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So, us rotten lot....

999 replies

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:
MadBusLady · 12/04/2013 20:42

Wow. That is properly ignorant.

MadBusLady · 12/04/2013 20:43

Re the "IMHO" I mean. How could you think... No, I can't even process that.

littletingoddess · 12/04/2013 20:57

I'm 29, live in the southeast, have one DC and two degrees. I stay at home during the week and work part-time at the weekend. I've never taken anti-depressants. I haven't even had a boozy drink since before I got pregnant, and that seems like aeons ago. Shock

K8Middleton · 12/04/2013 21:24

30s, degree, London - yep

On Prozac? Not yet.

Hate my children? No. Although sometimes they drive me up the wall and I object to how my life has been dictated by motherhood when my dh's life has not been impacted in the same way.

Oh and love snarky response from Justine! V good.

gomummygoes · 12/04/2013 21:26

Yes - 30's
Yes - Degree++
But...
I'm in Canada.
No anti-D's and love my life now as a mum.
Never heard of Boden except on MN and I have no idea what a hobnob is but sounds like they're tasty. Grin

nannyl · 12/04/2013 22:14

In my 30's
Have a degree
do NOT live in London, or even close

am a SAHM

I started life here living closer to London than i do now, in my 20's, with degree, working, but not a mummy! Only been a mummy for 18m

LackaDAISYcal · 12/04/2013 22:15

In my 40s now, but 30s when I signed up

Degree, but now working a minimum wage job

AD's...tick

Maggie111 · 12/04/2013 22:16

20s, North West, no degree.

ohtobecleo · 12/04/2013 22:17

Single parent
No degree
No Prozac
Live in London
Don't like hobnobs
Wtf is Boden?

Redeeming feature?

I don't read the Daily Mail.

Oh, and I think the strike-through is quite effective

LackaDAISYcal · 12/04/2013 22:18

oooops, posted too soon.

I live in the "grim up north", but I'm Scottish

Do I hate my kids? Now, after two weeks of miserable weather easter holidays...probably. Usually, No, I luffs them I do!

Hobnobs? Not likely as I have coeliac disease and am gluten free!

I do have a Boden coat (which is just finishing it's fifth winter, so well worth the money it cost me in the sale)

So, maybe half a stereotype?

MummyBurrows · 12/04/2013 23:04

25,married,1 daughter and baby on the way and i love them both more than anything in the world,Essex coast,no degree,no pills.....also nothing like the cast of towie, I don't like hobnobs and I shop in high street stores,wouldn't even know where to find Boden but it sounds expensive so probably explains why I've never heard of it and there isn't one in my town centre lol! Think this daily mail toff is off her rocker and has no idea what the heck she's talking about!xx

Estherbelle · 13/04/2013 00:59

I'm in my thirties and have a degree, but don't tick any more of Shona's boxes...oh, and my degree is in journalism - how she actually manages to get paid to write such twaddle I would love to know, because there are far more talented writers out there!

grohlgirl · 13/04/2013 01:14

50s - one man child!!
Warwickshire
No degree
Don't like hobnobs - chocolate fingers
Boden - only if I find in OxfamWink

Greydog · 13/04/2013 03:00

50s - Cheshire - no degree. Can take or leave Hobnobs, but do like a nice jammie dodger! I thought Boden was the make of my cafetiere, but that's Bodum. Silly me!

jynier · 13/04/2013 04:10

Just read the article in DM; made me laugh!!! I'm a pensioner and grandmother - love MN (not so keen on Gransnet!).

mathanxiety · 13/04/2013 04:16

Not London.
Yes degree. Never wear Boden anything. I do have a Bodum in the kitchen but I drink tea.
Irish, no pills and no hobnobs. There is nothing wrong with pills (or hobnobs). Good things both.
Will never see 40 again let alone 30.
Single mother to 5. Love them dearly.
Never iron except at Christmas and Easter if called for, and do not have anything organic in the kitchen or in anyone's lunchbox.

marriednotdead · 13/04/2013 06:54

A Londoner that irons.

Ticks no other boxes.

So kick me off, I dare ya

hellhasnofurylikeahungrywoman · 13/04/2013 07:00

Almost 50 in the east of the country, no degree and no pills.

Makinglists · 13/04/2013 07:38

40s,degree,southwest city dweller, vegetarian,hippy type

fuzzypicklehead · 13/04/2013 07:40

Re: the linked thread and various other SS quotes-- Shock

I had never heard of her. My goodness, how objectionable!

30's yes.

Degree, yes.
No london
No boden
No iron
No twigs or pebbly shit save what DD2 drags in from the garden
Hell yes, Hobnobs. All hail the oatiest biscuit of them all!

PhylisStein · 13/04/2013 08:23

40 - two degrees - rural Gloucestershire - I haven't been depressed and on Prozac for years now, not since I found a good man, gave up on my stressful sparkling career to have kids Grin

Yonirubbishnamesleft · 13/04/2013 09:01

I am in my 30s, living in London and have a degree!!!

But I am not on Prozac (do I need to get some? Will I be banned for not popping Prozac?)

JugglingFromHereToThere · 13/04/2013 09:04

I love that there are so many bright and sassy women here with something to say. I can be militant when my heckles are up .... over something like the formula milk marketing practices in the developing world, where Mumsnet were recently asked by Save the Children to get behind a campaign which could save the lives of 830,000 babies around the world every year - that's almost a million, and a similar scale of tragedy to those dying from malaria, who could also be helped through the distribution and use of mosquito nets.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 13/04/2013 09:09

Oh it's hackles BTW Blush
And it's from the feathers on the back of a bird's neck - don't say you don't learn something new here every day !

Beverley91 · 13/04/2013 09:14

23 from Wigan.. No degree but highly qualified in my job. No kids as yet!