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The official Childfree on MN bingo card

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ItsNotRocketSalad · 29/06/2023 23:44

We have 24 squares to fill. What lines get trotted out on every thread that discusses the child free?

My suggestions:

  1. You'll need my children to be your carers when you're old
  2. Only parents understand real love
  3. Childfree people shouldn't take annual leave in school holidays
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musixa · 05/07/2023 16:25

JorisBonson · 05/07/2023 16:09

Speaking of summer holidays upthread, I have just had an operation date moved (due to strikes) and will now be off work for 2 weeks in the summer. Got asked by my manager if I could change my operation date to September because a lot of people with children have August holidays. I laughed.

For context, I have never taken time off during school holidays in my entire working life.

FFS. I hope you laughed long and hard.

Florissante · 05/07/2023 16:45

And then said "No".

KimberleyClark · 05/07/2023 18:09

JorisBonson · 05/07/2023 16:09

Speaking of summer holidays upthread, I have just had an operation date moved (due to strikes) and will now be off work for 2 weeks in the summer. Got asked by my manager if I could change my operation date to September because a lot of people with children have August holidays. I laughed.

For context, I have never taken time off during school holidays in my entire working life.

Dear god that’s appalling. Wonder what the responses would be if you started a thread in AIBU about it.

fitzwilliamdarcy · 05/07/2023 18:18

@KimberleyClark ”Since you’re off, you could offer to babysit the kids to help your colleagues out?”

I agree though, appalling. Hope you told them where to go @JorisBonson!

Cakesandbabes · 05/07/2023 19:02

fitzwilliamdarcy · 05/07/2023 18:18

@KimberleyClark ”Since you’re off, you could offer to babysit the kids to help your colleagues out?”

I agree though, appalling. Hope you told them where to go @JorisBonson!

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You are probably joking but I would believe it.
Someone said ln a thread about housing that one of the posters , landlord, or was it OP, should just give house to the tenants. If I remember correctly it was not a joke.
So I van totally imagone this 😂

StellaAndCrow · 05/07/2023 21:27

Thank you to whoever derailed the thread and so brought about so many delightful animal pictures! :)

Catsmere · 05/07/2023 22:48

TrundleWheel76 · 05/07/2023 09:40

We have 5 others as well. They're great, really entertaining, and each one has a definite personality. And the fresh eggs are delish!

Although they're not cute and fluffy like they are often portrayed, they will happily fly at you and land on your back/shoulder/head if they think you have a treat for them. 🤣

My OH and I call them 'the attack birds'.

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CleverLilViper · 31/07/2023 08:46

Oh, so many bingos, so little time (and squares!)

I love the "You don't know real tiredness until/unless you have kids," because it's such a pointless attempt at owning people. Oh, so you want the monopoly on being tired? Ok, then, but what's the prize? A lifetime supply of sleeping pills? It's such an oddly competitive thing about complete nonsense.

I like to think of people who say things like that as martyrs. It's particularly odd because it's often said in response to someone merely stating that they feel tired that day. Not a person who has signed themselves up to play the tiredness Olympics.

"It's different when they're your own." And what if it's not, Brenda? Is there some refund or returns policy that I don't know about when it turns out that it's not different?

"You don't know real love until you have kids." I appreciate that the love a parent has for their child is unique and special. I do. I think it has to be or else people wouldn't shoot out multiple children and wouldn't go through all the struggle for their kids. However, people without kids know real love and are capable of real love. Also, it doesn't really make any sense. Are they saying that their kids don't really love them until they, themselves, have kids as until that point, they don't know real love?

It's frustrating that even on a CF board we have people who are not CF coming over with the express purpose of derailing our threads. If anything, they simply proved a lot of the points that have been made about how the CF are treated.

blacknredsweeties · 31/07/2023 11:05

Why waste your time talking about why you don't want children. This is the childfree board.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 31/07/2023 11:21

blacknredsweeties · 31/07/2023 11:05

Why waste your time talking about why you don't want children. This is the childfree board.

I can't think of a more appropriate topic for the childfree board than sharing how you came to that decision, can you?

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 31/07/2023 11:25

"You don't know real love until you have kids."

Has anyone actually defined this 'real love' and what it looks like?

It's frustrating that even on a CF board we have people who are not CF coming over with the express purpose of derailing our threads

Like telling us what we shouldn't be wasting our time discussing 🙄

GrannyWeatherwaxsHatpin · 31/07/2023 11:28

blacknredsweeties · 31/07/2023 11:05

Why waste your time talking about why you don't want children. This is the childfree board.

And that little gem followed a post which ended "It's frustrating that even on a CF board we have people who are not CF coming over with the express purpose of derailing our threads."

The irony.

blacknredsweeties · 31/07/2023 11:31

They are constantly on actives.
We get you don't want kids but you seem to enjoy taking the mick out of parents.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 31/07/2023 11:35

blacknredsweeties · 31/07/2023 11:31

They are constantly on actives.
We get you don't want kids but you seem to enjoy taking the mick out of parents.

Evidence required for that assertion.

You don't HAVE to post just because it's on active, you know. I manage to refrain from posting on all sorts of topics that appear on there but that don't concern/interest me.

GrannyWeatherwaxsHatpin · 31/07/2023 11:41

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 31/07/2023 11:35

Evidence required for that assertion.

You don't HAVE to post just because it's on active, you know. I manage to refrain from posting on all sorts of topics that appear on there but that don't concern/interest me.

Quite.

Current active topics include: tonsillitis, being overdue, bungalows, the name 'Olive', ULEZ, the women's World Cup, a house purchase in Scotland and cockapoos.

None of which I know anything about or have a particular interest in, so I haven't clicked on them let alone decided to add my two penn'orth to.

Cakesandbabes · 31/07/2023 11:48

There are two from here on active and you have to scroll quite down anyway 🙄 just checked

JorisBonson · 31/07/2023 11:49

blacknredsweeties · 31/07/2023 11:31

They are constantly on actives.
We get you don't want kids but you seem to enjoy taking the mick out of parents.

Please show where in this forum we have "taken the mick" out of parents?

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 31/07/2023 11:51

As for those alleged comments about parents - I'm 69 and regarded as old on here and verging on senility because of it. Some of the posts about people my age and older are downright unpleasant, not just 'taking the mick.'

Still, look forward to examples of the comments you're citing, @blacknredsweeties

meatbaseddessert · 31/07/2023 11:55

@GrannyWeatherwaxsHatpin on the contrary. I have entered the Cockapoo thread and made it clear that 'THIS IS MUMSNET. YOU KNOW MUM S NET. NOT COCKAPOOPOONET! WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE??!'

Ive also told the ULEZ thread that I don't live in London but it doesn't sound like a problem to me and they should all stop posting. Duh!

Catsmere · 31/07/2023 11:59

meatbaseddessert · 31/07/2023 11:55

@GrannyWeatherwaxsHatpin on the contrary. I have entered the Cockapoo thread and made it clear that 'THIS IS MUMSNET. YOU KNOW MUM S NET. NOT COCKAPOOPOONET! WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE??!'

Ive also told the ULEZ thread that I don't live in London but it doesn't sound like a problem to me and they should all stop posting. Duh!

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meatbaseddessert · 31/07/2023 12:06

Anyone who froths about 'love like no other', 'you don't know true love until you have children' I nod sagely at them and smile.

I then explain that will be the extraordinary cocktail of powerful brain chemicals and hormones that are an evolutionary left over to ensure that you don't leave the kid in a shop or simply walk away from the relentless hell that is child rearing. It's the same chemicals that will flood your brain with opioids that allow you garner super human strength and resilience to crawl 3 miles to the nearest road and signal for help if you had your legs chopped off in a freak combine harvester incident.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 31/07/2023 12:07

We get you don't want kids

If only you did. If only you'd stop making it an issue. If only you'd stop treating us as not quite adult because we don't have them. If only you'd stop poking your noses into our space with useless comments.

Who's 'we,' BTW?

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 31/07/2023 12:10

I then explain that will be the extraordinary cocktail of powerful brain chemicals and hormones that are an evolutionary left over to ensure that you don't leave the kid in a shop or simply walk away from the relentless hell that is child rearing

That's why babies are cute and cuddly, with goofy smiles and big eyes. To make parents go 'aaaahhhhh' and bond with them rather than thinking 'WTF have I done?' instead DMs remember the hormone rush of love and not the pain.

Cakesandbabes · 31/07/2023 12:19

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 31/07/2023 12:10

I then explain that will be the extraordinary cocktail of powerful brain chemicals and hormones that are an evolutionary left over to ensure that you don't leave the kid in a shop or simply walk away from the relentless hell that is child rearing

That's why babies are cute and cuddly, with goofy smiles and big eyes. To make parents go 'aaaahhhhh' and bond with them rather than thinking 'WTF have I done?' instead DMs remember the hormone rush of love and not the pain.

Yeah. It's so we don't eat kids and actually go on to have another. My mum also said she doesn't remember the pain basically, just the hormone rush. Evolution is amazing in this way!

ItsNotRocketSalad · 31/07/2023 12:57

That's why babies are cute and cuddly, with goofy smiles and big eyes.

That's a matter of opinion. To me they look like elderly wizards or misshapen blobs. Grin

(Oops, there go the child-hating childfree on their board of bitterness and envy!)

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