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You reluctantly concede you are indeed a living breathing liberalpinko cliche when...

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motherinfestivemood · 21/12/2004 13:32

You're capable of dithering for a full five minutes between the Organic and the Fair Traded bananas

You vividly remember the first time you took a deep, transgressive breath and bought South African produce

You used to think sex shops were the most oppressive places out, and now you think they're a necessary element of self expression

If and when you find out you're not on any secret lists (insert files, phone-taps, etc, as appropriate) you'll be terribly miffed

Your children's stockings have fair-traded chocolate coins in them

And, for our more mature members...
A secret part of you feels nostalgia for the 80s, because You Knew Where You Were with Thatcher

If someone shouts 'Maggie Maggie Maggie' at you, you'll respond automatically.

I could go on

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spacedonkey · 21/12/2004 13:33

pmsl

Absolutely agree about the nostalgia thing. Thatch was such a great hate figure wasn't she

TheHollyAndTheTwiglett · 21/12/2004 13:38

out, out, out

I had a sneaky idea this was an MI thread

walkinginawelshmumwonderland · 21/12/2004 13:42

Your child understands the word recycling at the age of 2.

Same child will also pick out the correct newspaper in the shop without being told.

Child also gets excited when asked to help mummy with a petition.

Her first big outing at nine weeks was to a Drop the Debt march - her buggy being decorated with a 'Juniors for Justice' banner (did I really do that?!)

feastofstevenmom · 21/12/2004 13:44

thatcher, thatcher, milksnatcher

ahhhh i am getting all nostalgic now.

TheHollyAndTheTwiglett · 21/12/2004 13:45

Your 3 year old believes that all doctors are women and corrects you when you say 'no darling men can be doctors too' .. 'don't be silly mummy, men are nurses'

my 3 year old is a boy btw

methinks feminist theory may be pushed to the limit in the house of twig

MariNativityPlay · 21/12/2004 13:47

Your child boos Michael Howard whenever he sees him on TV or on a poster (that's my boy)
PMSL too MI especially at the faffing about over bananas bit.

spacedonkey · 21/12/2004 13:48

huzzah for Marina's junior member of staff booing That Howard Creature!

JanH · 21/12/2004 13:48

I'm too old for all the 80s bits.....and was not at all political in the 70s

But I get Fairtrade choc for stockings and do the banana dither so do I sort of qualify a bit?

MariNativityPlay · 21/12/2004 13:51

I can remember a hissed intake of breath when I first met dh and saw he banked at Barclays, in fact we had our first disagreement about it ;)

serenequeen · 21/12/2004 13:53

teehee re the bananas! i have agonised over that one - plumped for the fair trade in the end. likewise, we used to grind beans for coffee but now get ft ready ground (can't get ft beans...)

bundleofyulelogs · 21/12/2004 13:53

dd1 shouts "tony bleugh bleugh bleugh" at the tv...thought it was only us

spacedonkey · 21/12/2004 13:54

PMSL marina! I was watching the south bank show last night and when I noticed that it is sponsored by barclays I felt a sense of disappointment, annoyance and sadness but couldn't quite locate why - thanks for reminding me!

MariNativityPlay · 21/12/2004 14:02

ROFL, precisely spacedonkey. Smashing programme, loads to be cheered about...then the sponsor tag!
Still feel iffy about Chilean wine FGS
Bundle, I got into a lot of trouble with dh over the Family Hate of Michael Howard. Prissily informed me we should allow ds to make up his own mind about public figures. I think he is turning into a Grumpy Old Man, but not the amusing sort. Anyone got the number of a good divorce lawyer...

spacedonkey · 21/12/2004 14:03

mmm, I had a slight altercation with dp over Michael Howard

Just because he's jewish it doesn't make him any more acceptable!

Issymum · 21/12/2004 14:07

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bundleofyulelogs · 21/12/2004 14:17

marina, dd1 does impressions of him: "the peep-pel"

spacedonkey · 21/12/2004 14:20
Grin
hester · 21/12/2004 14:26

You know how to complete the following:

'Dig deep....'

'You can't kill the spirit; she is like a mountain...'

'Sing if you're....'

'Coal not....'

'No Fun, No....'

You know what No Platform means (other than a warning not to get out at the end of the train).

You secretly flick through discarded copies of The Mail on the tube and hope nobody you know sees you.

And this is a true one, heard from a friend last night: you do such a good job of introducing your children to other faiths that they get confused and start insisting, tearfully but wrongly, that they ARE Jewish, they are!

Piffleoffagus · 21/12/2004 14:47

my 10 yr son old hates the thatch too, thinks Howard is a non entity and reads Private Eye avidly..
I am all of the things mentioned
I even ditched my bank when they could not confirm whether my savings could be only invested in ethical companies...
hee hee

pantomimEDAMe · 21/12/2004 14:50

more mature?! Excuse me, MI, I know for a fact I'm five years younger than you and I still remember 'Maggie Maggie Maggie'!

seriously, am already rehearsing my lines for the first time a copper demands to see the ID card I will not be carrying (can you be a conscientious objector to ID cards?). Does that count?

WideWebWitch · 21/12/2004 14:53

MI, the answer to Maggie, Maggie, Maggie is Out, Out, Out. Mumsnet is making me larf a lot today, I have dithered about organic vs fairtrade too! But managed to get both in coffee, what a relief! Ha ha hester at the Jewish children! Great thread!

Issymum · 21/12/2004 15:03

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DannieTheMisanthropicReindeer · 21/12/2004 15:13

You taught your DS to sing "The mummies on the bus read the Financial Times"

hester · 21/12/2004 15:14

Hey Issymum, mine too!

bea · 21/12/2004 15:24

ahhh! this made me giggle and remember when dh was at uni he was a hunt sab and they used the uni minibus to transport them to various sabs, however at one hunt, one of the masters was a barclays director and was not amused to see that the uni van had been sponsored by Barclays Bank, needles to say the sabs had wrists slapped and were not allowed to use the van again!!!!

my dh was a very very leftie student... speaking of Thatcher, he had a card in his wallet that stated that on no account must Thatcher come and visit him if he was ever involved on one of those disasters which involved a visting politician!!!! sigh! what a hero!