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!

"I don't know what to say because I don't like confrontation"

"My neighbour asked if 7 of her family members could camp in our garden for a party for the weekend, and they are still there 5 weeks later . Can anyone help me word a way of asking her to gently suggest that they might leave? I don't like confrontation"
A: "could you say it is against your insurance?" "tell them you need to mow the grass and offer to pay for a hotel" "put a passive aggressive post on your neighbours Facebook page saying has anyone noticed any noise during the night in nearby gardens?". ANYTHING other than just ASK them to leave.

I saw a video yesterday about how to get mentally prepared for winter. Splitting out the weeks into zones and what needs to be done in those to get through mentally.
Or you could….go about your life as usual with a coat and hat and turn the lights on earlier.

ahhhhh how cute

I agree with a lot of these posts, but Seasonal Affective Disorder, or seasonal depression is a real thing.

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/seasonal-affective-disorder-sad/overview/

The natural habitat of the MAMIL. 🤣🤣🤣

God I agree OP.
People are utter drips nowadays. Feeble women allowing men to walk all over them and treat them like rubbish, coloured badges at work, bin issues that needn’t be issues…
I seriously worry about society.

Everyone gets ignored on Mumsnet unless 1. someone wants to argue with you or 2. you've composed a story so pitiful that the gullible kind posters want to sympathise or 3. you are the OP with a question which has actual answers and the people who respond on your thread are answering.

Very few posters get involved in cosy chats or are acknowledged in any way. You need to get used to the idea of posting into a void - I found this odd when I joined in 2006!

The amount of people who can't make very mundane decisions amazes me. Or who need to know silly things like how often others wash their towels.

How do they function?

And then AI is going to replace 90% of our jobs in the next 2,5,10 years depending on what you read, then we really will have something to moan about! 💀

I don't think this is anything new. There's always been people that do crazy things like this. It's just that it's all recorded and documented now and then widly shared with massive audiences for entertainment.

Years ago, it would have been nothing more than a funny story told locally.

😂😂😂 oh god I can vividly remember the tiny water fountains in school that every single person stuck their gob round kids today would need it bleaching before they took a drink us we didn’t give a monkeys we just wanted a drink. Don’t get me started on those ridiculous massive bottles of water they have to walk round with permanently stuck in their hands like their life depends on it because walking to the end of the road is going to have them dying of thirst.

I'm definitely going to need details.
Reddit transgender threads are all about the wet lettuce too, because they have to show how womanly and pathetic they are.
They never got the memo about women holding the world together.

I was just saying this to my DH the other day. We took a long train journey and could barely get a conversation going as we were constantly interrupted by announcements;

• be careful in case the platform is wet
• watch out for people moving about the platform
• watch out for motorised platform buggies
• please note the train doors will close 30 seconds before departure
• don’t forget your belongings
• place your bags carefully in the overhead racks
• take care when moving about the train
• don’t get up until the train comes to a complete stop
• take care when stepping onto the platform
• check you have everything with you before you leave the train

My exact words were “when did we become so pathetic that a grown adult cannot navigate a train journey without a pseudo-parent telling them what to do?”

Its pathetic!

Was this the lady hosting a relative for christmas lunch who could only have a liquid diet for medical reasons?

I am noticing an increasing the world needs to change, there is a long list of things that shouldn't be there because I don't want to change myself I just expect everything to change around me and these people raise children

I'm an outlier.

I answer the phone
I make phone calls to perfect strangers
I answer the door
I drive on all types of road
I don't hate shopping
I don't want all pubs to close down
I like my family
I like going out and meeting friends
I consider some of my workmates as friends and socialise with them
I didn't cry when DD went to university
I don't wear pyjamas all day
I don't find bras uncomfortable

And I LOVE summer

I also despair at the amount of MNetters who don't seem to understand the difference between 'confrontation' and basic communication.

"Hi neighbour, do you think you could stop parking across my drive please, as it causes issues when I need to get in/out?"

That ^^ is basic communication.

"Oi you, why the fuck do you keep parking across my drive and blocking me in? Just stop it FFS!"

That ^^ is confrontation.

God, yes.

I so want an invitation to an expensive hen do and an overseas wedding so that I can say "No, it's too expensive".

All my friends and family are far too reasonable to pull a stunt like that though.

I haven’t seen the video but I do my own version of this! I hate winter and have to break it up and pack it full with things to look forward to or it’s just too depressing, particularly January/February. Especially because where I live, winter is five fucking months at a minimum (Nov-March).

DH can't open the living room curtains properly to save his life. He somehow always leaves them uneven and dishevelled 😂

It takes a second to gently pull them straight. I've shown him loads of times but he just can't see it.

I bet you haven't even got the Halloween decorations up yet, and I know there isn't an autumnal wreath on your door. Sort yourself out!

🤣🤣

I'm afraid that this morning I opened the curtains so badly that when I glanced back at the house as we left, it looks like someone raided a crack den. Oh well. I'm not going back.

I am here for years, most days,, but I have never seen a ‘Christmas fridge’ thread.

Can anyone explain what this is? Is it photos of fridges packed with loads of food for Christmas? I don’t think I would like that at all. I hate fridges with too many things in them.

or are people decorating the fridges?

Yes, that's how it starts, it's just fridges at Christmas packed with festive food.

And then in swoop the guilt monkeys with their pointing finger to complain that such flagrant displays of conspicuous consumption in a cost of living crisis and climate emergency are enough to make them weep for all the sadness in the world. Merry Christmas. You're Welcome.

I hear you. A mother at ds’s school wrote to the board of management because her son didn’t start the other day for the school football team.