Things you wouldn't admit to in real life

[TwinklyFawn]

Light hearted. I dislike my mum's boyfriend. I am sick of his constant grunting when i ask him a question. It is like he is incapable of saying yes or no to a simple question. He is a terrible bus driver. He drives like he is on a race track.

I wouldn’t want to be obese so would do everything in my power to not be!

So do i. I always receive gifts that i don't really need for Christmas. I am always too polite to say anything.

I am sure alcoholics feel the same

Yes and it’s costing us a fortune.

I’d never admit what my husband and I get up to behind closed doors.

I bet the fad-followers who tattooed their necks wish they hadn't now.

Which presumably would include a jab to curb your psychological urge for food if you hadn't been able to control it any other way.

You've compared weight loss jabs to using performance enhancing drugs in competition, but it's a completely false equivalence because weight loss isn't a competition. You seem to think it is, but it isn't. All this shows is that you feel in competition with these people. You're not, though. Their medical treatments to help solve their weight and psychological problems are nothing to do with you or anyone else at all. It simply isn't a competition.

Same, plants should be living not dead/dying.

Thats why I never wanted bouquets.

I think that many of those claiming mental health issues are just lazy grifters

I have huge amounts of limerence and longing for a man I knew 20 years ago, I think I love/d him more than anyone I’ve ever met. When I see him occasionally my heart breaks and I wonder what it would have been like had I made different choices back then.

What is it about these elaborate cake bakers? I have tasted no less than THREE of these cakes this past year - all look amazing, like genuinely stunning, but taste of nothing. So incredibly bland. Why can these clearly talented (artisically) people baking them, not make them taste good too? Anyone know???

Just quoting you to stay relevant to the flower discussion.

I hate when people send flowers when a relative or friend has died.

Why would I want to put flowers in a vase and also watch them die as a reminder that my loved one has died?

And I get inundated by them. It's just like being surrounded by death!

I agree with this one, although would say "people love" rather than "women love". People who love true crime are ghoulish weirdos. There's that too.

I was a single mum (had a very generous maintenance agreement, more than I would have earned in a job) so there was no one I had to answer to. If I didn’t want to do housework that day I didn’t have to. I always enjoyed cooking for my kids though and loved when they came home from school there was the smell of baking pies and cakes etc. I don’t think a day went by in that sixteen years where I didn’t acknowledge to myself how much I loved not having to work.

well you have to tell us now?!

Surely that's defeating the point of this thread?! 😂

Outwardly, I’m politically tolerant, liberal & centrist. I voted Labour last year and Remain in 2016.

Inwardly, I hate what 25 years of uncontrolled mass immigration has done to this country. I hate the divisions & ghettoisation it has caused. I hate the fact that my local city has degenerated into a third world cesspit. I don’t blame the migrants themselves, although I don’t want to live anywhere near them. I blame the mainstream politicians for allowing it to happen. I will vote Reform at the next election, although I obviously won’t tell a soul IRL. There are millions like me.

My mum left the price sticker on our wedding anniversary card (and got the number of years wrong - it's 41, not "thirty-something", FFS!) and I was so annoyed that I tore the card into four pieces and hid it at the bottom of the recycling bin.

This is me. I find the whole thing fake, it's just made-up jollity, tinsel which is plastic crap, and nothing genuine to me. I see my family lots anyway, so it's a day with pressure for nothing. I would bypass it completely if I could by going on a holiday abroad, but the (older) children are very wedded to Christmas and I'll do it for them and be secretly happy on Boxing Day!

balls.

I loved my aunt (not even blood related, was my mum's brother's wife) more than I loved my own mum. Nothing wrong with my mum but my auntie was the person I loved the most in my life, after my children. We became really close after my mum died, so mum never knew how I felt. Both gone now but I miss my aunt all the time.

No. Benefits cheats are an incredibly small minority.

To answer OP, beautifully illustrated by the comment I responded to, I think people that read The Daily Mail/watch GB News and take whatever drivel and propaganda they are being fed as gospel are a bit dim and uneducated.

If I can see the clear attempts to incite hate and get us all fighting each other so we don’t look up at who is actually causing the problems, why can’t they?

It’s both bemusing and infuriating.

Another one, I think most boomers don’t have a grip on the reality that younger people face.
Most will dig their heels in and get furiously defensive if you dare point out how much easier it was to own a home when they were younger and seem to think if we all just cut our takeaways and Netflix and “work hard” we should be able to own our homes too.

It’s insulting and ridiculously out of touch.

We work incredibly hard, but sadly unless things change drastically with regards to wages and house prices, it’s never going to happen.

Wondering how long my comment lasts on boomer loving Mumsnet 🙄

We have a neighbour who does this... gross massive cupcakes with lollypops and haribos sticking out of icing. Straight in the bin.

…and the duvet cover needs washed

Those inadequate suicidal knobheads, chemical imbalance inbalance in their brains my arse. Those selfish twat's with PTSD, those drama queen, 5 stone anorexic teens and those lazy depressed men & women who have suffered decades of abuse and can no longer leave their homes. If only they could recognise how deeply inadequate they were, then the world would be a better place. Costing us a fortune the cheeky sods and damn all those psychiatrists with years of study and medical experience, hospitalising them, prescribing medication amd therapy that isn't required rather than listening to you two, silly little doctors.