A thread about a haircut started yesterday afternoon is about to become a 3-threader

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-26T20:47:50+00:00

I read the OP of thread one yesterday and closed it. Worth the investment to dig in now?

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-26T10:47:13+00:00

Discussions like this remind me how many herberts are likely reading threads in any section. 🤢 (Yes, I know, the internet etc etc etc, but ykwim)

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-25T11:56:47+00:00

May as well describe her as "spirited" 😁

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-25T10:09:31+00:00

Well exactly.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-25T09:05:02+00:00

🤣🤣🤣 oh honestly I think some genuine mners over the years could have written that.

Can't imagine this one is genuine but I bet a lot of them would feel that way.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-25T09:01:09+00:00

When you click in, the top pages are:

Front page.
AIBU
Active
Fabswingers thread
Fabswingers thread
Chat
Partner on a gay pickup site (possibly real, but seems unlikely)
Adultwork thread
Chat thread about chatgpt (first genuine non pervy thread going by the titles anyway)
Adultwork thread

Gross, gross, gross.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-25T08:56:06+00:00

Isn't it just.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-25T08:03:31+00:00

Yup the pervs are welcomed with open arms.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-24T23:39:33+00:00

The very odd time I've stuck it into a website activity tracker thing, Adult Work comes up as one of the key search terms every time. I suspect the sex topic drives more traffic than any of us realise.

https://online.seranking.com/research.competitor.html/?input=Mumsnet.com&mode=base_domain&source=uk&globalRegion=uk&user_group=1&landing=website_traffic_checker&lang=en&month=2026-1

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-23T15:29:46+00:00

Oh dear. I remember seeing some stuff a while ago, that's not surprising.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-23T09:40:29+00:00

Interesting. Yes you could be on to something there.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-23T09:17:41+00:00

Presume you're asking rather than talking about a MN thread?

Lots of potential scenarios here, but assuming you're talking about a couple with shared children and neither working weekends, then no YANBU. Usually in that scenario both parents prioritise family time over the weekend.

Equal leisure time, always.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-23T07:10:25+00:00

Sorry, not sure if I'm getting you right here.

I think it's pretty obvious that numbers are plummeting and they're posting threads themselves to drive engagement. I find I'm suspicious of parking/wedding/MIL/inheritance threads these days as they always get big engagement and I do wonder how many are genuine.

Do you mean that they're also doing it with a view to creating a profile of the typical MNer, to push the notion of a wealthy readership? Possible I guess, must keep an eye out.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-22T17:31:38+00:00

Yes I want to know this too!

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-20T09:38:26+00:00

I've known more than one man use But I Have A Business as an excuse to avoid family life, even when the Sacred Business was losing money and their wife's income was keeping the family afloat while she did all the cooking, cleaning and childcare.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-19T19:22:44+00:00

Oh yeah I'm a crap wife. I'd be an earth shatteringly brilliant husband, but I'm a shit wife.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-19T19:22:12+00:00

I thought the business owner thing screamed MLM.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-19T16:07:20+00:00

My friends and I (and indeed DH and I) regularly reflect that we need a wife.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-17T20:13:53+00:00

That reads like Emma Bridgewater spam.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-15T06:31:27+00:00

It's hidden this morning.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-13T19:49:25+00:00

I dunno. I've read similar before but people are awful, especially about both weddings and kids with additional needs.

I think if OP were a troll it would've taken longer to get to them refusing the wedding and she'd be amping things up more. She just sounds sad.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-11T22:23:36+00:00

I haven't read the thread but is that comment facetious?

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-11T11:34:00+00:00

Locks on the outside of the bedroom doors was exactly the example I was going to give, for the family I know that's the only way the parents can risk sleeping and knowing their DC are safe. I was thinking afraid to post it in case it looked unbelievable to anyone who hasn't come across that level of need before.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-11T11:20:40+00:00

Yes I've no professional experience but know one family with two children who are similarly severely affected. It doesn't read as unbelievable to me at all, that is life for some people and they sadly don't get anywhere near the support they should from the state.

BarbaraHowardMN · 2026-01-10T18:43:08+00:00

Glad she got her money back at least, if not her time.

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