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To roll my eyes at people giving their irrelevant opinions on Mumsnet

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MsLuxLisbon · 02/05/2024 22:48

I don't want to make this too specific because then it would be a TAAT, but to give a general example: OP starts a thread that says something like 'I went to an expensive seafood restaurant and I was served stale bread, warm wine and I think that one of the oysters was past its best. The staff were unhelpful and I think I should message their head office. How should I go about it'.
INVARIABLY, someone will come along and say 'I hate seafood. YABU to go to a seafood restaurant.' Then someone else will come along and say 'YABU to eat somewhere expensive in a COL crisis. And what about the situation in Gaza/Sudan/Ukraine/Wherever'.
It is so so annoying and people do it all the bloody time on here. AIBU to find this so annoying?

OP posts:
CulturalNomad · 03/05/2024 17:33

Talkamongstyourselves · 03/05/2024 17:29

OP...."My vacuum cleaning has packed up can anybody recommend ones that are good?"

Cue endless posts of " Why are you doing the vacuuming? Why not doesn't your DH/DP/Child do it? Do they do anything around the house?" Usually culminating with OP being told to get some ducks and put them in a row, or something like that.

"You have a DH problem not a vacuum problem, OP"

Talkamongstyourselves · 03/05/2024 17:29

OP...."My vacuum cleaning has packed up can anybody recommend ones that are good?"

Cue endless posts of " Why are you doing the vacuuming? Why not doesn't your DH/DP/Child do it? Do they do anything around the house?" Usually culminating with OP being told to get some ducks and put them in a row, or something like that.

RoderickHosclassicblackhoodie · 03/05/2024 17:27

Are you getting help for your anxiety OP? It isn't normal to be this worried about a chat forum.

SabreIsMyFave · 03/05/2024 17:15

Predictablenamechange1 · 03/05/2024 10:52

Oh this pisses me off so much!

OP - my mum abused and beat me throughout childhood and is now demanding I let her move in and become her carer. AIBU to say no?

Poster - what I wouldn't give to spend just one more day caring for my lovely mum! You'll regret this when she's gone.

Etc etc.

It happens all the time and is not just navel gazing drivel but presumably very hurtful to the OP who has not had a lovely relationship with their mum/whoever!

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Yep this does my head in too! Someone posts to moan about their mum or nan or dad (a few days ago it was a complaint about an adult daughter,) and someone ALWAYS comes along and says 'be grateful you have got a nan/mum/dad/daughter, I lost mine last year! What I wouldn't give for another day with them, you ungrateful cow.'

Whilst I feel a bit sorry for anyone who has lost someone close, I think that is a really shitty thing to say.

I also HATE it when someone says (eg,) that they feel bad for this sheep who was hit by a car, and had to be put to sleep, especially as she was pregnant. And someone says 'there are 1000s of people dying in the middle east every week and you care about a fucking SHEEP?!' Hmm

Stupid STUPID thing to say. You can feel bad for the sheep/lambs, and still care about people dying in the middle east. 🙄

AND I hate it when someone says (eg) 'my friend of 10 years has been seeing another friend, after cancelling on me and pretending she can't make it. I feel so hurt.' And someone says 'you must have an easy and blessed life if this all you have to worry about OP!' NOWHERE in her post did the OP say that this was all she had to worry about. It's a stupid, ignorant comment, posted purely for the sake of being an arse!

@MsLuxLisbon YANBU!!!

theresnolimits · 03/05/2024 17:06

Am I being unreasonable?

500 replies - yes.

OP - no, I'm not, you're wrong.

RainbowZebraWarrior · 03/05/2024 16:58

frankentall · 03/05/2024 16:54

Aye, bastarding people with their opinions. Bastards they are.

Yep. Bastarding opinions, eh?

Happens in bastarding real life too. Unbelievable!

EatCrow · 03/05/2024 16:57

Happened in my thread just now. I was complaining about an incompetent handyman, who I had tell to wash his hands after using the toilet. “Do your own job and don’t use the toilet”.

RainbowZebraWarrior · 03/05/2024 16:56

Dangerousfemale · 03/05/2024 16:55

Woman Irritated by an Irrelevant Opinion on Mumsnet Shocker

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Dangerousfemale · 03/05/2024 16:55

Woman Irritated by an Irrelevant Opinion on Mumsnet Shocker

frankentall · 03/05/2024 16:54

Aye, bastarding people with their opinions. Bastards they are.

Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong · 03/05/2024 16:52

Can you back this up with some links please OP.

SamuelDJackson · 03/05/2024 16:00

shenandoahvalley · 02/05/2024 23:30

This isn’t a university dissertation, people just chat shit all day here. That’s literally what MN is for.

Though it may end up as part of a pHD project apparently ... #AstonScrapers

ViveLaOeuf · 03/05/2024 15:55

I went to an expensive seafood restaurant and I was served stale bread, warm wine and I think that one of the oysters was past its best. The staff were unhelpful and I think I should message their head office. How should I go about it,

YABU to order any of that. Didn't you know it's all full of UPFs? Grim.

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 03/05/2024 15:40

SwanRonsen · 03/05/2024 14:58

The colour mustard? Or just mustard?

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Your comment has triggered me - you should know that I once ate some unexpected mustard in a hotdog and now can never eat hotdogs again!

CulturalNomad · 03/05/2024 15:31

Is this a reverse, OP?

(Off to spend loads of time doing an advanced search to try to catch the OP out)

Francisflute · 03/05/2024 15:25

OP have you or have you not logged this with 111? There's no point engaging with you if you're refusing to take any action on the matter.

Nicelynicelyjohnson · 03/05/2024 15:22

Nellieinthebarn · 03/05/2024 15:16

Ooh a stacked air fryer? can you post a link?

Also I like a good eye roll, its good to keep them flexible.

Google is your friend here.

(Unless you actually want a link?)

RobertaFirmino · 03/05/2024 15:21

StasisMom · 03/05/2024 07:59

CranfordScones
Do you know how much I paid for a kumquat today?

Please keep your kumquat privilege to yourself! Don't you know that some people can only afford bog standard easy-peelers?

Speak for yourself. I'm in the north and we don't have fruit up here.

OMG, you eat FRUIT? Don't you know that stuff is laden with SUGAR? So unhealthy.

Nellieinthebarn · 03/05/2024 15:16

Ooh a stacked air fryer? can you post a link?

Also I like a good eye roll, its good to keep them flexible.

PoachedScrambledBoiledFried · 03/05/2024 15:05

Ooo I really fancy some kumquat now

MagpiePi · 03/05/2024 15:04

Have you not considered that the chef at the restaurant has ADHD/mental health issues? And I nearly died in a seafood restuarant becasue I'm allergic to shellfish, your post should have a trigger warning.

But seriously, just move house and get a different job.

SwanRonsen · 03/05/2024 14:58

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 02/05/2024 23:33

The colour teal is far superior and has a far wider range of uses than mustard. That's my opinion, don't even try to change my mind.

The colour mustard? Or just mustard?

Nicelynicelyjohnson · 03/05/2024 14:55

People don't read the whole post. They skim it, see the word seafood, remember they don't like it and feel the need to share that with the world.
It annoys me if I start a thread on something specific - can anyone recommend a three bed apartment in Barcelona, and the answers vary from one beds in Madrid to Spain is very hot in July to climate change to I went to Barcelona (or was it Seville) 20 years ago and didn't like it.

Not much use to me, but perhaps interesting to other readers who did not know that Ninja now do an stacked airfryer, thus freeing up loads of valuable kitchen workstop space.

SnowyPetals · 03/05/2024 14:43

ComfyButFrumpy · 03/05/2024 07:48

I thought dogs were colour blind?

That must be why his decision is irrelevant 😁

chaticat · 03/05/2024 14:32

Why don't you have a glass of wine so you can't move your car?

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