/08/2025 18:54

DH sleeps with his eyes open. It’s fucking weird and it looks gross, but I’ve never said anything because he used to get up earlier than me so I didn’t see because his ex used to be mean about it. It’s very weird looking and I’m glad none of the kids do it.

Just to be clear, he is very sensitive about it so I would never make fun of him or tell him I find it gross - but I do.

Imlazyandiknowit99 · 26/08/2025 18:54

My friend is always bloody late. I've stopped meeting her because by the time she gets to us we've all had enough and want to go home. One time she was 1.5hours late. Also noisy eaters. My god it irrates me

Fluffypiki · 26/08/2025 18:54

People pushing their beliefs/religion/ lifestyle on me or my kids, I feel personally attacked even though most of the time it is well intentioned , if i am interested I will come to you and ask about it, you are welcome to explain how it changed/change your life and then move on.

JHound · 26/08/2025 18:55

Thepeopleversuswork · 26/08/2025 18:53

Yes. Or people who ask you for your “professional opinion” on something when they have already decided to do the exact opposite of what you recommend. And listen to you expostulating at great length what you would do before saying “no I have decided to do x”.

Yes what they want is permission to keep doing what they are doing and hope magically that things will change.

NewsdeskJC · 26/08/2025 18:56

Ill join.
Me and Dh
Dhs sister and bil
Only normal ones amongst all the siblings

ItalianRedParka · 26/08/2025 18:57

If you don't like having 1 kid don't have more!

MyDogHumpsThings · 26/08/2025 18:57

I realised I’m going to get flamed for this, but I despise all of the mumsnet acronyms! All of them, all the time. I hate them.

Pigeon31 · 26/08/2025 18:57

People who park on both sides of the road so the space between isn't wide enough for the bus to get through. Public transport is obv more important than you leaving your garbage car clogging up the (public) roadside for the 95% of the time it isn't being driven

DH not being able to put underwear into the laundry basket. It ends up in a pile on the floor next to the laundry basket. Go figure

Mumof2amazingasdkiddos · 26/08/2025 18:59

smallpinecone · 26/08/2025 18:17

@pinknailvarnish1

Do we have the same MIL? 😄

When I told mine I’d been diagnosed with breast cancer, she gave me a long blank stare, then turned to my husband and said “Well obviously, her having cancer is better than having hay fever like me. I’ll never be cured of my problem”

I didn’t expect any sympathy, so I wasn’t surprised!

Fucking hell I've read some mental stuff on here over the years but this is top 5, no screw that its first place gold medal crazy!! I'm not sure getting a gold medal from a complete stranger on the Internet will help take any of the sting out of this nasty comment but you have my utter sympathy for having to deal with such a self absorbed absurd woman!

I hope you are doing well love and you've kinda proven her point and been cured!

BreakingMe · 26/08/2025 19:00

Whistling

MySweetMaggie · 26/08/2025 19:00

pinknailvarnish1 · 26/08/2025 18:05

MIL and FIL only ever talking about themselves. If we throw something into the conversation about us or the kids, we get a blank stare, no comment, until they can think of some way to turn this into a conversation about them. Example, we said DS was going to get married in France. Cue long stares, then FIL pipes up about the last time he was in France. No other comments made about the fairly big news that was.

My father is exactly the same. I just listen to him talk about himself once a week when I call now and don't bother telling him anything about us.

CakeFace1234 · 26/08/2025 19:00

My DH doesn't have a wee before going to bed and he doesn't get up in the night either. He drinks a lot of tea too. I think his prostate is going to get its own back one day.

Louisa298 · 26/08/2025 19:01

People with fake grass

LillyPJ · 26/08/2025 19:02

My hypochondriac friend. She's always got some new complaint (which she's found after searching the internet) but her GP doesn't agree so she spends a fortune on private quacks and 'alternative' meds. I get pissed off that everybody has to fit in with her because she says she can't travel, can't use buses, can't eat certain foods, can't do anything before 2pm, can only go to certain cafés etc. I know I should be more sympathetic!

RJ2023 · 26/08/2025 19:02

I work for one of the large insurance brokers and every quarter we have an all staff meeting/dial-in (or "Town Hall" as they like to call them).

Every time we have to go through the Q&A at the end where people ask the most tedious and pointless questions (normally using the word "synergies" a lot) and 90% of the time the Q&A concludes with some nobhead asking the panel "what keeps you awake at night?")

I would love to interject and ask "are you honestly interested in the answer to your BS question???" but I would likely get sacked!

Justcashnosweets · 26/08/2025 19:03

My DP is really fucking boring. He literally has no idea how to communicate on any emotional level, or indeed have a laugh. I have no idea how or why we are still together.

MarryMeTomHardy · 26/08/2025 19:03

Doingtheboxerbeat · 26/08/2025 17:27

My chicken Kiev leaked all the buttery juice all over the foil and I'm absolutely distraught 😳.

You need to cook it on a slice of bread - then if it leaks you get a bonus slice of garlic bread!

LillyPJ · 26/08/2025 19:05

MyDogHumpsThings · 26/08/2025 18:57

I realised I’m going to get flamed for this, but I despise all of the mumsnet acronyms! All of them, all the time. I hate them.

Ikwym. Lol.

DoLoveAVent · 26/08/2025 19:05

I'm in a relationship with someone I love very much and which is pretty healthy in most ways. We have differences on occasion but have quite complimentary skills and approaches. We work well together under stress, share life goals and values and things like that. BUT they have an ex that they believe they are good friends with, and this ex has done every thing they can do to throw little marbles under the feet of our relationship. Loads of "well
intentioned" complaining about me behind my back, giving the impression that because of me they don't feel comfortable socialising in the group I'm part of, dropping little snippy passive aggressive comments in here and there, letting me know they've been speaking about this or that. Casually making comments that suggest the ex is the font of all wisdom to my partner. I'm mostly annoyed that my partner genuinely seems to not see any of this. Its the one thing that makes me question whether we're really that compatible or its really that healthy. And it would be helping the drama the ex is hoping to create if I react at all

arcticpandas · 26/08/2025 19:05

BananaBreadWithCustard · 26/08/2025 17:22

Yeah, that’s so annoying!! I really hate it when DSS says ‘math’ instead of maths. It massively grates. And ceram wrap rather than clingfilm. I love him to bits but it’s so jarring.

Edited

How can you hear the difference btw math and maths? Is he American or has he watched too much tiktok?

DreamyBalonz · 26/08/2025 19:05

JustPassingThruHere · 26/08/2025 18:47

My MIL only asks after me as a lure to trauma dump on me and if I don't beg her faux problem from her or seem sorry enough about her pathetic non issues she blanks me and never even gives me a chance to address her fake concern about how I'm doing. 6 weeks or so, 25 plus years, rinse and repeat.

DH has inherited his parents idiocy. Short fuse, lives to complain and do nothing to sort issues but puts others down who do the same as deflection.

DD is a princess. Never had hardship and will make my life hell to ensure this remains the case.

Mother is 25+ stone, complains about aches and pains but swears she eats 1000 calories max a day.

I'M SO FED UP so I tell DH I need some space to get away from the negativity. Might book myself a few days away somewhere, so he asks if I want to go for a coffee with him?????

NO NO NO NO NO

Thanks for listening

My mum was the same ..she eventually became bedbound because she was so fat she couldn't walk, then she had a fucking huge stone in her kidney. This put her in hospital for 6 months. She eventually died of a heart attack brought on by her obesity. However my stepdad was totally in denial and acted as if none of it was her fault (as in "doctors say she is a big woman but she has an under active thyroid so that's why etc) funnily enough my sister also has one and isn't fat

Thepeopleversuswork · 26/08/2025 19:06

People who, on a thread like this, wheel out the words “holibobs”, “hubs” and “famalam”.

Its such a roaring cliche: everyone hates these words. Its a bit like saying you hate being poor or sick.

Have you really not got the creativity to hate anything which isn’t mentioned in a million other threads?