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Original poster

To ask if there are certain “red flag” AIBU topics which you avoid?

158 replies

Thepeopleversuswork · 27/09/2024 16:25

I know, without having to open them, that I will be bored or irritated by threads about:

  • Parking (why do people find this interesting?)
  • Anything involving a diagram
  • Anything describing someone in the thread title as a narcissist
  • Anything about Brexit
  • Any thread in which someone describes themselves as “fuming” (or fumming)
  • Weddings or hen nights. Discussion about the etiquette of having children at weddings makes me want to put myself in front of a firing squad
  • Most of the trans related threads (though I think there are some important discussions)

I normally open them anyway 🤣. Anyone else?

OP posts:
TLMTTCSJTT1 · 27/09/2024 18:15

Ugh I just also thought of anything Harry and Meghan! Especially when there's a Royals board! And it's usually not very nice

BustingBaoBun · 27/09/2024 18:14

Any threads whinging about the sun coming out for a hour and they can't wait for autumn when they can snuggle with their family under a throw
The weather is shit in this country, grey skies and rain rain rain 🌧️ ☔
Let the sun come out FFS

SocksAndTheCity · 27/09/2024 18:13

The ones where the OP can't just set out the relevant facts using sensible adult language, but has instead decided that we will all have to endure love their hilarious writing style and if they do it often enough somebody from a publishing house will definitely see it and offer them a book deal (or at least a few paragraphs in the sort of magazine that has exclamation marks on the cover).

You are not funny. You will never be funny. Just get the fuck on with it.

MissConductUS · 27/09/2024 18:13

These have been far less frequent recently, but I avoid the threads rubbishing Americans.

Justleaveitblankthen · 27/09/2024 18:12

Oh I love a 'live, with photos!!' parking thread 🍿
Detest any thread - and it's not the OP'S fault - when the first or second reply immediately copies and pastes the opening OP'S post🤬 Why??!!

The OP should be able to immediately delete this knobhead's reply (usually one sentence at the very end)
It makes me so irritable, I leave the thread.

DillDanding · 27/09/2024 18:12

I’ve been on MN so long, that all threads are repeated or a variation on a much done theme.

But a new trend which really makes me roll my eyes is when the OP prefaces her (lengthy, boring) post with ‘please be kind’.

Sod off.

tuvamoodyson · 27/09/2024 18:11

TLMTTCSJTT1 · 27/09/2024 18:09

I hate the medical ones, I don't know why lol. When people are in a&e for something trivial and giving constant updates about what professionals have said to them.

…then they’re on here asking if they should report them.

Original poster
Thepeopleversuswork · 27/09/2024 18:11

Rigatone · 27/09/2024 18:10

She stole my baby name ones.

And my baby name was “Jane” or “James”. 😀

OP posts:
tuvamoodyson · 27/09/2024 18:10

I hide more than I read to be honest.

Rigatone · 27/09/2024 18:10

She stole my baby name ones.

Original poster
Thepeopleversuswork · 27/09/2024 18:09

Grown women whining because their partner hasn’t proposed

Fuck yes. Utterly pathetic. When they are unmarried with four kids and she’s been walking him past jewellery shops for years. Have some self respect.

I over-ride my “kind” settings with these people

OP posts:
TLMTTCSJTT1 · 27/09/2024 18:09

I hate the medical ones, I don't know why lol. When people are in a&e for something trivial and giving constant updates about what professionals have said to them.

magnoliasweets · 27/09/2024 18:07

Posts where they name people A, B, C etc. they always confuse me. Why can't people just make up some names?? 🤣

Somanypiessolittletime · 27/09/2024 18:07

BlueEyedLeucy · 27/09/2024 17:42

Anything about ‘gaslighting’…there are a lot of people who a) use this incorrectly and b) don’t seem to appreciate that being a dick doesn’t need a special name to be bad.

Grey rocking

And parking/neighbour ones are boring to me.

Wtf is grey rocking?

tuvamoodyson · 27/09/2024 18:06

Any thread where the OP asks if she’s being unreasonable, when she absolutely isn’t, everyone assures her she isn’t and they say ‘oh! I hesitated to post this! I thought you were all going to say I was unreasonable!!’ No you didn’t…immediately hidden.

teatoast8 · 27/09/2024 18:05

Somanypiessolittletime · 27/09/2024 17:10

Ugh breast vs formula feeding ones. They're so fucking judgemental and horrible

Yes agree with this!

DemonicCaveMaggot · 27/09/2024 18:03

Anything to do with cruelty to animals or on the subject of Donald Trump.

Cruelty to Donald Trump is another matter though.

I also avoid the 'Americans are all rude, grabby, beggars' threads that usually kick off around Halloween. Americans have a distinct etiquette around trick or treat that British people totally ignore.

Abitofalark · 27/09/2024 18:01

Threads that are 'posting for traffic' or 'x topic (lighthearted)'.
Thread titles that are clickbait or cryptic or coy ('this' or an expletive) or the opening chapter of a novel.

Berlinlover · 27/09/2024 18:00

Anything to do with Covid
Grown women whining because their partner hasn’t proposed
Any thread with the word loose in the title when they mean lose

GreyCarpet · 27/09/2024 18:00

I lose patience with the Am I Pregnant threads, because no-one on the internet can tell you that.

Quite.

Or the ones asking complete strangers to guess the 'gender' of their foetus.

Post it in pregnancy if you must but no one else knows and no one else gives a shit.

usernother · 27/09/2024 17:59

TheKeatingFive · 27/09/2024 17:29

Competitive cleaning ones are awful

No, I love those. Just for the laugh. Same with the competitive under eating ones.

StormingNorman · 27/09/2024 17:59

Can you see a line?

Can’t be arsed to look. Sorry.

harrumphh · 27/09/2024 17:59

Suzuki70 · 27/09/2024 17:05

"I bet you all regret voting Labour NOW, don't you".

No. I do not. Fuck off.

I regret not voting Labour. I didn't at the time because of Gaza. And I was worried they were heading too right wing for my tastes. But I've been pleasantly surprised at the common sense with their policies so far.

MingingTiles · 27/09/2024 17:57

Argh the class ones. The amount of forelock tugging that goes on on this site is a wonder to behold.

People being weirdly inflexible about social occasions and invitations- not going to your best friend’s wedding because she asked for money instead of a gift etc. often featuring “No a complete sentence” and similar sentiments.

GreyCarpet · 27/09/2024 17:56

Any thread where the OP states that they "had a little cry".