Why is it on mumsnet?

[Howcouldyou]

That if you wish to feed your children healthy food,
not smoke when you are pg,
look after them and make sure they are safe
I could go on and on..............
you are ridiculed for basically being a responsible parent?
I do hope that the views on mumsnet do not reflect society as a whole, what a scary thought.
I have changed my name as I know that if I said who I was as usual I would be shot down in flames.

It was rather bitter and twisted, wasn't it, www?

got to say even though house prices are dearer down 'south' the cost og living v's wage sis alot less oop north and we were much better off

shop at morrisons

bought the mirror today but buy the one with the most interesting stories on the front and fancied something trashy today

husband is a professional, i think, well he has a degree and has worked for nasa i am unemployable

dont buy organic

sorry have forgot the rest of the questions

og yes I drink lager, Pints when i go out, much to my Mothers disgrace

We DO have dinner parties but they always end up a bit of brawl

we do recycle but tbh we only have fornbightly rubbish collections so it is inevitable that anyone who lives WILL recycle thank goodness

I have a herb garden

I am on benefits and dont think i am a scrounger

had never heard of chav before mumsnet (really though its just these young 'uns we were all young once)

sorry that is all i can remember, oh and I dont employ anyone, would if social services gave me the money!

Hehe Countess Dracula I was a long-term gym member when I was a pretty young thing working in London, but one day I realised that the amount I'd spent on gym membership equalled about what it would cost for plastic surgery and a private heart bypass, and I was STILL a lazy-arsed porker, so I gave it all up...

well it costs me £100 a year

Our Chernobyl child is wearing Boden pyjamas! (Usually they trawl round local primaries for the hand-me-downs but this year they asked at Stonyhurst, lol.)

In the City?!

yep

CD: boden is eeeviiiil.

or for a less gut level reaction, is type of thing that v grown up middle class people wear. definitely not for norty people imo iyswim?

janh, how nice. Assuming he is a boy if cast-offs from Stonyhurst, hope he is having a great time.

dont' listne to her mp, bet is subsidised...

I shop in Asda and can't be doing with snobbery about supermarkets
The word Chav is irrelevant in Scotland. We say Ned. If you find Ned offensive, it probably means you are one.
Breastfed both my kids til they were about 8 months.
Am not on benefits - never have been, but secure in the knowledge that if we ever need to, the State will provide til we get back on our feet.
Have never smoked, can't stand it, am delirious that it's being banned in public.
Read the Sunday Times and all of the trashy mags in the staffroom.
Don't 'do' dinner parties - way too stressful
Have smacked and lose no sleep over it
Will scream if necessary
Work p/t - couldn't be SAHM or full-time paid employed.
Hate hate hate Tony Blair - but not much time for the rest either.
Don't have gym membership/spa treatments/cleaner and don't suffer because of it.
That's pretty much me

sophable I DON'T WEAR IT

I bought 2 tshirts and some tights for dd there ffs

Regardless, I AM a grown up mc person. Gotta problem with that??????? If so tough tits cos there's nowt I can do about it!

i have never heard of boden either, but dd has her clothes from noa noa seconds shop

pathetic inverted snobbery IMO

He says he's just read an article in the Spectator saying teenage delinquency is caused by working mothers, a sentiment he agrees with heartily. His politics are solidly of his class. (His late father, a retired army officer, was a Hampshire farmer.) He votes Conservative though rolls his eyes at the mention of Iain Duncan Smith. "I am anti-welfare state, anti-tax and how it's spent," he says, getting quite cross. "I gave £2m to the government last year and I look at the litter, vomit and dog shit on the streets of Hammersmith and see no benefits. I have to pay for private health care and education for my family."

uuurrrggghhhh!

who me CD?

no fio not you

I'm wondering now how many chavs know they are chavs? (since Paolo'sgirl referred to Neds).

In my recollection, a lot of people who didn't find "The Royle Family" funny were, in fact, people who watched TV as a family sport and turned their polo mints into bunny fangs. As I have a habit of doing the latter, have to keep myself in check

Just had a look at the noa noa site (being nosey) - their stuff looks gorgeous Fio.

I am common i know I am, I am not sure I am a chav though. Honestly its just the hoodies and the short skirts and the gold earing isnt it? anyway i dont want to get into that business

oh f*ck off you mc boden wearing cow.

hehe

first time we ever clashed on mn was over my comment that all public schoolboys are w*nkers...and i married one, you should know me by now inverted snobbery et al

the 'seconds' shop is very good chonky

Shop at Sainsburys, Tesco and Lidl mostly

Use the word townie (refers to appearance rather than lifestyle)

Buy the Guardian on Saturdays, look at all the papers' websites the rest of the time (esp the NotW on Sundays)

I'm glad the benefits safety net is there even if it does get abused by some

Used to have "friends for supper" when I was younger (and didn't spend half my life on mumsnet)

Drink far too much wine

Have north-of-Watford concrete yard with flower beds full of weeds. No herbs (unless dock leaves count?)

Not sure what DH is - has degree, sort of middle-management I suppose. I am mostly a parasite

No cleaner

No infidelity

Obsessive recycler, down to tiny scraps of paper, DH thinks I'm nuts and sabotages occasionally for fun

Shop for clothes in Matalan and Tesco most recently - odd things from Long Tall Sally. No Boden but used to buy a lot of Clothkits...

Smacked when kids were small - some kids more than others

Bottle fed - tried to breastfeed 4 times, no joy

Don't smoke (did from 14 - 30)

Always buy organic bananas because of something I read once about pesticides. Buy other organics from salmonella corner only

Yell much less than I used to - older kids never batted an eyelid when I did it, youngest turns to stone and gulps!

I think its just lazy pigeonholing:

Boden - too full of themselves middle class
Chavs - too thick to have any taste.

Neither are particularly commendable catagories are they?

I buy Boden for the Dcs and me. They look like they have stepped out of a Boden ad, blonde, long limbed and roughed up but still attractive hair!

I on the other hand am the complete opposite of a Boden ad - small dumpy and hair which looks like a birds nest!

But I hang on to the image and just dream, dream, dream

Shopping - sainsbo's, but occasionally waitrose when dh not looking

organic - just milk and the odd bag of carrots. buy "named" bits of meat from local butchers

have typed the word chav, but can't remember using it in RL

Read the Guardian and Observer, plus telegraph online, ananova/heat for goss.

Think most people on benefits are fully entitled to them.

Have a few dinner parties, more Sunday lunches

Drink red wine, cold lager and bombay sapphire gin (though not at the same time)

My garden is getting there (beans, strawberries and a lovely climbing rose)

we're both in the media

Have Romanian cleaner

We recycle bottles, tins and paper. rest goes to school/nursery for darlings' creations.

boden in sales, plus plenty of hennes, gap and uniforms from woollies

why do people wanna live in the burbs?

hate gyms, they smell

should be on a diet but can't be arsed.
dont smack but sometimes shout
unexpectedly became militant bfeeder (dd2 now 2 showing no signs of stopping her morning/night feeds)

don't smoke, would like a ban on smoking in all public places

Shout at children, shout at husband but trying to cut down

live in London but will always be (spiritually) a northerner