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What’s disliked on Mumsnet but very popular in everyday life?

645 replies

coulditbeme2323 · Yesterday 10:25

What's hated on MN, but insanely popular in real life?

Disney World
Starbucks, Costa, Nero etc
Center Parcs
A sensible political stance
McDonald's

What else?

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coulditbeme2323 · Yesterday 14:53

Differentforgirls · Yesterday 14:52

It does mean that! What other possible thing could it mean. A BATH room. Plus, are you actually saying that I'm insane and belligerent for disagreeing with you?

Why don't you just come out and say you are pro trans people?

I have made my position clear, why not makes yours.

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MrFluffyDogIsMyBestFriend · Yesterday 14:54

HotEgg · Yesterday 11:10

So bored of the dogs are mean, dogs are scary, dogs are dirty, dog bit me for no reason at all, a random child and an elderly man whilst we were just sat there in our Bentley and minding our own business posts.......

And the person who appears at every mention of a dog to tell the poster that there house smells and that they are nose blind to it.

Differentforgirls · Yesterday 14:55

coulditbeme2323 · Yesterday 14:53

Why don't you just come out and say you are pro trans people?

I have made my position clear, why not makes yours.

You haven't made your position clear as you haven't explained what a "public" bathroom is. You've just called me "insane" and "belligerent" which says more about you than me tbh.

coulditbeme2323 · Yesterday 14:56

Differentforgirls · Yesterday 14:55

You haven't made your position clear as you haven't explained what a "public" bathroom is. You've just called me "insane" and "belligerent" which says more about you than me tbh.

As you well know a bathroom is also another word for a toilet.

So let me ask do you support trans people or not?

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MasterBeth · Yesterday 15:02

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WoollyHeadedMammoth · Yesterday 15:02

women routinely putting up with boorish behaviour from men

women being expected to be disproportionately or performatively "kind", to their own detriment

inegalitarian divisions of household/family labour

casual misogyny left unchallenged

extramarital affairs

Americanisms

coulditbeme2323 · Yesterday 15:02

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corblimeygvnr · Yesterday 15:06

CharlotteStreetW1 · Yesterday 14:40

Imagine the double horror of a workman using your toilet and you not having a toilet brush... 😄💩

Or a poo knife

happygreenscissors · Yesterday 15:08

igelkott2026 · Yesterday 14:43

The middle lane sitting thing isn't just an MN thing, but it's massively overstated as a problem.

The other day I saw two people nearly cause crashes because they were trying to make a point to "middle lane sitters". Neither of them were middle lane sitters.

The first was in the second lane because the first lane was a slip road off the M25. Car is in middle lane. Another car comes whizzing along the third lane, cuts right across the car in the middle lane and straight into the inside lane - and nearly collides with a car which is joining the motorway. The car in the middle lane was NOT middle lane sitting and they're not going into the slip road to appease the hysterical people.

With the second incident, there were two lorries fairly close together. Car pulls over and overtakes first one and stays in middle lane to overtake second one. There is a small gap. Know-it-all car comes along, overtakes car, whizzes across into inside lane, pulls out straight away when realises lorry is there (how didn't it see it) and nearly collides with van pulling in from third lane.

I would strongly suggest that the middle lane sitter haters concentrate on their own driving. Middle lane sitters are not dangerous - the drivers who react badly to them are the dangerous ones. Everyone is in control of their own driving.

Middle lane sitters are not dangerous
they are? If you are trying to defend them, you must not be the safe driver you think you are.

There's a reason why it's illegal. You can't defend it because it IS dangerous, and lazy at best. If you can drive on the motorway, I am sure you have the ability to go back on the "slow" lane.

It's not overstated at all, so much so that police over many countries are stepping up and increasing measures to put a stop to it.

Is it a pride thing? Do people feel embarrassed for some weird reasons?

Marmalademorning · Yesterday 15:11

Differentforgirls · Yesterday 13:55

You are one of the obsessed types I referred to. I didn't know we still had public bathrooms btw.

Edited

If not wanting my 9 year old daughter alone in a public toilet with a grown man wearing a dress and pretending to be a woman makes me obsessed, then so be it.

coulditbeme2323 · Yesterday 15:11

Marmalademorning · Yesterday 15:11

If not wanting my 9 year old daughter alone in a public toilet with a grown man wearing a dress and pretending to be a woman makes me obsessed, then so be it.

Bigot!!!!

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MNLurker1345 · Yesterday 15:11

NewspaperTaxis · Yesterday 11:30

David Tennant.

Dislike him on MN, dislike him IRL, dislike him on TV. Dislike him so much have come out of my MN posting holiday to post this!

Differentforgirls · Yesterday 15:16

coulditbeme2323 · Yesterday 14:56

As you well know a bathroom is also another word for a toilet.

So let me ask do you support trans people or not?

Ah. So not a bathroom then. And certainly not a public one. Just a name someone calls a minging public toilet. Which has, suddenly, over the last two or three years, become a bastion of safety for women who wash their knickers in the PUBLIC sink. 62 years old and I have yet to witness that thankfully.

I wonder why we all went to the loo with a pal back in the day? It wasn't because of men. It was because of other women claiming you either looked at them "funny" or fancied the weirdo they were out with.

Also, if I am in a changing room at the sports centre, I have absolutely no interest in seeing some strange woman stark naked. Like it or not, that makes ME uncomfortable.

I supported gay people in the 70s and 80s. I never want to witness what those young men suffered during the AIDS epidemic again, but I'm seeing it now.

So yes, I support trans people. They make no difference to my life whatsoever. But my support may make a difference to theirs.

Nowthatshuge · Yesterday 15:17
  • People In general but yeah men
  • anyones own opinion
  • anyone willing to work through issues in a relationship rather just leave
  • hen dos
  • weddings
  • teachers
Holdonforsummer · Yesterday 15:24

Men

coulditbeme2323 · Yesterday 15:24

Differentforgirls · Yesterday 15:16

Ah. So not a bathroom then. And certainly not a public one. Just a name someone calls a minging public toilet. Which has, suddenly, over the last two or three years, become a bastion of safety for women who wash their knickers in the PUBLIC sink. 62 years old and I have yet to witness that thankfully.

I wonder why we all went to the loo with a pal back in the day? It wasn't because of men. It was because of other women claiming you either looked at them "funny" or fancied the weirdo they were out with.

Also, if I am in a changing room at the sports centre, I have absolutely no interest in seeing some strange woman stark naked. Like it or not, that makes ME uncomfortable.

I supported gay people in the 70s and 80s. I never want to witness what those young men suffered during the AIDS epidemic again, but I'm seeing it now.

So yes, I support trans people. They make no difference to my life whatsoever. But my support may make a difference to theirs.

Ok so we are miles apart.

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Northermcharn · Yesterday 15:25

Northermcharn · Yesterday 14:07

@ghostofchristmaspasta Today 13:35
I don’t care what anyone does with their own body, and support the right to present yourself however you like.

Do you think it ok for men to steal women's places in sport, women's scholarships, to be naked in changing rooms with young girls, to wank off in ladies toilets?

Btw - it's not 'trans issues' - it's women's rights issues.

FloridaCheese · Yesterday 15:26

Being polite to strangers

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · Yesterday 15:26

Answering the door.

GreenCaterpillarOnALeaf · Yesterday 15:27

Honestly one thing I’ve noticed is that no one here has ever tried drugs. Not even a spliff at uni. Pretty much everyone I know irl has done drugs including my mum and dad (65 and 72), I believe my grandad also partook in some cannabis to “see what all the fuss was about”. I’m not saying it’s good or bad, but pretty much across all my social circles (school friends who are very much working class, uni friends who were mostly middle class/upper middle class, and older people who I know) people have tried or experimented with drugs - so it’s not just me associating with some kind of criminal underclass.

One distinction though is my school friends did drugs in the UK where it’s illegal, a lot of my “posher” uni mates would go to Amsterdam to do it ect. To be honest most of them wouldn’t have known how to pick up and probably would have got scammed if I’m honest.

Northermcharn · Yesterday 15:29

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · Yesterday 15:26

Answering the door.

Answering the phone

moose17 · Yesterday 15:32

Men
happy marriages

CynicalSunni · Yesterday 15:33

A 15 minute shower
Have read a few times on here it's unreasonable and 5 minutes should do you.

And softplays seem to be the fifth circle of hell full of screaming children. The ones i go to dont seem that bad

GreenGrass555 · Yesterday 15:34

coulditbeme2323 · Yesterday 10:30

You haven't noticed MN is absurdly liberal, if you haven't I suspect you are probably one of them!

It just isn't. It represents a variety of viewpoints. People always assume their own demographic bubble is just 'the norm' and everything else is an outlier.

Cherry8809 · Yesterday 15:41

Men having the smallest amount of free will.

“Letting” or “allowing” DP to do something they’d like to do.

Another woman breathing too close to DP.

Not being a +1 to an event DP is invited to.