To ask for an opinion you wouldn't say out loud for fear of judgement? (Inoffensive and light hearted please)

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Weather men and women should be sexy.

I don't care if youre a meteorological prodigy

I don’t have a tv licence but subscribe to Netflix. I don’t understand the issue?

I live in a very ordinary town, My neighbour is proudly working class. His wife bought him a personalised number plate that very nearly spells his name. Every time I see it, I smile and think how much she loves him

Hmm. You’ve never lived under an SNP government have you? Stupid MSPs voted in by Stupid voters.

Your ‘cocker-poo’ or ‘shite- a- doodle’ is just an extremely over priced mongrel

Workplaces don’t need endless ‘networks’ to encourage us to be nice to LGB people, trans people, women, BAME people, disabled people, people of other religions etc. weed out twats at interview stage and sweep all of the patronising network nonsense into the bin immediately. I go to work to do my job (finance technology), not talk about menopause / Eid / the wind rush generation etc, etc.

that was going to be my 3rd opinion but then I forgot

Personalised number plates are the bestest way ever to make sure you never put the wrong number into a parking machine again.

Plus they cost £250, so I'm not exactly showing my wealth 🤣

Well I haven't lived under an SNP government so can't comment on that but I like the idea that an opinion is an amalgam of facts as seen through the lens of an individual's education and life experiences so two people can hold different opinions without either one of them being stupid

Yep, I have a friend who is on benefits and PIP, and he has a car on the Motability scheme. He had a personalised number plate on it, and it follows every car he has.

Wrong thread 🙃

Hen parties abroad or that cost over £100 should be banned

Fuck yes. And a SPAG test.

The following things irrationally irritate me and I'm sure they will be unpopular:

People who speak in non-rhotic accents who then come online and try to explain how to pronounce things, but get their transcription wrong because they have no idea what an "r" properly sounds like, e.g. someone said "lar-tay" earlier in the thread. Nobody is putting a "r" in the middle of that word. They meant an elongated "a" sound, and the reason they've done that is because they don't pronounce the "r" at the end of words like "car", so have a different concept of what an "r" sounds like (I studied this phenomenon in uni and it pissed me off then, too).

Also, bloody Julia Dondalson books where she does shit like rhyme "scarf" with "laugh". I was so utterly confused by how TF those words could rhyme that I concluded she must pronounce "laugh" as "larf".

People saying "father (favva/fahtha) Christmas" irrationally angers me as well. But not as much as the insistence on Mumsnet that Santa is an American import. I'm Irish and it's always been Santa. Father Christmas was invented because the English thought Santa/Saint Nicholas was too Catholic.

In the south west scarf and laugh rhyme very nicely.

When someone says “I asked chatGPT” ,
I immediately lose respect for them.

It said light-hearted! To room 101 with you 😁

Guess which author writes Santa? Nancy Milford! I think it was in love in a cold climate but I distinctly remember my surprise. So there we are, not chavvy or American!

Yesssss.

When someone posts a response full of bullet points and AI generated waffle I don't even read it any more.

I couldn't work it out at all until I saw the animated version! Skaaf is baffling to me 🤣

Some are hilarious.

A person in our street has one which I'm sure they think says DR IlFAT. However there is a gap between I and F, so it reads like DR II FAT, or with roman numerals DR 2 FAT, and I chuckle every time I see it.

There's nothing on live TV i want to watch, so I don't pay for it

I’m so glad you said this much more eloquently than I could have.
There’s definitely an attitude I’ve come across on here that there’s only one correct way to speak and that’s with a very specific English accent.

Baffling especially when they’re like “oh I plugged this into ChatGPT and here’s what it said” and then they paste exactly what you said, some long winded bullet pointed thing answering the question “what should I do about my neighbour being mean” or something. Same as you, I immediately scroll past. Ughhh

They are designed so that if you're going at an appropriate speed, you shouldn't need to slow down. Sorry but it absolutely does my head in when someone roars off between humps then jams their foot on the brake unnecessarily!

Birkenstocks are the ugliest shoes ever and don’t look good on anyone.