To ask what is your favourite style of “beef” in AIBU?

I love it when a narcissistic or invasive relative gets to come face to face with someone with strong boundaries and gets absolutely shut down.
I like it when the op comes back and says they called the police and changed the locks or just told someone to their face to fuck right off.
As a non confrontational people pleaser, I LOVE to see that.
Good for them!!

"My MIL wants to cuddle my newborn DC. Should I go NC?"

Or people who get by very well when earning £20k a year (but only later mention they own a house outright and have a trust fund).

Wedding ones.

Especially where the OP is considering taking out a credit card and forgoing a family holiday to go to the wedding/hen do of someone that they don't even like very much.

Anything with a good diagram - parking, boundary disputes, arguments over trees/gardens/outbuildings, the whole shebang.

Allotment Squatting Babs: The Musical was a particular gem of that genre. There was even bonus garage-squatting content. I often wonder how the OP and her husband are getting on with their gardening now.

A nice meaty CF, particularly with Amandaland vibes, is great too. The non-RSVPing CF demanding last minute vegan pizza and a personalised party bag was a recent example.

I know this isn’t what the OP is asking, but I have my own personal beef with questions such as “Am I rich?” and “How much money do you need to feel secure?”

Such daft unanswerable questions, and the thread quickly fills up with high earning fantasties boasts.

politics and then omg at the level of political understanding people have

Sickness beef if that counts!

The threads where they ask for advice of sending their DC into school/to party/ on holiday etc when they’ve vommed 17 times in the night yet they are still adamant their decision is right and then the drama that follows kills me🙈

The ones from childfree people saying they’d like to very occasionally see their friends with kids without their kids. I’m with the childfree poster on that, but they usually get little sympathy.

Parking, obviously.

And weddings.

And unexpected puppies/kittens from stray or newly adopted pet.

I opened this thread hoping for recipe tips 😂😂

Phone snoopers are my personal favourite. Some poor woman finds out that her husband has the most abhorrent pictures on his phone, only to end up taking the rap from users because she snooped. LOL.
The nerve of some moronic users...

CF, finding a new one, getting a cup of tea and settling in for a read is magic!

The baby bubble threads where the op doesn't want visitors or anyone holding their baby at all. Then a few months later probably the same op complains about people not giving enough attention to their little darling. Not realising that because they'd banned everyone from visiting, they all got bored and moved on.

Some people are very thick.

Definitely the CF stories for me. But I need to hear how they got their comeuppance or were called out for being a CF

CF - no doubt

I'm partial to braised brisket myself. Only kidding.

I like CF, parking, mysterious happenings, woo, embarrassing story, woman realises man is shit and frees herself and funny threads.

It's a great place for some things but you have to take the rough with the smooth.

Parking, CFs, bonkers neighbours, shameless bill-splitters and inheritance issues. These are the absolute jewels in the MN crown.

I can never resist a parking one. I do appreciate a decent diagram with it.

People being CFs / inheritance disputes / badly behaved dh or “partner” / can’t stand up for themselves and say no to someone who’s taking advantage / completely unreasonable parental expectations of the school / hen do or bridesmaid dramas.

I was going to say rump too. I took it way too literally.

I adore the ones where the OP posts about a terrible relationship and she has been gaslit into thinking she is the problem... Then we all set her straight and we finally get an update she has left him and got her own place.

It feels like we are all giving the advice we would our best friends and it makes me happy to think of the women somewhere being strong and doing okay because we all helped her see her worth.

CF stories and those where someone has discovered a cheating partner and actually kicked them out!

Agreed with PP on parking with diagrams! But topping that would another PPs comment about when someone finally leaves an abusive partner and checking back for updates on how they are doing, so empowering!

Not really AIBU but my specific favourite 'beef' is partners who change their mind about having children after stringing OH along for years. This can take many forms.

Men who say they want kids then change their mind when their DW is nearing 40.

Men and women who agree to have no kids until the man decides when the woman is way too old that he does want kids and buggers off leaving her alone for some 30 yo to start a family.

Women complaining they wanted 2 or 3 or more dc and their partner doesn't (I would side with the partner in this).

Variant is man who says they want to get married then life gets in the way and 2dc on says he doesn't want marriage.

Also love unreasonable stepmums, mostly in the wrong but I also like hearing fro. Lovely well balanced stepmums.

I don't like endless MIL threads. Sad to be a MIL one day. You can't do right for doing wrong.

Also love the trend for demanding that in law's in particular can't visit PFB but usually happy to have their own DPs. Same for Christmas: want to spend Christmas with my side of the family but can't stand DHs.

Ah I love mumsnet!