Page 12 | People who feel completely alien to you…

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 2025-12-30T16:07:49+00:00

I’ll start - people who can’t wait to take the tree and decorations down on Boxing Day (or any time during the following very few days) and ‘have a really good clean’. 2nd (this’ll be popular on MN!) - people who don’t like dogs. 🐶❤️

Pricelessadvice · 31/12/2025 12:30

Religious people.
People who dislike animals.
People who have lip fillers and Botox.
People who watch shows like Love Island.

TheWelshposter · 31/12/2025 12:49

SconehengeRevenge · 30/12/2025 17:06

No insult meant, but anyone who genuinely believes in God or any other higher deity and who worships.

I'm glad people get comfort from these things, but to me it's akin with believing soap operas are real, or that they "know" a celebrity or a member of the Royal family because they've read stuff in a newspaper/a magazine/on a screen.

I've probably offended half of mn with this post. 🙈🙈🙈🙈
Sorry.

You all do you

Me too, I can't understand HOW people believe it. And I'm from a very religious family 😂

HelpMeGetThrough · 31/12/2025 13:02

I’ve just done alien things. All Christmas decorations down, tree out and cleaned the house.

Christmas can do one for another year.

SereneCoralExpert · 31/12/2025 13:08

People who can't stand spending time with their children, genuinely don't get it.

I am not talking about child-free evening out, or holidays when parents/ partner can babysit, god no. That's not even a luxury, I am the first to book my tickets 😂

But parents who try to get rid of their kids as much as they can: rudely try to dump them at any birthday party and run away, never attend their clubs to see them practicing their sport or hobby , people who hate going on holiday with their kids, all these, people who have no interest in their kid. The worst, the ones who prefer doing house chores than seeing their kids in sports event.

Each to their own, but it's properly alien to me. What's the point, if they absolutely have no interest in them at all?

kerstina · 31/12/2025 13:11

Agree with the decorations being taken down. Leave the lights up as long as possible please! Also anyone that doesn’t like animals.
Anyone that thrives on adventures and extreme sports and takes on lots of responsibilities in their daily lives. I am cautious by nature and gets stressed easily. I wish I was more like that though!
people who always have their nails done .
people who watch endless quiz shows.
people who still go out drinking in middle age.
people who love living in cities even though I live in one . I crave open spaces and the coast.

itstooorangeyforcrows · 31/12/2025 14:00

SereneCoralExpert · 31/12/2025 13:08

People who can't stand spending time with their children, genuinely don't get it.

I am not talking about child-free evening out, or holidays when parents/ partner can babysit, god no. That's not even a luxury, I am the first to book my tickets 😂

But parents who try to get rid of their kids as much as they can: rudely try to dump them at any birthday party and run away, never attend their clubs to see them practicing their sport or hobby , people who hate going on holiday with their kids, all these, people who have no interest in their kid. The worst, the ones who prefer doing house chores than seeing their kids in sports event.

Each to their own, but it's properly alien to me. What's the point, if they absolutely have no interest in them at all?

Absolutely. Plus all the whingeing about school holidays and expressions of relief when term starts again. Why have children if you don't want to spend time with them?

FuckRealityBringMeABook · 31/12/2025 14:01

People who think AI is great

itstooorangeyforcrows · 31/12/2025 14:01

MNLurker1345 · 31/12/2025 12:26

People who think Angela Rayner would make a good PM.

People who think any Tory PM in history has ever been good for the country.

RobertaFirmino · 31/12/2025 14:03

People who have babies (and I do include men in this) in disadvantageous circumstances.

Obviously, it is none of my business but privately, I just cannot understand why people do this.

TheaBrandt1 · 31/12/2025 14:08

What’s wrong with going out in middle age?! We’re over 40 (50) not dead?!

I feel people who curl up in a cardigan at 38 and ruefully laugh they they are “too old” for all sorts of things to be alien to me and depressing! I am 50 and love clubbing / dancing / going out.

lilacslipppers · 31/12/2025 14:14

People with enough money who have no interest in seeing the world.

Influencers, YouTubers and other non jobs. Women with endless pouty pics on social media.

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 31/12/2025 14:17

People who spend loads of money to go on holiday but then spend the whole time lying round a pool, never leaving the hotel or the all inclusive restaurant.

Why? Why go somewhere like Greece, or even Dubai, and not sample the local culture and food? There is so much to see in the world and so much cuisine to sample.

Sparklesandspandexgallore · 31/12/2025 14:25

Serencoral how could you possibly know that not one single person you know has been sexually assaulted by a male.

SereneCoralExpert · 31/12/2025 14:47

Sparklesandspandexgallore · 31/12/2025 14:25

Serencoral how could you possibly know that not one single person you know has been sexually assaulted by a male.

who said that, and where?

Or did you completely fail to understand what people close enough to have these discussions with means?

Do you talk about sexual abuse, and sex in general with every single female you meet?

Blueuggboots · 31/12/2025 15:07

People who believe that TWAW…

pinkyredrose · 31/12/2025 15:12

the80sweregreat · 30/12/2025 18:08

People who like having tattoos and men who like beards ( which is most of my own relatives! )
I am told I’m boring , but I don’t see the point of having things drawn on you and paying a fortune for the privilege. Especially if it’s a tattoo on your back , you can’t even see it that well yourself !
Baffles me.

What's the point of styling the back of your hair when you can't see it?

cheerfulaf · 31/12/2025 15:19

People who can’t park

Imlyingandthatsthetruth · 31/12/2025 15:26

People who don't seem to be able to understand that if someone is two feet away from them you don't have to shout at them to be heard. See also use of mobile phones.

Sparklesandspandexgallore · 31/12/2025 16:06

Serenecoral oh that’s fair enough. I misread your post.

SereneCoralExpert · 31/12/2025 16:30

Sparklesandspandexgallore · 31/12/2025 16:06

Serenecoral oh that’s fair enough. I misread your post.

no worries. It would be a great world to live in, but no, I am not that blind!

ABeerInTheSunshineMakesMeHappy · 31/12/2025 16:32

Thepeopleversuswork · 30/12/2025 17:53

@Rosamutabilis

People who didn’t go to university?

That’s pretty judgmental and small minded, a lot of people can’t afford it. Also needlessly self limiting. A degree doesn’t automatically render someone intelligent or interesting. Increasingly these days it’s a marker of inert privilege and lack of any clearer idea of what to do.

And I speak as someone with two degrees about to embark on a third.

And for anyone who left school in the early 80s, there really wasn’t the same expectation as there is today.

ABeerInTheSunshineMakesMeHappy · 31/12/2025 16:45

looselegs · 30/12/2025 19:12

The Disney thing.....someone I know goes to Disneyland Paris at least 3 times a year, with her daughter, as well as a Disney cruise. My friend is 63, her daughter is 35. They count the sleeps on Facebook until they go, dress up in Disney clothes- complete with MM ears- and post pics about the activities they're doing. Including pics of MM kissing them on the cheeks. HE'S NOT REAL!!!
I just don't get it...

Yeah … that is weird! Harmless, but definitely odd.

Rosamutabilis · 31/12/2025 18:08

ABeerInTheSunshineMakesMeHappy · 31/12/2025 16:32

And for anyone who left school in the early 80s, there really wasn’t the same expectation as there is today.

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That really does depend on your background though. I did A levels in 1982, oldest child, and there was absolutely an expectation from my parents and wider family and schools that my siblings and I would go to university. I don't recall that there was ever a thought or suggestion that we wouldn't.

But my parents, aunts and uncles had all gone themselves in the fifties so it would have been strange if their children hadn't.

Out of my sixth form only a tiny handful didn't go, I remember one very religious girl got married, another went to finishing school and another became an upmarket nanny. Everyone else went to university.

ABeerInTheSunshineMakesMeHappy · 31/12/2025 20:10

That’s interesting @Rosamutabilis and making me think now. I’m a similar age to you. My parents were both teachers (Teacher Training College rather than uni in those days) and I know my mum would have liked me to have gone to university. I had no interest, which was perhaps due to the friends I had within school. I didn’t stay on to school sixth form but went to Further Education College, where it was more the norm for leavers to go into work or to Polytechnic.

The majority of my working life has been in Public Service Admin, and none of my colleagues of my generation had a degree. However, anyone starting now who is under 35 invariably is degree educated. Another poster who said they knew nobody with a degree, was speaking of friends with jobs such as shop work or hospitality, and yet I know youngsters (the children of my friends) who are doing these roles, yet have graduated a few years back, couldn’t find anything in the area they had hoped, took on a role initially as a stop gap, but have remained doing it. Hence why in my life I tend to see a difference in education levels for different age groups.

My brother went to Uni though, and I would say that more of his friends have a degree.

Dontlletmedownbruce · 31/12/2025 20:14

People who get up early to exercise

People who watch reality TV without irony

People who still don't realise everything on SM is potentially fake

People who can't cope with lighthearted threads on MN and get all huffy and offended because someone speaks generally but they assume it's a personal attack

Shy people who don't get over it and become rude people, using their childhood shyness as an excuse.