Why is everyone such a wet lettuce?

[gorlomi]

Hand-wringing over badges. Upset over name origins. The list goes on and on.

Are people just bored and want some attention online or something?

It's my own fault for reading threads on here, and having other social media I guess!

but according to some who post a lot, really a lot, and read a lot, really a lot, they work full time, manage a home and kids, clean without a cleaner, go three times a week for drinks with the girls, go on ladies spa weekends, holiday 4 times per year abroad and beyond - now you see that the majority of people are making things up for just having someone to chat to online

Old people's groups on facebook full of xenophobia, Daily-Mail-type inspired hyperbole, bad manners and poor grammar.

I am allowed to say that as an old person :-).

I’ve seen those videos and that poster is misrepresenting them a bit. They are aimed towards people that have seasonal depression/seasonal affective disorder and who struggle knowing that they are about to enter a depressive episode. They offer tips on ways to handle the symptoms and try to mitigate them throughout the winter.

I do think it would be difficult to know that the shortening days are going to wreck the chemical balance of your brain for months and there’s little you can do about it.

Wet lettuce 😆😆😆

@Cantheowneroftheredcorsapleasemovetheircaroh we just booked Ocado for Christmas week last week. Normal deliveries you can only book up to a month ahead, but they release Christmas week delivery slots early. Pretty sure sainsburys release their Christmas week slots in October. (I usually just hold a delivery slot with champagne then after bonfire night, start thinking about if we’re hosting anyone and on which days and then adding to the order as and when I think about it. )

Love this, made me laugh. I just imagine victor Meldrew in “one foot in the grave”.

Oh yes once half term is out of the way, we enter “how dare people set off fireworks” season!

Is this thread aimed at the person who posted about name badges at work?

I prepped for winter. I bought a ton of flour, oats and butter at the weekend, and pre-made bags of crumble mix for the freezer. Bring on crumble season!!!

Oh god I know what you mean people today wouldn’t have survived the 90’s I don’t know what is wrong with people nowhere days drives me insane the way people act over nothing. People seem incapable of doing anything these days without an instructional how to video on social media.

How the hell do you open or close curtains incorrectly?

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I agree. It's one thing to get upset when you have a bad day - talking things over can help. You can understand that something is relatively minor and still be upset about it, without needing to be reminded that other people are worse off.

But a lot of the "problems" people post about on here aren't even problems in the first place. "My bridesmaid has agreed to be a bridesmaid for another friend a few months after my wedding." "My cousin is having a baby a year after me." "My brother's sister-in-law has given her baby as the same name as one of my children." "I'm heartbroken that one of my daughters has green eyes and the other has brown." I'm not making this up - I've actually seen these exact threads posted on MN.

Apparently young people would have dehydrated to a husk within 30 mins of arriving in the 90s without the constant clutching of at least half a litre of water in a bottle. No lasting through a school day on a swig from a fountain and a small cup of water in the canteen.
Not so much wet lettuces as dry, limp, dehydrated ones

(Young people are great but do have the need to drink out of proportion)

YABVU to post about a bin thread, a rainbow badge thread, and a curtains thread WITHOUT LINKS.
I hope I can get an appointment with the GP because I'm definitely going to need one. My anxiety, don't you know.

I absolutely agree with this. It’s as if people can only have binary opinions or if they have an opinion that makes them against the opposite when it can be a preference 🙄

For example, if someone doesn’t like animals it means they must hate them. Which is not true.

They’re not called ‘wet lettuces’ in our family - they’re ’Pappy Folk’.

Common sense, resilience and logical thinking are lost…..

Is your head all the over the place as well?

Seasonal Affective Disorder has been recognised for over 40 years. What exactly is the issue with tactics to support people in that?

People likely always had these thoughts, it’s just more online now.

I did have this thought when I read today about someone "panicking" about Christmas dinner.

Because when the seasonal affective disorder affects you in the opposite seasons, as it does for me, you have the piss taken out of you on Mumsnet!

Just wanted to thank the OO for starting this thread. It gave a me a lovely giggle and a warm feeling inside.

A friend of mine at work has this!

It's the total pushovers that get me. I keep seeing threads like:

"My best friend has borrowed my life savings and not repaid anything, run off with my husband and is using my car every day as she says hers has a fault, meaning I have to walk 9 miles to work. Now she's messaged to ask if I can send over my first-born son to sweep her chimney. AIBU to say he's not free until the weekend as he has football and homework to do in the week?"