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To think that middle aged women are really a bit pointless?

849 replies

Hullygully · 21/10/2011 12:06

What is the point of them?

Really?

OP posts:
TheVermiciousKnid · 21/10/2011 13:38

apostrophes
the rspca
parish mags
ecco
woollen mill
kittens
petunias (nasty flowers)
Alan Titchmarsh, Aled Jones, David Essex, Michael Ball and Pip Schofield
bingo
wicker baskets
waitrose
country living
she
chicken shaped things
Doctors on ITV (poss itv altogether)
Peachy's MIL
Mumsnet
People who take threads like this seriously
RHS and NT
Coach tours
tins of biscuits
odd spec cases
List obsession
Last night of the proms
Countryfile
WI
Cardigans
pop socks
Lakeland
Past Times
All charity shops (no volunteers you see)
Garden centres
Good Housekeeping
All Antique shops
Complan
Artic rolls and caramac
Quality Street
Babycham, advocat and Dubonnet
Gin and tonic, scotch on the rocks
Imperial Leather soap
Crocheted special list manager cardigans (unless they are for Hully)
Elaine Page
Tutting
People who can't spell 'Elaine Paige'
Tea cosies
John Barrowman
Per Una
Antique Jugs
Cat Ornaments
Actual Cats
Fun cat cartoons
Cat tea cosies
Fun cat greeting cards
Proudnscary, Pagwatch and other people who don't know how to make lists properly
Things that fold up to go in your handbag like plastic hats and reusable bags
Hurumphing
Gold stickers with your name on
Voluminous linen outfits
Danish spectacles?
Novelty egg cups
Cliff Richard!
Coach tours
Zumba
Homemade birthday cards
Peppermint tea
acrobiotic aerobic class hmm
Holidays in Portugal and Madeira
Golf clubs
People who play golf
All things remotely to do with golfing
Waterfall cardigans
Tapered slacks
Court shoes
Novels with sploshy watercolours on the front cover
Missing The Point
Snorting
Proudnscary (again)
Branflakes
Womans Own
Immodium
Watching Eggheads
Having a sustainable
Baking lots of pies
Doing long distance walks.
Teenaged children
Ski holidays
Festivals
Dogs
Horses
Hillwalking
Climbing trips
Drinking too much wine with your mates
Days out riding rollercoasters with the kids
Dying your grey hair blonde
Hot sex with boyfriend without the worry of pregnancy
Doing the above whilst still holding down a full time job
Phillipa Gregory novels
Book clubs
Scholls
Organiser handbags
Battenburg and Madeira cake
David Attenborough programmes
Lists
Things that are 'wipe clean'
Hats on parcel shelves
People who skip
People who are unfettered by lists
Fitflops
Flipflops
People who don't know what Fitplops are
Boots No 7
Suepurbly
Slippers
Fitplops
People who know what fitplops are
The Archers (grudgingly)
Werthers
Sucking

Pagwatch · 21/10/2011 13:38

Judge Judy

JajasWjolef · 21/10/2011 13:38

Why does Cliff get an !

TheVermiciousKnid · 21/10/2011 13:39

apostrophes
the rspca
parish mags
ecco
woollen mill
kittens
petunias (nasty flowers)
Alan Titchmarsh, Aled Jones, David Essex, Michael Ball and Pip Schofield
bingo
wicker baskets
waitrose
country living
she
chicken shaped things
Doctors on ITV (poss itv altogether)
Peachy's MIL
Mumsnet
People who take threads like this seriously
RHS and NT
Coach tours
tins of biscuits
odd spec cases
List obsession
Last night of the proms
Countryfile
WI
Cardigans
pop socks
Lakeland
Past Times
All charity shops (no volunteers you see)
Garden centres
Good Housekeeping
All Antique shops
Complan
Artic rolls and caramac
Quality Street
Babycham, advocat and Dubonnet
Gin and tonic, scotch on the rocks
Imperial Leather soap
Crocheted special list manager cardigans (unless they are for Hully)
Elaine Page
Tutting
People who can't spell 'Elaine Paige'
Tea cosies
John Barrowman
Per Una
Antique Jugs
Cat Ornaments
Actual Cats
Fun cat cartoons
Cat tea cosies
Fun cat greeting cards
Proudnscary, Pagwatch and other people who don't know how to make lists properly
Things that fold up to go in your handbag like plastic hats and reusable bags
Hurumphing
Gold stickers with your name on
Voluminous linen outfits
Danish spectacles?
Novelty egg cups
Cliff Richard!
Coach tours
Zumba
Homemade birthday cards
Peppermint tea
acrobiotic aerobic class hmm
Holidays in Portugal and Madeira
Golf clubs
People who play golf
All things remotely to do with golfing
Waterfall cardigans
Tapered slacks
Court shoes
Novels with sploshy watercolours on the front cover
Missing The Point
Snorting
Proudnscary (again)
Branflakes
Womans Own
Immodium
Watching Eggheads
Having a sustainable
Baking lots of pies
Doing long distance walks.
Teenaged children
Ski holidays
Festivals
Dogs
Horses
Hillwalking
Climbing trips
Drinking too much wine with your mates
Days out riding rollercoasters with the kids
Dying your grey hair blonde
Hot sex with boyfriend without the worry of pregnancy
Doing the above whilst still holding down a full time job
Phillipa Gregory novels
Book clubs
Scholls
Organiser handbags
Battenburg and Madeira cake
David Attenborough programmes
Lists
Things that are 'wipe clean'
Hats on parcel shelves
People who skip
People who are unfettered by lists
Fitflops
Flipflops
People who don't know what Fitplops are
Boots No 7
Suepurbly
Slippers
Fitplops
People who know what fitplops are
The Archers (grudgingly)
Werthers
Sucking
Judge Judy
People who would Shock fuck the list
Exclamation marks
Silly questions

Proudnscary · 21/10/2011 13:40

Clapping hands while dancing

Proudnscary · 21/10/2011 13:40

Whooping while clapping hands while dancing

Bloodredrubyblue · 21/10/2011 13:41

Hands up who knows (without Googling) who J Campbell Kerr is.

This will sort the real middle aged bags into revealing themselves.

Proudnscary · 21/10/2011 13:41

High leg kicking while whooping while clapping hands while dancing

Proudnscary · 21/10/2011 13:41

Singing the wrong words while high leg kicking while whooping while clapping hands while dancing

TheVermiciousKnid · 21/10/2011 13:43

apostrophes
the rspca
parish mags
ecco
woollen mill
kittens
petunias (nasty flowers)
Alan Titchmarsh, Aled Jones, David Essex, Michael Ball and Pip Schofield
bingo
wicker baskets
waitrose
country living
she
chicken shaped things
Doctors on ITV (poss itv altogether)
Peachy's MIL
Mumsnet
People who take threads like this seriously
RHS and NT
Coach tours
tins of biscuits
odd spec cases
List obsession
Last night of the proms
Countryfile
WI
Cardigans
pop socks
Lakeland
Past Times
All charity shops (no volunteers you see)
Garden centres
Good Housekeeping
All Antique shops
Complan
Artic rolls and caramac
Quality Street
Babycham, advocat and Dubonnet
Gin and tonic, scotch on the rocks
Imperial Leather soap
Crocheted special list manager cardigans (unless they are for Hully)
Elaine Page
Tutting
People who can't spell 'Elaine Paige'
Tea cosies
John Barrowman
Per Una
Antique Jugs
Cat Ornaments
Actual Cats
Fun cat cartoons
Cat tea cosies
Fun cat greeting cards
Proudnscary, Pagwatch and other people who don't know how to make lists properly
Things that fold up to go in your handbag like plastic hats and reusable bags
Hurumphing
Gold stickers with your name on
Voluminous linen outfits
Danish spectacles?
Novelty egg cups
Cliff Richard!
Coach tours
Zumba
Homemade birthday cards
Peppermint tea
acrobiotic aerobic class hmm
Holidays in Portugal and Madeira
Golf clubs
People who play golf
All things remotely to do with golfing
Waterfall cardigans
Tapered slacks
Court shoes
Novels with sploshy watercolours on the front cover
Missing The Point
Snorting
Proudnscary (again)
Branflakes
Womans Own
Immodium
Watching Eggheads
Having a sustainable
Baking lots of pies
Doing long distance walks.
Teenaged children
Ski holidays
Festivals
Dogs
Horses
Hillwalking
Climbing trips
Drinking too much wine with your mates
Days out riding rollercoasters with the kids
Dying your grey hair blonde
Hot sex with boyfriend without the worry of pregnancy
Doing the above whilst still holding down a full time job
Phillipa Gregory novels
Book clubs
Scholls
Organiser handbags
Battenburg and Madeira cake
David Attenborough programmes
Lists
Things that are 'wipe clean'
Hats on parcel shelves
People who skip
People who are unfettered by lists
Fitflops
Flipflops
People who don't know what Fitplops are
Boots No 7
Suepurbly
Slippers
Fitplops
People who know what fitplops are
The Archers (grudgingly)
Werthers
Sucking
Judge Judy
People who would shock fuck the list
Exclamation marks
Silly questions
Clapping hands while dancing
Whooping while clapping hands while dancing
J Campbell Kerr
People who don't know who J Campbell Kerr is

Singing the wrong words while high leg kicking while whooping while clapping hands while dancing
Coming up with list items which are too long
Singing the wrong words while high leg kicking while whooping while clapping hands while dancing

ColdSancerre · 21/10/2011 13:43

NevergoogleJCampbellKerr

Hullygully · 21/10/2011 13:43

I still want to know what Having a sustainable is

OP posts:
Bugsy2 · 21/10/2011 13:43

Middle-aged women are pointless because they've done a list for old people!!!! Of maybe that was intentional & therefore pointed - so that everyone middle aged is thinking oh no, I would never be seen dead in Lakeland with Alan Titchmarsh, so I'm not middle-aged.
Sad, obsessive compulsive & deeply middle-aged Bugsy needs a definition of middle-aged & probably a severe beating for thinking about this thread for longer than it takes to suck a Werthers Original.

TheVermiciousKnid · 21/10/2011 13:43

Look what you've done, proudnscary. You've confused me. Angry

Hullygully · 21/10/2011 13:44

I don't

OP posts:
JajasWjolef · 21/10/2011 13:44

I don't know who in the hell J Campbell Kerr is - good or bad [hconfused]?

SuePurblybiltFromBitsofCorpses · 21/10/2011 13:44

I think it is poo-talk Hully.

Proudnscary · 21/10/2011 13:45

Shit sorry - it's like my middle aged fingers have a demonic life of their own. Can you take the second one off???? Is that within the rules???

TheVermiciousKnid · 21/10/2011 13:45

apostrophes
the rspca
parish mags
ecco
woollen mill
kittens
petunias (nasty flowers)
Alan Titchmarsh, Aled Jones, David Essex, Michael Ball and Pip Schofield
bingo
wicker baskets
waitrose
country living
she
chicken shaped things
Doctors on ITV (poss itv altogether)
Peachy's MIL
Mumsnet
People who take threads like this seriously
RHS and NT
Coach tours
tins of biscuits
odd spec cases
List obsession
Last night of the proms
Countryfile
WI
Cardigans
pop socks
Lakeland
Past Times
All charity shops (no volunteers you see)
Garden centres
Good Housekeeping
All Antique shops
Complan
Artic rolls and caramac
Quality Street
Babycham, advocat and Dubonnet
Gin and tonic, scotch on the rocks
Imperial Leather soap
Crocheted special list manager cardigans (unless they are for Hully)
Elaine Page
Tutting
People who can't spell 'Elaine Paige'
Tea cosies
John Barrowman
Per Una
Antique Jugs
Cat Ornaments
Actual Cats
Fun cat cartoons
Cat tea cosies
Fun cat greeting cards
Proudnscary, Pagwatch and other people who don't know how to make lists properly
Things that fold up to go in your handbag like plastic hats and reusable bags
Hurumphing
Gold stickers with your name on
Voluminous linen outfits
Danish spectacles?
Novelty egg cups
Cliff Richard!
Coach tours
Zumba
Homemade birthday cards
Peppermint tea
acrobiotic aerobic class hmm
Holidays in Portugal and Madeira
Golf clubs
People who play golf
All things remotely to do with golfing
Waterfall cardigans
Tapered slacks
Court shoes
Novels with sploshy watercolours on the front cover
Missing The Point
Snorting
Proudnscary (again)
Branflakes
Womans Own
Immodium
Watching Eggheads
Having a sustainable garden
Baking lots of pies
Doing long distance walks.
Teenaged children
Ski holidays
Festivals
Dogs
Horses
Hillwalking
Climbing trips
Drinking too much wine with your mates
Days out riding rollercoasters with the kids
Dying your grey hair blonde
Hot sex with boyfriend without the worry of pregnancy
Doing the above whilst still holding down a full time job
Phillipa Gregory novels
Book clubs
Scholls
Organiser handbags
Battenburg and Madeira cake
David Attenborough programmes
Lists
Things that are 'wipe clean'
Hats on parcel shelves
People who skip
People who are unfettered by lists
Fitflops
Flipflops
People who don't know what Fitplops are
Boots No 7
Suepurbly
Slippers
Fitplops
People who know what fitplops are
The Archers (grudgingly)
Werthers
Sucking
Judge Judy
People who would shock fuck the list
Exclamation marks
Silly questions
Clapping hands while dancing
Whooping while clapping hands while dancing
J Campbell Kerr
People who don't know who J Campbell Kerr is
High leg kicking while whooping while clapping hands while dancing
Coming up with list items which are too long
Singing the wrong words while high leg kicking while whooping while clapping hands while dancing
People who don't google J Campbell Kerr

Bloodredrubyblue · 21/10/2011 13:46

ColdSancerre is a HUGE fan of J Campbell Kerr and so is Hully

ColdSancerre · 21/10/2011 13:46

Apparently 'Actor J Campbell Kerr is a familiar face to audiences in Glasgow and throughout Scotland, where he has performed for over twenty years.'

ColdSancerre · 21/10/2011 13:47

Blood I've only ever been to Glasgow in the sense that we ssort of drove through it on the way to catch the ferry to Mull. I certainly don't remember attending a pay there.

Bloodredrubyblue · 21/10/2011 13:47

Cold

The real answer is even sadder than that [hgrin]

ColdSancerre · 21/10/2011 13:47

pay play

Bloodredrubyblue · 21/10/2011 13:48

Think The Peoples' Friend and Mrs Doubtfire type grannies.