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So, us rotten lot....

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scarredpierced · 11/04/2013 10:19

How many of us actually meet Shona's little sidekicks criteria?
She states that all of us on Mumsnet are in our 30s, living in London and have a degree. How many people here meet that criteria?
How many are popping prozac depressed at the shit life we now have with kids?
Damn that woman is nasty!

OP posts:
vitaminC · 12/04/2013 16:00

I'm not in London, although I do live in a big city, just not in the UK
In my 30s for a few more weeks
Not a SAHM (I did end up on ADs the one time I tried that!)
Currently a full-time student (and this is my 3rd degree!)
MC, but no Boden
And most importantly: no biscuits for me. Yuck! Give me savoury food any day, over sickly sweet things such as biscuits, cakes and the like!

scottishmummy · 12/04/2013 16:36

It was an obvious and provocative dm piece.and yes some mn are like that,and some aren't
I dont go for all this navel gazing how very dare media discuss mn.too touchy
Posters on Mn sterotype and make gross misrepresentations too. Mn isn't representative of real life. It's a snap shot opinion of whomever is online at that time

neriberi · 12/04/2013 16:57

38
Home Counties
1 degree

DeepRedBetty · 12/04/2013 17:36

Waggon is the correct form in English for a wooden thing with wheels pulled by horses or oxen. However it has been largely superseded by the French spelling, wagon.

PiratePanda · 12/04/2013 17:39

39
Not London, but job in London
4 degrees and a fellowship of a royal society...

PiratePanda · 12/04/2013 17:40

(Oh, and I work full time but am stuck living in the world's smallest house due to the financial crisis. Definitely not on ADs.)

cardamomginger · 12/04/2013 17:48

40s. Currently live in London (Hertfordshire then Surrey as a child - the grimmer bits though).

Two degrees and working on my third.
Not popping pills.

cardamomginger · 12/04/2013 17:49

Oh and considering a move to Hull Wink.

caci · 12/04/2013 17:57

I wondered what this was about...

I'll never forgive you,
YOU MADE ME READ DAILY MAIL ONLINE!

I fit the bill btw but not a regular MN follower either.

I'll go and try to forget the whole thing.

Pliudev · 12/04/2013 18:18

Am I the oldest here? 62. But I'm still a mum so that's ok. What's wrong with Boden? A couple of degrees, prefer Lidl's jaffa cakes, live in Cornwall.

GettingGoing · 12/04/2013 18:27

40s, not London (but was), yes to degree. No prozac, not depressed, kids yes, but not shit life.

'Oh and considering a move to Hull' Grin

Longfufu · 12/04/2013 18:58

32
Yes I have a degree
Lived in London for all my 20's
Moved to commuter belt and started a family.
No Prozac.....I like wine when I'm not preggers!

Morebiscuitsplease · 12/04/2013 19:06

How ridiculous! Mumnet is diverse, is you read any threads you would realise that. For the record 40+ degree and post grad. Has children and works part time. Lives in SW so does not fit her profile. Has had antidepressants but would rather have had them than not.:)))

girliefriend · 12/04/2013 19:26

I am in my 30s, but live in the south west and haven't tried prozac yet
have nearly got a degree...

Grin
VisualiseAHorse · 12/04/2013 19:36

In my 20's, live in Scotland and don't have a degree (I've got a HND...couldn't be arsed to do another year to make it a degree).

Armi · 12/04/2013 19:53
  1. East Midlands. Degree and post-graduate qualification, which means I am capable of spotting badly written, self-indulgent journalism.

Oh, and Shona, I'm not an 'aggressive housewife', I'm a passive-aggressive, full time WOHM who eats Waitrose biscotti, not Hobnobs and the only pills I take are vitamin supplements to further enhance my glossy-coated loveliness.

HTH.

getthegirladrink · 12/04/2013 19:58

I bloody love hobnobs Smile Biscuit

Newrowsees · 12/04/2013 20:02

Uh oh. I'm in my early thirties, have a couple of degrees and live in north London (8 mins from Muswell Hill, according to the sat nav).

But I just don't get the whole Boden thing - I've never even heard anyone even mention it in real life. I also don't ever iron, have never taken Prozac, and have never been 'militant' about anything in my life!

LadyBeagleEyes · 12/04/2013 20:05

I never liked hobnobs myself, I prefer a nice chocolate digestive.
What's that say about me?

UptoapointLordCopper · 12/04/2013 20:11

London (not a "nice" part though), over 40, degrees, not popping pills, not shit life. Smile

What's all that about hobnobs? I like rich tea biscuits. For dunking. In tea. In fact I'm just going to go and make myself a cup of tea now to dunk my rich tea biscuits in. Or is that "in which to dunk my biscuit"? Confused

I like Boden short skirts. They actually fit.

Some people are nice on MN, some people are not. Like RL. Deal with it.

TiggyD · 12/04/2013 20:20

Late 30s chap with college qualification. Don't take Prozac. High on life and 20 a day cocaine habit.

Lifeisontheup · 12/04/2013 20:21

Nearly 50 with teenaged children, doing a degree now, not on any antidepressants, don't really like biscuits unless they're stem ginger ones.

prettybird · 12/04/2013 20:31

Not London Scotland (Glasgow)

Not in 30s In my 50s

Do have a degree

Since they stopped doing the plain chocolate coated ones I don't eat hobnobs

Don't take Prozac although I have in the past taken anti-depressants

I am happy to have a ds said anti-depressants were a combination of stress at work and MMCs

I do own and wear some Boden things BlushWink

I will admit to ironing things but not underwear Grin

NB: Have not read the original article as am trying to avoid the DM

HorryIsUpduffed · 12/04/2013 20:32

Early thirties, expensively edumacated, HobNob lover.

Not in that London though. And couldn't afford Boden even if I were thin tall enough to wear it.

TiggyD · 12/04/2013 20:38

Just read her article. She said IMHO is a Mumsnet acronym. It's not. It's been around years on every forum. She's either new to computers or she's lying deliberately misunderstanding things to have a pop.

"Here they can pour forth their wisdom on icing cupcakes and providing the perfect party bag while berating mere mortals..."

Um...seems she doesn't really know us at all. Mumsnetters seem to believe party bags are ridiculous nowadays and should really contain some cake and a plastic thing that costs less than a pound, and cupcakes are merely slutty fairy cakes that cost HOW MUCH!?!?

Pay her no mind.