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

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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?

Intentionally offensive or unthinkingly racist?

Treating your 21 year old child like a grown adult.

Has anyone said Dryrobes?

Women. Of which this thread is ample proof.

Actually, scrub that. We are not particularly popular in the offline world either. And yes, Mumsnetters are real people who do exist offline, and who don't somehow magically change our tastes and beliefs the minute we log onto the www.

Eeeuch.....can't think of anything more naff, expensive ones or cheapie inflatables.

Really? I thought it was common knowledge what UPF stands for.

Yes !

I'm tired of posts telling us that youngsters are still children until they're 18 (and in fact, can be excused all kinds of crimes because their brains have not matured until they're 25...🙄), but suddenly, on the eve of their 18th birthday, they transform into adults and you can then expect them to support themselves financially, do all their own life admin, travel the world alone and take complete responsibility for their lives. You can even chuck them out of the house!

It's quite phenomenal what happens on that particular night.

I would also like to add 'not cooking from scratch.' On Mumsnet it seems to be like a deathly sin to use ready meals/microwave meals/frozen food. In real life, most people actually use them.

You don’t hear much good of men on MN but then people in happy relationships don’t tend to post about it.

See slso 'Can I leave my 18.year old and my 15 year old on their own for an evening?'

LOL! For sure. Some women here get very frothy at the mention of them, like the woman who felt 'violated' because some man had said good morning to her when getting on the train carriage, and the one who felt that single men with rucksacks shouldn't be allowed in parks / woods (so she followed him).

don’t have them a lot but M&S ready meals (like liver and bacon with mash) save me cooking a whole dinner or doing a whole pot then freezing or putting in fridge. I live by myself and sometimes boyfriend stays over so cook for him but otherwise they’re easy, sometimes.

Obviously.

But there do seem to be MN viewpoints that I don't encounter elsewhere. An example would be the paranoia about wearing anything vaguely light-coloured to a wedding. I've never heard that anywhere but on MN.

Trust me his bedroom is being decorated atm and then he’ll share with his younger brother bunk beds this summer. It is ridiculous. But knowing MN I’d be told to keep my beak out if I posted about it on here. He rarely stays with me unless in my bed. I’ve got a perfectly good spare room for him!

But equally if you dare to buy your 18 year old a rucksack for university you get pilloried. I wish I could find the thread again - it was mad. Buying your adult child something is babying them apparently. So what am I doing if I buy my mum a present 😂

Basic respect for diversity.

Another MN mantra is 'It's none of your business!'

Well, some things might not be our business, but usually this refers to something that definitely IS! Like the next door neighbour filling their garden with what is basically landfill rubbish so that rats take up residence, or having sex in the garden. I've seen examples of these claims on here.

If it affects you then it is your business on some level. That doesn't mean you can always do much about it, I admit!

My real life experience is that people often don't think a man can snap his fingers an become a woman but it doesn't really affect them so let people define themselves ho they want

Really?

As the thread has moved on, and the OP has posted more, perhaps. But from the outset, her view of 'sensible' was not defined. My view of 'sensible' is my view - and her view is her view. The two could be/are very likely to be very different. As PP have said, it is a subjective statement.

I have no problem with how this is expressed.

WTAF is A sensible political stance just kicked off a load of bickering, which I think was the intention.

It is a bit tiresome when someone nitpicks part of an OP and then several pages later an enjoyable thread has been impeded on.

Artificial lawns. I’ve seen them a lot in real life and online, but they are hated on Mumsnet (by people who presumably wear plastic clothes and use disposable coffee mugs, and fly on holiday).

Some of the wedding dress code threads are utterly batshit.

The world of wedding etiquette around clothes is alien to me: I thought this was a windup when I first read people asking if someone would be offended if they wore cream or light blue…

Who has time to worry about stuff like this?

Ditto.

I don’t hear much of bad men on here either. Or rather far more posters seem to be married than those who post about being married to / in relationships with terrible men. Seems more neutral than anything else.

Pot and kettle spring to mind.