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Original poster

to disagree with the persil definition of 'what is a mum'?

64 replies

stainesmassif · 08/04/2009 22:14

'someone who saves to buy a pretty hat and then spends the money on a cricket bat instead'........am definitely not buying persil now!

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FluffyBunnyGoneBad · 08/04/2009 22:15

I have never brought Persil. Does this not make me a mum?

KingCanuteIAm · 08/04/2009 22:16

'someone who uses Persil' how is it possible to define a Mum as someone who uses their own brand, what about the Ladies with children who use Fairy, what are they if not Mums?

Irritating advert, which is a shame as they have now ruined the "Awww MUuuUM" advert that always made me smile!

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stainesmassif · 08/04/2009 22:18

fluffy - presumably not!!

for some reason the words 'pretty hat' particularly grate with me

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AnnieLobePassoverSeder · 08/04/2009 22:19

Well this mum doesn't buy anything off companies who test on animals, which includes all the detergent manufacturers (hooray for soapnuts!), so I don't buy Persil anyway. But this annoying advert adds another reason!

BTW - have any of you ever saved to buy a pretty hat? Should I, if I am to stand any chance of being a proper mum?

IneedAbetterNickname · 08/04/2009 22:19

Thats means I'm not a Mum either, must have imagined them 2 babies I pushed out my chuff then

FluffyBunnyGoneBad · 08/04/2009 22:21

Well, ds is a bit too big to put back. Maybe Social services?

I'd rather have the hat by the way.

Shambolic · 08/04/2009 22:22

Pretty hat?

WTF?

How many women wear hats on a regular basis? It's not 1906. How odd.

paolosgirl · 08/04/2009 22:24

Have never bought a pretty hat or a cricket bat - but then again DD has informed me this week that I am the worst mother in the world, and did I know that? Persil is reinforcing what she has known all along - I am simply not the mum I should be.

DiamondHead · 08/04/2009 22:24

It's fairly unimaginative rhyming - 'Hat' and 'bat'.

Could they not think of anything better. Who here has ever saved for a hat, especially a 'pretty' one. Euurggh.

Perhaps the Mum decides she doesn't want the poxy hat, so buys a cricket bat for herself, leaves the washing and goes and plays for England ladies in Barbadoes.

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stainesmassif · 08/04/2009 22:24

it hadn't occured to me that maybe she's buying the cricket bat for herself.........that's not quite so bad.

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ShowOfHands · 08/04/2009 22:25

I wear hats all the time, but they're from charity shops mostly. No saving.

I'm so confused. Is dd mine? Did I imagine it?

muffle · 08/04/2009 22:26

Now you see I did think that on reading the OP . "She wanted a hat" I mused... "But she bought a bat - why? and what does it have to do with being a mum?"

Oh well, I use Fairy anyway.

Lilyloo · 08/04/2009 22:28

ooh yes i can only feel 100% mum if i am wearing a hat
FGS what is that all about , a hat ????????

paolosgirl · 08/04/2009 22:28

I like your thinking, Diamond! Perhaps that's it - perhaps she thinks "sod the lot of you, do your own bloody washing, I'm off to follow my dream and play cricket for England in Barbados as I should have done years ago, before I met and married your father and became the drudge you now see before you".

Yes, now that would make me buy Persil!

KingCanuteIAm · 08/04/2009 22:33

I have changed my mind! If Pesil is right and I am not actually a Mum then that must mean that I don't actually have to stay in at night with the dc and I have plenty of spare money so I could book myself a nice sunny, lazy cruise... See, great advert

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stainesmassif · 08/04/2009 22:42

Classic mumsnet, I was starting to think I'd posted my first safe YANBU, and it's a YABU after only 19 minutes!

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TheHedgeWitch · 08/04/2009 22:45

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Lilyloo · 08/04/2009 22:55

But a hat Hedge ????????????

pointydog · 08/04/2009 22:55

I would be upset if I did fit the persil definition of a mum

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stainesmassif · 08/04/2009 22:57

I don't think I'm being too literal. Obviously we all make sacrifices for our children. It is the tone of the advert that I object to. I understand that it's dated, and that it's making a selling point out of the longevity of the brand, but i object to a woman's highest aspiration being a 'pretty hat' regardless of the era.

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Original poster
stainesmassif · 08/04/2009 22:57

And now you've made me all serious!

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HecAteTheEasterBunny · 09/04/2009 16:30

I think they were tying it in with their ad campaigns over the years!

screamingabdab · 09/04/2009 16:34

I remember writing a poem for Mothers Day when I was about 10:

"A mother who loves you
A mother who cares
A mother who cleans
And dusts the chairs

A pretty mother
Yes it's true
I tell you mother
I love you"

AIBU to try and sell it to Persil for their next advert?

BouncingTurtle · 09/04/2009 17:51

Screamingabdab - it is far superior to the hat/bat thing. They need to look for new copywriters! I bet it was someone's kid who dreamed it up!

Obviously I too am not a mum as not only do I buy soapnuts, I sell 'em too! Perhaps this means that I am really this guy

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stainesmassif · 09/04/2009 18:11

Screamingabdab - what a memory!!!! and a poet!

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